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The Booker Prize

Booker Prize Foundation

One of the most prestigious literary awards in the English-speaking world, awarded annually for the best single work of sustained fiction written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.

Latest winner · 2025

Next · November 9, 2026

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2026

  1. Black Bag

    Luke Kennard

    Shortlisted
  2. John of John

    Douglas Stuart

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. May We Feed the King

    Rebecca Perry

    Shortlisted
  4. The Disappearers

    Marlon James

    Shortlisted
  5. The End of Everything

    M. John Harrison

    Shortlisted
  6. The Things We Never Say

    Elizabeth Strout

    Shortlisted
  7. All Them Dogs

    Djamel White

    Longlisted
  8. Helen of Nowhere

    Makenna Goodman

    Longlisted
  9. Switzy

    Emma Cline

    Longlisted
  10. The Palm House

    Gwendoline Riley

    Longlisted
  11. The Renovation

    Kenan Orhan

    Longlisted
  12. The Shadow of the Object

    Chloe Aridjis

    Longlisted
  13. The Vivisectors

    Missouri Williams

    Longlisted

2025

  1. Flesh

    David Szalay

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Audition

    Katie Kitamura

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Flashlight

    Susan Choi

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. The Land in Winter

    Andrew Miller

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

    Kiran Desai

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Rest of Our Lives

    Ben Markovits

    Shortlisted
  7. Endling

    Maria Reva

    Longlisted
  8. Love Forms

    Claire Adam

    Longlisted
  9. Misinterpretation

    Ledia Xhoga

    Longlisted
  10. One Boat

    Jonathan Buckley

    Longlisted
  11. Seascraper

    Benjamin Wood

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  12. The South

    Tash Aw

    Longlisted
  13. Universality

    Natasha Brown

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted

2024

  1. Orbital

    Samantha Harvey

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Creation Lake

    Rachel Kushner

    Shortlisted
  3. Held

    Anne Michaels

    Shortlisted
  4. James

    Percival Everett

    Won 4 more awards · Nominated for 5 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. Stone Yard Devotional

    Charlotte Wood

    Shortlisted
  6. The Safekeep

    Yael van der Wouden

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Enlightenment

    Sarah Perry

    Longlisted
  8. Headshot

    Rita Bullwinkel

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted
  9. My Friends

    Hisham Matar

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  10. Playground

    Richard Powers

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  11. This Strange Eventful History

    Claire Messud

    Longlisted
  12. Wandering Stars

    Tommy Orange

    Longlisted
  13. Wild Houses

    Colin Barrett

    Longlisted

2023

  1. Prophet Song

    Paul Lynch

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. If I Survive You

    Jonathan Escoffery

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Study for Obedience

    Sarah Bernstein

    Shortlisted
  4. The Bee Sting

    Paul Murray

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. This Other Eden

    Paul Harding

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Western Lane

    Chetna Maroo

    Shortlisted
  7. A Spell of Good Things

    Ayobami Adebayo

    Longlisted
  8. All the Little Bird-Hearts

    Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

    Longlisted
  9. How to Build a Boat

    Elaine Feeney

    Longlisted
  10. In Ascension

    Martin MacInnes

    Won 1 more award

    Longlisted
  11. Old God's Time

    Sebastian Barry

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  12. Pearl

    Siân Hughes

    Longlisted
  13. The House of Doors

    Tan Twan Eng

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted

2022

  1. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

    Shehan Karunatilaka

    Won
  2. Glory

    NoViolet Bulawayo

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Oh William!

    Elizabeth Strout

    Shortlisted
  4. Small Things like These

    Claire Keegan

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Trees

    Percival Everett

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Treacle Walker

    Alan Garner

    Shortlisted
  7. After Sappho

    Selby Wynn Schwartz

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  8. Booth

    Karen Joy Fowler

    Longlisted
  9. Case Study

    Graeme Macrae Burnet

    Longlisted
  10. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

    Maddie Mortimer

    Longlisted
  11. Nightcrawling

    Leila Mottley

    Longlisted
  12. The Colony

    Audrey Magee

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  13. Trust

    Hernán Díaz

    Won 2 more awards

    Longlisted

2021

  1. The Promise

    Damon Galgut

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Passage North

    Anuk Arudpragasam

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Bewilderment

    Richard Powers

    Shortlisted
  4. Great Circle

    Maggie Shipstead

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. No One Is Talking about This

    Patricia Lockwood

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Fortune Men

    Nadifa Mohamed

    Shortlisted
  7. A Town Called Solace

    Mary Lawson

    Longlisted
  8. An Island

    Karen Jennings

    Longlisted
  9. China Room

    Sunjeev Sahota

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  10. Klara and the Sun

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Longlisted
  11. Light Perpetual

    Francis Spufford

    Longlisted
  12. Second Place

    Rachel Cusk

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  13. The Sweetness of Water

    Nathan Harris

    Longlisted

2020

  1. Shuggie Bain

    Douglas Stuart

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Burnt Sugar

    Avni Doshi

    Shortlisted
  3. Real Life

    Brandon Taylor

    Shortlisted
  4. The New Wilderness

    Diane Cook

    Shortlisted
  5. The Shadow King

    Maaza Mengiste

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. This Mournable Body

    Tsitsi Dangarembga

    Shortlisted
  7. Apeirogon

    Colum McCann

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted
  8. How Much of These Hills Is Gold

    C Pam Zhang

    Longlisted
  9. Love and Other Thought Experiments

    Sophie Ward

    Longlisted
  10. Redhead by the Side of the Road

    Anne Tyler

    Longlisted
  11. Such a Fun Age

    Kiley Reid

    Longlisted
  12. The Mirror and the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Longlisted
  13. Who They Was

    Gabriel Krauze

    Longlisted

2019

  1. Girl, Woman, Other

    Bernardine Evaristo

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Won
  2. The Testaments

    Margaret Atwood

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Won
  3. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

    Elif Shafak

    Shortlisted
  4. An Orchestra of Minorities

    Chigozie Obioma

    Shortlisted
  5. Ducks, Newburyport

    Lucy Ellmann

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Quichotte

    Salman Rushdie

    Shortlisted
  7. Frankissstein

    Jeanette Winterson

    Longlisted
  8. Lanny

    Max Porter

    Longlisted
  9. Lost Children Archive

    Valeria Luiselli

    Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted
  10. My Sister, the Serial Killer

    Oyinkan Braithwaite

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  11. Night Boat to Tangier

    Kevin Barry

    Longlisted
  12. The Man Who Saw Everything

    Deborah Levy

    Longlisted
  13. The Wall

    John Hersey

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted

2018

  1. Milkman

    Anna Burns

    Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Everything Under

    Daisy Johnson

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. The Long Take

    Robin Robertson

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Mars Room

    Rachel Kushner

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Overstory

    Richard Powers

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Washington Black

    Esi Edugyan

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  7. From a Low and Quiet Sea

    Donal Ryan

    Longlisted
  8. In Our Mad and Furious City

    Guy Gunaratne

    Longlisted
  9. Normal People

    Sally Rooney

    Longlisted
  10. Sabrina

    Nick Drnaso

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  11. Snap

    Belinda Bauer

    Longlisted
  12. The Water Cure

    Sophie Mackintosh

    Longlisted
  13. Warlight

    Michael Ondaatje

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted

2017

  1. Lincoln in the Bardo

    George Saunders

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. 4 3 2 1

    Paul Auster

    Shortlisted
  3. Autumn

    Ali Smith

    Shortlisted
  4. Elmet

    Fiona Mozley

    Shortlisted
  5. Exit West

    Mohsin Hamid

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 5 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. History of Wolves

    Emily Fridlund

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Days without End

    Sebastian Barry

    Won 1 more award

    Longlisted
  8. Home Fire

    Kamila Shamsie

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  9. Reservoir 13

    Jon McGregor

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted
  10. Solar Bones

    Mike McCormack

    Won 1 more award

    Longlisted
  11. Swing Time

    Zadie Smith

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Longlisted
  12. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

    Arundhati Roy

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  13. The Underground Railroad

    Colson Whitehead

    Won 4 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted

2016

  1. The Sellout

    Paul Beatty

    Won 1 more award

    Won
  2. All That Man Is

    David Szalay

    Shortlisted
  3. Do Not Say We Have Nothing

    Madeleine Thien

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. Eileen

    Ottessa Moshfegh

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. His Bloody Project

    Graeme Macrae Burnet

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Hot Milk

    Deborah Levy

    Shortlisted
  7. Hystopia

    David Means

    Longlisted
  8. My Name Is Lucy Barton

    Elizabeth Strout

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  9. Serious Sweet

    A.L. Kennedy

    Longlisted
  10. The Many

    Wyl Menmuir

    Longlisted
  11. The North Water

    Ian McGuire

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  12. The Schooldays of Jesus

    J. M. Coetzee

    Longlisted
  13. Work Like Any Other

    Virginia Reeves

    Longlisted

2015

  1. A Brief History of Seven Killings

    Marlon James

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. A Little Life

    Hanya Yanagihara

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 4 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. A Spool of Blue Thread

    Anne Tyler

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Satin Island

    Tom McCarthy

    Shortlisted
  5. The Fishermen

    Chigozie Obioma

    Shortlisted
  6. The Year of the Runaways

    Sunjeev Sahota

    Shortlisted
  7. Did You Ever Have a Family

    Bill Clegg

    Longlisted
  8. Lila

    Marilynne Robinson

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted
  9. Sleeping on Jupiter

    Anuradha Roy

    Longlisted
  10. The Chimes

    Anna Smaill

    Won 1 more award

    Longlisted
  11. The Green Road

    Anne Enright

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Longlisted
  12. The Illuminations

    Andrew O'Hagan

    Longlisted
  13. The Moor's Account

    Laila Lalami

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted

2014

  1. The Narrow Road to the Deep North

    Richard Flanagan

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. How to Be Both

    Ali Smith

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. J

    Howard Jacobson

    Shortlisted
  4. The Lives of Others

    Neel Mukherjee

    Shortlisted
  5. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

    Joshua Ferris

    Shortlisted
  6. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

    Karen Joy Fowler

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. History of the Rain

    Niall Williams

    Longlisted
  8. Orfeo

    Richard Powers

    Longlisted
  9. The Blazing World

    Siri Hustvedt

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  10. The Bone Clocks

    David Mitchell

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  11. The Dog

    Joseph O'Neill

    Longlisted
  12. The Wake

    Paul Kingsnorth

    Longlisted
  13. Us

    David Nicholls

    Longlisted

2013

  1. The Luminaries

    Eleanor Catton

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Tale for the Time Being

    Ruth Ozeki

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Harvest

    Jim Crace

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Lowland

    Jhumpa Lahiri

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. The Testament of Mary

    Colm Tóibín

    Shortlisted
  6. We Need New Names

    NoViolet Bulawayo

    Shortlisted
  7. Almost English

    Charlotte Mendelson

    Longlisted
  8. Five Star Billionaire

    Tash Aw

    Longlisted
  9. The Kills

    Richard House

    Longlisted
  10. The Marrying of Chani Kaufman

    Eve Harris

    Longlisted
  11. The Spinning Heart

    Donal Ryan

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  12. TransAtlantic

    Colum McCann

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  13. Unexploded

    Alison MacLeod

    Longlisted

2012

  1. Bring Up the Bodies

    Hilary Mantel

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Narcopolis

    Jeet Thayil

    Shortlisted
  3. Swimming Home

    Deborah Levy

    Shortlisted
  4. The Garden of Evening Mists

    Tan Twan Eng

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Lighthouse

    Alison Moore

    Shortlisted
  6. Umbrella

    Will Self

    Shortlisted
  7. Communion Town

    Sam Thompson

    Longlisted
  8. Philida

    André Brink

    Longlisted
  9. Skios

    Michael Frayn

    Longlisted
  10. The Teleportation Accident

    Ned Beauman

    Longlisted
  11. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

    Rachel Joyce

    Longlisted
  12. The Yips

    Nicola Barker

    Longlisted

2011

  1. The Sense of an Ending

    Julian Barnes

    Won
  2. Half-Blood Blues

    Esi Edugyan

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Jamrach's Menagerie

    Carol Birch

    Shortlisted
  4. Pigeon English

    Stephen Kelman

    Shortlisted
  5. Snowdrops

    A D Miller

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. The Sisters Brothers

    Patrick deWitt

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. A Cupboard Full of Coats

    Yvvette Edwards

    Longlisted
  8. Derby Day

    D. J. Taylor

    Longlisted
  9. Far to Go

    Alison Pick

    Longlisted
  10. On Canaan's Side

    Sebastian Barry

    Won 1 more award

    Longlisted
  11. The Last Hundred Days

    Patrick McGuinness

    Longlisted
  12. The Stranger's Child

    Alan Hollinghurst

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted
  13. The Testament of Jessie Lamb

    Jane Rogers

    Won 1 more award

    Longlisted

2010

  1. The Finkler Question

    Howard Jacobson

    Won
  2. C

    Tom McCarthy

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. In a Strange Room

    Damon Galgut

    Shortlisted
  4. Parrot and Olivier in America

    Peter Carey

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Room

    Emma Donoghue

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Long Song

    Andrea Levy

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. February

    Lisa Moore

    Longlisted
  8. Skippy Dies

    Paul Murray

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  9. The Betrayal

    Helen Dunmore

    Longlisted
  10. The Slap

    Christos Tsiolkas

    Longlisted
  11. The Stars in the Bright Sky

    Alan Warner

    Longlisted
  12. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

    David Mitchell

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted
  13. Trespass

    Rose Tremain

    Longlisted

2009

  1. Wolf Hall

    Hilary Mantel

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Summertime

    J. M. Coetzee

    Shortlisted
  3. The Children's Book

    A. S. Byatt

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Glass Room

    Simon Mawer

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Little Stranger

    Sarah Waters

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Quickening Maze

    Adam Foulds

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Brooklyn

    Colm Tóibín

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  8. Heliopolis

    James Scudamore

    Longlisted
  9. How to Paint a Dead Man

    Sarah Hall

    Longlisted
  10. Love and Summer

    William Trevor

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  11. Me Cheeta

    James Lever

    Longlisted
  12. Not Untrue and Not Unkind

    Ed O'Loughlin

    Longlisted
  13. The Wilderness

    Samantha Harvey

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted

2008

  1. The White Tiger

    Aravind Adiga

    Won
  2. A Fraction of the Whole

    Steve Toltz

    Shortlisted
  3. Sea of Poppies

    Amitav Ghosh

    Shortlisted
  4. The Clothes on Their Backs

    Linda Grant

    Shortlisted
  5. The Northern Clemency

    Philip Hensher

    Shortlisted
  6. The Secret Scripture

    Sebastian Barry

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. A Case of Exploding Mangoes

    Mohammed Hanif

    Longlisted
  8. Child 44

    Tom Rob Smith

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  9. From A to X

    John Berger

    Longlisted
  10. Girl in a Blue Dress

    Gaynor Arnold

    Longlisted
  11. Netherland

    Joseph O'Neill

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  12. The Enchantress of Florence

    Salman Rushdie

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  13. The Lost Dog

    Michelle de Kretser

    Longlisted

2007

  1. The Gathering

    Anne Enright

    Won
  2. Animal's People

    Indra Sinha

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Darkmans

    Nicola Barker

    Shortlisted
  4. Mister Pip

    Lloyd Jones

    Shortlisted
  5. On Chesil Beach

    Ian McEwan

    Shortlisted
  6. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Mohsin Hamid

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Consolation

    Michael Redhill

    Longlisted
  8. Gifted

    Nikita Lalwani

    Longlisted
  9. Self Help

    Edward Docx

    Longlisted
  10. The Gift of Rain

    Tan Twan Eng

    Longlisted
  11. The Welsh Girl

    Peter Ho Davies

    Longlisted
  12. What Was Lost

    Catherine O'Flynn

    Longlisted
  13. Winnie and Wolf

    A. N. Wilson

    Longlisted

2006

  1. The Inheritance of Loss

    Kiran Desai

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Carry Me Down

    M. J. Hyland

    Shortlisted
  3. In the Country of Men

    Hisham Matar

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Mother's Milk

    Edward St Aubyn

    Shortlisted
  5. The Night Watch

    Sarah Waters

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Secret River

    Kate Grenville

    Shortlisted
  7. Be Near Me

    Andrew O'Hagan

    Won 1 more award

    Longlisted
  8. Black Swan Green

    David Mitchell

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  9. Gathering the Water

    Robert Edric

    Longlisted
  10. Get a Life

    Nadine Gordimer

    Longlisted
  11. Kalooki Nights

    Howard Jacobson

    Longlisted
  12. Seven Lies

    James Lasdun

    Longlisted
  13. So Many Ways to Begin

    Jon McGregor

    Longlisted
  14. The Emperor's Children

    Claire Messud

    Longlisted
  15. The Other Side of the Bridge

    Mary Lawson

    Longlisted
  16. The Perfect Man

    Naeem Murr

    Longlisted
  17. The Ruby in Her Navel

    Barry Unsworth

    Longlisted
  18. The Testament of Gideon Mack

    James Robertson

    Longlisted
  19. Theft: A Love Story

    Peter Carey

    Longlisted

2005

  1. The Sea

    John Banville

    Won
  2. A Long Long Way

    Sebastian Barry

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Arthur & George

    Julian Barnes

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. On Beauty

    Zadie Smith

    Won 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. The Accidental

    Ali Smith

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

    Marina Lewycka

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  8. All for Love

    Dan Jacobson

    Longlisted
  9. Beyond Black

    Hilary Mantel

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  10. In the Fold

    Rachel Cusk

    Longlisted
  11. Saturday

    Ian McEwan

    Won 1 more award

    Longlisted
  12. Shalimar the Clown

    Salman Rushdie

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  13. Slow Man

    J. M. Coetzee

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  14. The Harmony Silk Factory

    Tash Aw

    Longlisted
  15. The People's Act of Love

    James Meek

    Longlisted
  16. This Is The Country

    William Wall

    Longlisted
  17. This Thing of Darkness

    Harry Thompson

    Longlisted

2004

  1. The Line of Beauty

    Alan Hollinghurst

    Won
  2. Bitter Fruit

    Achmat Dangor

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Cloud Atlas

    David Mitchell

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. I'll Go to Bed at Noon

    Gerard Woodward

    Shortlisted
  5. The Electric Michelangelo

    Sarah Hall

    Shortlisted
  6. The Master

    Colm Tóibín

    Won 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  7. A Blade of Grass

    Lewis DeSoto

    Longlisted
  8. Always the Sun

    Neil Cross

    Longlisted
  9. Becoming Strangers

    Louise Dean

    Longlisted
  10. Cherry

    Matt Thorne

    Longlisted
  11. Clear: A Transparent Novel

    Nicola Barker

    Longlisted
  12. Cooking with Fernet Branca

    James Hamilton-Paterson

    Longlisted
  13. Havoc, in Its Third Year

    Ronan Bennett

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  14. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    Susanna Clarke

    Won 3 more awards · Nominated for 4 more awards

    Longlisted
  15. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

    Susanna Clarke

    Longlisted
  16. Maps for Lost Lovers

    Nadeem Aslam

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  17. Purple Hibiscus

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  18. Sixty Lights

    Gail Jones

    Longlisted
  19. Snowleg

    Nicholas Shakespeare

    Longlisted
  20. The Great Fire

    Shirley Hazzard

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted
  21. The Honeymoon

    Justin Haythe

    Longlisted
  22. The Island Walkers

    John Bemrose

    Longlisted
  23. The Unnumbered

    Sam North

    Longlisted

2003

  1. Vernon God Little

    DBC Pierre

    Won
  2. Astonishing Splashes of Colour

    Clare Morrall

    Shortlisted
  3. Brick Lane

    Monica Ali

    Shortlisted
  4. Notes on a Scandal

    Zoë Heller

    Shortlisted
  5. Oryx and Crake

    Margaret Atwood

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Good Doctor

    Damon Galgut

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. A Distant Shore

    Caryl Phillips

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  8. Crossing the Lines

    Melvyn Bragg

    Longlisted
  9. Elizabeth Costello

    J. M. Coetzee

    Longlisted
  10. Frankie and Stankie

    Barbara Trapido

    Longlisted
  11. Heligoland

    Shena Mackay

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted

  12. Jazz etc.

    John Murray

    Longlisted
  13. Judge Savage

    Tim Parks

    Longlisted
  14. Schopenhauer's Telescope

    Gerard Donovan

    Longlisted
  15. Something Might Happen

    Julie Myerson

    Longlisted
  16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    Mark Haddon

    Longlisted
  17. The Light of Day

    Graham Swift

    Longlisted
  18. The Nick of Time

    Francis King

    Longlisted
  19. The Romantic

    Barbara Gowdy

    Longlisted
  20. The Taxi Driver's Daughter

    Julia Darling

    Longlisted
  21. Turn Again Home

    Carol Birch

    Longlisted
  22. Waxwings

    Jonathan Raban

    Longlisted
  23. Yellow Dog

    Martin Amis

    Longlisted

2002

  1. Life of Pi

    Yann Martel

    Won
  2. Dirt Music

    Tim Winton

    Shortlisted
  3. Family Matters

    Rohinton Mistry

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Fingersmith

    Sarah Waters

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Story of Lucy Gault

    William Trevor

    Shortlisted
  6. Unless

    Carol Shields

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Any Human Heart

    William Boyd

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  8. Critical Injuries

    Joan Barfoot

    Longlisted
  9. Dorian, an Imitation

    Will Self

    Longlisted
  10. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

    Jon McGregor

    Longlisted
  11. Peacetime

    Robert Edric

    Longlisted
  12. Shroud

    John Banville

    Longlisted
  13. Spies

    Michael Frayn

    Longlisted
  14. Still Here

    Linda Grant

    Longlisted
  15. The Autograph Man

    Zadie Smith

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  16. The Mulberry Empire

    Philip Hensher

    Longlisted
  17. The Next Big Thing

    Anita Brookner

    Longlisted
  18. The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas

    Dannie Abse

    Longlisted
  19. To the Last City

    Colin Thubron

    Longlisted
  20. Who's Sorry Now?

    Howard Jacobson

    Longlisted

2001

  1. True History of the Kelly Gang

    Peter Carey

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    Won 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Hotel World

    Ali Smith

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. number9dream

    David Mitchell

    Shortlisted
  5. Oxygen

    Andrew Miller

    Shortlisted
  6. The Dark Room

    Rachel Seiffert

    Shortlisted
  7. A Son of War

    Melvyn Bragg

    Longlisted
  8. According to Queeney

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Longlisted
  9. By the Sea

    Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  10. Dogside Story

    Patricia Grace

    Longlisted
  11. Fairness

    Ferdinand Mount

    Longlisted
  12. Half a Life

    VS Naipaul

    Longlisted
  13. How to Be Good

    Nick Hornby

    Longlisted
  14. If the Invader Comes

    Derek Beaven

    Longlisted
  15. Shamrock Tea

    Ciaran Carson

    Longlisted
  16. The Amber Spyglass

    Philip Pullman

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Longlisted
  17. The Blue Tango

    Eoin McNamee

    Longlisted
  18. The Death of Vishnu

    Manil Suri

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Longlisted
  19. The Element of Water

    Stevie Davies

    Longlisted
  20. The Leto Bundle

    Marina Warner

    Longlisted
  21. The Pickup

    Nadine Gordimer

    Longlisted
  22. The Stone Carvers

    Jane Urquhart

    Longlisted
  23. Translated Accounts

    James Kelman

    Longlisted
  24. Wolfy and the Strudelbakers

    Zvi Jagendorf

    Longlisted

2000

  1. The Blind Assassin

    Margaret Atwood

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. English Passengers

    Matthew Kneale

    Shortlisted
  3. The Deposition of Father McGreevy

    Brian O'Doherty

    Shortlisted
  4. The Hiding Place

    Trezza Azzopardi

    Shortlisted
  5. The Keepers of Truth

    Michael Collins

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. When We Were Orphans

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. Disgrace

    J. M. Coetzee

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Fasting, Feasting

    Anita Desai

    Shortlisted
  3. Headlong

    Michael Frayn

    Shortlisted
  4. Our Fathers

    Andrew O'Hagan

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Blackwater Lightship

    Colm Tóibín

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Map of Love

    Ahdaf Soueif

    Shortlisted

1998

  1. Amsterdam

    Ian McEwan

    Won
  2. Breakfast on Pluto

    Patrick McCabe

    Shortlisted
  3. England, England

    Julian Barnes

    Shortlisted
  4. Master Georgie

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Industry of Souls

    Martin Booth

    Shortlisted
  6. The Restraint of Beasts

    Magnus Mills

    Shortlisted

1997

  1. The God of Small Things

    Arundhati Roy

    Won
  2. Europa

    Tim Parks

    Shortlisted
  3. Grace Notes

    Bernard MacLaverty

    Shortlisted
  4. Quarantine

    Jim Crace

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. The Essence of the Thing

    Madeleine St John

    Shortlisted
  6. The Underground Man

    Mick Jackson

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. Last Orders

    Graham Swift

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Fine Balance

    Rohinton Mistry

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Alias Grace

    Margaret Atwood

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. Every Man for Himself

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Reading in the Dark

    Seamus Deane

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Orchard on Fire

    Shena Mackay

    Shortlisted

1995

  1. The Ghost Road

    Pat Barker

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. In Every Face I Meet

    Justin Cartwright

    Shortlisted
  3. Morality Play

    Barry Unsworth

    Shortlisted
  4. The Moor's Last Sigh

    Salman Rushdie

    Shortlisted
  5. The Riders

    Tim Winton

    Shortlisted

1994

  1. How Late It Was, How Late

    James Kelman

    Won
  2. Beside the Ocean of Time

    George Mackay Brown

    Shortlisted
  3. Knowledge of Angels

    Jill Paton Walsh

    Shortlisted
  4. Paradise

    Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Shortlisted
  5. Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Shortlisted
  6. The Folding Star

    Alan Hollinghurst

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1993

  1. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    Roddy Doyle

    Won
  2. Crossing the River

    Caryl Phillips

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Remembering Babylon

    David Malouf

    Won 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. Scar Tissue

    Michael Ignatieff

    Shortlisted
  5. The Stone Diaries

    Carol Shields

    Won 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. Under the Frog

    Tibor Fischer

    Shortlisted

1984

  1. Hotel du Lac

    Anita Brookner

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. According to Mark

    Penelope Lively

    Shortlisted
  3. Empire of the Sun

    J. G. Ballard

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. Flaubert's Parrot

    Julian Barnes

    Shortlisted
  5. In Custody

    Anita Desai

    Shortlisted
  6. Small World

    David Lodge

    Shortlisted

1983

  1. Life and Times of Michael K

    J. M. Coetzee

    Won
  2. Flying to Nowhere

    John Fuller

    Shortlisted
  3. Rates of Exchange

    Malcolm Bradbury

    Shortlisted
  4. Shame

    Salman Rushdie

    Shortlisted
  5. The Illusionist

    Anita Mason

    Shortlisted
  6. Waterland

    Graham Swift

    Shortlisted

1982

  1. Schindler's Ark

    Thomas Keneally

    Won 1 more award

    Won
  2. An Ice-Cream War

    William Boyd

    Shortlisted
  3. Constance or Solitary Practices

    Lawrence Durrell

    Shortlisted
  4. Silence among the Weapons

    John Arden

    Shortlisted
  5. Sour Sweet

    Timothy Mo

    Shortlisted
  6. The 27th Kingdom

    Alice Thomas Ellis

    Shortlisted

1981

  1. Midnight's Children

    Salman Rushdie

    Won 1 more award

    Won
  2. Good Behaviour

    Molly Keane

    Shortlisted
  3. Loitering with Intent

    Muriel Spark

    Shortlisted
  4. Rhine Journey

    Ann Schlee

    Shortlisted
  5. The Comfort of Strangers

    Ian McEwan

    Shortlisted
  6. The Sirian Experiments

    Doris Lessing

    Shortlisted
  7. The White Hotel

    D. M. Thomas

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1970

  1. The Elected Member

    Bernice Rubens

    Won
  2. Troubles

    J. G. Farrell

    Won
  3. Bruno's Dream

    Iris Murdoch

    Shortlisted
  4. Eva Trout

    Elizabeth Bowen

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Fire from Heaven

    Mary Renault

    Shortlisted
  6. John Brown's Body

    A. L. Barker

    Shortlisted
  7. Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel

    William Trevor

    Shortlisted
  8. The Bay of Noon

    Shirley Hazzard

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  9. The Birds on the Trees

    Nina Bawden

    Shortlisted
  10. The Conjunction

    Terence Wheeler

    Shortlisted
  11. The Driver's Seat

    Muriel Spark

    Shortlisted
  12. The Vivisector

    Patrick White

    Shortlisted
  13. A Clubbable Woman

    Reginald Hill

    Longlisted
  14. A Domestic Animal

    Francis King

    Longlisted
  15. A Fairly Honourable Defeat

    Iris Murdoch

    Longlisted
  16. A Guilty Thing Surprised

    Ruth Rendell

    Longlisted
  17. A Little of What You Fancy?

    H. E. Bates

    Longlisted
  18. A Place in England

    Melvyn Bragg

    Longlisted
  19. Bomber

    Len Deighton

    Longlisted
  20. Down All the Days

    Christy Brown

    Longlisted
  21. Fireflies

    Shiva Naipaul

    Longlisted
  22. Head to Toe

    Joe Orton

    Longlisted
  23. I'm the King of the Castle

    Susan Hill

    Longlisted
  24. Master and Commander

    Patrick O'Brian

    Longlisted
  25. Out of the Shelter

    David Lodge

    Longlisted
  26. The Circle

    Elaine Feinstein

    Longlisted
  27. The Fire-Dwellers

    Margaret Laurence

    Longlisted
  28. The Hand-Reared Boy

    Brian Aldiss

    Longlisted

1969

  1. Something to Answer For

    P. H. Newby

    Won
  2. Figures in a Landscape

    Barry England

    Shortlisted
  3. From Scenes like These

    Gordon Williams

    Shortlisted
  4. Impossible Object

    Nicholas Mosley

    Shortlisted
  5. The Nice and the Good

    Iris Murdoch

    Shortlisted
  6. The Public Image

    Muriel Spark

    Shortlisted

Frequently asked questions

Which books are on the 2026 The Booker Prize shortlist?
6 books: “Black Bag” by Luke Kennard, “John of John” by Douglas Stuart, “May We Feed the King” by Rebecca Perry, “The Disappearers” by Marlon James, “The End of Everything” by M. John Harrison, and “The Things We Never Say” by Elizabeth Strout. The winner hasn't been announced yet.
Who won the The Booker Prize in 2025?
“Flesh” by David Szalay won the The Booker Prize in 2025.
Who are the most recent The Booker Prize winners?
2025: “Flesh” by David Szalay; 2024: “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey; 2023: “Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch; 2022: “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” by Shehan Karunatilaka; 2021: “The Promise” by Damon Galgut.
Has anyone won the The Booker Prize more than once?
Yes - 5 authors have: J. G. Farrell (1970, 1973); J. M. Coetzee (1983, 1999); Peter Carey (1988, 2001); Margaret Atwood (2000, 2019); Hilary Mantel (2009, 2012).