Shortlists
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Chair | Judges |
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1969 | P. H. Newby | Something to Answer For | Faber & Faber | W. L. Webb |
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Barry England | Figures in a Landscape | Jonathan Cape | |||
Nicholas Mosley | Impossible Object | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
Iris Murdoch | The Nice and the Good | Chatto and Windus | |||
Muriel Spark | The Public Image | Macmillan | |||
G. M. Williams | From Scenes like These | Secker and Warburg | |||
1970 | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member | Eyre & Spottiswoode | David Holloway |
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A. L. Barker | John Brown's Body | Hogarth Press | |||
Elizabeth Bowen | Eva Trout | Jonathan 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 | |||
1970 Awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker PrizeNote #A |
J. G. Farrell | Troubles | Phoenix | n/a |
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Nina Bawden | The Birds on the Trees | Virago | |||
Shirley Hazzard | The Bay of Noon | Virago | |||
Mary Renault | Fire From Heaven | Arrow | |||
Muriel Spark | The Driver's Seat | Penguin | |||
Patrick White | The Vivisector | Vintage | |||
1971 | V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State | Deutsch | John Gross |
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Thomas Kilroy | The Big Chapel | Faber & Faber | |||
Doris Lessing | Briefing for a Descent into Hell | Jonathan Cape | |||
Mordecai Richler | St Urbain's Horseman | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | |||
Derek Robinson | Goshawk Squadron | Heinemann | |||
Elizabeth Taylor | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | Chatto & Windus | |||
1972 | John Berger | G. | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Cyril Connolly |
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Susan Hill | The Bird of Night | Hamish Hamilton | |||
Thomas Keneally | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Angus & Robertson | |||
David Storey | Pasmore | Longman | |||
1973 | J. G. Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Karl Miller |
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Beryl Bainbridge | The Dressmaker | Duckworth | |||
Elizabeth Mavor | The Green Equinox | Michael Joseph | |||
Iris Murdoch | The Black Prince | Chatto & Windus | |||
1974 | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | Jonathan Cape | Ion Trewin |
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Stanley Middleton | Holiday | Hutchinson | |||
Kingsley Amis | Ending Up | Jonathan Cape | |||
Beryl Bainbridge | The Bottle Factory Outing | Duckworth | |||
C. P. Snow | In Their Wisdom | Macmillan | |||
1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust | John Murray | Angus Wilson |
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Thomas Keneally | Gossip from the Forest | Collins | |||
1976 | David Storey | Saville | Jonathan Cape | Walter Allen |
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André Brink | An Instant in the Wind | W. H. Allen | |||
R. C. Hutchinson | Rising | Michael Joseph | |||
Brian Moore | The Doctor's Wife | Jonathan Cape | |||
Julian Rathbone | King Fisher Lives | Michael Joseph | |||
William Trevor | The Children of Dynmouth | Bodley Head | |||
1977 | Paul Scott | Staying On | Heinemann | Philip Larkin |
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Paul Bailey | Peter Smart's Confessions | Jonathan 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 | Iris Murdoch | The Sea, the Sea | Chatto & Windus | Sir Alfred Ayer |
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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 | Penelope Fitzgerald | Offshore | Collins | Lord Asa Briggs |
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Thomas Keneally | Confederates | Collins | |||
V. S. Naipaul | A Bend in the River | Deutsch | |||
Julian Rathbone | Joseph | Michael Joseph | |||
Fay Weldon | Praxis | Hodder & Stoughton | |||
1980 | William Golding | Rites of Passage | Faber & Faber | David Daiches |
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Anthony Burgess | Earthly Powers | Hutchinson | |||
Anita Desai | Clear Light of Day | Heinemann | |||
Alice Munro | The Beggar Maid | Viking | |||
Julia O'Faolain | No Country for Young Men | Viking | |||
Barry Unsworth | Pascali's Island | Michael Joseph | |||
J. L. Carr | A Month in the Country | Harvester | |||
1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | Jonathan Cape | Professor Malcolm Bradbury |
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Molly Keane | Good Behaviour | Deutsch | |||
Doris Lessing | The Sirian Experiments | Jonathan Cape | |||
Ian McEwan | The Comfort of Strangers | Jonathan Cape | |||
Ann Schlee | Rhine Journey | Macmillan | |||
Muriel Spark | Loitering with Intent | Bodley Head | |||
D. M. Thomas | The White Hotel | Gollancz | |||
1982 | Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | Hodder & Staughton | John Carey |
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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 | J. M. Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K | Secker & Warburg | Fay Weldon |
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Malcolm Bradbury | Rates of Exchange | Secker & Warburg | |||
John Fuller | Flying to Nowhere | Salamander | |||
Anita Mason | The Illusionist | Hamish Hamilton | |||
Salman Rushdie | Shame | Jonathan Cape | |||
Graham Swift | Waterland | Heinemann | |||
1984 | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac | Jonathan Cape | Professor Richard Cobb |
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J. G. Ballard | Empire of the Sun | Gollancz | |||
Julian Barnes | Flaubert's Parrot | Jonathan Cape | |||
Anita Desai | In Custody | Heinemann | |||
Penelope Lively | According to Mark | Heinemann | |||
David Lodge | Small World | Secker & Warburg | |||
1985 | Keri Hulme | The Bone People | Hodder & Stoughton | Norman St John-Stevas |
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Peter Carey | Illywhacker | Faber & Faber | |||
J. L. Carr | The Battle of Pollocks Crossing | Viking | |||
Doris Lessing | The Good Terrorist | Jonathan Cape | |||
Jan Morris | Last Letters from Hav | Viking | |||
Iris Murdoch | The Good Apprentice | Chatto & Windus | |||
1986 | Kingsley Amis | The Old Devils | Hutchinson | Anthony Thwaite |
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Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | Jonathan Cape | |||
Paul Bailey | Gabriel's Lament | Jonathan 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 | Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger | Deutsch | P. D. James |
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Chinua Achebe | Anthills of the Savannah | Heinemann | |||
Peter Ackroyd | Chatterton | Hamish Hamilton | |||
Nina Bawden | Circles of Deceit | Macmillan | |||
Brian Moore | The Colour of Blood | Jonathan Cape | |||
Iris Murdoch | The Book and the Brotherhood | Chatto & Windus | |||
1988 | Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | Faber & Faber | The Rt Hon Michael Foot |
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Bruce Chatwin | Utz | Jonathan 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 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | Faber & Faber | David Lodge |
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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 | |||
1990 | A. S. Byatt | Possession: A Romance | Chatto & Windus | Sir Denis Forman |
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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 | Ben Okri | The Famished Road | Jonathan Cape | Jeremy Treglown |
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Martin Amis | Time's Arrow | Jonathan 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 | Viking | |||
1992 | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | Bloomsbury | Victoria Glendinning |
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Barry Unsworth | Sacred Hunger | Hamish Hamilton | |||
Christopher Hope | Serenity House | Macmillan | |||
Patrick McCabe | The Butcher Boy | Picador | |||
Ian McEwan | Black Dogs | Jonathan Cape | |||
Michèle Roberts | Daughters of the House | Virago | |||
1993 | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Secker & Warburg | Lord Gowrie |
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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 | James Kelman | How late it was, how late | Secker & Warburg | Professor John Bayley |
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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 | Pat Barker | The Ghost Road | Viking | George Walden MP |
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Justin Cartwright | In Every Face I Meet | Sceptre | |||
Salman Rushdie | The Moor's Last Sigh | Jonathan Cape | |||
Barry Unsworth | Morality Play | Hamish Hamilton | |||
Tim Winton | The Riders | Picador | |||
1996 | Graham Swift | Last Orders | Picador | Carmen Callil |
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Margaret Atwood | Alias Grace | Bloomsbury | |||
Beryl Bainbridge | Every Man for Himself | Duckworth | |||
Seamus Deane | Reading in the Dark | Jonathan Cape | |||
Shena Mackay | The Orchard on Fire | Heinemann | |||
Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | Faber & Faber | |||
1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | Flamingo | Professor Gillian Beer |
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Jim Crace | Quarantine | Viking | |||
Mick Jackson | The Underground Man | Picador | |||
Bernard MacLaverty | Grace Notes | Jonathan Cape | |||
Tim Parks | Europa | Secker & Warburg | |||
Madeleine St John | The Essence of the Thing | Fourth Estate | |||
1998 | Ian McEwan | Amsterdam | Jonathan Cape | Douglas Hurd |
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Beryl Bainbridge | Master Georgie | Duckworth | |||
Julian Barnes | England, England | Jonathan Cape | |||
Martin Booth | The Industry of Souls | Dewi Lewis | |||
Patrick McCabe | Breakfast on Pluto | Picador | |||
Magnus Mills | The Restraint of Beasts | Flamingo | |||
1999 | J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace | Secker & Warburg | Gerald Kaufman |
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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 | |||
2000 | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | Bloomsbury | Simon Jenkins |
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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 | |||
2001 | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | Faber & Faber | Kenneth Baker |
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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 | |||
2002 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | Canongate | Lisa Jardine |
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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 | |||
2003 | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | Faber & Faber | John Carey |
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Monica Ali | Brick Lane | Doubleday | |||
Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake | Bloomsbury | |||
Damon Galgut | The Good Doctor | Atlantic | |||
Zoë Heller | Notes on a Scandal | Viking | |||
Clare Morrall | Astonishing Splashes of Colour | Tindal Street | |||
2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | Picador | Chris Smith |
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Achmat Dangor | Bitter Fruit | Atlantic | |||
Sarah Hall | The Electric Michelangelo | Faber | |||
David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | Sceptre | |||
Colm Tóibín | The Master | Picador | |||
Gerard Woodward | I'll Go to Bed at Noon | Chatto & Windus | |||
2005 | John Banville | The Sea | Picador | John Sutherland |
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Julian Barnes | Arthur & 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 | |||
2006 | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | Hamish Hamilton | Hermione Lee |
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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 | Picador | |||
Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | Virago | |||
2007 | Anne Enright | The Gathering | Jonathan Cape | Howard Davies |
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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 | |||
2008 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | Atlantic | Michael Portillo |
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Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture | Faber & 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 | Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall | Fourth Estate | James Naughtie |
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A. S. Byatt | The Children's Book | Chatto and Windus | |||
J. M. Coetzee | Summertime | Harvill Secker | |||
Adam Foulds | The Quickening Maze | Jonathan Cape | |||
Simon Mawer | The Glass Room | Little, Brown | |||
Sarah Waters | The Little Stranger | Virago | |||
2010 | Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | Bloomsbury | Andrew Motion |
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Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | Faber and Faber | |||
Emma Donoghue | Room | Picador | |||
Damon Galgut | In a Strange Room | Atlantic Books | |||
Andrea Levy | The Long Song | Hachette | |||
Tom McCarthy | C | Jonathan Cape | |||
2011 | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | Jonathan Cape | Dame Stella Rimington |
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Carol Birch | Jamrach's Menagerie | Canongate | |||
Patrick deWitt | The Sisters Brothers | Granta Books | |||
Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | Serpent’s Tail | |||
Stephen Kelman | Pigeon English | Bloomsbury | |||
A D Miller | Snowdrops | Atlantic Books | |||
2012 | Hilary Mantel | Bring Up the Bodies | Fourth Estate | Sir Peter Stothard |
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Tan Twan Eng | The Garden of Evening Mists | Myrmidon Books | |||
Deborah Levy | Swimming Home | And Other Stories/Faber & Faber | |||
Alison Moore | The Lighthouse | Salt Publishing | |||
Will Self | Umbrella | Bloomsbury | |||
Jeet Thayil | Narcopolis | Faber & Faber |
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