The Complete Booker List

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Keeping track of my Complete Booker project... The books in bold are the ones I've already read. The ones hyperlinked are those I've read since I started this blog.

See here for a list of Booker Prize winners and shortlisted books till 2007.

2008 - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

2007 - The Gathering by Anne Enright

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

1992 - Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

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 Ark 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

1974 - Holiday by Stanley Middleton

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

Comments

Ian said…
I've read them all. my favourites were The White Tiger, Life of Pi, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Famished Road, Hotel Du Lac, Midnight's Children, Possession, The Remains of the Day, and The Siege of Krishnapur. The ones I didn't like much were Amsterdam, Moon Tiger, How Late It Was, How Late, The Old Devils, Holiday and The Bone People.

I've also read a lot of the shotlisted books, which are often better than the winner.

Anyway, see what you think.
April 7, 2009 at 8:54 PM
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