The Booker Prize

Winners and Shortlists

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
     "Grace Notes", Bernard MacLaverty
     "Europa", Tim Parks
     "The Essence of the Thing", Madeleine St. John
     "The Underground Man", Mick Jackson


1996
     "Last Orders", Graham Swift
     "Every Man for Himself", Beryl Bainbridge
     "Alias Grace", Margaret Atwood
     "The Orchard on Fire", Shena Mackay
     "A Fine Balance", Rohinton Mistry
     "Reading in the Dark", Seamus Deane


1995
     "The Ghost Road", Pat Barker
     "Moor's Last Sigh", Salmon Rushdie
     "Morality Play", Barry Unsworth
     "The Riders", Tim Winton
     "In Every Face I Meet", Justin Cartwright


1994
     "How Late It Was, How Late", James Kelman
     "Reef", Romesh Gunesekara
     "The Folding Star", Alan Hollinghurst
     "Knowledge of Angels", Jill Paton Walsh
     "Beside the Ocean of Time", George MacKay Brown
     "Paradise", Abdulrazak Gurnah

1993
     "Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha", Roddy Doyle
     "Scar Tissue", Michael Ignatieff
     "Under the Frog", Tibor Fischer
     "Remembering Babylon", David Malouf
     "Crossing the River", Caryl Phillips
     "The Stone Diaries", Carol Shields

1992
     "The English Patient", Michael Ondaatje (co-winner)
     "Sacred Hunger", Barry Unsworth (co-winner)
      "Serenity House", Christopher Hope
      "The Butcher Boy", Patrick McCabe
      "Black Dogs", Ian McEwen
      "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. 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-an Unsentimental Education", 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 Lost Father", Marina Warner

1987
     "Moon Tiger", Penelope Lively
      "Anthills of the Savannah", Chinua Achebe
      "Chatterton", Peter Ackroyd
      "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 Pollock's 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 and 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
      "Good Behaviour", Molly Keane
      "The Sirian Experiments", Doris Lessing
      "The Comfort of Strangers", Ian McEwan
      "Rhine Journey", Anne Schlee
      "Loitering with Intent", Muriel Spark
      "The White Hotel", D.M. Thomas

1980
     "Rites of Passage", William Golding
      "Earthly Powers", Anthony Burgess
      "A Month in the Country", J.L. Carr
      "Clear Light of Day", Anita Desai
      "The Beggar Maid", Alice Munro
      "No Country for Young Men",Julia O'Faolain
      "Pascall's Island", Barry Unsworth

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", Jan Gardam
      "A Five-Year Sentence", Bernice Rubens

1977
      "Staying On", Paul Scott
      "Peter Smart's Confessions", Paul Bailey
      "Great Granny Windsor", 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
      "The Conservationist",Nadine Gordimer
      "Ending Up", Kingsley Amis
      "The Bottle Factory Outing",Beryl Bainbridge
      "Holiday", Stanley Middleton
      "In Their Wisdom", C.P. Snow

1973
      "The Seige of Krishnapur", J. G. Farrell
      "The Dressmaker", Beryl Bainbridge
      "The Green Equinox", Elizabeth Mavor

1972
      "G",John Berger
      "Bird of Night", Susan Hill
      "The Chant of Jimmy 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", Mordecai Richler
      "Goshawk Squadron", Derek Robinson
      "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont", Elizabeth Taylor

1970
      "The Elected Member", Bernice Rubens
      "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
      "The Conjunction", T. Wheeler

1969
      "Something to Answer For", P. H. Newby
      "Figures in a Landscape", Barry England
      "The Impossible Object", N. Mosley
      "The Nice and the Good", Iris Murdoch
      "The Public Image", Muriel Spark
      "From Scenes Like These", G.M. Williams

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