Book prize winners

Booker Prize winners

40 winners and 108 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

Winners

  1. 2024 Orbital by Samantha Harvey First edition: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated 2023
  2. 2023 Prophet Song by Paul Lynch First edition: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated 2023
  3. 2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka First edition: Sort of Books 2022
  4. 2021 The Promise by Damon Galgut First edition: Chatto & Windus 2021
  5. 2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart First edition: Picador 2020
  6. 2019 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo First edition: Penguin Books 2019
  7. 2019 The Testaments by Margaret Atwood First edition not yet identified
  8. 2018 Milkman by Anna Burns First edition: Faber & Faber 2018
  9. 2017 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders First edition not yet identified
  10. 2016 The Sellout by Paul Beatty First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
  11. 2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James First edition: Riverhead Books 2014
  12. 2012 Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel First edition: Fourth Estate 2012
  13. 2009 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel First edition: Fourth Estate 2009
  14. 2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga First edition not yet identified
  15. 2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright First edition: Jonathan Cape 2007
  16. 2005 The Sea by John Banville First edition: Picador 2005
  17. 2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst First edition: Picador 2004
  18. 2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre First edition not yet identified
  19. 2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel First edition: Vintage Canada 2001
  20. 2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood First edition not yet identified
  21. 1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee First edition not yet identified
  22. 1998 Amsterdam by Ian McEwan First edition: Arrow Children's Dump List 1998
  23. 1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift First edition: Picador 1996
  24. 1995 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker First edition: Viking 1995
  25. 1994 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman First edition: Secker & Warburg 1994
  26. 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle First edition: Secker & Warburg 1993
  27. 1990 Possession by A. S. Byatt First edition: Random House 1990
  28. 1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro First edition: Faber & Faber 1989
  29. 1988 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey First edition: Faber & Faber 1988
  30. 1987 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively First edition: Deutsch 1987
  31. 1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme First edition not yet identified
  32. 1984 Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner First edition: Triad Grafton Books 1984
  33. 1983 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee First edition: Secker & Warburg 1983
  34. 1982 Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally First edition: Hodder & Stoughton 1982
  35. 1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie First edition: Jonathan Cape 1981
  36. 1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding First edition: Faber & Faber 1980
  37. 1979 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald First edition: Collins 1979
  38. 1977 Staying on by Paul Scott First edition: Heinemann 1977
  39. 1975 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala First edition: Futura 1975
  40. 1973 The Siege of Krishnapur by James Gordon Farrell First edition: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1973

Shortlisted and nominated

  1. 2022 Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet First edition: Saraband / Contraband 2021
  2. 2022 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley First edition not yet identified
  3. 2022 Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout First edition: Random House 2021
  4. 2022 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan First edition: Faber & Faber 2021
  5. 2022 Trust by Hernán Díaz First edition not yet identified
  6. 2021 Bewilderment by Richard Powers First edition not yet identified
  7. 2021 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead First edition not yet identified
  8. 2021 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro First edition: Faber & Faber 2021
  9. 2021 No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood First edition not yet identified
  10. 2020 Real Life by Brandon Taylor First edition: Riverhead Books 2020
  11. 2020 Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
  12. 2020 The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste First edition: Norton 2019
  13. 2019 My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite First edition: Narrative Landscape Press 2018
  14. 2019 Quichotte by Salman Rushdie First edition: Jonathan Cape 2019
  15. 2018 Normal People by Sally Rooney First edition: Faber & Faber 2018
  16. 2018 The Overstory by Richard Powers First edition not yet identified
  17. 2018 The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh First edition: Penguin Books 2018
  18. 2018 Warlight by Michael Ondaatje First edition: Random House Audio 2018
  19. 2017 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster First edition not yet identified
  20. 2017 Autumn by Ali Smith First edition: Penguin Books 2016
  21. 2017 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid First edition: Hamish Hamilton 2017
  22. 2017 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie First edition: Bloomsbury Publishing 2017
  23. 2016 Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien First edition not yet identified
  24. 2016 Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh First edition: Center Point Large Print 2015
  25. 2016 Hot Milk by Deborah Levy First edition: Cengage Gale 2016
  26. 2015 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara First edition not yet identified
  27. 2015 Lila by Marilynne Robinson First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
  28. 2015 Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler First edition not yet identified
  29. 2015 The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma First edition not yet identified
  30. 2014 How to Be Both by Ali Smith First edition: Hamish Hamilton 2014
  31. 2014 The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell First edition: Hodder & Stoughton 2014
  32. 2014 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler First edition: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2013
  33. 2013 A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki First edition: Viking 2013
  34. 2012 The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng First edition: Myrmidon 2011
  35. 2012 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce First edition: Windsor 2012
  36. 2010 Room by Emma Donoghue First edition: Brand: Picador 2010
  37. 2010 The Long Song by Andrea Levy First edition: Charnwood 2010
  38. 2009 Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín First edition: Viking 2009
  39. 2009 The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt First edition: Chatto & Windus 2009
  40. 2009 The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters First edition: W F Howes 2009
  41. 2008 A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif First edition not yet identified
  42. 2008 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh First edition not yet identified
  43. 2008 The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie First edition not yet identified
  44. 2007 Animal's People by Indra Sinha First edition: Simon & Schuster 2007
  45. 2007 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan First edition: Jonathan Cape 2007
  46. 2007 The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid First edition: Penguin Books 2007
  47. 2006 Black Swan Green by David Mitchell First edition: Hodder Hb 2006
  48. 2006 Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn First edition: Open City Books 2005
  49. 2006 The Secret River by Kate Grenville First edition: Canongate 2005
  50. 2005 A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry First edition: Faber & Faber 2005
  51. 2005 Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel First edition: Fourth Estate 2005
  52. 2005 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro First edition: Faber & Faber 2005
  53. 2005 On Beauty by Zadie Smith First edition: Hamish Hamilton 2005
  54. 2005 Saturday by Ian McEwan First edition not yet identified
  55. 2005 Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie First edition not yet identified
  56. 2005 Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee First edition not yet identified
  57. 2005 The Accidental by Ali Smith First edition: Hamish Hamilton 2005
  58. 2004 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke First edition not yet identified
  59. 2004 Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie First edition: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003
  60. 2004 The Master by Colm Tóibín First edition: Picador 2004
  61. 2003 Brick Lane by Monica Ali First edition: Doubleday 2003
  62. 2003 Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee First edition not yet identified
  63. 2003 Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller First edition not yet identified
  64. 2003 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood First edition: Random House Large Print 2002
  65. 2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon First edition: Jonathan Cape 2003
  66. 2002 Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry First edition: Faber & Faber 2001
  67. 2002 Unless by Carol Shields First edition not yet identified
  68. 2001 Atonement by Ian McEwan First edition: Jonathan Cape 2001
  69. 2001 Half a Life by V. S. Naipaul First edition: Picador 2001
  70. 2001 Hotel World by Ali Smith First edition: Hamish Hamilton 2001
  71. 2001 Number9Dream by David Mitchell First edition: Sceptre 2001
  72. 2001 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman First edition: Knopf 2000
  73. 2000 When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro First edition: Faber & Faber 2000
  74. 1999 Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai First edition not yet identified
  75. 1996 alias Grace by Margaret Atwood First edition not yet identified
  76. 1995 The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie First edition not yet identified
  77. 1994 Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah First edition: New Press 1994
  78. 1994 Reef by Romesh Gunesekera First edition: Penguin Putnam~trade 1994
  79. 1994 The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst First edition: Chatto & Windus 1994
  80. 1993 Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips First edition: Bloomsbury Publishing 1993
  81. 1993 Remembering Babylon by David Malouf First edition not yet identified
  82. 1993 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields First edition not yet identified
  83. 1992 Black Dogs by Ian McEwan First edition: Jonathan Cape 1992
  84. 1991 The Van by Roddy Doyle First edition: Secker & Warburg 1991
  85. 1990 Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler First edition: Viking 1989
  86. 1990 The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald First edition: Collins 1990
  87. 1989 Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood First edition: Doubleday 1988
  88. 1989 Restoration by Rose Tremain First edition: Hamish Hamilton 1989
  89. 1988 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie First edition not yet identified
  90. 1987 Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe First edition: Heinemann 1987
  91. 1986 An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro First edition: Faber & Faber 1986
  92. 1986 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood First edition not yet identified
  93. 1985 The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing First edition: Jonathan Cape 1985
  94. 1984 Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard First edition: Simon & Schuster 1984
  95. 1984 In Custody by Anita Desai First edition not yet identified
  96. 1984 Small World by David Lodge First edition: Secker & Warburg 1984
  97. 1983 Shame by Salman Rushdie First edition not yet identified
  98. 1983 Waterland by Graham Swift First edition: Heinemann 1983
  99. 1981 The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan First edition: Jonathan Cape 1981
  100. 1981 The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas First edition: Gollancz 1981
  101. 1980 Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess First edition: Hutchinson 1980
  102. 1979 A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul First edition: Deutsch 1979
  103. 1974 The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge First edition: Duckworth 1974
  104. 1973 The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch First edition: Chatto & Windus 1973
  105. 1971 Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing First edition: Jonathan Cape 1971
  106. 1971 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor First edition: Chatto & Windus 1971
  107. 1970 The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark First edition: Macmillan 1970
  108. 1969 The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch First edition not yet identified

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