In the name of easy-to-browse things, here’s another list. I quite like those.
These are all the titles that won the Booker Prize in chronological order, to which I’ll add links as I finish and review the books.
I don’t think I’ll be reading more than one or two of these titles every month, but ideally I’d like to proceed in chronological order. I guess we’ll see if that really happens.
If you’re wondering why on earth would I do this to myself, here’s the short version: I want to read outside of my comfort zone, I want to read some backlist titles, and I need a place to start. A fifty-year-old literary prize? Sounds good enough to me.
1969 – P. H. Newby – Something to Answer For
1970 – Bernice Rubens – The Elected Member
1970 – J. G. Farrell – Troubles
1971 – V. S. Naipaul – In a Free State
1972 – John Berger – G.
1973 – J. G. Farrell – The Siege of Krishnapur
1974 – Nadine Gordimer – The Conservationist
1974 – Stanley Middleton – Holiday
1975 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – Heat and Dust
1976 – David Storey – Saville
1977 – Paul Scott – Staying On
1978 – Iris Murdoch – The Sea, the Sea
1979 – Penelope Fitzgerald – Offshore
1980 – William Golding – Rites of Passage
1981 – Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
1982 – Thomas Keneally – Schindler’s Ark
1983 – J. M. Coetzee – Life & Times of Michael K
1984 – Anita Brookner – Hotel du Lac
1985 – Keri Hulme – The Bone People
1986 – Kingsley Amis – The Old Devils
1987 – Penelope Lively – Moon Tiger
1988 – Peter Carey – Oscar and Lucinda
1989 – Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
1990 – A. S. Byatt – Possession: A Romance
1991 – Ben Okri – The Famished Road
1992 – Michael Ondaatjie – The English Patient
1992 – Barry Unsworth – Sacred Hunger
1993 – Roddy Doyle – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994 – James Kelman – How late it was, how late
1995 – Pat Barker – The Ghost Road
1996 – Graham Swift – Last Orders
1997 – Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
1998 – Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
1999 – J. M. Coetzee – Disgrace
2000 – Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
2001 – Peter Carey – True History of the Kelly Gang
2002 – Yann Martel – Life of Pi
2003 – DBC Pierre – Vernon God Little
2004 – Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty
2005 – John Banville – The Sea
2006 – Kiran Desai – The Inheritance of Loss
2007 – Anne Enright – The Gathering
2008 – Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
2009 – Hilary Mantel – Wolf Hall
2010 – Howard Jacobson – The Finkler Question
2011 – Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending
2012 – Hilary Mantel – Bring Up the Bodies
2013 – Eleanor Catton – The Luminaries
2014 – Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2015 – Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings
2016 – Paul Beatty – The Sellout
2017 – George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo
2018 – Anna Burns – Milkman
2019 – Margaret Atwood – The Testaments
2019 – Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
2020 – Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain
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