(I am yet to read the titles marked with asterisks.)
Booker Prize Winners
No. |
Year |
Winner |
Book |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
1969 |
P. H. Newby |
Something to Answer For* |
2 |
1970 |
Bernice Rubens |
The Elected Member* |
3 |
1971 |
V.S. Naipaul |
In a Free State |
4 |
1972 |
John Berger |
G* |
5 |
1973 |
J.G. Farrell |
The Siege of Krishnapur |
6 |
1974 |
Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist |
Stanley Middleton | Holiday* |
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7 |
1975 |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Heat and Dust |
8 |
1976 |
David Storey |
Saville* |
9 |
1977 |
Paul Scott |
Staying On |
10 |
1978 |
Iris Murdoch |
The Sea, The Sea |
11 |
1979 |
Penelope Fitzgerald |
Offshore* |
12 |
1980 |
William Golding |
Rites of Passage* |
13 |
1981 |
Salman Rushdie |
Midnight’s Children |
14 |
1982 |
Thomas Keneally |
Schindler’s Ark |
15 |
1983 |
J. M. Coetzee |
Life and Times of Michael K. |
16 |
1984 |
Anita Brookner |
Hotel du Lac |
17 |
1985 |
Keri Hulme |
The Bone People |
18 |
1986 |
Kingsley Amis |
The Old Devils |
19 |
1987 |
Penelope Lively |
Moon Tiger |
20 |
1988 |
Peter Carey |
Oscar and Lucinda |
21 |
1989 |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Remains of the Day |
22 |
1990 |
A. S. Byatt |
Possession |
23 |
1991 |
Ben Okri |
The Famished Road |
24 |
1992 |
Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient |
Barry Unsworth | Sacred Hunger* |
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25 |
1993 |
Roddy Doyle |
Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha |
26 |
1994 |
James Kelman |
How Late It Was, How Late* |
27 |
1995 |
Pat Barker |
The Ghost Road* |
28 |
1996 |
Graham Swift |
Last Orders |
29 |
1997 |
Arundhati Roy |
The God of Small Things |
30 |
1998 |
Ian McEwan |
Amsterdam |
31 |
1999 |
J. M. Coetzee |
Disgrace |
32 |
2000 |
Margaret Atwood |
The Blind Assassin |
33 |
2001 |
Peter Carey |
True History of the Kelly Gang |
34 |
2002 |
Yann Martel |
Life of Pi |
35 |
2003 |
DBC Pierre |
Vernon God Little |
36 |
2004 |
Alan Hollinghurst |
The Line of Beauty |
37 |
2005 |
John Banville |
The Sea |
38 |
2006 |
Kiran Desai |
The Inheritance of Loss |
39 |
2007 |
Anne Enright |
The Gathering* |