List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction - Definition and Overview

The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. Winners are given in bold type at the start of each entry.

• 1969: Percy Howard Newby, Something to Answer For
  • Barry England, Figures in a Landscape
  • Nicholas Mosley, Impossible Object
  • Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
  • Muriel Spark, The Public Image
  • G. M. Williams, From Scenes like These

• 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
  • 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
  • T. W. Wheeler, The Conjunction

• 1971: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, In a Free State
  • Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel
  • Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell
  • Mordecai Richler, St Urbain's Horseman
  • Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron
  • Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

• 1972: John Berger, G
  • Susan Hill, Bird of Night
  • Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
  • David Storey, Pasmore

• 1973: James Gordon Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
  • Beryl Bainbridge, The Dressmaker
  • Elizabeth Mavor, The Green Equinox
  • Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

• 1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist, and Stanley Middleton, Holiday
  • Kingsley Amis, Ending Up
  • Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
  • C. P. Snow, In Their Wisdom

• 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
  • Thomas Keneally, Gossip from the Forest

• 1976: David Storey, Saville
  • André Brink, An Instant in the Wind
  • R. C. Hutchinson, Rising
  • Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife
  • Julian Rathbone, King Fisher Lives
  • William Trevor, The Children of Dynmouth

• 1977: Paul Scott, Staying On
  • Paul Bailey, Peter Smart's Confessions
  • Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster
  • Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on our Skin
  • Penelope Lively, The Road to Lichfield
  • Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn

• 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
  • Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing
  • André Brink, Rumours of Rain
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
  • Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks
  • Bernice Rubens, A Five-Year Sentence

• 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
  • Thomas Keneally, Confederates
  • Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, A Bend in the River
  • Julian Rathbone, Joseph
  • Fay Weldon, Praxis

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

• 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
  • Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
  • Doris Lessing, The Sirian Experiments
  • Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers
  • Ann Schlee, Rhine Journey
  • Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent
  • D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel

• 1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
  • John Arden, Silence Among the Weapons
  • William Boyd (writer), An Ice-Cream War
  • Lawrence Durrell, Constance or Solitary
  • Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom
  • Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet

• 1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K
  • Malcolm Bradbury, Rates of Exchange
  • John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere
  • Anita Mason, The Illusionist
  • Salman Rushdie, Shame
  • Graham Swift, Waterland

• 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
  • J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
  • Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
  • Anita Desai, In Custody
  • Penelope Lively, According to Mark
  • David Lodge, Small World

• 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
  • Peter Carey, Illywhacker
  • J. L. Carr, The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
  • Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
  • Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav
  • Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice

• 1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
  • Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
  • Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament
  • Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
  • Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession

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

• 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
  • Bruce Chatwin, Utz
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
  • David Lodge, Nice Work
  • Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
  • Marina Warner, The Lost Father

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

• 1990: A.S. Byatt, Possession
  • Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure
  • John McGahern, Amongst Women
  • Brian Moore, Lies of Silence
  • Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here

• 1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
  • Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
  • Roddy Doyle, The Van
  • Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
  • Timothy Mo, The Redundancy of Courage
  • William Trevor, Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives)

• 1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient, and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
  • Christopher Hope, Serenity House
  • Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy
  • Ian McEwan, Black Dogs
  • Michèle Roberts, Daughters of the House

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

• 1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how late
  • Romesh Gunesekera, Reef
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise
  • Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
  • George Mackay Brown, Beside the Ocean of Time
  • Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels

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

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

• 1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
  • Jim Crace, Quarantine
  • Mick Jackson, The Underground Man
  • Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
  • Tim Parks, Europa
  • Madeline St John, The Essence of the Thing

• 1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
  • Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie
  • Julian Barnes, England England
  • Martin Booth, The Industry of Souls
  • Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto
  • Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts

• 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
  • Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting
  • Michael Frayn, Headlong
  • Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers
  • Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
  • Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship

• 2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
  • Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place
  • Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, When we were Orphans
  • Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
  • Brian O'Doherty, The Deposition of Father McGeevy

• 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
  • Ian McEwan, Atonement
  • Andrew Miller, Oxygen
  • David Mitchell, number9dream
  • Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room
  • Ali Smith, Hotel World

• 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi
  • Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
  • Carol Shields, Unless
  • William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
  • Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
  • Tim Winton, Dirt Music

• 2003: D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little
  • Monica Ali, Brick Lane
  • Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
  • Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor
  • Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal
  • Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes of Colour

• 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
  • Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit
  • Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo
  • David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
  • Colm Tóibín, The Master
  • Gerard Woodward, I'll go to Bed at Noon