List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize
Shortlists

List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize

Section Title: Shortlists
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Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Chair	Judges

1969	P. H. Newby	Something to Answer For	Faber & Faber	n/a	David Farrer Frank Kermode Stephen Spender Dame Rebecca West W L Webb

Barry England	Figures in a Landscape

Nicholas Mosley	The Impossible Object

Iris Murdoch	The Nice and the Good

Muriel Spark	The Public Image

Gordon Williams	From Scenes Like These

1970	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member	Eyre & Spottiswoode	n/a	Antonia Fraser Ross Higgins Richard Hoggart Dame Rebecca West David Holloway

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

Terence Wheeler	The Conjunction

1970 Awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize	J. G. Farrell	Troubles	Phoenix	n/a	Rachel Cooke Katie Derham Tobias Hill

Nina Bawden	The Birds on the Trees	Virago

Shirley Hazzard	The Bay of Noon	Virago

Mary Renault	Fire From Heaven	Arrow

Muriel Spark	The Driver's Seat	Penguin

Patrick White	The Vivisector	Vintage

1971	V. S. Naipaul	In a Free State	Deutsch	John Gross	Saul Bellow John Fowles Lady Antonia Fraser Philip Toynbee

Thomas Kilroy	The Big Chapel	Faber & Faber

Doris Lessing	Briefing for a Descent into Hell	Jonathan Cape

Mordecai Richler	St. Urbain's Horseman	Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Derek Robinson	Goshawk Squadron	Heinemann

Elizabeth Taylor	Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont	Chatto & Windus

1972	John Berger	G.	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Cyril Connolly	George Steiner Elizabeth Bowen

Susan Hill	The Bird of Night	Hamish Hamilton

Thomas Keneally	The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith	Angus & Robertson

David Storey	Pasmore	Longman

1973	J. G. Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Karl Miller	Edna O'Brien Mary McCarthy

Beryl Bainbridge	The Dressmaker	Duckworth

Elizabeth Mavor	The Green Equinox	Michael Joseph

Iris Murdoch	The Black Prince	Chatto & Windus

1974	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist	Jonathan Cape	Ion Trewin	A. S. Byatt Elizabeth Jane Howard

Stanley Middleton	Holiday	Hutchinson

Kingsley Amis	Ending Up	Jonathan Cape

Beryl Bainbridge	The Bottle Factory Outing	Duckworth

C. P. Snow	In Their Wisdom	Macmillan

1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust	John Murray	Angus Wilson	Peter Ackroyd Susan Hill Roy Fuller

Thomas Keneally	Gossip from the Forest	Collins

1976	David Storey	Saville	Jonathan Cape	Walter Allen	Mary Wilson Francis King

André Brink	An Instant in the Wind	W. H. Allen

R. C. Hutchinson	Rising	Michael Joseph

Brian Moore	The Doctor's Wife	Jonathan Cape

Julian Rathbone	King Fisher Lives	Michael Joseph

William Trevor	The Children of Dynmouth	Bodley Head

1977	Paul Scott	Staying On	Heinemann	Philip Larkin	Beryl Bainbridge Brendan Gill David Hughes Robin Ray

Paul Bailey	Peter Smart's Confessions	Jonathan Cape

Caroline Blackwood	Great Granny Webster	Duckworth

Jennifer Johnston	Shadows on our Skin	Hamish Hamilton

Penelope Lively	The Road to Lichfield	Heinemann

Barbara Pym	Quartet in Autumn	Macmillan

1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea	Chatto & Windus	Sir Alfred Ayer	Derwent May P. H. Newby Angela Huth Clare Boylan

Kingsley Amis	Jake's Thing	Hutchinson

André Brink	Rumours of Rain	W. H. Allen

Penelope Fitzgerald	The Bookshop	Duckworth

Jane Gardam	God on the Rocks	Hamish Hamilton

Bernice Rubens	A Five-Year Sentence	W. H. Allen

1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore	Collins	Lord Briggs	Benny Green Michael Ratcliffe Hilary Spurling Paul Theroux

Thomas Keneally	Confederates	Collins

V. S. Naipaul	A Bend in the River	Deutsch

Julian Rathbone	Joseph	Michael Joseph

Fay Weldon	Praxis	Hodder & Stoughton

1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage	Faber & Faber	David Daiches	Ronald Blythe Margaret Forster Claire Tomalin Brian Wenham

Anthony Burgess	Earthly Powers	Hutchinson

Anita Desai	Clear Light of Day	Heinemann

Alice Munro	The Beggar Maid	Viking

Julia O'Faolain	No Country for Young Men	Viking

Barry Unsworth	Pascali's Island	Michael Joseph

J. L. Carr	A Month in the Country	Harvester

1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	Jonathan Cape	Professor Malcolm Bradbury	Brian Aldiss Joan Bakewell Samuel Hynes Hermione Lee

Molly Keane	Good Behaviour	Deutsch

Doris Lessing	The Sirian Experiments	Jonathan Cape

Ian McEwan	The Comfort of Strangers	Jonathan Cape

Ann Schlee	Rhine Journey	Macmillan

Muriel Spark	Loitering with Intent	Bodley Head

D. M. Thomas	The White Hotel	Gollancz

1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark	Hodder & Staughton	John Carey	Paul Bailey Frank Delaney Janet Morgan Lorna Sage

John Arden	Silence Among the Weapons	Methuen

William Boyd	An Ice-Cream War	Hamish Hamilton

Lawrence Durrell	Constance or Solitary Practices	Faber & Faber

Alice Thomas Ellis	The 27th Kingdom	Duckworth

Timothy Mo	Sour Sweet	Deutsch

1983	J. M. Coetzee	Life & Times of Michael K	Secker & Warburg	Fay Weldon	Angela Carter Terence Kilmartin Peter Porter Libby Purves

Malcolm Bradbury	Rates of Exchange	Secker & Warburg

John Fuller	Flying to Nowhere	Salamander

Anita Mason	The Illusionist	Hamish Hamilton

Salman Rushdie	Shame	Jonathan Cape

Graham Swift	Waterland	Heinemann

1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac	Jonathan Cape	Professor Richard Cobb	Anthony Curtis Polly Devlin John Fuller Ted Rowlands

J. G. Ballard	Empire of the Sun	Gollancz

Julian Barnes	Flaubert's Parrot	Jonathan Cape

Anita Desai	In Custody	Heinemann

Penelope Lively	According to Mark	Heinemann

David Lodge	Small World	Secker & Warburg

1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People	Hodder & Stoughton	Norman St John-Stevas	Nina Bawden J. W. Lambert Joanna Lumley Marina Warner

Peter Carey	Illywhacker	Faber & Faber

J. L. Carr	The Battle of Pollocks Crossing	Viking

Doris Lessing	The Good Terrorist	Jonathan Cape

Jan Morris	Last Letters from Hav	Viking

Iris Murdoch	The Good Apprentice	Chatto & Windus

1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils	Hutchinson	Anthony Thwaite	Edna Healey Isabel Quigley Gillian Reynolds Bernice Rubens

Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale	Jonathan Cape

Paul Bailey	Gabriel's Lament	Jonathan Cape

Robertson Davies	What's Bred in the Bone	Viking

Kazuo Ishiguro	An Artist of the Floating World	Faber & Faber

Timothy Mo	An Insular Possession	Chatto & Windus

1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger	Deutsch	P. D. James	Selina Hastings Allan Massie Trevor McDonald John B. Thompson

Chinua Achebe	Anthills of the Savannah	Heinemann

Peter Ackroyd	Chatterton	Hamish Hamilton

Nina Bawden	Circles of Deceit	Macmillan

Brian Moore	The Colour of Blood	Jonathan Cape

Iris Murdoch	The Book and the Brotherhood	Chatto & Windus

1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda	Faber & Faber	The Rt Hon Michael Foot	Sebastian Faulks Philip French Blake Morrison Rose Tremain

Bruce Chatwin	Utz	Jonathan Cape

Penelope Fitzgerald	The Beginning of Spring	Collins

David Lodge	Nice Work	Secker & Warburg

Salman Rushdie	The Satanic Verses	Viking

Marina Warner	The Lost Father	Chatto & Windus

1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day	Faber & Faber	David Lodge	Maggie Gee Helen McNeil David Profumo Edmund White

Margaret Atwood	Cat's Eye	Bloomsbury

John Banville	The Book of Evidence	Secker & Warburg

Sybille Bedford	Jigsaw	Hamish Hamilton

James Kelman	A Disaffection	Secker & Warburg

Rose Tremain	Restoration	Hamish Hamilton

1990	A. S. Byatt	Possession: A Romance	Chatto & Windus	Sir Denis Forman	Susannah Clapp A. Walton Litz Hilary Mantel Kate Saunders

Beryl Bainbridge	An Awfully Big Adventure	Duckworth

Penelope Fitzgerald	The Gate of Angels	Collins

John McGahern	Amongst Women	Faber & Faber

Brian Moore	Lies of Silence	Bloomsbury

Mordecai Richler	Solomon Gursky Was Here	Chatto & Windus

1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road	Jonathan Cape	Jeremy Treglown	Penelope Fitzgerald Jonathan Keates Nicholas Mosley Ann Schlee

Martin Amis	Time's Arrow	Jonathan Cape

Roddy Doyle	The Van	Secker & Warburg

Rohinton Mistry	Such a Long Journey	Faber & Faber

Timothy Mo	The Redundancy of Courage	Chatto & Windus

William Trevor	Reading Turgenev	Viking

1992	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	Bloomsbury	Victoria Glendinning	John Coldstream Valentine Cunningham Dr Harriet Harvey Wood Mark Lawson

Barry Unsworth	Sacred Hunger	Hamish Hamilton

Christopher Hope	Serenity House	Macmillan

Patrick McCabe	The Butcher Boy	Picador

Ian McEwan	Black Dogs	Jonathan Cape

Michèle Roberts	Daughters of the House	Virago

1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha	Secker & Warburg	Lord Gowrie	Professor Gillian Beer Anne Chisholm Nicholas Clee Olivier Todd

Tibor Fischer	Under the Frog	Polygon

Michael Ignatieff	Scar Tissue	Chatto & Windus

David Malouf	Remembering Babylon	Chatto & Windus

Caryl Phillips	Crossing the River	Bloomsbury

Carol Shields	The Stone Diaries	Fourth Estate

1994	James Kelman	How late it was, how late	Secker & Warburg	Professor John Bayley	Rabbi Julia Neuberger Dr Alastair Niven Alan Taylor James Wood

Romesh Gunesekera	Reef	Granta Books

Abdulrazak Gurnah	Paradise	Hamish Hamilton

Alan Hollinghurst	The Folding Star	Chatto & Windus

George Mackay Brown	Beside the Ocean of Time	John Murray

Jill Paton Walsh	Knowledge of Angels	Green Bay

1995	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road	Viking	George Walden MP	Kate Kellaway Peter Kemp Adam Mars-Jones Ruth Rendell

Justin Cartwright	In Every Face I Meet	Sceptre

Salman Rushdie	The Moor's Last Sigh	Jonathan Cape

Barry Unsworth	Morality Play	Hamish Hamilton

Tim Winton	The Riders	Picador

1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders	Picador	Carmen Callil	Jonathan Coe Ian Jack A. L. Kennedy A. N. Wilson

Margaret Atwood	Alias Grace	Bloomsbury

Beryl Bainbridge	Every Man for Himself	Duckworth

Seamus Deane	Reading in the Dark	Jonathan Cape

Shena Mackay	The Orchard on Fire	Heinemann

Rohinton Mistry	A Fine Balance	Faber & Faber

1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	Flamingo	Professor Gillian Beer	Rachel Billington Jason Cowley Jan Dalley Professor Dan Jacobson

Jim Crace	Quarantine	Viking

Mick Jackson	The Underground Man	Picador

Bernard MacLaverty	Grace Notes	Jonathan Cape

Tim Parks	Europa	Secker & Warburg

Madeleine St John	The Essence of the Thing	Fourth Estate

1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam	Jonathan Cape	Douglas Hurd	Professor Valentine Cunningham Penelope Fitzgerald Miriam Gross Nigella Lawson

Beryl Bainbridge	Master Georgie	Duckworth

Julian Barnes	England, England	Jonathan Cape

Martin Booth	The Industry of Souls	Dewi Lewis

Patrick McCabe	Breakfast on Pluto	Picador

Magnus Mills	The Restraint of Beasts	Flamingo

1999	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace	Secker & Warburg	Gerald Kaufman	Shena Mackay John Sutherland Boyd Tonkin Natasha Walter

Anita Desai	Fasting, Feasting	Chatto & Windus

Michael Frayn	Headlong	Faber & Faber

Andrew O'Hagan	Our Fathers	Faber & Faber

Ahdaf Soueif	The Map of Love	Bloomsbury

Colm Tóibín	The Blackwater Lightship	Picador

2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	Bloomsbury	Simon Jenkins	Professor Roy Foster Mariella Frostrup Caroline Gascoigne Rose Tremain

Trezza Azzopardi	The Hiding Place	Picador

Michael Collins	The Keepers of Truth	Phoenix House

Kazuo Ishiguro	When We Were Orphans	Faber & Faber

Matthew Kneale	English Passengers	Hamish Hamilton

Brian O'Doherty	The Deposition of Father McGreevy	Arcadia

2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	Faber & Faber	Kenneth Baker	Philip Hensher Michèle Roberts Kate Summerscale Professor Rory Watson

Ian McEwan	Atonement	Jonathan Cape

Andrew Miller	Oxygen	Sceptre

David Mitchell	number9dream	Sceptre

Rachel Seiffert	The Dark Room	William Heinemann

Ali Smith	Hotel World	Hamish Hamilton

2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	Canongate	Lisa Jardine	David Baddiel Russell Celyn Jones Salley Vickers Erica Wagner

Rohinton Mistry	Family Matters	Faber & Faber

Carol Shields	Unless	Fourth Estate

William Trevor	The Story of Lucy Gault	Viking

Sarah Waters	Fingersmith	Virago

Tim Winton	Dirt Music	Picador

2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little	Faber & Faber	John Carey	A. C. Grayling Francine Stock Rebecca Stephens MBE D. J. Taylor

Monica Ali	Brick Lane	Doubleday

Margaret Atwood	Oryx and Crake	Bloomsbury

Damon Galgut	The Good Doctor	Atlantic

Zoë Heller	Notes on a Scandal	Viking

Clare Morrall	Astonishing Splashes of Colour	Tindal Street

2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty	Picador	Chris Smith	Tibor Fischer Robert Macfarlane Rowan Pelling Fiammetta Rocco

Achmat Dangor	Bitter Fruit	Atlantic

Sarah Hall	The Electric Michelangelo	Faber & Faber

David Mitchell	Cloud Atlas	Sceptre

Colm Tóibín	The Master	Picador

Gerard Woodward	I'll Go to Bed at Noon	Chatto & Windus

2005	John Banville	The Sea	Picador	John Sutherland	Lindsay Duguid Rick Gekoski Josephine Hart David Sexton

Julian Barnes	Arthur & George	Jonathan Cape

Sebastian Barry	A Long Long Way	Faber & Faber

Kazuo Ishiguro	Never Let Me Go	Faber & Faber

Ali Smith	The Accidental	Hamish Hamilton

Zadie Smith	On Beauty	Hamish Hamilton

2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Hamish Hamilton	Hermione Lee	Simon Armitage Candia McWilliam Antony Quinn Fiona Shaw

Kate Grenville	The Secret River	Canongate

M. J. Hyland	Carry Me Down	Canongate

Hisham Matar	In the Country of Men	Viking

Edward St Aubyn	Mother's Milk	Picador

Sarah Waters	The Night Watch	Virago

2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering	Jonathan Cape	Howard Davies	Wendy Cope Giles Foden Ruth Scurr Imogen Stubbs

Nicola Barker	Darkmans	Fourth Estate

Mohsin Hamid	The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Hamish Hamilton

Lloyd Jones	Mister Pip	John Murray

Ian McEwan	On Chesil Beach	Jonathan Cape

Indra Sinha	Animal's People	Simon & Schuster

2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	Atlantic	Michael Portillo	Alex Clark Louise Doughty James Heneage Hardeep Singh Kohli

Sebastian Barry	The Secret Scripture	Faber & Faber

Amitav Ghosh	Sea of Poppies	John Murray

Linda Grant	The Clothes on Their Backs	Virago

Philip Hensher	The Northern Clemency	Fourth Estate

Steve Toltz	A Fraction of the Whole	Hamish Hamilton

2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall	Fourth Estate	James Naughtie	Lucasta Miller John Mullan Sue Perkins Michael Prodger

A. S. Byatt	The Children's Book	Chatto and Windus

J. M. Coetzee	Summertime	Harvill Secker

Adam Foulds	The Quickening Maze	Jonathan Cape

Simon Mawer	The Glass Room	Little, Brown

Sarah Waters	The Little Stranger	Virago

2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question	Bloomsbury	Andrew Motion	Rosie Blau Deborah Bull Tom Sutcliffe Frances Wilson

Peter Carey	Parrot and Olivier in America	Faber & Faber

Emma Donoghue	Room	Picador

Damon Galgut	In a Strange Room	Atlantic Books

Andrea Levy	The Long Song	Hachette

Tom McCarthy	C	Jonathan Cape

2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending	Jonathan Cape	Dame Stella Rimington	Matthew d'Ancona Susan Hill Chris Mullin Gaby Wood

Carol Birch	Jamrach's Menagerie	Canongate

Patrick deWitt	The Sisters Brothers	Granta Books

Esi Edugyan	Half-Blood Blues	Serpent's Tail

Stephen Kelman	Pigeon English	Bloomsbury

A D Miller	Snowdrops	Atlantic Books

2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies	Fourth Estate	Sir Peter Stothard	Dinah Birch Dan Stevens Amanda Foreman Bharat Tandon

Deborah Levy	Swimming Home	And Other Stories/Faber & Faber

Alison Moore	The Lighthouse	Salt Publishing

Will Self	Umbrella	Bloomsbury

Tan Twan Eng	The Garden of Evening Mists	Myrmidon Books

Jeet Thayil	Narcopolis	Faber & Faber

2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries	Granta	Robert Macfarlane	Martha Kearney Stuart Kelly Natalie Haynes Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

NoViolet Bulawayo	We Need New Names	Chatto & Windus

Jim Crace	Harvest	Picador

Jhumpa Lahiri	The Lowland	Bloomsbury

Ruth Ozeki	A Tale for the Time Being	Canongate

Colm Tóibín	The Testament of Mary	Viking

2014	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Chatto & Windus	AC Grayling	Sarah Churchwell Jonathan Bate Dr Daniel Glaser Dr Alastair Niven Erica Wagner

Joshua Ferris	To Rise Again at a Decent Hour	Viking

Karen Joy Fowler	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves	Serpent's Tail

Howard Jacobson	J	Jonathan Cape

Neel Mukherjee	The Lives of Others	Jonathan Cape

Ali Smith	How to Be Both	Hamish Hamilton

2015	Marlon James	A Brief History of Seven Killings	Oneworld Publications	Michael Wood	John Burnside Sam Leith Frances Osborne Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Tom McCarthy	Satin Island	Jonathan Cape

Chigozie Obioma	The Fishermen	One

Sunjeev Sahota	The Year of the Runaways	Picador

Anne Tyler	A Spool of Blue Thread	Chatto & Windus

Hanya Yanagihara	A Little Life	Picador

2016	Paul Beatty	The Sellout	Oneworld Publications	Amanda Foreman	Jon Day David Harsent Olivia Williams Abdulrazak Gurnah

Deborah Levy	Hot Milk	Hamish Hamilton

Graeme Macrae Burnet	His Bloody Project	Contraband

Ottessa Moshfegh	Eileen	Jonathan Cape

David Szalay	All That Man Is	Jonathan Cape

Madeleine Thien	Do Not Say We Have Nothing	Granta Books

2017	George Saunders	Lincoln in the Bardo	Bloomsbury	Baroness Lola Young	Lila Azam Zanganeh Sarah Hall Colin Thubron Tom Phillips

Paul Auster	4 3 2 1	Faber & Faber

Emily Fridlund	History of Wolves	Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Mohsin Hamid	Exit West	Hamish Hamilton

Fiona Mozley	Elmet	JM Originals, John Murray

Ali Smith	Autumn	Hamish Hamilton

2018	Anna Burns	Milkman	Faber & Faber	Kwame Anthony Appiah	Val McDermid Leo Robson Leanne Shapton Jacqueline Rose

Esi Edugyan	Washington Black	Serpent’s Tail

Daisy Johnson	Everything Under	Jonathan Cape

Rachel Kushner	The Mars Room	Jonathan Cape

Richard Powers	The Overstory	William Heinemann

Robin Robertson	The Long Take	Picador

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The Good Apprentice was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize.
The Good Apprentice was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize.

final_sentence: The Good Apprentice was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize.
final_sentence: The Good Apprentice was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize.