The Booker Prize, judged in England, is awarded to the best novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa, and has been awarded since 1969.
2002 – Yann Martel. Life of Pi
2001 – Peter Carey. True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 — Margaret Atwood. The Blind Assassin
1999 — J.M. Coetzee. Disgrace
1998 — McEwan, Ian. Amsterdam
1997 — Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things
1996 — Swift, Graham. Last Orders
1995 — Barker, Pat. The Ghost Road
1994 — Kelman, James. How Late It Was, How Late
1993 — Doyle, Roddy. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
1992 — Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient
1991 — Okri, Ben. The Famished Road
1990 — Byatt, A. S. Possession
1989 — Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day
1988 — Carey, Peter. Oscar and Lucinda
1987 — Lively, Penelope. Moon Tiger
1986 — Amis, Kingsley. The Old Devils
1985 — Hulme, Keri. The Bone People
1984 — Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac
1983 — Coetzee, J. M. Life and Times of Michael K.
1982 — Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List
1981 — Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children
1980 — Golding, William. Rites of Passage
1979 — Fitzgerald, Penelope. Offshore
1978 — Murdoch, Iris. The Sea, The Sea
1977 — Scott, Paul. Staying On
1976 — Storey, David. Saville
1975 — Jhabvala, Ruth Prawar. Heat and Dust
1974 — Gordimer, Nadine. The Conservationist
1973 — Farrell, J. G. The Siege of
Krishnapur
1972 — Berger, John. G.
1971 — Naipaul, V. S. In a Free State
1970 — Rubens, Bernice. The Elected Member
1969 — Newby, P. H. Something to Answer For