A list of Booker Prize Winners, from 1969 to the present day.
Grades:
9

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.

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

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