Living Canon

Booker Prize

The Booker Prize celebrates the best sustained work of long-form fiction written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. Follow winners by year and discover landmark novels.

• Flesh by David Szalay

  2025BookerFiction
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  Orbital by Samantha Harvey

  2024BookerFiction
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  Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

  2023BookerFiction
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

  2022BookerFiction
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  The Promise by Damon Galgut

  2021BookerFiction
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

  2020BookerFiction
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

  2019BookerFiction
• Milkman by Anna Burns

  2018BookerFiction
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

  2017BookerFiction
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty

  2016BookerFiction
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

  2015BookerFiction
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

  2014BookerFiction
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

  2013BookerFiction
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

  2012BookerFiction
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

  2011BookerFiction
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  The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

  2010BookerFiction
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

  2009BookerFiction
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

  2008BookerFiction
• The Gathering by Anne Enright

  2007BookerFiction
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

  2006BookerFiction
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  The Sea by John Banville

  2005BookerFiction
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

  2004BookerFiction
• Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

  2003BookerFiction
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  Life of Pi by Yann Martel

  2002BookerFiction
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  True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

  2001BookerFiction
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  The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

  2000BookerFiction
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  Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

  1999BookerFiction
• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan

  1998BookerFiction
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  The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

  1997BookerFiction
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  Last Orders by Graham Swift

  1996BookerFiction
• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

  1995BookerFiction
• How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman

  1994BookerFiction
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

  1993BookerFiction
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  The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

  1992BookerFiction
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri

  1991BookerFiction
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  Possession by A. S. Byatt

  1990BookerFiction
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  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

  1989BookerFiction
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  Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

  1988BookerFiction
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  Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

  1987BookerFiction
• The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

  1986BookerFiction
• The Bone People by Keri Hulme

  1985BookerFiction
• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

  1984BookerFiction
• Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee

  1983BookerFiction
• Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

  1982BookerFiction
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

  1981BookerFiction
• Rites of Passage by William Golding

  1980BookerFiction
• Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

  1979BookerFiction
• The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch

  1978BookerFiction
• Staying On by Paul Scott

  1977BookerFiction
• Saville by David Storey

  1976BookerFiction
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  Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  1975BookerFiction
• The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

  1974BookerFiction
• The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell

  1973BookerFiction
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  G. by John Berger

  1972BookerFiction
• In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul

  1971BookerFiction
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  The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

  1970BookerFiction
• Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby

  1969BookerFiction

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See also

• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Costa Book Awards
• Edgar Awards
• Giller Prize
• Hugo Awards
• International Booker Prize
• Kirkus Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• Locus Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Nebula Awards
• Newbery Medal
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• PEN/Faulkner Award
• PEN/Hemingway Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Women’s Prize for Fiction
• World Fantasy Awards