Winners
See also: List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for FictionIn 1993 to mark the 25th anniversary it was decided to choose a Booker of Bookers Prize. Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as "the best novel out of all the winners."
A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize. A short list of six winners was chosen and the decision was left to a public vote. The winner was again Midnight's Children.
| Year | Author | Title | Genre(s) | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | P. H. Newby | Something to Answer For | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1970 | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1970 | J. G. Farrell | Troubles | Novel | United Kingdom Ireland |
| 1971 | V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State | Short story | United Kingdom Trinidad and Tobago |
| 1972 | John Berger | G. | Experimental novel | United Kingdom |
| 1973 | J. G. Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur | Novel | United Kingdom Ireland |
| 1974 | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | Novel | South Africa |
| Stanley Middleton | Holiday | Novel | United Kingdom | |
| 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust | Historical novel | United Kingdom Germany |
| 1976 | David Storey | Saville | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1977 | Paul Scott | Staying On | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1978 | Iris Murdoch | The Sea, the Sea | Philosophical novel | Ireland United Kingdom |
| 1979 | Penelope Fitzgerald | Offshore | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1980 | William Golding | Rites of Passage | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | Magical realism | United Kingdom |
| 1982 | Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | Biographical novel | Australia |
| 1983 | J. M. Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K | Novel | South Africa |
| 1984 | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1985 | Keri Hulme | The Bone People | Mystery novel | New Zealand |
| 1986 | Kingsley Amis | The Old Devils | Comic novel | United Kingdom |
| 1987 | Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1988 | Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | Novel | Australia |
| 1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | Historical novel | United Kingdom |
| 1990 | A. S. Byatt | Possession | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1991 | Ben Okri | The Famished Road | Magic realism | Nigeria |
| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | Historiographic metafiction | Canada |
| Barry Unsworth | Sacred Hunger | Historical novel | United Kingdom | |
| 1993 | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Novel | Ireland |
| 1994 | James Kelman | How Late It Was, How Late | Stream of consciousness | United Kingdom |
| 1995 | Pat Barker | The Ghost Road | War novel | United Kingdom |
| 1996 | Graham Swift | Last Orders | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | Novel | India |
| 1998 | Ian McEwan | Amsterdam | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 1999 | J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace | Novel | South Africa |
| 2000 | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | Novel | Canada |
| 2001 | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | Historical novel | Australia |
| 2002 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | Fantasy novel | Canada |
| 2003 | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | Novel | Australia Mexico |
| 2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | Historical novel | United Kingdom |
| 2005 | John Banville | The Sea | Novel | Ireland |
| 2006 | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | Novel | India |
| 2007 | Anne Enright | The Gathering | Novel | Ireland |
| 2008 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | Novel | India |
| 2009 | Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall | Historical novel | United Kingdom |
| 2010 | Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2011 | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | Novel | United Kingdom |
| 2012 | Hilary Mantel | Bring Up the Bodies | Historical novel | United Kingdom |
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