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 2022-24 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

• 2024: Orbital, Samantha Harvey