Winners of the Man Booker Award for Fiction
Submitted by bravereader on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 11:00
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- 2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- 2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright (dnf)
- 2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- 2005 The Sea by John Banville
- 2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- 2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
- 2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- 2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- 1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
- 1998 Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan
- 1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- 1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift
- 1995 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
- 1994 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
- 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
- 1992 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje(co-winner)
- 1992 Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth(co-winner)
- 1991 The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- 1990 Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
- 1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1988 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
- 1987 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
- 1986 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
- 1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- 1984 Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
- 1983 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
- 1982 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
- 1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- 1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding
- 1979 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
- 1978 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
- 1977 Staying on by Paul Scott
- 1976 Saville by David Storey
- 1975 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 1974 The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
- 1973 The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
- 1972 G. by John Berger
- 1971 In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
- 1970 The Elected Member by Bernice. Rubens
- 1969 Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby
Those highlighted items are books I have read. "dnf" = "did not finish" for one reason or another. usually because the book was tedious or filthy. (It takes a lot for me to not finish a book.I'm becoming more fussy, I suppose.)