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Man Booker Prize Winners and Nominees

Bold = Winner
Strikethrough = Read
* = Read but not yet reviewed

2013  The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton*
          We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
          Harvest, Jim Crace*
          The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
          A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki*
          The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin*
2012  Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
          Umbrella, Will Self
          The Lighthouse, Alison Moore
          The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng*
          Swimming Home, Deborah Levy
          Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil          
2011 The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
         Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch
         The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt
         Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
         Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman
         Snowdrops, A.D. Miller
2010 The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
         Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
         Room, Emma Donoghue
         In a Strange Room, Damon Galgut*
         The Long Song, Andrea Levy
         C, Tom McCarthy
2009 Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
         Summertime, J.M. Coetzee
         The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds
         The Glass Room, Simon Mawer
         The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
         The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt
2008 The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
         The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
         Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
         The Clothes on Their Backs, Linda Grant
         Northern Clemency, Philip Hensher
         A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
2007 The Gathering, Anne Enright
         Darkmans, Nicola Barker
         The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
         Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
         On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
         Animal’s People, Indra Sinha
2006 The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
         The Secret River, Kate Grenville*
         Carry Me Down, M.J. Hyland
         In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
         Mother’s Milk, Edward St. Aubyn
         The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
2005 The Sea, John Banville
         Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
         A Long Long Way, Sebartian Barry
         Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
         The Accidental, Ali Smith
         On Beauty, Zadie Smith
2004 The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
         Bitter Fruit, Achmat Dangor
         The Electric Michelangelo, Sarah Hall
         Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell*
         The Master, Colm Toibin
         I’ll Go to Bed at Noon, Gerard Woodward
2003 Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
         Brick Lane, Monica Ali
         Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
         The Good Doctor, Damon Galgut
         Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller
        Astonishing Splashes of Colour, Clare Morrall
2002 Life of Pi, Yann Martel*
         Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
         Unless, Carol Shields
         The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
         Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
         Dirt Music, Tim Winton
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
         Atonement, Ian McEwan
         Oxygen, Andrew Miller
         number9dream, David Mitchell*
         The Dark Room, Rachel Sieffert
         Hotel World, Ali Smith
2000 The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
         The Hiding Place, Trezza Azzopardi
         The Keepers of Truth, Michael Collins
         When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro*
         English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
         The Deposition of Father McGreevey, Brian O’Doherty
1999 Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
         Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai
         Headlong, Michael Frayn
         Our Fathers, Andrew O’Hagan
         The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif

         The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
1998 Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
         Master Georgie, Beryl Bainbridge
         England, England, Julian Barnes
         The Industry of Souls, Martin Booth
         Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick McCabe
         The Restraint of Beasts, Magnus Mills
1997 The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
         Quarantine, Jim Crace*
         The Underground Man, Mick Jackson
         Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty
         Europa, Tim Parks
         The Essence of the Thing, Madeline St. John
1996 Last Orders, Graham Swift
         Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood*
         Every Man for Himself, Beryl Bainbridge
         Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
         The Orchard on Fire, Shena Mackay*
         A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
1995 The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
         In Every Face I Meet, Justin Cartwright
         The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
         Morality Play, Barry Unsworth*
         The Riders, Tim Winston
1994 How Late it Was, How Late, James Kelman
         Reef, Romesh Gunesekera
         Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah
         The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
         Beside the Ocean of Time, George MacKay Brown
         Knowledge of Angels, Jill Paton Walsh
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
         Under the Frog, Tibor Fischer
         Scar Tissue, Michael Ignatieff
         Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
         Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips
         The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
1992 Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth
         The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
         Serenity House, Christopher Hope
         The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
         Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
         Daughters of the House, Michele Roberts
1991 The Famished Road, Ben Okri
         Time’s Arrow, Martin Amis
         The Van, Roddy Doyle
         Such a Long Journey, Rohinton Mistry
         The Redundancy of Courage, Timothy Mo
         Reading Turgenev, William Trevor
1990 Possession: A Romance, A.S. Byatt*
         An Awfully Big Adventure, Beryl Bainbridge
         The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald
         Amongst Women, John McGahern
         Lies of Silence, Brian Moore
         Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
1989 The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
         Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
         The Book of Evidence, John Banville
         Jigsaw, Sybille Bedford
         A Disaffection, James Kelman
         Restoration, Rose Tremain
1988 Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey*
         Utz, Bruce Chatwin
         The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
         Nice Work, David Lodge
         The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie*
         The Lost Father, Marina Warner
1987 Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively*
         Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe
         Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd
         Circles of Deceit, Nina Bowden
         The Colour of Blood, Brian Moore
         The Book and the Brotherhood, Iris Murdoch
1986 The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis*
         The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood*
         Gabriel’s Lament, Paul Bailey
         What’s Bred in the Bone, Robertson Davies
         An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
         An Insular Possession, Timothy Mo
1985 The Bone People, Keri Hulme
         Illywhacker, Peter Carey
         The Battle of Pollocks Crossing, J.L. Carr
         The Good Terrorist, Doris Lessing
         Last Letters from Hav, Jan Morris
         The Good Apprentice, Iris Murdoch
1984 Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
         Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard
         Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
         In Custody, Anita Desai
         According to Mark, Penelope Lively
         Small World, David Lodge
1983 Life & Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
         Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury
         Flying to Nowhere, John Fuller
         The Illusionist, Anita Mason
         Shame, Salman Rushdie
         Waterland, Graham Swift
1982 Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally
         Silence Among the Weapons, John Arden
         An Ice-Cream War, William Boyd
         Constance or Solitary Practices, Lawrence Durrell
         The 27th Kingdom, Alice Thomas Ellis
         Sour Sweet, Timothy Mo
1981 Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie*
         The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas
         Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark
         Rhine Journey, Ann Schlee
         The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan
         The Sirian Experiments, Doris Lessing
         Good Behaviour, Molly Keane
1980 Rites of Passage, William Golding
         Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
         Clear Light of Day, Anita Desai
         The Beggar Maid, Alice Munro
         No Country for Young Men, Julia O’Faolain
         Pascali’s Island, Barry Unsworth
         A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
1979 Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
         Confederates, Thomas Keneally
         A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
         Joseph, Julian Rathbone
         Praxis, Fay Weldon
1978 The Sea, the Sea, Iris Murdoch
         Jake’s Thing, Kingsley Amis
         Rumours of Rain, Andre Brink
         The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald
         God on the Rocks, Jane Gardam
         A Five-Year Sentence, Bernice Rubens
1977 Staying On, Paul Scott
         Peter Smart’s Confessions, Paul Bailey
         Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood
         Shadows on our Skin, Jennifer Johnston
         The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively
         Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
1976 Saville, David Storey
         An Instant in the Wind, Andre Brink
         Rising, R.C. Hutchinson
         The Doctor’s Wife, Brian Moore
         King Fisher Lives, Julian Rathbone
         The Children of Dynmouth, William Trevor
1975 Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
         Gossip from the Forest, Thomas Keneally
1974 Holiday, Stanley Middleton
         The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer
         Ending Up, Kingsley Amis
         The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge
         In Their Wisdom, C.P. Snow
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
         The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
         The Green Equinox, Elizabeth Mavor
         The Dressmaker, Beryl Bainbridge
1972 G., John Berger
         The Bird of the Night, Susan Hill
         The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Thomas Keneally
         Pasmore, David Storey
1971 In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul
         The Big Chapel, Thomas Kilroy
         Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing
         St. Urbain’s Horseman, Moredecai Richler
         Goshawk Squadron, Derek Robinson
         Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor
1970* Troubles, J.G. Farrell
         The Birds on the Trees, Nina Bawden
         The Bay of Noon, Shirley Hazzard
         Fire From Heaven, Mary Renault
         The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark
         The Vivisector, Patrick White
1970 The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens
         The Conjunction, T.W. Wheeler
         John Brown’s Body, A.L. Barker
         Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
         Bruno’s Dream, Iris Murdoch
         Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, William Trevor
1969 Something to Answer For, P.H. Newby
         Figures in a Landscape, Barry England
         Impossible Object, Nicholas Mosley
         The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch
         The Public Image, Muriel Spark
         From Scenes Like These, G.M. Williams