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Booker Prize, 2005-1995

The Booker Prize (or The Booker McConnell Prize, for the more exacting among you) was founded in 1969 by Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company. Administered by the National Book League in the United Kingdom, this prestigious award is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa. In 1992, Booker teamed up with The Tetra Pak Laval Group in Russia to create the Russian Booker Prize. In April 2002, the Booker Prize Foundation (BPF) announced that the Man Group had been chosen as the new sponsor for the Booker Prize for Fiction. The new agreement is for a period of five years during which the prize will be known as the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

2005

The Sea / John Banville  (Winner)
The Harmony Silk Factory / Tash Aw
Arthur & George / Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way / Sebastian Barry
Slow Man / J.M. Coetzee
In the Fold / Rachel Cusk
Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro
All For Love / Dan Jacobson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian / Marina Lewycka
Beyond Black / Hilary Mantel
Saturday / Ian McEwan
The People’s Act of Love / James Meek
Shalimar The Clown / Salman Rushdie
The Accidental / Ali Smith
On Beauty / Zadie Smith
This Thing Of Darkness / Harry Thompson
This Is The Country / William Wall

2004
The Line of Beauty / Alan Hollinghurst (Winner)
Purple Hibiscus / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Maps for Lost Lovers / Nadeem Aslam
Clear: A Transparent Novel / Nicola Barker
The Island Walkers / John Bemrose
Havoc, in its Third Year / Ronan Bennett
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell / Susanna Clarke
Always the Sun / Neil Cross
Bitter Fruit / Achmat Dangor
Becoming Strangers / Louise Dean
A Blade of Grass / Lewis Desoto
The Electric Michelangelo / Sarah Hall
Cooking with Fernet Branca / James Hamilton Paterson
The Honeymoon / Justin Haythe
The Great Fire / Shirley Hazzard
Sixty Lights / Gail Jones
Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell
The Unnumbered / Sam North
Snowleg / Nicholas Shakespeare
Cherry / Matt Thorne
The Master / Colm Tóibín
I'll Go to Bed at Noon / Gerard Woodward


2003

Vernon God Little / DBC Pierre (Winner)
Brick Lane / Monica Ali
Yellow Dog / Martin Amis
Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood
Turn Again Home / Carol Birch
Crossing the Lines / Melvyn Bragg
Elizabeth Costello / J.M.Coetzee
The Taxi Driver’s Daughter / Julia Darling
Schopenhauer’s Telescope / Gerard Donovan
The Good Doctor / Damon Galgut
The Romantic / Barbara Gowdy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / Mark Haddon
What Was She Thinking? / Zoë Heller
The Nick of Time / Francis King
Heligoland / Shena Mackay
Astonishing Splashes Of Colour / Clare Morrall
Jazz etc. / John Murray
Something Might Happen / Julie Myerson
Judge Savage / Tim Parks  
A Distant Shore / Caryl Phillips
Waxwings / Jonathan Raban
The Light of Day / Graham Swift
Frankie & Stankie / Barbara Trapido


2002

Life of Pi / Yann Martel (Winner)
The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas / Dannie Abse
Shroud / John Banville
Critical Injuries / Joan Barfoot
Any Human Heart / William Boyd
The Next Big Thing / Anita Brookner
Peacetime / Robert Edric
Spies / Michael Frayn
Still Here / Linda Grant
The Mulberry Empire / Philip Hensher
Who's Sorry Now? / Howard Jacobson
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things / Jon McGregor
Family Matters / Rohinton Mistry
Dorian / Will Self
Unless / Carol Shields
The Autograph Man / Zadie Smith
To The Last City / Colin Thubron
The Story of Lucy Gault / William Trevor
Fingersmith / Sarah Waters
Dirt Music / Tim Winton

2001

True History of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey (Winner)
Atonement / Ian McEwan
Oxygen / Andrew Miller
Number 9 Dream / David Mitchell
The Dark Room / Rachel Seiffert
Hotel World / Ali Smith

2000

The Blind Assasin / Margaret Atwood (Winner)
The Hiding Place / Trezza Azzopardi
The Keepers of the Truth / Michael Collins
When We Were Orphans / Kazuo Ishiguro
English Passengers / Matthew Kneale
The Deposition of Father McGreevy / Brian O'Doherty

1999

Disgrace / J.M. Coetzee (Winner)
Fasting, Feasting / Anita Desai
Headlong / Michael Frayn
Our Fathers / Andrew O'Hagan
The Map of Love / Ahdaf Soueif
The Blackwater Lightship / Colm Tóibín

1998

Amsterdam / Ian McEwan  (Winner)
Master Georgie / Beryl Bainbridge
England, England / Julian Barnes
The Industry of Souls / Martin Booth
Breakfast on Pluto / Patrick McCabe
The Restraint of Beasts / Magnus Mills

1997

The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy (Winner)
The Essence of the Thing / Madeleine St. John
Grace Notes / Bernard MacLaverty
The Underground Man / Mick Jackson
Europa / Tim Parks
Quarantine / Jim Crace

1996

Last Orders / Graham Swift (Winner)
Every Man for Himself / Beryl Bainbridge
Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood
Reading in the Dark / Seamus Deane
A Fine Balance/ Rohinton Mistry
The Orchard on Fire / Shena Mackay

1995

The Ghost Road / Pat Barker (Winner)
In Every Face I Meet / Justin Cartwright
The Moor's Last Sigh / Salman Rushdie
Morality Play / Barry Unsworth
The Riders / Tim Winton
 
 

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Last updated: April 19, 2006