Booker Prize Shortlists and winners

1969
Winner P H Newby Something to Answer For 
Thomas Keneally Confederates Collins
V S Naipaul A Bend in the River Deutsch
Julian Rathbone Joseph Michael Joseph
Fay Weldon Praxis 


197O
Winner  Bernice Rubens The Elected Member Eyre & Spottiswood
A L Barker John Brown’s Body Hogarth Press
Elizabeth Bowen Eva Trout Cape
Iris Murdoch Bruno’s Dream Chatto & Windus
William Trevor Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel Bodley Head
T W Wheeler The Conjunction Angus & Robertson


1971
Winner V S Naipaul In a Free State Deutsch
Thomas Kilroy The Big Chapel Faber & Faber
Doris Lessing Briefing for a Descent into Hell Cape
Mordecai Richler St Urbain’s Horseman Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Derek Robinson Goshawk Squadron
Elizabeth Taylor Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Chatto & Windus


1972
Winner John Berger G Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Susan Hill Bird of Night Hamish Hamilton
Thomas Keneally The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith Angus & Robertson
David Storey Pasmore Longman


1973
Winner J G Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Beryl Bainbridge The Dressmaker Duckworth
Elizabeth Mavor The Green Equinox Michael Joseph
Iris Murdoch The Black Prince Chatto & Windus


1974
Winners Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist Cape
Stanley Middleton Holiday Hutchinson
Kingsley Amis Ending Up Cape
Beryl Bainbridge The Bottle Factory Outing Duckworth
C P Snow In Their Wisdom Macmillan


1975
Winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust John Murray
Thomas Keneally Gossip from the Forest Collins


1976
Winner David Storey Saville Cape
André Brink An Instant in the Wind W H Allen
R C Hutchinson Rising Michael Joseph
Brian Moore The Doctor’s Wife Cape
Julian Rathbone King Fisher Lives Michael Joseph
William Trevor The Children of Dynmouth Bodley Head


1977
Winner Paul Scott Staying On Heinemann
Paul Bailey Peter Smart’s Confessions Cape
Caroline Blackwood Great Granny Webster Duckworth
Jennifer Johnston Shadows on our Skin Hamish Hamilton
Penelope Lively The Road to Lichfield Heinemann
Barbara Pym Quartet in Autumn Macmillan


1978
Winner Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea Chatto & Windus
Kingsley Amis Jake’s Thing Hutchinson
André Brink Rumours of Rain W H Allen
Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop Duckworth
Jane Gardam God on the Rocks Hamish Hamilton
Bernice Rubens A Five-Year Sentence W H Allen


1979
Winner Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore Collins
Thomas Keneally Confederates Collins
V S Naipaul A Bend in the River Deutsch
Julian Rathbone Joseph Michael Joseph
Fay Weldon Praxis Hodder & Stoughton


198O
Winner William Golding Rites of Passage Faber & Faber
Anthony Burgess Earthly Powers Hutchinson
Anita Desai Clear Light of Day Heinemann
Alice Munro The Beggar Maid Allen Lane
Julia O’Faolain No Country for Young Men Allen Lane
Barry Unsworth Pascali’s Island Michael Joseph
J L Carr A Month in the Country Harvester


1981
Winner Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children Cape
Molly Keane Good Behaviour Deutsch
Doris Lessing The Sirian Experiments Cape
Ian McEwan The Comfort of Strangers Cape
Ann Schlee Rhine Journey Macmillan
Muriel Spark Loitering with Intent Bodley Head
D M Thomas The White Hotel Gollancz


1982
Winner Thomas Keneally Schindler’s Ark Hodder & Stoughton
John Arden Silence among the Weapons Methuen
William Boyd An Ice-Cream War Hamish Hamilton
Lawrence Durrell Constance or Solitary Practices Faber & Faber
Alice Thomas Ellis The 27th Kingdom Duckworth
Timothy Mo Sour Sweet Deutsch


1983
Winner J M Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K Secker & Warburg
Malcolm Bradbury Rates of Exchange Secker & Warburg
John Fuller Flying to Nowhere Salamander
Anita Mason The Illusionist Hamish Hamilton
Salman Rushdie Shame Cape
Graham Swift Waterland Heinemann


1984
Winner Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac Cape
J G Ballard Empire of the Sun Gollancz
Julian Barnes Flaubert’s Parrot Cape
Anita Desai In Custody Heinemann
Penelope Lively According to Mark Heinemann
David Lodge Small World Secker & Warburg


1985
Winner Keri Hulme The Bone People Hodder & Stoughton
Peter Carey Illywhacker Faber & Faber
J L Carr The Battle of Pollocks Crossing Viking
Doris Lessing The Good Terrorist Cape
Jan Morris Last Letters from Hav Viking
Iris Murdoch The Good Apprentice Chatto & Windus


1986
Winner Kingsley Amis The Old Devils Hutchinson
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale Cape
Paul Bailey Gabriel’s Lament Cape
Robertson Davies What’s Bred in the Bone Viking
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World Faber & Faber
Timothy Mo An Insular Possession Chatto & Windus


1987
Winner Penelope Lively Moon Tiger Deutsch
Chinua Achebe Anthills of the Savannah Heinemann
Peter Ackroyd Chatterton Hamish Hamilton
Nina Bawden Circles of Deceit Macmillan
Brian Moore The Colour of Blood Cape
Iris Murdoch The Book and the Brotherhood Chatto & Windus


1988
Winner Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda Faber & Faber
Bruce Chatwin Utz Cape
Penelope Fitzgerald The Beginning of Spring Collins
David Lodge Nice Work Secker & Warburg
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses Viking
Marina Warner The Lost Father Chatto & Windus


1989
Winner Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Faber & Faber
Margaret Atwood Cat’s Eye Bloomsbury
John Banville The Book of Evidence Secker & Warburg
Sybille Bedford Jigsaw Hamish Hamilton
James Kelman A Disaffection Secker & Warburg
Rose Tremain Restoration Hamish Hamilton


199O
Winner A S Byatt Possession Chatto & Windus
Beryl Bainbridge An Awfully Big Adventure Duckworth
Penelope Fitzgerald The Gate of Angels Collins
John McGahern Amongst Women Faber & Faber
Brian Moore Lies of Silence Bloomsbury
Mordecai Richler Solomon Gursky Was Here Chatto & Windus


1991
Winner Ben Okri The Famished Road Cape
Martin Amis Time’s Arrow Cape
Roddy Doyle The Van Secker & Warburg
Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey Faber & Faber
Timothy Mo The Redundancy of Courage Chatto & Windus
William Trevor Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) Viking


1992
Winners Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Bloomsbury
Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger Hamish Hamilton
Christopher Hope Serenity House Macmillan
Patrick McCabe The Butcher Boy Picador
Ian McEwan Black Dogs Cape
Michèle Roberts Daughters of the House Virago


1993
Winner Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Secker & Warburg
Tibor Fischer Under the Frog Polygon
Michael Ignatieff Scar Tissue Chatto & Windus
David Malouf Remembering Babylon Chatto & Windus
Caryl Phillips Crossing the River Bloomsbury
Carol Shields The Stone Diaries Fourth Estate


1994
Winner James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late Secker & Warburg
Romesh Gunesekera Reef Granta Books
Abdulrazak Gurnah Paradise Hamish Hamilton
Alan Hollinghurst The Folding Star Chatto & Windus
George Mackay Brown Beside the Ocean of Time John Murray
Jill Paton Walsh Knowledge of Angels Green Bay


1995
Winner Pat Barker The Ghost Road Viking
Justin Cartwright In Every Face I Meet Sceptre
Salman Rushdie The Moor’s Last Sigh Cape
Barry Unsworth Morality Play Hamish Hamilton
Tim Winton The Riders Picador


1996
Winner Graham Swift Last Orders Picador
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace Bloomsbury
Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself Duckworth
Seamus Deane Reading in the Dark Cape
Shena Mackay The Orchard on Fire Heinemann
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Faber & Faber


1997
Winner Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things Flamingo
Jim Grace Quarantine Viking
Mick Jackson The Underground Man Picador
Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes Cape
Tim Parks Europa Secker & Warburg
Madeleine St John The Essence of the Thing Fourth Estate


1998
Winner Ian McEwan Amsterdam Cape
Beryl Bainbridge Master George Duckworth
Julian Barnes England England Cape
Martin Booth The Industry of Souls Dewi Lewis
Patrick McCabe Breakfast on Pluto Picador
Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts Flamingo


1999
Winner J M Coetzee Disgrace Secker & Warburg
Anita Desai Fasting, Feasting Chatto & Windus
Michael Frayn Headlong Faber & Faber
Andrew O’Hagan Our Fathers Faber & Faber
Ahdaf Soueif The Map of Love Bloomsbury
Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship Picador


2OOO
Winner Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Bloomsbury
Trezza Azzopardi The Hiding Place Picador
Michael Collins The Keepers of Truth Phoenix House
Kazuo Ishiguro When we were Orphans Faber & Faber
Matthew Kneale English Passengers Hamish Hamilton
Brian O’Doherty The Deposition of Father McGreevy Arcadia


2OO1
Winner Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Faber & Faber
Ian McEwan Atonement Jonathan Cape
Andrew Miller Oxygen Sceptre
David Mitchell number9dream Sceptre
Rachel Seiffert The Dark Room William Heinemann
Ali Smith Hotel World Hamish Hamilton


2OO2
Winner Yann Martel Life of Pi Canongate
Rohinton Mistry Family Matters Faber & Faber
Carol Shields Unless Fourth Estate
William Trevor The Story of Lucy Gault Viking
Sarah Waters Fingersmith Virago
Tim Winton Dirt Music Picador


2OO3
Winner DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Faber & Faber
Monica Ali Brick Lane Doubleday
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake Bloomsbury
Damon Galgut The Good Doctor Atlantic Books
Zoë Heller Notes on a Scandal Viking Penguin
Clare Morrall Astonishing Splashes of Colour Tindal Street Press


2OO4
Winner Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty Picador
Achmat Dangor Bitter Fruit Atlantic
Sarah Hall The Electric Michelangelo Faber
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas Sceptre
Colm Toibin The Master Picador
Gerard Woodward I’ll go to Bed at Noon Chatto & Windus


2OO5
Winner John Banville The Sea Picador
Julian Barnes Arthur and George Jonathan Cape
Sebastian Barry A Long, Long Way Faber & Faber
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go Faber & Faber
Ali Smith The Accidental Hamish Hamilton
Zadie Smith On Beauty Hamish Hamilton


2OO6
Winner Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Penguin
Kate Grenville The Secret River Canongate
M J Hyland Carry Me Down Canongate
Hisham Matar In the Country of Men Viking
Edward St Aubyn Mother’s Milk Virago
Sarah Waters The Night Watch Virago


2OO7
Winner Anne Enright The Gathering Jonathan Cape
Nicola Barker Darkmans Fourth Estate
Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist Hamish Hamilton
Lloyd Jones Mister Pip John Murray
Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach Jonathan Cape
Indra Sinha Animal’s People Simon & Schuster


2OO8
Winner: Aravind Adiga The White Tiger Atlantic
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture Faber and Faber
Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies John Murray
Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs Virago
Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency Fourth Estate
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole Hamish Hamilton


2009
Winner: Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall 
A S Byatt The Children's Book 
J M Coetzee Summertime 
Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze 
Simon Mawer The Glass Room
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger 


2010
Winner: The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson  
Room – Emma Donoghue 
The Long Song – Andrea Levy 
C – Tom McCarthy 
In a Strange Room – Damon Galgut 
Parrot and Olivier in America – Peter Carey