Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize

2012 Bringing Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
 - Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil
 - Swimming Home - Deborah Levy
 - The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng
 - The Lighthouse - Alison Moore
 - Umbrella - Will Self

2011 The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes 2011
 - Half-Blood Blues -Esi Edugyan Jan 2012
 - Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
 - Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
 - The Sister's Brothers - Patrick deWitt Jan 2012
 - Snowdrops -AD Miller

2010 The Finkler Question - Jacobson
 - C - Tom McCarthy
 - In a Strange Room - Damon Galgut 2011
 - The Long Song - Andrea Levy
 - Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
 - Room - Emma Donaghue 2010

2009 Wolf Hall - Hillary Mantel
   - The Children's Book - AS Byatt
  -  The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
  - The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters 2009
  -  The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
  - Summertime - JM Coetzee

2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 2008
 - The Clothes on Their Back - Linda Grant
 - A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz 2008
 - A Northern Clemency - Philip Hensher
 - Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
 - The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry

2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright 2008
 - Animal's People - Indra Sindha
 - Darkmans - Nicola Barker
 - Mr Pip - Lloyd Jones
 - On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
 - The Reluctant Fundamentalist

2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
 - Carry Me Down - MJ Hyland
 - In the Country of Men - Hiram Matar
 - Mother's Milk - Edward St Abuyn
 - The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
 - The Secret River - Kate Grenville

2005 The Sea by John Banville
 - The Accidental - Ali Smith
 - Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
 - A Long, Long Way - Sebastian Berry
 - Never Let Me Go - Kazou Ishiguro
 - On Beauty - Zadie Smith

2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst * own
 - Bitter Fruit - Achmat Dangor
 - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
 - The Electric Michaelangelo - Sarah Hall
 - I'll Go To Bed At Noon - Gerard Woodward
 - The Master - Colm Toibin


2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre 2010
 - Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Clare Morrall
 - Brick Lane - Monica Ali
 - The Good Doctor - Damon Galgut
 - Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
 - Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
 - Dirt Music - Tim Winton
 - Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry

- Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
 -The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
 -Unless - Carol Shields 


2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (read 200/350 pages, 2011)
 - Atonement - Ian McEwan
 - The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert
 - Hotel World - Ali Smith
 - Number9Dream - David Mitchell
 - Oxygen - Andrew Miller

2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 2007
 - The Deposition of Father McGreevy - Brian O'Doherty
 - English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
 - The Hiding Place - Trezza Azzapardo
 - The Keepers of Truth - Michael Collins
 - When We Were Orphans - Kazou Ishiguro

1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
 - The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Toibin
 - Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
 - Headlong - Michael Frayn
 - The Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif
 - Our Fathers - Andrew O'Hagen

1998 Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan 2009
 - Breakfast on Pluto - Patrick McCabe
 - England, England - Julien Barnes
 - The Industry of Souls - Martin Booth
 - Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge
 - The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills

1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 2007
 - The Essense of the Thing - Madeleine St John
 - Europa - Tim Parks
 - Grace Notes - Bernard MacLaverty
 - Quarentine - Jim Crace
 - The Underground Man - Mick Jackson

1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift 2008
- Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
-  Every Man For Himself - Beryl Bainbridge
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- The Orchard on Fire - Shena Mackay
- Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane

1995 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker *in library, 277 pages
 - In Every Face I Meet - Justin Cartwright
- The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
- Morality Play - Barry Unsworth
- The Riders - Tim Winton
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1994 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman *own, 373 pages
- Beside the Ocean of Time - George McKay Brown
- The Folding Star - Allan Hollingshurst
- Knowledge of Angels - Jill Paton Walsh
- Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Reef - Romesh Gunesekera

1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
- Crossing the River - Caryl Phillips
- Scar Tissue - Michael Ignatieff
- The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
- Under the Frog - Tibor Fischer

1992 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (co-winner) 2012
          Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (co-winner) *in library
 - Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
 - The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
 - Daughters of the House - Michele Roberts
 - Serenity House - Christopher Hope
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1991 The Famished Road by Ben Okri *in library, 500 pages
 - Reading Turgenov - William Trevor
- The Redundancy of Courage - Timothy Mo
 - Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
 - Time's Arrow or The Nature of the Offense - Martin Amis
 - Two Lives - William Trevor
 - The Van - Roddy Doyle

1990 Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt *own, 555 pages
 - Amongst Women - John McGahern
 - An Awfully Big Adventure - Beryl Bainbridge
 - The Gate of Angels - Penelope Fitzgerald
 - Lies of Silence - Brian Moore
 - Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordecai Richler

1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 2008
 - The Book of Evidence - John Banville
 - Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
 - A Disaffection - James Kelman
 - Jigsaw: A Unsentimental Education - Sybille Bedford
 - Restoration - Rose Tremain

1988 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey *in library, 512 pages
 - The Beginning of Spring - Penelope Fitzgerald
 - The Lost Father - Marina Warner
 - Nice Work - David Lodge
 - The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
 - Utz - Brian Chatwin

1987 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 2009
 - Anthills of the Savannah - Chinua Achebe
 - The Book and the Brotherhood - Iris Murdoch
 - Chatterton - Peter Ackroyd
 - Circles of Deceit - Nina Bawden
 - The Colour of Blood - Brian Moore

1986 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis *in library, 294 pages
 - An Artist of the Floating World - Kazou Ishiguro
 - Gabriel's Lament - Paul Bailey
 - The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
 - An Insular Possession - Timothy Mo
 - The Rebel Angels - Robertson Davies
 - What's Bred in the Bone - Robertson Davies

1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme 2007

1984 Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner 2008

1983 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee 2008

1982 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally *in library, 400 pages

1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie *in library, 447 pages
 - The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan Feb 2012

1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding *in library, 278 pages

1979 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald *in library, 141 pages

1978 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch *in library, 501 pages
- The Bookshop - Penelope Fitztgerald 2010

1977 Staying on by Paul Scott *talking book in library

1976 Saville by David Storey

1975 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1974 The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer *in library, 252 pages

1974 Holiday by Stanley Middleton

1973 The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell

1972 G. by John Berger

1971 In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
-Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor 2010

1970 The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

1969 Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby