Bookerworm

Bookerworm is my occasional (fool-hardy) quest to read through all the Booker Prize Winning Books. Below is a list of Booker Prize Winning Books by Year. Numbers to the right are order read.

1970 - Troubles - JG Farrell (the 'Lost' Booker) (7)
1972 - G. - John Berger
1974 - The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer (tie)
1974 - Holiday - Stanley Middleton (tie)
1978 - The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
1979 - Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald
1981 - Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (winner of the 'Booker of Bookers' prize)
1985 - The Bone People - Keri Hulme
1986 - The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
1989 - The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
1990 - Possession - AS Byatt
1991 - The Famished Road - Ben Okri
1992 - The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (tie)
1992 - Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth (tie)
1994 - How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
1996 - Last Orders - Graham Swift
1997 - The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
1998 - Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
1999 - Disgrace - JM Coetzee
2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
2004 - The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
2007 - The Gathering - Anne Enright
2008 - The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
2011 - The Sense of An Ending - Julian Barnes
2014 - The Narrow Road to The Deep North - Richard Flanagan
2016 - The Sellout - Paul Beatty
2017 - Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
2018 - Milkman - Anna Burns
2019 - The Testaments - Margaret Atwood (tie)
2019 - Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo (tie)
2020 - Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
2022 - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
2023 - Prophet Song - Paul Lynch

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