Booker Prize Judges by Year (1969–2026) — Complete List

Booker Prize Judges by Year

Every Booker Prize judging panel from 1969 to 2026 — the judges for each year, alongside the book they picked. The panel changes every year, and its makeup shapes each shortlist as much as the year’s books do. See the complete list of Booker Prize winners for the books themselves.

2026

Judges: Raymond Antrobus, Mary Beard, Jarvis Cocker, Rebecca Liu, Patricia Lockwood

2025

Judges: Roddy Doyle, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Kiley Reid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power
Winner: Flesh by David Szalay (all 2025 winners)

2024

Judges: Edmund de Waal, Yiyun Li, Nitin Sawhney, Sara Collins, Justine Jordan
Winner: Orbital by Samantha Harvey (all 2024 winners)

2023

Judges: Esi Edugyan, Adjoa Andoh, Robert Webb, James Shapiro, Mary Jean Chan
Winner: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (all 2023 winners)

2022

Judges: Neil MacGregor, Shahidha Bari, Helen Castor, M. John Harrison, Alain Mabanckou
Winner: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (all 2022 winners)

2021

Judges: Maya Jasanoff, Horatia Harrod, Natascha McElhone, Dr Rowan Williams, Chigozie Obioma
Winner: The Promise by Damon Galgut (all 2021 winners)

2020

Judges: Margaret Busby, Lee Child, Sameer Rahim, Lemn Sissay, Emily Wilson
Winner: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (all 2020 winners)

2019

Judges: Peter Florence, Liz Calder, Xiaolu Guo, Afua Hirsch, Joanna MacGregor
Winner: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (all 2019 winners)

2018

Judges: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Val McDermid, Leo Robson, Jacqueline Rose, Leanne Shapton
Winner: Milkman by Anna Burns (all 2018 winners)

2017

Judges: Baroness Lola Young, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Sarah Hall, Tom Phillips, Colin Thubron
Winner: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (all 2017 winners)

2016

Judges: Amanda Foreman, Jon Day, Abdulrazak Gurnah, David Harsent, Olivia Williams
Winner: The Sellout by Paul Beatty (all 2016 winners)

2015

Judges: Michael Wood, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE, John Burnside, Sam Leith, Frances Osborne
Winner: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (all 2015 winners)

2014

Judges: A.C. Grayling, Sir Jonathan Bate CBE, Sarah Churchwell, Dr Daniel Glaser, Alastair Niven, Erica Wagner
Winner: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (all 2014 winners)

2013

Judges: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Natalie Haynes, Martha Kearney, Stuart Kelly, Robert Macfarlane
Winner: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (all 2013 winners)

2012

Judges: Peter Stothard, Dinah Birch, Amanda Foreman, Dan Stevens, Bharat Tandon
Winner: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (all 2012 winners)

2011

Judges: Stella Rimington, Matthew d’Ancona, Chris Mullin, Gaby Wood, Susan Hill
Winner: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (all 2011 winners)

2010

Judges: Andrew Motion, Rosie Blau, Deborah Bull, Tom Sutcliffe, Frances Wilson
Winner: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (all 2010 winners)

2009

Judges: James Naughtie, Lucasta Miller, John Mullan, Sue Perkins, Michael Prodger
Winner: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (all 2009 winners)

2008

Judges: Michael Portillo, Alex Clark, Louise Doughty, James Heneage, Hardeep Singh Kohli
Winner: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (all 2008 winners)

2007

Judges: Howard Davies, Wendy Cope, Giles Foden, Ruth Scurr, Imogen Stubbs
Winner: The Gathering by Anne Enright (all 2007 winners)

2006

Judges: Hermione Lee, Simon Armitage, Candia McWilliam, Anthony Quinn, Fiona Shaw
Winner: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (all 2006 winners)

2005

Judges: John Sutherland, Lindsay Duguid, Rick Gekoski, Josephine Hart, David Sexton
Winner: The Sea by John Banville (all 2005 winners)

2004

Judges: Chris Smith, Tibor Fischer, Robert Macfarlane, Rowan Pelling, Fiammetta Rocco
Winner: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (all 2004 winners)

2003

Judges: John Carey, Rebecca Stephens, A.C. Grayling, D.J. Taylor, Francine Stock
Winner: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (all 2003 winners)

2002

Judges: Lisa Jardine, David Baddiel, Russell Celyn Jones, Salley Vickers, Erica Wagner
Winner: Life of Pi by Yann Martel (all 2002 winners)

2001

Judges: Kenneth Baker, Philip Hensher, Michèle Roberts, Kate Summerscale, Rory Watson
Winner: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (all 2001 winners)

2000

Judges: Simon Jenkins, Roy Foster, Mariella Frostrup, Caroline Gascoigne, Rose Tremain
Winner: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (all 2000 winners)

1999

Judges: Gerald Kaufman, Shena Mackay, John Sutherland, Boyd Tonkin, Natasha Walter
Winner: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (all 1999 winners)

1998

Judges: Douglas Hurd, Valentine Cunningham, Penelope Fitzgerald, Miriam Gross, Nigella Lawson
Winner: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (all 1998 winners)

1997

Judges: Gillian Beer, Rachel Billington, Jason Cowley, Jan Dalley, Dan Jacobson
Winner: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (all 1997 winners)

1996

Judges: Carmen Callil, Jonathan Coe, Ian Jack, A.L. Kennedy, A.N. Wilson
Winner: Last Orders by Graham Swift (all 1996 winners)

1995

Judges: George Walden, Kate Kellaway, Peter Kemp, Adam Mars-Jones, Ruth Rendell
Winner: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (all 1995 winners)

1994

Judges: John Bayley, Julia Neuberger, Alastair Niven, Alan Taylor, James Wood
Winner: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman (all 1994 winners)

1993

Judges: Grey Gowrie, Gillian Beer, Anne Chisholm, Nicholas Clee, Olivier Todd
Winner: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (all 1993 winners)

1992

Judges: Victoria Glendinning, John Coldstream, Valentine Cunningham, Harriet Harvey Wood, Mark Lawson
Winner: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (all 1992 winners)

1991

Judges: Jeremy Treglown, Penelope Fitzgerald, Jonathan Keates, Nicholas Mosley, Ann Schlee
Winner: The Famished Road by Ben Okri (all 1991 winners)

1990

Judges: Denis Forman, Susannah Clapp, A. Walton Litz, Hilary Mantel, Kate Saunders
Winner: Possession by A. S. Byatt (all 1990 winners)

1989

Judges: David Lodge, Maggie Gee, Helen McNeil, David Profumo, Edmund White
Winner: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (all 1989 winners)

1988

Judges: Michael Foot, Sebastian Faulks, Philip French, Blake Morrison, Rose Tremain
Winner: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (all 1988 winners)

1987

Judges: P.D. James, Selina Hastings, Allan Massie, Trevor McDonald, John B. Thompson
Winner: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (all 1987 winners)

1986

Judges: Anthony Thwaite, Edna Healey, Isabel Quigly, Gillian Reynolds, Bernice Rubens
Winner: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (all 1986 winners)

1985

Judges: Norman St John-Stevas, Joanna Lumley, Marina Warner, Nina Bawden, J.W. Lambert
Winner: The Bone People by Keri Hulme (all 1985 winners)

1984

Chair: Richard Cobb
Judges: Anthony Curtis, Polly Devlin, John Fuller, Ted Rowlands
Winner: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (all 1984 winners)

1983

Judges: Fay Weldon, Angela Carter, Terence Kilmartin, Peter Porter, Libby Purves
Winner: Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (all 1983 winners)

1982

Judges: John Carey, Paul Bailey, Frank Delaney, Janet Morgan, Lorna Sage
Winner: Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally (all 1982 winners)

1981

Judges: Malcolm Bradbury, Brian W. Aldiss, Joan Bakewell, Samuel Hynes, Hermione Lee
Winner: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (all 1981 winners)

1980

Judges: David Daiches, Ronald Blythe, Margaret Forster, Claire Tomalin, Brian Wenham
Winner: Rites of Passage by William Golding (all 1980 winners)

1979

Judges: Asa Briggs, Benny Green, Michael Ratcliffe, Hilary Spurling, Paul Theroux
Winner: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (all 1979 winners)

1978

Judges: A.J. Ayer, Clare Boylan, Derwent May, P. H. Newby, Angela Huth
Winner: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (all 1978 winners)

1977

Judges: Philip Larkin, Beryl Bainbridge, Brendan Gill, David Hughes, Robin Ray
Winner: Staying On by Paul Scott (all 1977 winners)

1976

Judges: Walter Allen, Mary Wilson, Francis King
Winner: Saville by David Storey (all 1976 winners)

1975

Judges: Angus Wilson, Peter Ackroyd, Susan Hill, Roy Fuller
Winner: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (all 1975 winners)

1974

Judges: Ion Trewin, A.S. Byatt, Elizabeth Jane Howard
Winner: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (all 1974 winners)

1973

Judges: Karl Miller, Edna O’Brien, Mary McCarthy
Winner: The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell (all 1973 winners)

1972

Judges: Cyril Connolly, George Steiner, Elizabeth Bowen
Winner: G. by John Berger (all 1972 winners)

1971

Judges: John Gross, Saul Bellow, John Fowles, Antonia Fraser, Philip Toynbee
Winner: In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul (all 1971 winners)

1970

Judges: David Holloway, Rebecca West, Richard Hoggart, Ross Higgins, Antonia Fraser
Winner: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (all 1970 winners)

1969

Judges: W.L. Webb, Rebecca West, Stephen Spender, Frank Kermode, David Farrer
Winner: Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby (all 1969 winners)