Originally called the "Booker McConnell Prize", now "The Man Booker Prize" this is Britain's most prestigious literary award. The prize is presented each October or November for the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of a current or former British Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland.
| 1969 | Something to Answer For, P. H. Newby (out of print) |
| 1970 | The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens (Abacus [Little Brown U.K.]) |
| 1971 | In a Free State, V. S. Naipaul (Random House) paper |
| 1972 | G.: A Novel, John Berger (Vintage) paper |
| 1973 | The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell (Carroll & Graf) paper |
| 1974 | (tie) The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer (Viking) paper |
| Holiday, Stanley Middleton (out of print) | |
| 1975 | Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Peter Smith) |
| 1976 | Saville, David Storey (Vintage) U.K. |
| 1977 | Staying On, Paul Scott (Univ. of Chicago Press) paper |
| 1978 | The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch (Viking) paper |
| 1979 | Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald (Mariner) paper |
| 1980 | Rites of Passage, William Golding (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) |
| 1981 | Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (Knopf) |
| 1982 | Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1983 | Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee (Viking) paper |
| 1984 | Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner (Vintage) paper |
| 1985 | The Bone People, Keri Hulme (Viking) paper |
| 1986 | The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis (Penguin) U.K. |
| 1987 | Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively (Grove/Atlantic) paper |
| 1988 | Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey (Vintage) paper |
| 1989 | The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage) paper |
| 1990 | Possession: A Romance, A. S. Byatt (Vintage) paper |
| 1991 | The Famished Road, Ben Okri (Anchor) paper |
| 1992 | The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (Knopf) |
| Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth (W. W. Norton & Company) paper | |
| 1993 | Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle (Penguin USA) paper |
| 1994 | How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman (Delta) paper |
| 1995 | The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (Dutton) |
| 1996 | Last Orders, Graham Swift (Knopf) |
| 1997 | The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (Random House) |
| 1998 | Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (Doubleday) |
| 1999 | Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee (Viking) |
| 2000 | The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood |
| 2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey |
| 2002 | Life of Pi, Yann Martel |
| 2003 | Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre |
| 2004 | The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst |
| 2005 | The Sea, John Banville |
| 2006 | The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai |
| 2007 | The Gathering, Anne Enright |
| 2008 | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga |
| 2009 | Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel |
| 2010 | The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson |
| 2011 | The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes |
| 2012 | Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel |
| 2013 | The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton |
| 2014 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan |
| 2015 | A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James |



