THE BOOKER PRIZE
The Booker Prize is awarded each year for a full-length novel, written English and published in the UK. The Booker was traditionally awarded for novels by British, Irish, and Commonwealth authors published in the UK. In 2014, the award was opened to any novel originally written in English, mostly meaning Americans became eligible. The winner is awarded £50,000. The winner and the shortlisted authors see a significant increase in sales.
The Booker winners is one of my favorite books lists. That said, I am not going to keep updating the winners after 2021. My enthusiasm for prize-winners is waning with the 2020s. I plan to focus my efforts on reading the winners up to 2020 then declare victory and move on to other bookish projects.
If anyone else working on this list would like me to post a link to reviews or your progress report(s), please leave a comment with a link and I will add it below.
So far, I have read 45 of the winners. Here is the list, with notes about whether I've finished a book or if it is on my TBR shelf:
2021: Damon Galgut: The Promise
1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
1990: A.S. Byatt, Possession FINISHED
1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day FINISHED
1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda (reviewed here) FINISHED
1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger FINISHED
1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils FINISHED
1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People (reviewed here) FINISHED
1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac FINISHED (twice)
1983: J. M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K (reviewed here) FINISHED
1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List FINISHED
1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (reviewed here) FINISHED
1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage FINISHED
1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore FINISHED
1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea (reviewed here) FINISHED
1977: Paul Scott, Staying On FINISHED
1976: David Storey, Saville TBR SHELF
1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust FINISHED
1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist FINISHED, and Stanley Middleton, Holiday FINISHED
1973: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur TBR SHELF
1972: John Berger, G (reviewed here) FINISHED
1971: V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State FINISHED
1970, The Lost Booker: J. G. Farrell, Troubles TBR SHELF
1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member TBR SHELF
1969: Percy Howard Newby, Something to Answer For FINISHED
NOTES
Updated October 26, 2023. This is a redo of the Booker list I originally created in 2014.
OTHERS READING BOOKER WINNERS
The Complete Booker: This group blog is no longer actively administered, but there is a treasure trove of Booker-related material.
If you would like to be listed, please leave a comment with links to your progress reports or reviews and I will add them here.
If anyone else working on this list would like me to post a link to reviews or your progress report(s), please leave a comment with a link and I will add it below.
So far, I have read 45 of the winners. Here is the list, with notes about whether I've finished a book or if it is on my TBR shelf:
2021: Damon Galgut: The Promise
2019: Margaret Atwood, The Testaments ON OVERDRIVE; Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other ON OVERDRIVE
2018: Anna Burns, Milkman FINISHED
2017: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo FINISHED
2016: Paul Beatty, The Sellout FINISHED
2015: Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings FINISHED
2014: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North FINISHED
2013: Elinor Catton, The Luminaries FINISHED
2012: Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies FINISHED
2011: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (reviewed here) FINISHED
2010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (reviewed here) FINISHED
2009: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (reviewed here) FINISHED
2008: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger FINISHED
2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering (reviewed here) FINISHED
2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss FINISHED
2005: John Banville, The Sea (reviewed here) FINISHED
2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty TBR SHELF
2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little FINISHED
2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi FINISHED
2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang FINISHED
2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin FINISHED
1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace FINISHED
1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam FINISHED (twice)
1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things FINISHED
1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders FINISHED
1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road TBR SHELF
1994: James Kelman, How Late it Was, How Late TBR SHELF
1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha FINISHED
1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient TBR SHELF, and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (reviewed here) FINISHED
2017: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo FINISHED
2016: Paul Beatty, The Sellout FINISHED
2015: Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings FINISHED
2014: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North FINISHED
2013: Elinor Catton, The Luminaries FINISHED
2012: Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies FINISHED
2011: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (reviewed here) FINISHED
2010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (reviewed here) FINISHED
2009: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (reviewed here) FINISHED
2008: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger FINISHED
2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering (reviewed here) FINISHED
2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss FINISHED
2005: John Banville, The Sea (reviewed here) FINISHED
2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty TBR SHELF
2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little FINISHED
2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi FINISHED
2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang FINISHED
2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin FINISHED
1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace FINISHED
1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam FINISHED (twice)
1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things FINISHED
1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders FINISHED
1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road TBR SHELF
1994: James Kelman, How Late it Was, How Late TBR SHELF
1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha FINISHED
1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient TBR SHELF, and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (reviewed here) FINISHED
1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
1990: A.S. Byatt, Possession FINISHED
1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day FINISHED
1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda (reviewed here) FINISHED
1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger FINISHED
1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils FINISHED
1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People (reviewed here) FINISHED
1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac FINISHED (twice)
1983: J. M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K (reviewed here) FINISHED
1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List FINISHED
1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (reviewed here) FINISHED
1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage FINISHED
1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore FINISHED
1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea (reviewed here) FINISHED
1977: Paul Scott, Staying On FINISHED
1976: David Storey, Saville TBR SHELF
1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust FINISHED
1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist FINISHED, and Stanley Middleton, Holiday FINISHED
1973: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur TBR SHELF
1972: John Berger, G (reviewed here) FINISHED
1971: V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State FINISHED
1970, The Lost Booker: J. G. Farrell, Troubles TBR SHELF
1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member TBR SHELF
1969: Percy Howard Newby, Something to Answer For FINISHED
NOTES
Updated October 26, 2023. This is a redo of the Booker list I originally created in 2014.
OTHERS READING BOOKER WINNERS
The Complete Booker: This group blog is no longer actively administered, but there is a treasure trove of Booker-related material.
If you would like to be listed, please leave a comment with links to your progress reports or reviews and I will add them here.