Book awards: Booker Prize Shortlist

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Works (205)

Titles	Order
Figures in a Landscape by Barry England	1969
From Scenes Like These by Gordon Williams	1969
Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley	1969
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch	1969
The Public Image by Muriel Spark	1969
Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch	1970
The conjunction: A novel by Terence Wheeler	1970
Eva Trout: or, Changing scenes by Elizabeth Bowen	1970
John Brown's Body by A. L. Barker	1970
Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor	1970
The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard	Lost Booker 1970
The Birds on the Trees by Nina Bawden	Lost Booker 1970
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark	Lost Booker 1970
Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault	Lost Booker 1970
The Vivisector by Patrick White	Lost Booker 1970
The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy	1971
Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris May Lessing	1971
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson	1971
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor	1971
St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler	1971
The Bird of Night by Susan Hill	1972
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally	1972
Pasmore by David Storey	1972
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch	1973
The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge	1973
A green equinox by Elizabeth Mavor	1973
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge	1974
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis	1974
In Their Wisdom by C. P. Snow	1974
Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally	1975
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor	1976
The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore	1976
An Instant in the Wind by André Brink	1976
King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone	1976
Rising by R. C. Hutchinson	1976
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood	1977
Peter Smart's Confessions by Paul Bailey	1977
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym	1977
The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively	1977
Shadows on Our Skin by Jennifer Johnston	1977
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald	1978
A Five Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens	1978
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam	1978
Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis	1978
Rumours of Rain by André Brink	1978
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul	1979
Confederates by Thomas Keneally	1979
Joseph by Julian Rathbone	1979
Praxis by Fay Weldon	1979
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro	1980
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai	1980
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess	1980
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr	1980
No Country for Young Men by Julia O'Faolain	1980
Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth	1980
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan	1981
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane	1981
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark	1981
Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee	1981
The Sirian Experiments: The Report by Ambien II, of the Five by Doris May Lessing	1981
The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas	1981
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis	1982
Constance, or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell	1982
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd	1982
Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden	1982
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo	1982
Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller	1983
The Illusionist by Anita Mason	1983
Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury	1983
Shame by Salman Rushdie	1983
Waterland by Graham Swift	1983
According to Mark by Penelope Lively	1984
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard	1984
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes	1984
In Custody by Anita Desai	1984
Small World by David Lodge	1984
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J.L. Carr	1985
The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch	1985
The Good Terrorist by Doris May Lessing	1985
Illywhacker by Peter Carey	1985
Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris	1985
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro	1986
Gabriel's Lament by Paul Bailey	1986
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood	1986
An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo	1986
The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies	1986
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies	1986
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe	1987
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch	1987
Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd	1987
Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden	1987
The Colour of Blood (Paladin Books) by Brian Moore	1987
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald	1988
The Lost Father by Marina Warner	1988
Nice Work by David Lodge	1988
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie	1988
Utz by Bruce Chatwin	1988
The Book of Evidence by John Banville	1989
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood	1989
A Disaffection by James Kelman	1989
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford	1989
Restoration by Rose Tremain	1989
Amongst Women by John McGahern	1990
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge	1990
The gate of angels by Penelope Fitzgerald	1990
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore	1990
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler	1990
Reading Turgenev by William Trevor	1991
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo	1991
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry	1991
Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence by Martin Amis	1991
Two Lives by William Trevor	1991
The Van by Roddy Doyle	1991
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan	1992
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe	1992
Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts	1992
Serenity House by Christopher Hope	1992
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips	1993
Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff	1993
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields	1993
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer	1993
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown	1994
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst	1994
Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh	1994
Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah	1994
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera	1994
In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright	1995
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie	1995
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth	1995
The Riders by Tim Winton	1995
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood	1996
Every man for himself by Beryl Bainbridge	1996
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry	1996
The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay	1996
Reading in the Dark: A Novel by Seamus Deane	1996
The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St. John	1997
Europa by Tim Parks	1997
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty	1997
Quarantine by Jim Crace	1997
The Underground Man by Mick Jackson	1997
Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe	1998
England, England by Julian Barnes	1998
The Industry of Souls: A Novel by Martin Booth	1998
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge	1998
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills	1998
The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel by Colm Tóibín	1999
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai	1999
Headlong by Michael Frayn	1999
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif	1999
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan	1999
The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty	2000
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale	2000
The Hiding Place: A Novel by Trezza Azzopardi	2000
The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins	2000
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro	2000
Atonement by Ian McEwan	2001
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert	2001
Hotel World by Ali Smith	2001
Number9Dream by David Mitchell	2001
Oxygen by Andrew Miller	2001
Dirt Music by Tim Winton	2002
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry	2002
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters	2002
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor	2002
Unless by Carol Shields	2002
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall	2003
Brick Lane by Monica Ali	2003
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut	2003
Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller	2003
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood	2003
Bitter Fruit: A Novel by Achmat Dangor	2004
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell	2004
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall	2004
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward	2004
The Master by Colm Tóibín	2004
The Accidental by Ali Smith	2005
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes	2005
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry	2005
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro	2005
On Beauty by Zadie Smith	2005
Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland	2006
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar	2006
Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn	2006
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters	2006
The Secret River by Kate Grenville	2006
Animal's People by Indra Sinha	2007
Darkmans by Nicola Barker	2007
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones	2007
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan	2007
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid	2007
The Clothes on Their Backs: A Novel by Linda Grant	2008
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz	2008
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher	2008
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh	2008
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry	2008
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt	2009
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer	2009
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters	2009
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds	2009
Summertime: Fiction by J. M. Coetzee	2009
C by Tom McCarthy	2010
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut	2010
The Long Song by Andrea Levy	2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey	2010
Room by Emma Donoghue	2010

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The Booker Prize (officially renamed the Man Booker Prize since 2002) is an annual award for the best original novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth or Ireland.

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See also the Common Knowledge pages for the winner and the longlist.