The Booker Prize
Book · English-language fiction · Tier 1: Global and Cross-Border Honours
One of the world's most closely watched fiction prizes, recognising a novel written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
2026
6 books
2025
19 booksFlesh
WinnerHeart Lamp: Selected Stories
WinnerA Leopard-Skin Hat
ShortlistAudition
ShortlistFlashlight
ShortlistOn the Calculation of Volume: Book I
ShortlistPerfection
ShortlistSmall Boat
ShortlistThe Land in Winter
ShortlistThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
ShortlistThe Rest of Our Lives
ShortlistUnder the Eye of the Big Bird
ShortlistEndling
Love Forms
Misinterpretation
One Boat
Seascraper
The South
Universality
2024
6 books
2023
6 books
2022
13 books
2021
13 books
2020
13 books
2019
13 books
2018
13 books
2017
13 books
2016
13 books
2015
13 books
2014
13 books
2013
13 books
2012
12 books
2011
13 books
2010
13 books
2009
13 books
2008
13 books
2007
13 books
2006
19 booksThe Inheritance of Loss
WinnerBe Near Me
Black Swan Green
Carry Me Down
Gathering the Water
Get a Life
In the Country of Men
Kalooki Nights
Mother's Milk
Seven Lies
So Many Ways to Begin
The Emperor's Children
The Night Watch
The Other Side of the Bridge
The Perfect Man
The Ruby in Her Navel
The Secret River
The Testament of Gideon Mack
Theft: A Love Story
2005
17 books
2004
22 booksThe Line of Beauty
WinnerA Blade of Grass
Always the Sun
Becoming Strangers
Bitter Fruit
Cherry
Clear: A Transparent Novel
Cloud Atlas
Cooking with Fernet Branca
Havoc, in Its Third Year
I'll Go to Bed at Noon
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Maps for Lost Lovers
Purple Hibiscus
Sixty Lights
Snowleg
The Electric Michaelangelo
The Great Fire
The Honeymoon
The Island Walkers
The Master
The Unnumbered
2003
23 booksVernon God Little
WinnerA Distant Shore
Astonishing Splashes of Colour
Brick Lane
Crossing the Lines
Elizabeth Costello
Frankie & Stankie
Heligoland
Jazz etc
Judge Savage
Notes on a Scandal
Oryx and Crake
Schopenhauer's Telescope
Something Might Happen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Good Doctor
The Light of Day
The Nick of Time
The Romantic
The Taxi Driver's Daughter
Turn Again Home
Waxwings
Yellow Dog
2002
20 booksLife of Pi
WinnerAny Human Heart
Critical Injuries
Dirt Music
Dorian
Family Matters
Fingersmith
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Peacetime
Shroud
Spies
Still Here
The Autograph Man
The Mulberry Empire
The Next Big Thing
The Story of Lucy Gault
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas
To the Last City
Unless
Who's Sorry Now?
2001
24 booksTrue History of the Kelly Gang
WinnerA Son of War
According to Queeney
Atonement
By the Sea
Dogside Story
Fairness
Half a Life
Hotel World
How to Be Good
If the Invader Comes
Number9dream
Oxygen
Shamrock Tea
The Amber Spyglass
The Blue Tango
The Dark Room
The Death of Vishnu
The Element of Water
The Leto Bundle
The Pickup
The Stone Carvers
Translated Accounts
Wolfy and the Strudelbakers
