Booker Prize 2024: Complete list of winners

Samantha Harvey’s Orbital has claimed the 2024 Booker Prize for Fiction, a triumph that feels particularly fitting for a novel that orbits the Earth sixteen times over. Harvey’s slim but mighty book, which follows a multinational crew aboard the International Space Station across a single day, represents the kind of formally inventive, philosophically ambitious work that the Booker Prize has long championed. The novel transforms what could have been a straightforward speculative scenario into a meditation on human connection, fragility, and our relationship to the planet below—themes that resonate deeply in our current moment.

The 2024 Booker Prize winner’s success underscores how contemporary fiction continues to expand beyond traditional narrative structures. Rather than relying on plot mechanics, Harvey constructs her novel as a series of interconnected moments and observations, allowing readers to experience the strange suspended existence of orbital life. This year’s Booker Prize win for Orbital also speaks to the literary establishment’s continued interest in work that blurs genre boundaries and challenges formal conventions, cementing Harvey’s place among today’s most innovative fiction writers.

Below, you’ll find the complete list of this year’s Booker Prize honorees and finalists:

Fiction

• Orbital by Samantha Harvey