2013
Astonishing maturity by Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton has become the youngest writer to win the Man Booker Prize, with the longest novel to triumph in the award
2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Mantel Hilary
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn.
2011
The Sense of an Ending by Barnes,
Julian By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.
2010
The Finkler Question by Jacobson,
Howard Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends.
2009
Wolf Hall by Mantel,
Hilary In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power -- England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. 2009 Man Booker Prize winner.
2008
The White Tiger by Adiga,
Aravind Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over a week, he tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life. 2008 Man Booker Prize winner.
2007
The Gathering by Enright,
Anne This 2007 Booker Prize winner is about a large Irish family gathering for a wake, where memories warp and secrets fester through 3 generations.
2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Desai,
Kiran This winner of the Booker Prize is a masterpiece in Anglo-Indian fiction.
2005
The Sea by Banville,
John Soon after his wife dies, a middle-aged Irishman goes to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child.
2004
The Line of Beauty by Hollinghurst,
Alan Novel set in the 1980's about a young British gay man coming of age in a world of wealth and politics. Booker prize winner.
2003
Vernon God Little by Pierre,
Dbc When 16 kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, who's pinned as an accomplice. So he takes off for Mexico. A Man Booker prize winner.
2002
Life Of Pi by Martel,
Yann 2002 Man Booker Prize Winner.
2001
True History of the Kelly Gang by Carey,
Peter The legendary Australian Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his story on pieces of paper as he flees from the police. Winner of the Booker prize.
2000
The Blind Assassin by Atwood,
Margaret Three wonderfully rich stories weave together, gradually revealing their interplay through secrets surrounding the Chase family, a rich and influential Ontario family.
1999
Disgrace by Coetzee,
J. M.Disgrace--set in post--apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. See long synopsis.
1998
Amsterdam by Mcewan,
Ian Imaginative novel of English Society.
1997
The God of Small Things by Roy,
Arundhati The international publishing sensation of 1997 -- translated into 18 languages -- a magical, sophisticated tour de force.The God of Small Things heralds a voice so powerful and original that it burns itself into the reader's memory.
1996
Last Orders by Swift,
Graham Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea.
1995
The Ghost Road by Barker,
Pat Set in World War II, this novel is about 2 men divided by class and experience but sharing a mutual respect and empathy. One is Lieutenant Billy Prior, and the other is his doctor.
1994
How Late It Was, How Late by Kelman,
James The gritty story of a fist-fighting, alcoholic ex-con named Sammy who is beaten senseless by the Glasgow police and plunged into a netherworld of darkness. Booker prize winner.
1993
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Doyle,
Roddy Ten year old Paddy Clarke is from a working class Irish family. He has a creeping realization that his parents marriage is ending and his life will change.
1992
Sacred Hunger by Unsworth,
Barry Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout.
The English Patient by Ondaatje,
MichaelWith ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II.
1991
The Famished Road by Okri,
Ben The story of Azaro, a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. A Booker prize winner.
1990
Possession: A Romance by Byatt,
A. S.Two contemporary literary scholars discover and investigate a secret romance between two Victorian poets - brilliant, funny, fascinating.
1989
The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro, Kazuo
1988
Oscar and Lucinda by Carey,
Peter The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures.This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia.
1987
Moon Tiger by Lively,
Penelope As she lays dying, a woman reflects on her life as a historian, fighting the world of men and their doubts of her, and her brief love affair with a British tank commander. Booker prize winner.
1986
The Old Devils by Amis,
Kingsley There is a secret humor within this book; for instance, how much different are the Welsh from the British and in what way? A British satire dealing with four couples whose relationships make them at ease and ill at ease when they meet.
1985
The Bone People by Hulme,
Keri In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes. One night her solitude is disrupted by a speechless mercurial boy named Simon and his Maori foster father Joe.
1984
Hotel Du Lac by Brookner,
Anita In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym.
1983
Life and Times of Michael K by Coetzee,
J. M.Michael takes his mother on a journey through South Africa and searches for meaning, freedom and survival
1982
Schindler's List by Keneally,
Thomas Re-creation, based on history but told with all the urgency of fiction. No one has ever understood what drove Schindler to his heroic and cunning feats against the Nazis.
1981
Midnight's Children by Rushdie,
Salman Introduction by Anita Desai Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and finds himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence.
1980
Rites of Passage by Greenberg,
Joanne Collection of short stories by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1979
Offshore by Fitzgerald,
Penelope On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats. Booker prize winner.
1978
The Sea, the Sea by Murdoch,
Iris Charles Arrow by, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
1977
Staying On by Scott,
Paul Sequel to the Raj Quartet, this novel is set in 1972, long after the British have left the remote hill station of Pankot. Staying on are Colonel Tusker Smalley and Lucy, his wife.
1976
Saville by Storey,
David Towards the end of the third decade of the present century a coal hauler's cart, pulled by a large, dirt-grey horse, came into the narrow streets of the village of Saxton, a small mining community in the low hill-land of south Yorkshire.
1975
Heat and Dust by Jhabvala,
Ruth Prawer In 1923 India, the lonely wife of an English colonist is intrigued by a minor prince named Nawab. Her letters are read by a present-day English girl, who's fascinated by India.
1974
The Conservationist by Gordimer,
Nadine A subtle and detailed novel of the forces and relationships that seethe in South Africa. Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Holiday by Middleton,
Stanley This consummate portrait of English provincial life, an extremely subtle story, told with all Middleton's artistry and depth of feeling, was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974.
1973
The Siege of Krishnapur by Farrell,
J. G. In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel.
1972
G. by Berger,
John In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century.
1971
In a Free State by Naipaul,
V. S.Winner of the 1971 Booker Prize, this grouping of two stories -- a short novel within a prologue and an epilogue from Naipaul's travel journals -- is held together by Naipaul's pervading concern with the themes of exile, freedom and prejudice.
1970
The Elected Member by Rubens,
Bernice In this 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel, Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyes-- until at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.
1969
Something to Answer For by Newby, P. H.
Astonishing maturity by Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton has become the youngest writer to win the Man Booker Prize, with the longest novel to triumph in the award
2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Mantel Hilary
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn.
2011
The Sense of an Ending by Barnes,
Julian By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.
2010
The Finkler Question by Jacobson,
Howard Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends.
2009
Wolf Hall by Mantel,
Hilary In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power -- England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. 2009 Man Booker Prize winner.
2008
The White Tiger by Adiga,
Aravind Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over a week, he tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life. 2008 Man Booker Prize winner.
2007
The Gathering by Enright,
Anne This 2007 Booker Prize winner is about a large Irish family gathering for a wake, where memories warp and secrets fester through 3 generations.
2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Desai,
Kiran This winner of the Booker Prize is a masterpiece in Anglo-Indian fiction.
2005
The Sea by Banville,
John Soon after his wife dies, a middle-aged Irishman goes to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child.
2004
The Line of Beauty by Hollinghurst,
Alan Novel set in the 1980's about a young British gay man coming of age in a world of wealth and politics. Booker prize winner.
2003
Vernon God Little by Pierre,
Dbc When 16 kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, who's pinned as an accomplice. So he takes off for Mexico. A Man Booker prize winner.
2002
Life Of Pi by Martel,
Yann 2002 Man Booker Prize Winner.
2001
True History of the Kelly Gang by Carey,
Peter The legendary Australian Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his story on pieces of paper as he flees from the police. Winner of the Booker prize.
2000
The Blind Assassin by Atwood,
Margaret Three wonderfully rich stories weave together, gradually revealing their interplay through secrets surrounding the Chase family, a rich and influential Ontario family.
1999
Disgrace by Coetzee,
J. M.Disgrace--set in post--apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. See long synopsis.
1998
Amsterdam by Mcewan,
Ian Imaginative novel of English Society.
1997
The God of Small Things by Roy,
Arundhati The international publishing sensation of 1997 -- translated into 18 languages -- a magical, sophisticated tour de force.The God of Small Things heralds a voice so powerful and original that it burns itself into the reader's memory.
1996
Last Orders by Swift,
Graham Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea.
1995
The Ghost Road by Barker,
Pat Set in World War II, this novel is about 2 men divided by class and experience but sharing a mutual respect and empathy. One is Lieutenant Billy Prior, and the other is his doctor.
1994
How Late It Was, How Late by Kelman,
James The gritty story of a fist-fighting, alcoholic ex-con named Sammy who is beaten senseless by the Glasgow police and plunged into a netherworld of darkness. Booker prize winner.
1993
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Doyle,
Roddy Ten year old Paddy Clarke is from a working class Irish family. He has a creeping realization that his parents marriage is ending and his life will change.
1992
Sacred Hunger by Unsworth,
Barry Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout.
The English Patient by Ondaatje,
MichaelWith ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II.
1991
The Famished Road by Okri,
Ben The story of Azaro, a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. A Booker prize winner.
1990
Possession: A Romance by Byatt,
A. S.Two contemporary literary scholars discover and investigate a secret romance between two Victorian poets - brilliant, funny, fascinating.
1989
The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro, Kazuo
1988
Oscar and Lucinda by Carey,
Peter The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures.This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia.
1987
Moon Tiger by Lively,
Penelope As she lays dying, a woman reflects on her life as a historian, fighting the world of men and their doubts of her, and her brief love affair with a British tank commander. Booker prize winner.
1986
The Old Devils by Amis,
Kingsley There is a secret humor within this book; for instance, how much different are the Welsh from the British and in what way? A British satire dealing with four couples whose relationships make them at ease and ill at ease when they meet.
1985
The Bone People by Hulme,
Keri In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes. One night her solitude is disrupted by a speechless mercurial boy named Simon and his Maori foster father Joe.
1984
Hotel Du Lac by Brookner,
Anita In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym.
1983
Life and Times of Michael K by Coetzee,
J. M.Michael takes his mother on a journey through South Africa and searches for meaning, freedom and survival
1982
Schindler's List by Keneally,
Thomas Re-creation, based on history but told with all the urgency of fiction. No one has ever understood what drove Schindler to his heroic and cunning feats against the Nazis.
1981
Midnight's Children by Rushdie,
Salman Introduction by Anita Desai Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and finds himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence.
1980
Rites of Passage by Greenberg,
Joanne Collection of short stories by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1979
Offshore by Fitzgerald,
Penelope On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats. Booker prize winner.
1978
The Sea, the Sea by Murdoch,
Iris Charles Arrow by, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
1977
Staying On by Scott,
Paul Sequel to the Raj Quartet, this novel is set in 1972, long after the British have left the remote hill station of Pankot. Staying on are Colonel Tusker Smalley and Lucy, his wife.
1976
Saville by Storey,
David Towards the end of the third decade of the present century a coal hauler's cart, pulled by a large, dirt-grey horse, came into the narrow streets of the village of Saxton, a small mining community in the low hill-land of south Yorkshire.
1975
Heat and Dust by Jhabvala,
Ruth Prawer In 1923 India, the lonely wife of an English colonist is intrigued by a minor prince named Nawab. Her letters are read by a present-day English girl, who's fascinated by India.
1974
The Conservationist by Gordimer,
Nadine A subtle and detailed novel of the forces and relationships that seethe in South Africa. Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
Holiday by Middleton,
Stanley This consummate portrait of English provincial life, an extremely subtle story, told with all Middleton's artistry and depth of feeling, was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974.
1973
The Siege of Krishnapur by Farrell,
J. G. In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel.
1972
G. by Berger,
John In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century.
1971
In a Free State by Naipaul,
V. S.Winner of the 1971 Booker Prize, this grouping of two stories -- a short novel within a prologue and an epilogue from Naipaul's travel journals -- is held together by Naipaul's pervading concern with the themes of exile, freedom and prejudice.
1970
The Elected Member by Rubens,
Bernice In this 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel, Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyes-- until at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.
1969
Something to Answer For by Newby, P. H.
