Booker Prize Winners

Year

Author

Title

1969	P. H. Newby	Something to Answer For
1970	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member
1971	V. S. Naipaul	In a Free State
1972	John Berger	G
1973	J. G. Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur
1974	Nadine Gordimer Stanley Middleton	The Conservationist Holiday
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust
1976	David Storey	Saville
1977	Paul Scott	Staying On
1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, The Sea
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore
1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage
1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children
1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark
1983	J. M. Coetzee	Life and Times of Michael K
1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac
1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People
1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils
1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger
1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day
1990	A. S. Byatt	Possession
1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road
1992	Michael Ondaatje Barry Unsworth	The English Patient Sacred Hunger
1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late
1995	Pat Barker	Ghost Road
1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders
1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things
1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam
1999	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin
2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang
2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi
2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty
2005	John Banville	The Sea
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss
2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger