From the Booker Prize site: “Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of our judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. The winning book is a work that not only speaks to our current times, but also one that will endure and join the pantheon of great literature.”
2025 – Flesh – David Szalay
2024 – Orbital – Samantha Harvey
2023 – Prophet Song – Paul Lynch
2022 – The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
2021 – The Promise – Damon Galgut
2020 – Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
2019 – Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo (joint winner)
2019 – The Testaments – Margaret Atwood (joint winner)
2018 – Milkman – Anna Burns
2017 – Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
2016 – The Sellout – Paul Beatty
2015 – A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James
2014 – The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan
2013 – The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
2012 – Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
2011 – The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
2010 – The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson
2009 – Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
2008 – The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
2007 – The Gathering – Anne Enright
2006 – The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
2005 – The Sea – John Banville
2004 – The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
2003 – Vernon God Little – D. B. C. Pierre
2002 – Life of Pi – Yann Martel
2001 – True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
2000 – The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
1999 – Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
1998 – Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
1997 – The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
1996 – Last Orders – Graham Swift
1995 – The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
1994 – How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
1993 – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle
1992 – The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
1991 – The Famished Road – Ben Okri
1990 – Possession – A. S. Byatt
1989 – The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
1988 – Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
1987 – Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively
1986 – The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
1985 – The Bone People – Keri Hulme
1984 – Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner
1983 – Life & Times of Michael K – J. M. Coetzee
1982 – Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
1981 – Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
1980 – Rites of Passage – William Golding
1979 – Offshore – Penelope Fitzgerald
1978 – The Sea, the Sea – Iris Murdoch
1977 – Staying On – Paul Scott
1976 – Saville – David Storey
1975 – Heat and Dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974 – Holiday – Stanley Middleton (joint winner)
1974 – The Conservationist – Nadine Gordimer (joint winner)
1973 – The Siege of Krishnapur – J. G. Farrell
1972 – G. – John Berger
1971 – In a Free State – V. S. Naipaul
1970 – The Elected Member – Bernice Rubens
1969 – Something to Answer For – P. H. Newby