Booker prize winners

The following is a list of the Booker prize winners. Having read several of them due to their inclusion on the 1001 list, I’ve decided to track how many of them I’ve read and perhaps seek out a few more. Many of them are on the 1001 list so I’d get to them eventually, but as I’ve enjoyed the ones that I’ve read, I may put these to the top of my wish list.

Ones I’ve read are highlighted, and ones on the 1001 list have the text in blue.

Read so far = 22

2019 – The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
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 (tbr)
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 (tbr)
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 – DBC 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
– Sacred hunger – Barry Unsworth
1991 – The famished road – Ben Okri
1990 – Possession: A romance – 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 and 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 – The Conservatist – Nadine Gordimer
– Holiday – Stanley Middleton
1973 – The siege of Krishnapur – J. G. Farrell
1972 – G. – John Berger
1971 – In a free state – V. S. Naipaul
1970 (lost booker prize) – Troubles – J. G. Farrell
1970 – The elected member – Bernice Rubens
1969 – Something to answer for – P. H. Newby

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