ALL THE WINNERS

Here’s the (now complete!) list of every Booker Prize winner that I read (in order) and wrote about between late 2020 and early 2022.

(If you’re looking for my final ranking, check it out here. Now fully updated with the 2022 and 2023 winners!)

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• 1969: Something to Answer For,  P. H. Newby

• 1970: The Elected Member,  Bernice Rubens

• 1970*: Troubles,  J. G. Farrell (*The "Lost Booker", awarded 2010)

• 1971: In a Free State,  V. S. Naipaul

• 1972: G.,  John Berger

• 1973: The Siege of Krishnapur,  J. G. Farrell

• 1974: Holiday,  Stanley Middleton & The Conservationist,  Nadine Gordimer (Shared)

• 1975: Heat and Dust,  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

• 1976: Saville,  David Storey

• 1977: Staying On,  Paul Scott

• 1978: The Sea, The Sea,  Iris Murdoch

• 1979: Offshore,  Penelope Fitzgerald

Recap: The Booker in the Seventies

• 1980: Rites of Passage,  William Golding

• 1981: Midnight's Children,  Salman Rushdie

• 1982: Schindler's Ark,  Thomas Keneally

• 1983: Life and Times of Michael K,  J. M. Coetzee

• 1984: Hotel du Lac,  Anita Brookner

• 1985: The Bone People,  Keri Hulme

• 1986: The Old Devils,  Kingsley Amis

• 1987: Moon Tiger,  Penelope Lively

• 1988: Oscar and Lucinda,  Peter Carey

• 1989: The Remains of the Day,  Kazuo Ishiguro

Recap: The Booker in the Eighties

• 1990: Possession,  A. S. Byatt

• 1991: The Famished Road,  Ben Okri

• 1992: The English Patient,  Michael Ondaatje & Sacred Hunger,  Barry Unsworth (Shared)

• 1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,  Roddy Doyle

• 1994: How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman

• 1995: The Ghost Road,  Pat Barker

• 1996: Last Orders,  Graham Swift

• 1997: The God of Small Things,  Arundhati Roy

• 1998: Amsterdam,  Ian McEwan

• 1999: Disgrace,  J. M. Coetzee

Recap: The Booker in the Nineties

• 2000: The Blind Assassin,  Margaret Atwood

• 2001: True History of the Kelly Gang,  Peter Carey

• 2002: Life of Pi,  Yann Martel

• 2003: Vernon God Little,  DBC Pierre

• 2004: The Line of Beauty,  Alan Hollinghurst

• 2005: The Sea,  John Banville

• 2006: The Inheritance of Loss,  Kiran Desai

• 2007: The Gathering,  Anne Enright

• 2008: The White Tiger,  Aravind Adiga

• 2009: Wolf Hall,  Hilary Mantel

Recap: The Booker in the Noughties

• 2010: The Finkler Question,  Howard Jacobson

• 2011: The Sense of an Ending,  Julian Barnes

• 2012: Bring Up the Bodies,  Hilary Mantel

• 2013: The Luminaries,  Eleanor Catton

• 2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North,  Richard Flanagan

• 2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings,  Marlon James

• 2016: The Sellout,  Paul Beatty

• 2017: Lincoln in the Bardo,  George Saunders

• 2018: Milkman,  Anna Burns

• 2019: Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo & The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Shared)

Recap: The Booker in the 2010s

• 2020: Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart

• 2021: The Promise, Damon Galgut

• 2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka

• 2023: Prophet Song, Paul Lynch