Leading British annual literary prize, launched in 1968 by the cash & carry firm of Booker McConnell for the best novel in English. In 1995 it was worth £20,000 (and in 1997). It is awarded for a novel first published between 1st October and 30th September in the year of the award. In 1999 it was £21,000. Each of the judges is expected to read well over 100 books for a fee of £3000. In 2003 it became the Man Booker Prize. The archive is held at Oxford Brookes University. In 2005 the Man Booker International Prize was inaugurated.

Shortlisted Books
1969
P H Newby : Something to Answer For (Faber 30/-) - [WINNER]
[This is the only Booker winner that is out of print (1999)]
Barry England : Figures in a Landscape (Cape)
Nicholas Mosley : The Impossible Object (H & S)
Iris Murdoch : The Nice and the Good (C & W)
Muriel Spark : The Public Image (Macmillan)
Gordon M Williams : From Scenes Like These (Secker & Warburg)

1970
Bernice Rubens : The Elected Member (E & S) - [WINNER]
A L Barker : John Brown's Body (Hogarth)
Elizabeth Bowen : Eva Trout (Cape)
Iris Murdoch : Bruno's Dream (C & W)
William Trevor : Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (Bodley Head)
Terence Wheeler : The Conjunction (Angus & Robertson)

1971
V S Naipaul : In a Free State (Deutsch) - [WINNER]
Thomas Kilroy : The Big Chapel (Faber)
Doris Lessing : Briefing for a Descent into Hell (Cape)
Mordecai Richler : St Urbain's Horseman (Weidenfeld)
Derek Robinson : Goshawk Squadron (Heinemann)
Elizabeth Taylor : Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (C & W)

1972
John Berger : G (Weidenfeld) - [WINNER]
[Berger's acceptance speech attacked Booker McConnell for its exploitation of the
Caribbean and pledged his prize money to the Black Panther movement]
Susan Hill : Bird of Night (H Hamilton)
Thomas Keneally : The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (Angus & Roberston)
David Storey : Pasmore (Longman)

1973
J G Farrell : The Siege of Krishnapur (Weidenfeld) - [WINNER]
Beryl Bainbridge : The Dressmaker (Duckworth)
Elizabeth Mavor : The Green Equinox (M J)

1974
Nadine Gordimer : The Conservationist (Cape) - [JOINT WINNER]
Stanley Middleton : Holiday (Hutchinson) - [JOINT WINNER]
Kingsley Amis : Ending Up (Cape)
Beryl Baindbridge : The Bottle Factory Outing (Duckworth)
C P Snow : In Their Wisdom (Macmillan)

1975
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala : Heat and Dust (John Murray) - [WINNER]
Thomas Keneally : Gossip from the Forest (Collins)

1976
David Storey : Saville (Cape) - [WINNER]
Andre Brink : An Instant in the Wind (W H Allen)
R C Hutchinson : Rising (M J)
Brian Moore : The Doctor's Wife (Cape)
Julian Rathbone : King Fisher Lives (M J)
William Trevor : The Children of Dynmouth (Bodley Head)

1977
Paul Scott : Staying On (Heinemann) - [WINNER]
Paul Bailey : Peter Smart's Confession (Cape)
Caroline Blackwood : Great Granny Webster (Duckworth)
Jennifer Johnston : Shadows on Our Skin (H H)
Penelope Lively : The Road to Lichfield (Heinemann)
Barbara Pym : Quartet in Autumn (Macmillan)

1978
Iris Murdoch : The Sea, The Sea (C & W) - [WINNER]
Kingsley Amis : Jake's Thing (Hutchinson)
Andre Brink : Rumours of Rain (W H Allen)
Penelope Fitzgerald : The Bookshop (Duckworth)
Jane Gardam : God on the Rocks (H H)
Bernice Rubens : A Five-Year sentence (W H Allen)

1979
Penelope Fitzgerald : Offshore (Collins) - [WINNER]
Thomas Keneally : Confederates (Collins)
V S Naipaul : A Bend in the River (Deutsch)
Julian Rathbone : Joseph (M J)
Fay Weldon : Praxis (H & S)

1980
William Golding : Rites of Passage (Faber) - [WINNER]
Anthony Burgess : Earthly Powers (Hutchinson)
Anita Desai : Clear Light of Day (Heinemann)
Alice Munro : The Beggar Maid (Allen Lane)
Julia O'Faolain : No Country for Young Men (Allen Lane)
Barry Unsworth : Pascali's Island (M J)
J L Carr : A Month in the Country (Harvester)

1981
Salman Rushdie : Midnight's Children (Cape) - [WINNER]
Molly Keane : Good Behaviour (Deutsch)
Doris Lessing : The Sirian Experiments (Cape)
Ian McEwan : The Comfort of Strangers (Cape)
Anne Schlee : Rhine Journey (Macmillan)
Muriel Spark : Loitering with Intent (Bodley Head)
D M Thomas : The White Hotel (Gollancz)

1982
Thomas Keneally : Schindler's Ark (H & S) - [WINNER]
John Arden : Silence Among the Weapons (Methuen)
William Boyd : An Ice Cream War (H H)
Lawrence Durrell : Constance (Faber)
Alice Thomas Ellis : The 27th Kingdom (Duckworth)
Timothy Mo : Sour Sweet (Deutsch)

1983
J M Coetzee : Life and Times of Michael K (S & W) - [WINNER]
Malcolm Bradbury : Rates of Exchange (S & W)
John Fuller : Flying to Nowhere (Salamander Press)
Anita Mason : The Illusionist (H H)
Salman Rushdie : Shame (Cape)
Graham Swift : Waterland (Heinemann)

1984
Anita Brookner : Hotel Du Lac (Cape) - [WINNER]
J G Ballard : Empire of the Sun (Gollancz)
Julian Barnes : Flaubert's Parrot (Cape)
Anita Desai : In Custody (Heinemann)
Penelope Lively : According to Mark (Heinemann)
David Lodge : Small World (S & W)

1985
Keri Hulme : The Bone People (H & S) - [WINNER]
Peter Carey : Illywhacker (Faber)
J L Carr : The Battle of Pollock's Crossing (Viking)
Doris Lessing : The Good Terrorist (Cape)
Jan Morris : Last Letters from Hav (Viking)
Iris Murdoch : The Good Apprentice (C & W)

1986
Kinglsey Amis : The Old Devils (Hutchinson) - [WINNER]
Margaret Atwood : The Handmaid's Tale (Cape)
Paul Bailey : Gabriel's Lament (Cape)
Robertson Davies : What's Bred in the Bone (Viking)
Kazuo Ishiguro : An Artist in the Floating World (Faber)
Timothy Mo : An Insular Possession (C & W)

1987
Penelope Lively : Moontiger (Deutsch) - [WINNER]
Shinva Achebe : Anthills of the Savannah (Heinemann)
Peter Ackroyd : Chatterton (Hamish Hamilton)
Nina Bawden : Circles of Deceit (Macmillan)
Brian Moore : The Colour of Blood (Cape)
Iris Murdoch : The Book and the Brotherhood (Chatto & Windus)

1988
Peter Carey : Oscar and Lucinda (Faber) - [WINNER]
Bruce Chatwin : Utz (Cape)
Penelope Fitzgerald : The Beginning of Spring (Collins)
David Lodge : Nice Work (Secker & Warburg)
Salman Rushdie : The Satanic Verses (Viking)
Marina Warner : The Lost Father (Chatto & Windus)

1989
Kazuo Ishiguro : The Remains of the Day (Faber) - [WINNER]
[This sold over 1 million copies]
Margaret Atwood : Cat's Eye (Bloomsbury)
John Banville : The Book of Evidence (Secker & Warburg)
Sybille Bedford : Jigsaw (Hamish Hamilton)
James Kelman : A Disaffection (Secker & Warburg)
Rose Tremain : restoration (Hamish Hamilton)

1990
A S Byatt : Possession (Chatto & Windus) - [WINNER]
Beryl Bainbridge : An Awfully Big Adventure (Duckworth)
Penelope Fitzgerald : The Gate of Angels (Collins)
John McGahern : Amongst Women (Faber)
Brian Moore : Lies of Silence (Bloomsbury)
Mordecai Richler : Solomon Gursky Was Here (Chatto & Windus)

1991
Ben Okri : The Famished Road (Cape) - [WINNER]
Martin Amis : Time's Arrow (Cape)
Roddy Doyle : The Van (Secker & Warburg)
Rohinton Mistry : Such a Long Journey (Faber)
Timothy Mo : The Redundancy of Courage (Chatto & Windus)
William Trevor : Reading Turgenev (Viking)

1992
Michae Ondaatje : The English Patient (Bllomsbury) - [WINNER]
Barry Unsworth : Sacred Hunger (Hamish Hamilton)
Christopher Hope : Serenity House (Macmillan)
Patrick McCabe : The Butcher Boy (Picador)
Ian McEwan : Black Dogs (Cape)
Michele Roberts : Daughters of the House (Virago)

1993
Roddy Doyle : Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha (Secker & Warburg) - [WINNER]
Tibor Fischer : Under the Frog (Polygon)
Michael Ignatieff : Scar Tissue (Chatto & Windus)
David Malouf : Remembering Babylon (Chatto & Windus)
Caryl Phillips : Crossing the River (Bloomsbury)
Carol Shields : The Stone Diaries (Fourth Estate)

1994
James Kelman : How Late it Was, How Late (Secker & Warburg) - [WINNER]
Romesh Gunesekera : Reef (Granta)
Abdulrazak Gurnah : Paradise (Hamish Hamilton)
Alan Hollinghurst : The Folding Star (Chatto & Windus)
George Mackay brown : beside the Ocean of Time (John Murray)
Jill Paton Walsh : Knowledge of Angels (Green Bay)

1995
Pat Barker : The Ghost Road (Viking) - [WINNER]
Justin Cartwright : In Every Face I Meet (Sceptre)
Salman Rushdie : The Moor's Last Sigh (Cape)
Barry Unsworth : Morality Play (Hamish Hamilton)
Tim Winton : The Riders (Picador)

1996
Graham Swift : Last Orders (Picador) - [WINNER]
Margaret Atwood : Alias Grace (Bloomsbury)
Beryl Bainbridge : Every Man for Himself (Duckworth)
Seamus Deane : Reading in the Dark (Cape)
Shena Mackay : The Orchard on Fire (Heinemann)
Rohinton Mistry : A Fine Balance (Faber)

1997
Arundhati Roy : The God of Small Things (Flamingo) - [WINNER]
Jim Crace : Quarantine (Viking)
Mick Jackson : The Underground Man (Picador)
Bernard Maclaverty : Grace Notes (Cape)
Tim Parks : Europa (Secker & Warburg)
Madeleine St John : The Essence of the Thing (Fourth Estate)

1998
Ian McEwan : Amsterdam (1998 Cape £14.99) - [WINNER]

1999
J M Coetzee : Disgrace - [WINNER]
[The only person to win the Booker Prize twice]

2000
Margaret Atwood : The Blind Assassin (Bloomsbury £16.99) - [WINNER]
[In 2000 the Prize was worth £21.000]
Trezza Azzopardi : The Hiding Place (Picador £14.99)
Kazuo Ishiguro : When We were Orphans (Faber £16.99)
Matthew Kneale : English Passengers (Hamish Hamilton £15.99)
Brian O'Doherty : The Deposition of Father McGreevy (Arcadia Books £11.99)
Michael Collins : The Keepers of Truth (Phoenix House £16.99)

2001
Peter Carey : True History of the Kelly Gang - [WINNER]
Rachel Seifert : The Dark Room
Andrew Miller : Oxygen
David Mitchell : Number9dream
Ali Smith : Hotel World
Ian McEwan : Atonement

2002
Yann Martel : Life of Pi (2002 Canongate £12.99) - [WINNER]
Rohinton Mistry : Family Matters (2002 Faber £16.99)
Tim Winton : Dirt Music (2002 Picador £15.99)
Sarah Waters : Fingersmith (2002 Virago £12.99)
William Trevor : The Story of Lucy Gault (2002 Viking £16.99)
Carol Shields : Unless (2002 Fourth Estate £16.99)

2003
D B C Pierre : Vernon God Little (2003 Faber £12.99) - 1st Novel - [WINNER]
Damon Galgut : The Good Doctor (2003 Atlantic £10.99)
Zoe Heller : Notes on a Scandal (2003) - in US as "What was She Thinking ?"
Margaret Atwood : Oryx and Crake (2003 Bloomsbury £16.99)
Monica Ali : Brick Lane (2003 Doubleday £12.99) - 1st Novel
Clare Morrall : Astonishing Splashes of Colour (2003 Tindal Street Press £7.99) - 1st Novel
[By 2004 the Prize was worth £50.000]

2004
Alan Hollinghurst : The Line of Beauty (2004 Picador) - [WINNER]
David Mitchell : Cloud Atlas (2004 Sceptre)
Colm Toibin : The Master (2004 Picador)
Sarah Hall : The Electric Michelangelo (2004 Faber)
Achmat Dangor : Bitter Fruit (2003 Atlantic Books)
Gerard Woodward : I'll Go to Bed at Noon (2004 Chatto & Windus)