List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. Winners are given in bold type at the start of each entry.
- 1969: Percy Howard Newby, Something to Answer For
- Barry England, Figures in a Landscape
- Nicholas Mosley, Impossible Object
- Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
- Muriel Spark, The Public Image
- G. M. Williams, From Scenes like These
- 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
- A. L. Barker, John Brown's Body
- Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
- Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream
- William Trevor, Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
- T. W. Wheeler, The Conjunction
- 1971: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, In a Free State
- Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel
- Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell
- Mordecai Richler, St Urbain's Horseman
- Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron
- Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
- 1972: John Berger, G
- Susan Hill, Bird of Night
- Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
- David Storey, Pasmore
- 1973: James Gordon Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
- Beryl Bainbridge, The Dressmaker
- Elizabeth Mavor, The Green Equinox
- Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
- 1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist, and Stanley Middleton, Holiday
- Kingsley Amis, Ending Up
- Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
- C. P. Snow, In Their Wisdom
- 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
- Thomas Keneally, Gossip from the Forest
- 1976: David Storey, Saville
- André Brink, An Instant in the Wind
- R. C. Hutchinson, Rising
- Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife
- Julian Rathbone, King Fisher Lives
- William Trevor, The Children of Dynmouth
- 1977: Paul Scott, Staying On
- Paul Bailey, Peter Smart's Confessions
- Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster
- Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on our Skin
- Penelope Lively, The Road to Lichfield
- Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn
- 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
- Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing
- André Brink, Rumours of Rain
- Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
- Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks
- Bernice Rubens, A Five-Year Sentence
- 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
- Thomas Keneally, Confederates
- Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, A Bend in the River
- Julian Rathbone, Joseph
- Fay Weldon, Praxis
- 1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage
- Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
- Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
- Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid
- Julian O'Faolain, No Country for Young
- Barry Unsworth, Pascali's Island
- J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country
- 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
- Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
- Doris Lessing, The Sirian Experiments
- Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers
- Ann Schlee, Rhine Journey
- Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent
- D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel
- 1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
- John Arden, Silence Among the Weapons
- William Boyd (writer), An Ice-Cream War
- Lawrence Durrell, Constance or Solitary
- Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom
- Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet
- 1983: J. M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K
- Malcolm Bradbury, Rates of Exchange
- John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere
- Anita Mason, The Illusionist
- Salman Rushdie, Shame
- Graham Swift, Waterland
- 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
- J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
- Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
- Anita Desai, In Custody
- Penelope Lively, According to Mark
- David Lodge, Small World
- 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
- Peter Carey, Illywhacker
- J. L. Carr, The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
- Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
- Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav
- Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice
- 1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament
- Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
- Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
- Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession
- 1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
- Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
- Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton
- Nina Bawden, Circles of Deceit
- Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood
- Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood
- 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
- Bruce Chatwin, Utz
- Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
- David Lodge, Nice Work
- Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
- Marina Warner, The Lost Father
- 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
- Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
- John Banville, The Book of Evidence
- Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw
- James Kelman, A Disaffection
- Rose Tremain, Restoration
- 1990: A.S. Byatt, Possession
- Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure
- John McGahern, Amongst Women
- Brian Moore, Lies of Silence
- Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
- 1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
- Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
- Roddy Doyle, The Van
- Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
- Timothy Mo, The Redundancy of Courage
- William Trevor, Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives)
- 1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient, and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
- Christopher Hope, Serenity House
- Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy
- Ian McEwan, Black Dogs
- Michčle Roberts, Daughters of the House
- 1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog
- Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue
- David Malouf, Remembering Babylon
- Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
- Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
- 1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how late
- Romesh Gunesekera, Reef
- Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
- George Mackay Brown, Beside the Ocean of Time
- Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels
- 1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
- Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet
- Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh
- Barry Unsworth, Morality Play
- Tim Winton, The Riders
- 1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders
- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
- Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself
- Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
- Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire
- Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
- 1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
- Jim Crace, Quarantine
- Mick Jackson, The Underground Man
- Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
- Tim Parks, Europa
- Madeline St John, The Essence of the Thing
- 1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
- Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie
- Julian Barnes, England England
- Martin Booth, The Industry of Souls
- Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto
- Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts
- 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
- Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting
- Michael Frayn, Headlong
- Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers
- Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
- Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship
- 2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
- Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place
- Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth
- Kazuo Ishiguro, When we were Orphans
- Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
- Brian O'Doherty, The Deposition of Father McGeevy
- 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Andrew Miller, Oxygen
- David Mitchell, number9dream
- Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room
- Ali Smith, Hotel World
- 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi
- Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
- Carol Shields, Unless
- William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
- Tim Winton, Dirt Music
- 2003: D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little
- Monica Ali, Brick Lane
- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
- Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor
- Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal
- Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes of Colour
- 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
- Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit
- Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo
- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- Colm Tóibín, The Master
- Gerard Woodward, I'll go to Bed at Noon