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Man Booker Prize

2021
Winner
The Promise by Damon Galgut

Shortlist
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Longlist
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Island by Karen Jennings
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
2020
Winner
​Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

Shortlist
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Longlist
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Redhead by The Side of The Road by Anne Tyler
Love and other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
2019
Winners
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Shortlist
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

Longlist
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Wall by John Lanchester
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Lanny by Max Porter
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson​
2018
Winner
Milkman by Anna Burns

Shortlist
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Long Take by Robin Robertson

Longlist
Snap by Belinda Bauer
 Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Normal People by Sally Rooney
From A Low And Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
2017
Winner
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Shortlist
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
Autumn by Ali Smith

Longlist
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2016
Winner
The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Shortlist
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
  
Longlist
The Schooldays of Jesus by JM Coetzee
Serious Sweet by AL Kennedy
The North Water by Ian McGuire
Hystopia by David Means
The Many by Wyl Menmuir
Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
2015
Winner
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
  
Shortlist
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
  
Longlist
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
The Chimes by Anna Small
2014
Winner
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
  
Shortlist
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
J by Howard Jacobson
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
How to be Both by Ali Smith
  
Longlist
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Us by David Nicholls
The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
Orfeo by Richard Powers
History of the Rain by Niall Williams
2013
Winner
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
  
Shortlist
We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
Harvest by Jim Crace
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
  
Longlist
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
The Kills by Richard House
Unexploded by Alison MacLeod
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
2012
Winner
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
  
Shortlist
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
Umbrella by Will Self
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
  
Longlist
The Yips by Nicola Barker
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
Philida by André Brink
Skios by Michael Frayn
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Communion Town by Sam Thompson
2011
Winner
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
  
Shortlist
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
Snowdrops by AD Miller
  
Longlist
On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
Far to Go by Alison Pick
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
Derby Day by DJ Taylor
2010
Winner
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
  
Shortlist
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Room by Emma Donoghue
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
C by Tom McCarthy
  
Longlist
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Trespass by Rose Tremain
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner
2009
Winner
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  
Shortlist
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
Summertime by JM Coetzee
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
  
Longlist
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Me Cheeta by James Lever
Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
Heliopolis by James Scudamore
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Love and Summer by William Trevor
2008
Winner
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
  
Shortlist
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
  
Longlist
Girl In A Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
From A to X by John Berger
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
2007
Winner
The Gathering by Anne Enright
  
Shortlist
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Animal’s People by Indra Sinha
  
Longlist
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
Self Help by Edward  Docx
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Consolation by Michael Redhill
2006
Winner
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
  
Shortlist
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland
In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
  
Longlist
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
Seven Lies by James Lasdun
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth
2005
Winner
The Sea by John Banville
  
Shortlist
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Accidental by Ali Smith
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
  
Longlist
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
Slow Man by JM Coetzee
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
All For Love by Dan Jacobson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The People’s Act of Love by James Meek
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
This Is The Country by William Wall
2004
Winner
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
  
Shortlist
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Master by Colm Toibin
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
  
Longlist
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker
The Island Walkers by John Bemrose
Havoc, in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Always the Sun by Neil Cross
Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
A Blade of Grass by Lewis Desoto
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
The Unnumbered by Sam North
Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
Cherry by Matt Thorne
2003
Winner
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
  
Shortlist
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Notes on a Scandal by Zöe Heller
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
  
Longlist
Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
Turn Again Home by Carol Birch
Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg
Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
The Taxi Driver’s Daughter by Julia Darling
Schopenhauer’s Telescope by Gerard Donovan
The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Nick of Time by Francis King
Heligoland by Shena Mackay
Jazz etc by John Murray
Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson
Judge Savage by Tim Parks
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido
2002
Winner
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  
Shortlist
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Unless by Carol Shields
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
  
Longlist
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas by Dannie Abse
Shroud by John Banville
Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner
Peacetime by Robert Edric
Spies by Michael Frayn
Still Here by Linda Grant
The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
Who’s Sorry Now? by Howard Jacobson
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Dorian by Will Self
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
To The Last City by Colin Thubron

Booker-McConnell Prize

2001
Winner
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
  
Shortlist
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Oxygen by Andrew Miller
number9dream by David Mitchell
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Hotel World by Ali Smith
  
Longlist
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
If the Invader Comes by Derek Beaven
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson
The Element of Water by Stevie Davies
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf
Translated Accounts by James Kelman
The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee
Fairness by Ferdinand Mount
Half a Life by VS Naipaul
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner
2000
Winner
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
  
Shortlist
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty
1999
Winner
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
  
Shortlist
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
The Map of Love  by Ahdaf Soueif
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
1998
Winner
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
  
Shortlist
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
England, England by Julian Barnes
The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
1997
Winner
The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  
Shortlist
Quarantine by Jim Crace
The Underground Man by Mick Jackson
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Europa by Tim Parks
The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John
1996
Winner
Last Orders by Graham Swift
  
Shortlist
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
Reading In the Dark by Seamus Deane
The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
1995
Winner
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
  
Shortlist
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
The Riders by Tim Winton
1994
Winner
How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman
  
Shortlist
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
1993
Winner
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha  by Roddy Doyle
  
Shortlist
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1992
Winners
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
  
Shortlist
Serenity House by Christopher Hope
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts
1991
Winner
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
  
Shortlist
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
The Van by Roddy Doyle
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) by William Trevor
1990
Winner
Possession by AS Byatt
  
Shortlist
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
Amongst Women by John McGahern
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
1989
Winner
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
Shortlist
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Book of Evidence by John Banville
Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford
A Disaffection by James Kelman
Restoration by Rose Tremain
1988
Winner
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
  
Shortlist
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
Nice Work by David Lodge
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Lost Father by Marina Warner
1987
Winner
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
  
Shortlist
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden
The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
1986
Winner
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
  
Shortlist
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Gabriel’s Lament by Paul Bailey
What’s Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo
1985
Winner
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
  
Shortlist
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by JL Carr
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris
The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
1984
Winner
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
  
Shortlist
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
In Custody by Anita Desai
According to Mark by Penelope Lively
Small World by David Lodge
1983
Winner
Life and Times of Michael K by JM Coetzee
  
Shortlist
Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
The Illusionist by Anita Mason
Shame by Salman Rushdie
Waterland by Graham Swift
1982
Winner
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
  
Shortlist
Silence among the Weapons by John Arden
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
1981
Winner
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  
Shortlist
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
The White Hotel by DM Thomas
1980
Winner
Rites of Passage by William Golding
  
Shortlist
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
A Month in the Country by JL Carr
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Who Do You Think You Are? (The Beggar Maid) by Alice Munro
No Country for Young Men by Julia O'Faolain
Pascali’s Island by Barry Unsworth
1979
Winner
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
  
Shortlist
Confederates by Thomas Keneally
A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
Joseph by Julian Rathbone
Praxis by Fay Weldon
1978
Winner
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
  
Shortlist
Jake’s Thing by Kingsley Amis
Rumours of Rain by André Brink
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens
1977
Winner
Staying On by Paul Scott
  
Shortlist
Peter Smart’s Confessions by Paul Bailey
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
Shadows on our Skin by Jennifer Johnston
The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
1976
Winner
Saville by David Storey
  
Shortlist
An Instant in the Wind by André Brink
Rising by RC Hutchinson
The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore
King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
1975
Winner
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  
Shortlist
Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally
1974
Winners
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
Holiday by Stanley Middleton
  
Shortlist
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
In Their Wisdom by CP Snow
1973
Winner
The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
  
Shortlist
The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
The Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
1972
Winner
G by John Berger
  
Shortlist
The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
Pasmore by David Storey
1971
Winner
In a Free State by VS Naipaul
  
Shortlist
The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
St Urbain’s Horseman by Mordecai Richler
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
1970
Winner
The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
  
Shortlist
John Brown's Body by AL Barker
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
Bruno’s Dream by Iris Murdoch
Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel by William Trevor
The Conjunction by TW Wheeler
1969
Winner
Something to Answer For by PH Newby
  
Shortlist
Figures in a Landscape by Barry England
The Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
The Public Image by Muriel Spark
From Scenes like These by GM Williams