There have been three special awards celebrating the Booker's history. In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating 50 years of the award; this was won by Michael Ondaatje for The English Patient.
| Year | Award | Author | Title | Publisher | Judges |
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| 1969 | Winner | | Something to Answer For | Faber & Faber |
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| Shortlist | | Figures in a Landscape | Jonathan Cape |
| Impossible Object | Hodder & Stoughton |
| The Nice and the Good | Chatto & Windus |
| The Public Image | Macmillan |
| From Scenes Like These | Secker & Warburg |
| 1970 | Winner | | The Elected Member | Eyre & Spottiswoode |
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| Shortlist | | John Brown's Body | Hogarth |
| Eva Trout | Jonathan Cape |
| Bruno's Dream | Chatto & Windus |
| Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel | Bodley Head |
| The Conjunction | Angus & Robertson |
| 1970*[1] | Winner | | Troubles | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
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| Shortlist | | The Birds on the Trees | Virago |
| The Bay of Noon | Macmillan |
| Fire From Heaven | Longman |
| The Driver's Seat | Macmillan |
| The Vivisector | Jonathan Cape |
| Longlist[2] | | The Hand Reared Boy | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| A Little of What You Fancy? | Michael Joseph |
| A Place in England | Secker & Warburg |
| Down All the Days | Secker & Warburg |
| Bomber | Jonathan Cape |
| The Circle | Hutchinson |
| A Clubbable Woman | HarperCollins |
| I'm the King of the Castle | Hamish Hamilton |
| A Domestic Animal | Longman |
| The Fire Dwellers | Macmillan |
| Out of the Shelter | Macmillan |
| A Fairly Honourable Defeat | Chatto & Windus |
| Fireflies | André Deutsch |
| Master and Commander | Collins |
| Head To Toe | Methuen |
| A Guilty Thing Surprised | Hutchinson |
| 1971 | Winner | | In a Free State | Deutsch |
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| Shortlist | | The Big Chapel | Faber & Faber |
| Briefing for a Descent into Hell | Jonathan Cape |
| St. Urbain's Horseman | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Goshawk Squadron | Heinemann |
| Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | Chatto & Windus |
| 1972 | Winner | | G. | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
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| Shortlist | | The Bird of Night | Hamish Hamilton |
| The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Angus & Robertson |
| Pasmore | Longman |
| 1973 | Winner | | The Siege of Krishnapur | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
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| Shortlist | | The Dressmaker | Duckworth |
| A Green Equinox | Michael Joseph |
| The Black Prince | Chatto & Windus |
| 1974 | Winners | | The Conservationist | Jonathan Cape |
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| Holiday | Hutchinson |
| Shortlist | | Ending Up | Jonathan Cape |
| The Bottle Factory Outing | Duckworth |
| In Their Wisdom | Macmillan |
| 1975 | Winner | | Heat and Dust | John Murray |
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| Shortlist | | Gossip from the Forest | Collins |
| 1976 | Winner | | Saville | Jonathan Cape |
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| Shortlist | | An Instant in the Wind | W. H. Allen |
| Rising | Michael Joseph |
| The Doctor's Wife | Jonathan Cape |
| King Fisher Lives | Michael Joseph |
| The Children of Dynmouth | Bodley Head |
| 1977 | Winner | | Staying On | Heinemann |
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| Shortlist | | Peter Smart's Confessions | Jonathan Cape |
| Great Granny Webster | Duckworth |
| Shadows on our Skin | Hamish Hamilton |
| The Road to Lichfield | Heinemann |
| Quartet in Autumn | Macmillan |
| 1978 | Winner | | The Sea, the Sea | Chatto & Windus |
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| Shortlist | | Jake's Thing | Hutchinson |
| André Brink | Rumours of Rain | W. H. Allen |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The Bookshop | Duckworth |
| Jane Gardam | God on the Rocks | Hamish Hamilton |
| A Five-Year Sentence | W. H. Allen |
| 1979 | Winner | | Offshore | Collins |
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| Shortlist | | Confederates | Collins |
| A Bend in the River | Deutsch |
| Julian Rathbone | Joseph | Michael Joseph |
| Fay Weldon | Praxis | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 1980 | Winner | | Rites of Passage | Faber & Faber |
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| Shortlist | | Earthly Powers | Hutchinson |
| J. L. Carr | A Month in the Country | Harvester |
| Anita Desai | Clear Light of Day | Heinemann |
| Alice Munro | The Beggar Maid | Viking |
| Julia O'Faolain | No Country for Young Men | Viking |
| Barry Unsworth | Pascali's Island | Michael Joseph |
| 1981 | Winner | | Midnight's Children | Jonathan Cape |
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| Shortlist | | Good Behaviour | Deutsch |
| The Sirian Experiments | Jonathan Cape |
| Ian McEwan | The Comfort of Strangers | Jonathan Cape |
| Ann Schlee | Rhine Journey | Macmillan |
| Muriel Spark | Loitering with Intent | Bodley Head |
| D. M. Thomas | The White Hotel | Gollancz |
| 1982 | Winner | | Schindler's Ark | Hodder & Stoughton |
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| Shortlist | | Silence Among the Weapons | Methuen |
| William Boyd | An Ice-Cream War | Hamish Hamilton |
| Lawrence Durrell | Constance or Solitary Practices | Faber & Faber |
| Alice Thomas Ellis | The 27th Kingdom | Duckworth |
| Timothy Mo | Sour Sweet | Deutsch |
| 1983 | Winner | | Life & Times of Michael K | Secker & Warburg |
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| Shortlist | | Rates of Exchange | Secker & Warburg |
| John Fuller | Flying to Nowhere | Salamander |
| Anita Mason | The Illusionist | Hamish Hamilton |
| Salman Rushdie | Shame | Jonathan Cape |
| Graham Swift | Waterland | Heinemann |
| 1984 | Winner | | Hotel du Lac | Jonathan Cape |
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| Shortlist | | Empire of the Sun | Gollancz |
| Julian Barnes | Flaubert's Parrot | Jonathan Cape |
| Anita Desai | In Custody | Heinemann |
| Penelope Lively | According to Mark | Heinemann |
| David Lodge | Small World | Secker & Warburg |
| 1985 | Winner[3] | | The Bone People | Hodder & Stoughton |
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| Shortlist | | Illywhacker | Faber & Faber |
| J. L. Carr | The Battle of Pollocks Crossing | Viking |
| The Good Terrorist | Jonathan Cape |
| Jan Morris | Last Letters from Hav | Viking |
| Iris Murdoch | The Good Apprentice | Chatto & Windus |
| 1986 | Winner | | The Old Devils | Hutchinson |
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| Shortlist | | The Handmaid's Tale | Jonathan Cape |
| Paul Bailey | Gabriel's Lament | Jonathan Cape |
| Robertson Davies | What's Bred in the Bone | Viking |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | An Artist of the Floating World | Faber & Faber |
| Timothy Mo | An Insular Possession | Chatto & Windus |
| 1987 | Winner | | Moon Tiger | Deutsch |
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| Shortlist | | Anthills of the Savannah | Heinemann |
| Peter Ackroyd | Chatterton | Hamish Hamilton |
| Circles of Deceit | Macmillan |
| Brian Moore | The Colour of Blood | Jonathan Cape |
| Iris Murdoch | The Book and the Brotherhood | Chatto & Windus |
| 1988 | Winner | | Oscar and Lucinda | Faber & Faber |
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| Shortlist | | Utz | Jonathan Cape |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The Beginning of Spring | Collins |
| David Lodge | Nice Work | Secker & Warburg |
| Salman Rushdie | The Satanic Verses | Viking |
| Marina Warner | The Lost Father | Chatto & Windus |
| 1989 | Winner | | The Remains of the Day | Faber & Faber |
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| Shortlist | | Cat's Eye | Bloomsbury |
| John Banville | The Book of Evidence | Secker & Warburg |
| Sybille Bedford | Jigsaw | Hamish Hamilton |
| James Kelman | A Disaffection | Secker & Warburg |
| Rose Tremain | Restoration | Hamish Hamilton |
| 1990 | Winner | | | Chatto & Windus |
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| Shortlist | | An Awfully Big Adventure | Duckworth |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The Gate of Angels | Collins |
| John McGahern | Amongst Women | Faber & Faber |
| Brian Moore | Lies of Silence | Bloomsbury |
| Solomon Gursky Was Here | Chatto & Windus |
| 1991 | Winner | | The Famished Road | Jonathan Cape |
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| Shortlist | | Time's Arrow | Jonathan Cape |
| Roddy Doyle | The Van | Secker & Warburg |
| Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey | Faber & Faber |
| Timothy Mo | The Redundancy of Courage | Chatto & Windus |
| Reading Turgenev[4] | Viking |
| 1992 | Winners | | The English Patient | Bloomsbury |
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| Barry Unsworth | Sacred Hunger | Hamish Hamilton |
| Shortlist | Christopher Hope | Serenity House | Macmillan |
| Patrick McCabe | The Butcher Boy | Picador |
| Ian McEwan | Black Dogs | Jonathan Cape |
| Michèle Roberts | Daughters of the House | Virago |
| 1993 | Winner | | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Secker & Warburg |
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| Shortlist | Tibor Fischer | Under the Frog | Polygon |
| Michael Ignatieff | Scar Tissue | Chatto & Windus |
| David Malouf | Remembering Babylon | Chatto & Windus |
| Caryl Phillips | Crossing the River | Bloomsbury |
| Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries | 4th Estate |
| 1994 | Winner | | How Late It Was, How Late | Secker & Warburg |
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| Shortlist | Romesh Gunesekera | Reef | Granta Books |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | Paradise | Hamish Hamilton |
| Alan Hollinghurst | The Folding Star | Chatto & Windus |
| George Mackay Brown | Beside the Ocean of Time | John Murray |
| Jill Paton Walsh | Knowledge of Angels | Green Bay |
| 1995 | Winner | | The Ghost Road | Viking |
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| Shortlist | Justin Cartwright | In Every Face I Meet | Sceptre |
| Salman Rushdie | The Moor's Last Sigh | Jonathan Cape |
| Barry Unsworth | Morality Play | Hamish Hamilton |
| Tim Winton | The Riders | Picador |
| 1996 | Winner | | Last Orders | Picador |
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| Shortlist | | Alias Grace | Bloomsbury |
| Beryl Bainbridge | Every Man for Himself | Duckworth |
| Seamus Deane | Reading in the Dark | Jonathan Cape |
| Shena Mackay | The Orchard on Fire | Heinemann |
| Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | Faber & Faber |
| 1997 | Winner | | The God of Small Things | Flamingo |
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| Shortlist | | Quarantine | Viking |
| Mick Jackson | The Underground Man | Picador |
| Bernard MacLaverty | Grace Notes | Jonathan Cape |
| Tim Parks | Europa | Secker & Warburg |
| Madeleine St John | The Essence of the Thing | 4th Estate |
| 1998 | Winner | | Amsterdam | Jonathan Cape |
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| Shortlist | | Master Georgie | Duckworth |
| Julian Barnes | England, England | Jonathan Cape |
| Martin Booth | The Industry of Souls | Dewi Lewis |
| Patrick McCabe | Breakfast on Pluto | Picador |
| Magnus Mills | The Restraint of Beasts | Flamingo |
| 1999 | Winner | | Disgrace | Secker & Warburg |
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| Shortlist | | Fasting, Feasting | Chatto & Windus |
| Michael Frayn | Headlong | Faber & Faber |
| Andrew O'Hagan | Our Fathers | Faber & Faber |
| Ahdaf Soueif | The Map of Love | Bloomsbury |
| Colm Tóibín | The Blackwater Lightship | Picador |
| 2000 | Winner | | The Blind Assassin | Bloomsbury |
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| Shortlist | | The Hiding Place | Picador |
| Michael Collins | The Keepers of Truth | Phoenix House |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | When We Were Orphans | Faber & Faber |
| Matthew Kneale | English Passengers | Hamish Hamilton |
| Brian O'Doherty | The Deposition of Father McGreevy | Arcadia |
| 2001[6] | Winner | | True History of the Kelly Gang | Faber & Faber |
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| Shortlist | | Atonement | Jonathan Cape |
| Andrew Miller | Oxygen | Sceptre |
| David Mitchell | number9dream | Sceptre |
| Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | William Heinemann |
| Ali Smith | Hotel World | Hamish Hamilton |
| Longlist | Beryl Bainbridge | According to Queeney | Duckworth |
| Derek Beaven | If The Invader Comes | 4th Estate |
| Melvyn Bragg | A Son of War | Sceptre |
| Ciaran Carson | Shamrock Tea | Granta Books |
| Stevie Davies | The Element of Water | The Women's Press |
| Nadine Gordimer | The Pickup | Bloomsbury |
| Patricia Grace | Dogside Story | The Women's Press |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | By The Sea | Bloomsbury |
| Nick Hornby | How to Be Good | Viking |
| Zvi Jagendorf | Wolfy and the Strudelbakers | Dewi Lewis |
| James Kelman | Translated Accounts | Secker & Warburg |
| Eoin McNamee | The Blue Tango | Faber & Faber |
| Ferdinand Mount | Fairness | Chatto & Windus |
| VS Naipaul | Half a Life | Picador |
| Philip Pullman | The Amber Spyglass | Scholastic |
| Manil Suri | The Death of Vishnu | Bloomsbury |
| Jane Urquhart | The Stone Carvers | Bloomsbury |
| Marina Warner | The Leto Bundle | Chatto & Windus |
| 2002[7] | Winner | | Life of Pi | Canongate |
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| Shortlist | | Family Matters | Faber & Faber |
| Carol Shields | Unless | 4th Estate |
| William Trevor | The Story of Lucy Gault | Viking |
| Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | Virago |
| Tim Winton | Dirt Music | Picador |
| Longlist | Dannie Abse | The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass | Robson Books |
| John Banville | Shroud | Picador |
| Joan Barfoot | Critical Injuries | The Women's Press |
| William Boyd | Any Human Heart | Hamish Hamilton |
| Anita Brookner | The Next Big Thing | Viking |
| Robert Edric | Peacetime | Black Swan |
| Michael Frayn | Spies | Faber & Faber |
| Linda Grant | Still Here | Little Brown |
| Philip Hensher | The Mulberry Empire | Flamingo |
| Howard Jacobson | Who’s Sorry Now? | Cape |
| Jon McGregor | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things | 4th Estate |
| Will Self | Dorian, an Imitation | Viking |
| Zadie Smith | The Autograph Man | Hamish Hamilton |
| Colin Thubron | To the Last City | Chatto & Windus |
| 2003[8] | Winner | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | Faber & Faber |
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| Shortlist | | Brick Lane | Doubleday |
| Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake | Bloomsbury |
| Damon Galgut | The Good Doctor | Atlantic Books |
| Zoë Heller | Notes on a Scandal | Viking |
| Clare Morrall | Astonishing Splashes of Colour | Tindal Street Press |
| Longlist | Martin Amis | Yellow Dog | Cape |
| Carol Birch | Turn Again Home | Virago |
| Melvyn Bragg | Crossing the Lines | Sceptre |
| J. M. Coetzee | Elizabeth Costello | Harvill Secker |
| Julia Darling | The Taxi Driver’s Daughter | Penguin |
| Gerard Donovan | Schopenhauer’s Telescope | Scribner |
| Barbara Gowdy | The Romantic | Harper Perennial |
| Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Doubleday |
| Francis King | The Nick of Time | Arcadia |
| Shena Mackay | Heligoland | Cape |
| John Murray | Jazz etc. | Flambard Press |
| Julie Myerson | Something Might Happen | Cape |
| Tim Parks | Judge Savage | Secker & Warburg |
| Caryl Phillips | A Distant Shore | Secker & Warburg |
| Jonathan Raban | Waxwings | Picador |
| Graham Swift | The Light of Day | Simon & Schuster |
| Barbara Trapido | Frankie & Stankie | Bloomsbury |
| 2004[9] | Winner | | The Line of Beauty | Picador |
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| Shortlist | Achmat Dangor | Bitter Fruit | Atlantic |
| Sarah Hall | The Electric Michelangelo | Faber & Faber |
| David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | Sceptre |
| Colm Tóibín | The Master | Picador |
| Gerard Woodward | I'll Go to Bed at Noon | Chatto & Windus |
| Longlist | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Purple Hibiscus | 4th Estate |
| Nadeem Aslam | Maps for Lost Lovers | Faber & Faber |
| Nicola Barker | Clear: A Transparent Novel | 4th Estate |
| John Bemrose | The Island Walkers | John Murray |
| Ronan Bennett | Havoc, in Its Third Year | Bloomsbury |
| Susanna Clarke | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Bloomsbury |
| Neil Cross | Always the Sun | Scribner |
| Louise Dean | Becoming Strangers | Scribner |
| Lewis Desoto | A Blade of Grass | Maia |
| James Hamilton-Paterson | Cooking with Fernet Branca | Faber & Faber |
| Justin Haythe | The Honeymoon | Picador |
| Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire | Virago |
| Gail Jones | Sixty Lights | Harvill |
| Sam North | The Unnumbered | Scribner |
| Nicholas Shakespeare | Snowleg | Harvill |
| Matt Thorne | Cherry | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| 2005[10] | Winner | | The Sea | Picador |
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| Shortlist | | Arthur & George | Jonathan Cape |
| Sebastian Barry | A Long Long Way | Faber & Faber |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | Faber & Faber |
| Ali Smith | The Accidental | Hamish Hamilton |
| Zadie Smith | On Beauty | Hamish Hamilton |
| Longlist | Tash Aw | The Harmony Silk Factory | 4th Estate |
| J. M. Coetzee | Slow Man | Secker & Warburg |
| Rachel Cusk | In the Fold | Faber & Faber |
| Dan Jacobson | All For Love | Hamish Hamilton |
| Marina Lewycka | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Viking |
| Hilary Mantel | Beyond Black | 4th Estate |
| Ian McEwan | Saturday | Jonathan Cape |
| James Meek | The People’s Act of Love | Canongate |
| Salman Rushdie | Shalimar the Clown | Jonathan Cape |
| Harry Thompson | This Thing of Darkness | Headline Review |
| William Wall | This Is The Country | Sceptre |
| 2006[11] | Winner | | The Inheritance of Loss | Hamish Hamilton |
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| Shortlist | Kate Grenville | The Secret River | Canongate |
| M. J. Hyland | Carry Me Down | Canongate |
| Hisham Matar | In the Country of Men | Viking |
| Edward St Aubyn | Mother's Milk | Picador |
| Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | Virago |
| Longlist | Peter Carey | | Faber & Faber |
| Robert Edric | Gathering the Water | Black Swan |
| Nadine Gordimer | Get A Life | Bloomsbury |
| Howard Jacobson | Kalooki Nights | Jonathan Cape |
| James Lasdun | Seven Lies | Jonathan Cape |
| Mary Lawson | The Other Side of the Bridge | Chatto & Windus |
| Jon McGregor | So Many Ways to Begin | Bloomsbury |
| Claire Messud | The Emperor’s Children | Picador |
| David Mitchell | Black Swan Green | Sceptre |
| Naeem Murr | The Perfect Man | William Heinemann |
| Andrew O’Hagan | Be Near Me | Faber & Faber |
| James Robertson | The Testament of Gideon Mack | Hamish Hamilton |
| Barry Unsworth | The Ruby in Her Navel | Hamish Hamilton |
| 2007[12] | Winner | | The Gathering | Jonathan Cape |
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| Shortlist | | Darkmans | 4th Estate |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Hamish Hamilton |
| Mister Pip | John Murray |
| On Chesil Beach | Jonathan Cape |
| Animal's People | Simon & Schuster |
| Longlist | Edward Docx | Self Help | Picador |
| Peter Ho Davies | The Welsh Girl | Sceptre |
| Nikita Lalwani | Gifted | Penguin |
| Catherine O'Flynn | What Was Lost | Tindal Street Press |
| Michael Redhill | Consolation | William Heinemann |
| Tan Twan Eng | The Gift of Rain | Myrmidon |
| A. N. Wilson | Winnie & Wolf | Hutchinson |
| 2008[13] | Winner | | The White Tiger | Atlantic |
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| Shortlist | | The Secret Scripture | Faber & Faber |
| Sea of Poppies | John Murray |
| The Clothes on Their Backs | Virago |
| The Northern Clemency | 4th Estate |
| A Fraction of the Whole | Hamish Hamilton |
| Longlist | Gaynor Arnold | Girl in a Blue Dress | Tindal Street Press |
| John Berger | From A to X | Verso |
| Michelle de Kretser | The Lost Dog | Chatto & Windus |
| Mohammed Hanif | A Case of Exploding Mangoes | Jonathan Cape |
| Joseph O'Neil | Netherland | 4th Estate |
| Salman Rushdie | The Enchantress of Florence | Jonathan Cape |
| Tom Rob Smith | Child 44 | Simon & Schuster |
| 2009[14] | Winner | | Wolf Hall | 4th Estate |
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| Shortlist | | The Children's Book | Chatto and Windus |
| Summertime | Harvill Secker |
| The Quickening Maze | Jonathan Cape |
| The Glass Room | Little, Brown |
| The Little Stranger | Virago |
| Longlist | Sarah Hall | How to Paint a Dead Man | Faber |
| Samantha Harvey | The Wilderness | Jonathan Cape |
| James Lever | Me Cheeta | 4th Estate |
| Ed O’Loughlin | Not Untrue & Not Unkind | Penguin |
| James Scudamore | Heliopolis | Harvill Secker |
| Colm Tóibín | Brooklyn | Viking |
| William Trevor | Love and Summer | Viking |
| 2010[15] | Winner | | The Finkler Question | Bloomsbury |
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| Shortlist | | Parrot and Olivier in America | Faber & Faber |
| Room | Picador |
| In a Strange Room | Atlantic Books |
| The Long Song | Hachette |
| C | Jonathan Cape |
| Longlist | Helen Dunmore | The Betrayal | Fig Tree |
| David Mitchell | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | Sceptre |
| Lisa Moore | February | Random House |
| Paul Murray | Skippy Dies | Hamish Hamilton |
| Rose Tremain | Trespass | Chatto & Windus |
| Christos Tsiolkas | The Slap | Allen & Unwin |
| Alan Warner | The Stars in the Bright Sky | Jonathan Cape |
| 2011[16] | Winner | | The Sense of an Ending | Jonathan Cape |
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| Shortlist | | Jamrach's Menagerie | Canongate |
| The Sisters Brothers | Granta Books |
| Half-Blood Blues | Serpent's Tail |
| Pigeon English | Bloomsbury |
| Snowdrops | Atlantic Books |
| Longlist | Sebastian Barry | On Canaan’s Side | Faber & Faber |
| Yvvette Edwards | A Cupboard Full of Coats | Oneworld |
| Alan Hollinghurst | The Stranger’s Child | Picador |
| Patrick McGuinness | The Last Hundred Days | Seren |
| Alison Pick | Far to Go | Tinder Press |
| Jane Rogers | The Testament of Jessie Lamb | Canongate |
| D. J. Taylor | Derby Day | Chatto & Windus |
| 2012[17] | Winner | | Bring Up the Bodies | 4th Estate |
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| Shortlist | | Swimming Home | And Other Stories/Faber & Faber |
| The Lighthouse | Salt Publishing |
| Umbrella | Bloomsbury |
| The Garden of Evening Mists | Myrmidon Books |
| Narcopolis | Faber & Faber |
| Longlist | Nicola Barker | The Yips | 4th Estate |
| Ned Beauman | The Teleportation Accident | Sceptre |
| André Brink | Philida | Harvill Secker |
| Michael Frayn | Skios | Faber & Faber |
| Rachel Joyce | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Doubleday |
| Sam Thompson | Communion Town | 4th Estate |
| 2013[18] | Winner | | The Luminaries | Granta |
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| Shortlist | NoViolet Bulawayo | We Need New Names | Chatto & Windus |
| Harvest | Picador |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland | Bloomsbury |
| Ruth Ozeki | A Tale for the Time Being | Canongate |
| Colm Tóibín | The Testament of Mary | Viking |
| Longlist | Tash Aw | Five Star Billionaire | 4th Estate |
| Eve Harris | The Marrying of Chani Kaufman | Sandstone Press |
| Richard House | The Kills | Picador |
| Alison MacLeod | Unexploded | Hamish Hamilton |
| Colum McCann | TransAtlantic | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Charlotte Mendelson | Almost English | Mantle |
| Donal Ryan | The Spinning Heart | Doubleday |
| 2014[19] | Winner | | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Chatto & Windus |
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| Shortlist | Joshua Ferris | To Rise Again at a Decent Hour | Viking |
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Serpent's Tail |
| Howard Jacobson | J | Jonathan Cape |
| Neel Mukherjee | The Lives of Others | Chatto & Windus |
| Ali Smith | How to Be Both | Hamish Hamilton |
| Longlist | Siri Hustvedt | The Blazing World | Sceptre Press |
| Paul Kingsnorth | The Wake | Unbound |
| David Mitchell | The Bone Clocks | Sceptre Press |
| David Nicholls | Us | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Joseph O’Neill | The Dog | 4th Estate |
| Richard Powers | Orfeo | Atlantic Books |
| Niall Williams | History of the Rain | Bloomsbury |
| 2015 | Winner | | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Oneworld Publications |
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| Shortlist[20] | Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | Jonathan Cape |
| Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | One |
| Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | Picador |
| Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | Chatto & Windus |
| Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life | Picador |
| Longlist | Bill Clegg | Did You Ever Have a Family | Gallery/Scout |
| Anne Enright | The Green Road | Jonathan Cape |
| Laila Lalami | The Moor’s Account | Bloomsbury |
| Andrew O’Hagan | The Illuminations | Faber & Faber |
| Marilynne Robinson | Lila | Virago |
| Anuradha Roy | Sleeping on Jupiter | Maclehose Press |
| Anna Smaill | The Chimes | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2016[21] | Winner | | The Sellout | Oneworld |
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| Shortlist | | Hot Milk | Hamish Hamilton |
| His Bloody Project | Contraband |
| Eileen | Jonathan Cape |
| All That Man Is | Jonathan Cape |
| Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Granta |
| Longlist | J. M. Coetzee | The Schooldays of Jesus | Harvill Secker |
| A.L. Kennedy | Serious Sweet | Jonathan Cape |
| Ian McGuire | The North Water | Scribner |
| David Means | Hystopia | Faber & Faber |
| Wyl Menmuir | The Many | Salt |
| Virginia Reeves | Work Like Any Other | Fanfare |
| Elizabeth Strout | My Name Is Lucy Barton | Viking |
| 2017 | Winner | | Lincoln in the Bardo | Bloomsbury |
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| Shortlist[22] | | 4 3 2 1 | Faber & Faber |
| History of Wolves | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Exit West | Hamish Hamilton |
| Elmet | John Murray |
| Autumn | Hamish Hamilton |
| Longlist | Sebastian Barry | Days Without End | Faber & Faber |
| Mike McCormack | Solar Bones | Canongate |
| Jon McGregor | Reservoir 13 | 4th Estate |
| Arundhati Roy | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Hamish Hamilton |
| Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire | Bloomsbury |
| Zadie Smith | Swing Time | Hamish Hamilton |
| Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | Fleet Publishing |
| 2018 | Winner | | Milkman | Faber & Faber |
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| Shortlist[23] | Esi Edugyan | Washington Black | Serpent's Tail |
| Daisy Johnson | Everything Under | Jonathan Cape |
| Rachel Kushner | The Mars Room | Jonathan Cape |
| Richard Powers | The Overstory | William Heinemann |
| Robin Robertson | The Long Take | Picador |
| Longlist | Belinda Bauer | Snap | Bantam Press |
| Nick Drnaso | Sabrina | Granta |
| Guy Gunaratne | In Our Mad And Furious City | Tinder Press |
| Sophie Mackintosh | The Water Cure | Hamish Hamilton |
| Michael Ondaatje | Warlight | Jonathan Cape |
| Sally Rooney | Normal People | Faber & Faber |
| Donal Ryan | From a Low and Quiet Sea | Doubleday |
| 2019 | Winners[24] [25] | | The Testaments | Chatto & Windus |
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| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Hamish Hamilton |
| Shortlist[26] | Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | Galley Beggar |
| Chigozie Obioma | An Orchestra of Minorities | Little, Brown |
| Salman Rushdie | Quichotte | Jonathan Cape |
| Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Viking |
| Longlist | Kevin Barry | Night Boat to Tangier | Canongate |
| Oyinkan Braithwaite | My Sister, the Serial Killer | Atlantic Books |
| John Lanchester | The Wall | Faber & Faber |
| Deborah Levy | The Man Who Saw Everything | Hamish Hamilton |
| Valeria Luiselli | Lost Children Archive | 4th Estate |
| Max Porter | Lanny | Faber & Faber |
| Jeanette Winterson | Frankissstein | Jonathan Cape |
| 2020 | Winner | Douglas Stuart | Shuggie Bain | Picador |
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| Shortlist[27] [28] | | The New Wilderness | Oneworld Publications |
| Tsitsi Dangarembga | This Mournable Body | Faber & Faber |
| Avni Doshi | Burnt Sugar | Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House |
| Maaza Mengiste | The Shadow King | Canongate |
| Brandon Taylor | Real Life | Daunt Books |
| Longlist | Gabriel Krauze | Who They Was | |
| Hilary Mantel | The Mirror & the Light[29] | |
| Colum McCann | Apeirogon | Bloomsbury |
| Kiley Reid | Such a Fun Age | Bloomsbury |
| Anne Tyler | Redhead by the Side of the Road | |
| Sophie Ward | Love and Other Thought Experiments | Corsair |
| C Pam Zhang | How Much of These Hills Is Gold | Virago |
| 2021 | Winner[30] | Damon Galgut | The Promise | Chatto & Windus |
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| Shortlist[31] | Anuk Arudpragasam | A Passage North | Granta |
| Patricia Lockwood | No One Is Talking About This | Bloomsbury |
| Nadifa Mohamed | The Fortune Men | Viking |
| Richard Powers | Bewilderment | Hutchinson Heinemann |
| Maggie Shipstead | Great Circle | Doubleday |
| Longlist[32] | Rachel Cusk | Second Place | Faber & Faber |
| Nathan Harris | The Sweetness of Water | Tinder Press |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun | Faber & Faber |
| Karen Jennings | An Island | Holland House Books |
| Mary Lawson | A Town Called Solace | |
| Sunjeev Sahota | China Room | |
| Francis Spufford | Light Perpetual | Faber & Faber |
| 2022 | Winner | Shehan Karunatilaka | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Sort of Books |
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| Shortlist[33] | NoViolet Bulawayo | Glory | |
| Percival Everett | The Trees | Influx Press |
| Alan Garner | Treacle Walker | |
| Claire Keegan | Small Things Like These | Faber & Faber |
| Elizabeth Strout | Oh William! | Viking |
| Longlist[34] | Graeme Macrae Burnet | Case Study | Saraband |
| Hernan Diaz | Trust | Picador |
| Karen Joy Fowler | Booth | Serpent's Tail |
| Audrey Magee | The Colony | Faber & Faber |
| Maddie Mortimer | Maps of our Spectacular Bodies | Picador |
| Leila Mottley | Nightcrawling | Bloomsbury |
| Selby Wynn Schwartz | After Sappho | Galley Beggar |
| Winner[35] | Paul Lynch | Prophet Song | Oneworld Publications |
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| Shortlist[36] | Sarah Bernstein | Study for Obedience | Granta |
| Jonathan Escoffery | If I Survive You | 4th Estate |
| Paul Harding | This Other Eden | Hutchinson Heinemann |
| Paul Murray | The Bee Sting | Hamish Hamilton |
| Chetna Maroo | Western Lane | Picador |
| Longlist[37] | Ayobami Adebayo | A Spell of Good Things | Canongate |
| Sebastian Barry | Old God's Time | Faber & Faber |
| Elaine Feeney | How to Build a Boat | Harvill Secker |
| Siân Hughes | Pearl | Indigo Press |
| Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow | All the Little Bird-Hearts | Tinder Press |
| Martin MacInnes | In Ascension | Atlantic Books |
| Tan Twan Eng | The House of Doors | Canongate |
| 2024 | Longlist[38] | Colin Barrett | Wild Houses | Jonathan Cape |
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| Rita Bullwinkel | Headshot | Daunt Books Originals |
| Percival Everett | James | Mantle |
| Samantha Harvey | Orbital | Jonathan Cape |
| Rachel Kushner | Creation Lake | Jonathan Cape |
| Hisham Matar | My Friends | Viking |
| Claire Messud | This Strange Eventful History | Fleet |
| Anne Michaels | Held | Bloomsbury |
| Tommy Orange | Wandering Stars | Harvill Secker |
| Sarah Perry | Enlightenment | Jonathan Cape |
| Richard Powers | Playground | Hutchinson Heinemann |
| Yael van der Wouden | The Safekeep | Viking |
| Charlotte Wood | Stone Yard Devotional | Sceptre | |
