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