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Best of the Booker - Shortlist (May 2008)
The six shortlisted books, chosen from the list of 41 Booker Prize and Man Booker Prize winners, are: Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995, Viking; paperback Penguin) Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda (1988, Faber & Faber; paperback Faber) JM Coetzee's Disgrace (1999, Secker & Warburg; paperback Vintage) JG Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur (1973, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, paperback Phoenix) Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist (1974, Cape; paperback Bloomsbury) Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981, Cape; paperback Vintage) Best of the Booker - Press Release 2008 Booker Prize - previous years Prize Archive Quick link to the year
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Booker Prize for 2004 |
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The Line of Beauty Winner | Hollinghurst, Alan | |
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I'll Go to Bed at Noon | Woodward, Gerard | |
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The Master | Toibin, Colm | |
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Cloud Atlas | Mitchell, David | |
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Electric Michelangelo, The | Hall, Sarah | |
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Bitter Fruit | Dangor, Achmat | |
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Booker Prize for 2003 |
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Vernon God Little Winner | Pierre, DBC | |
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Brick Lane | Ali, Monica | |
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Oryx and Crake | Atwood, Margaret | |
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Astonishing Splashes of Colour | Morrall, Clare | |
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???? | Heller, Zoe | |
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Good Doctor, The | Galgut, Damon | |
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Booker Prize for 2002 |
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Life of Pi Winner | Martel, Yann | |
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Unless | Shields, Carol | |
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???? | Waters, Sarah | |
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Story of Lucy Gault, The | Trevor, William | |
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???? | Mistry, Rohinton | |
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Dirt Music | Winton, Tim | |
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Booker Prize for 2001 |
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True History of the Kelly Gang Winner | Carey, Peter | |
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???? | McEwan, Ian | |
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Oxygen | Miller, Andrew | |
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???? | Mitchell, David | |
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Dark Room | Seiffert, Rachel | |
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Hotel World | Smith, Ali | |
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Booker Prize for 2000 |
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Blind Assassin, The Winner | Atwood, Margaret | |
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???? | Azzopardi, Trezza | |
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???? | Collins, Michael | |
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???? | Ishiguro, Kazuo | |
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English Passengers | Kneale, Matthew | |
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???? | O'Doherty, Brian | |
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Booker Prize for 1999 |
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Disgrace Winner | Coetzee, J M | |
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???? | Soueif, Adhaf | |
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Fasting, Feasting | Desai, Anita | |
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Headlong | Frayn, Michael | |
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???? | O'Hagan, Andrew | |
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???? | Toibin, Colm | |
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Booker Prize for 1998 |
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???? Winner | McEwan, Ian | |
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Breakfast on Pluto | McCabe, Patrick | |
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???? | Barnes, Julian | |
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Industry of Souls, The | Booth, Martin | |
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Master Georgie | Bainbridge, Beryl | |
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Booker Prize for 1997 |
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God of Small Things, The Winner | Roy, Arundhati | |
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Quarantine | Crace, Jim | |
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Underground Man, The | Jackson, Mick | |
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Grace Notes | MacLaverty, Bernard | |
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Europa | Parks, Tim | |
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???? | St. John, Madeleine | |
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Booker Prize for 1996 |
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Last Orders Winner | Swift, Graham | |
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Alias Grace | Atwood, Margaret | |
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Every Man for Himself | Bainbridge, Beryl | |
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Reading in the Dark | Deane, Seamus | |
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Orchard on Fire, The | Mackay, Shena | |
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???? | Mistry, Rohinton | |
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Booker Prize for 1995 |
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Ghost Road, The Winner | Barker, Pat | |
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In Every Face I Meet | Cartwright, Justin | |
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Moor's Last Sigh, The | Rushdie, Salman | |
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Morality Play | Unsworth, Barry | |
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Riders, The | Winton, Tim | |
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Booker Prize for 1994 |
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How Late it Was, How Late Winner | Kelman, James | |
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Reef | Gunesekera, Romesh | |
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???? | Gurnah, Abdulrazak | |
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Folding Star, The | Hollinghurst, Alan | |
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???? | Brown, George Mackay | |
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Knowledge of Angels | Walsh, Jill Paton | |
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Booker Prize for 1993 |
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Winner | Doyle, Roddy | |
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Under the Frog | Fischer, Tibor | |
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???? | Ignatieff, Michael | |
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Remembering Babylon | Malouf, David | |
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???? | Phillips, Caryl | |
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Stone Diaries, The | Shields, Carol | |
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Booker Prize for 1992 |
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???? Winner | Ondaatje, Michael | |
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???? Winner | Unsworth, Barry | |
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???? | Hope, Christopher | |
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Butcher Boy | McCabe, Patrick | |
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Black Dogs | McEwan, Ian | |
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Daughters of the House | Roberts, Michele | |
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Booker Prize for 1991 |
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Famished Road, The Winner | Okri, Ben | |
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Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence | Amis, Martin | |
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???? | Doyle, Roddy | |
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???? | Mistry, Rohinton | |
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Redundancy of Courage, The | Mo, Timothy | |
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Reading Turgenev | Trevor, William | |
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Booker Prize for 1990 |
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Possession: A Romance Winner | Byatt, A S | |
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???? | Bainbridge, Beryl | |
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Gate of Angels, The | Fitzgerald, Penelope | |
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Amongst Women | McGahern, John | |
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Lies of Silence | Moore, Brian | |
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Solomon Gursky Was Here | Richler, Mordecai | |
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Booker Prize for 1989 |
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???? Winner | Ishiguro, Kazuo | |
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Cat's Eye | Atwood, Margaret | |
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Book of Evidence, The | Banville, John | |
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Wolfmother | Bedford, Sybille | |
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???? | Tremain, Rose | |
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Booker Prize for 1988 |
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Oscar and Lucinda Winner | Carey, Peter | |
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Utz | Chatwin, Bruce | |
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Beginning of Spring, The | Fitzgerald, Penelope | |
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Nice Work | Lodge, David | |
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Satanic Verses, The | Rushdie, Salman | |
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Lost Father, The | Warner, Marina | |
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Booker Prize for 1987 |
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Moon Tiger Winner | Lively, Penelope | |
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Anthills of the Savannah | Achebe, Chinua | |
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???? | Ackroyd, Peter | |
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???? | Bawden, Nina | |
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???? | Moore, Brian | |
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Book and the Brotherhood, The | Murdoch, Iris | |
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Booker Prize for 1986 |
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???? Winner | Amis, Kingsley | |
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Handmaid's Tale, The | Atwood, Margaret | |
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???? | Bailey, Paul | |
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Whats Bred in the Bone | Davies, Robertson | |
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Artist of the Floating World, An | Ishiguro, Kazuo | |
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???? | Mo, Timothy | |
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Booker Prize for 1985 |
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???? Winner | Hulme, Keri | |
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???? | Carey, Peter | |
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Battle of Pollocks Crossing, The | Carr, J L | |
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???? | Lessing, Doris | |
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Wolfmother | Morris, Jan | |
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???? | Murdoch, Iris | |
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Booker Prize for 1984 |
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Hotel du Lac Winner | Brookner, Anita | |
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???? | Ballard, J G | |
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Flaubert's Parrot | Barnes, Julian | |
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???? | Desai, Anita | |
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According to Mark | Lively, Penelope | |
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Small World: An Academic Romance | Lodge, David | |
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Booker Prize for 1983 |
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Wolfmother Winner | Coetzee, J M | |
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???? | Bradbury, Malcolm | |
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???? | Fuller, John | |
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???? | Mason, Anita | |
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Shame | Rushdie, Salman | |
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Waterland | Swift, Graham | |
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