The Booker nominations and winners 1969-2022 (321 titles)
I've read or listened to these 202
| AUTHOR | TITLE | NOM YEAR | YEAR READ | EVALUATION |
| Iris Murdoch | The Nice and the Good | nom 1969 | 2014 | Riveting |
| Barry England | Figures in a Landscape | nom 1969 | 2020 | Gritty and compelling |
| Nicholas Mosley | Impossible Object | nom 1969 | 2022 | well crafted but unnerving |
| Muriel Spark | The Public Image | nom 1969 | 2023 | enjoyable if not fun |
| William Trevor | TMrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Motel | nom 1970 | 2016 | well written and sad/TD>
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| J. G. Farrell | Troubles | won 1970 (LB) | 2014 | Simply amazing |
| Shirley Hazzard | The Bay of Noon | nom 1970 (LB) | 2010 | A woman falls in love with a city. Beautiful. |
| Muriel Spark | The Driver's Seat | nom 1970 (LB) | 2016 | Unpleasantly strange |
| Nina Bawden | The Birds in the Trees | nom 1970 (LB) | 2022 | half baked |
| Elizabeth Taylor | Mrs Palfry at the Claremont | nom 1971 | 2013 | Compelling look at old age |
| Thomas Kemeally | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | nom 1972 | 2023 | Dark and depressing |
| David Storey | Pasmore | nom 1972 | 2007 | an intense look at one man's dissolution. creepy! |
| J.G. Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur | won 1973 | 2020 | wonderful, wonderful, wonderful |
| Beryl Bainbridge | The Dressmaker | nom 1973 | 2005 | interesting characters, but this book not as good as her later efforts. |
| Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | co-won 1974 | 2014 | depressing and creepy |
| Beryl Bainbridge | The Bottle Factory Outing | nom 1974 | 2005 | wonderfully written, funny and moving |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust | won 1975 | 2011 | Interesting story but with a weak ending. |
| Thomas Keneally | Gossip From the Forest | nom 1975 | 2017 | Interesting story but not a great syle |
| Brian Moore | The Doctor's Wife | nom 1976 | 2005 | sad, but well written and enjoyable |
| Caroline Blackwood | Great Granny Webster | nom 1977 | 2014 | more like a memoir than a novel |
| Barbara Pym | Quartet in Autumn | nom 1977 | 2016 | mildly amusing |
| Penelope Lively | The Road to Lichfield | nom 1977 | 2017 | excellent |
| Iris Murdoch | The Sea, The Sea | won 1978 | 2021 | interesting ideas imbedded in a simple plot |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The Bookshop | nom 1978 | 2007 | short, sad and sweet |
| Jane Gardam | God on the Rocks | nom 1978 | 2012 | An interesting, complicated little jewel |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | Offshore | won 1979 | 2007 | funny and interesting |
| V.S. Naipul | A Bend in the River | nom 1979 | 2008 | interesting but off-putting |
| Fay Weldon | Praxis | nom 1979 | 2013 | angry but engaging |
| Wiliam Golding | Rites of Passage | won 1980 | 2013 | thought provoking |
| J.L. Carr | A Month in the Country | nom 1980 | 2011 | a perfect gem of a book |
| Alice Munro | The Beggar Maid | nom 1980 | 2012 | masterful |
| Barry Unsworth | Pascali's Island | nom 1980 | 2021 | came together at the end |
| Ian McEwan | The Comfort of Strangers | nom 1981 | 2005 | creepy. disturbing. awful. |
| Muriel Spark | Loitering With Intent | nom 1981 | 2005 | barely interesting. too light. |
| D. M. Thomas | The White Hotel | nom 1981 | 2013 | somewhat amazing |
| Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | won 1982 | 2005 | rivetting. A must read. |
| William Boyd | An Ice-Cream War | nom 1982 | 2015 | well written but gory |
| Peter Carey | Illywhacker | nom 1982 | 2008 | Just silly. not worth it |
| Alice Thomas Ellis | The 27th Kingdom | nom 1982 | 2014 | Amusing and Brief |
| J.M Coetzee | Life andTimes of Michael K | won 1983 | 2021 | A beautiful depressing tale |
| Graham Swift | Waterland | nom 1983 | 1990 | pretty good |
| John Fuller | Flying to Nowhere | nom 1983 | 2021 | weird but short |
| Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac | won 1984 | 2003 | enjoyed it |
| Penelope Lively | According to Mark | nom 1984 | 2005 | great characters! |
| J. G. Ballard | Empire of the Sun | nom 1984 | 2005 | almost a young adult book |
| Julian Barnes | Flaubert's Parrot | nom 1984 | 2016 | wickedly amusing |
| David Lodge | Small World | nom 1984 | 2018 | immensely enjoyable |
| Jan Morris | Last Letters from Hav | nom 1985 | 2015 | weak and uninteresting |
| Kinglsey Amis | The Old Devils | won 1986 | 2013 | not bad, not good |
| Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | nom 1986 | 2019 | Well written but extremely depressing |
| Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger | won 1987 | 2004 | Absolutely fascinating. Very well written |
| Bruce Chatwin | Utz | nom 1988 | 2012 | Brief and Enjoyable |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The Beginning of Spring | nom 1988 | 2015 | Delightful |
| David Lodge | Nice Work | nom 1988 | 2019 | Educational and entertaining |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | won 1989 | 2014 | Thoroughly enjoyable |
| A. S. Byatt | Possession | won 1990 | 1991 | loved it |
| Beryl Bainbridge | An Awfully Big Adventure | nom 1990 | 2003 | liked it alot |
| Mordecai Richler | Solomon Gursky was Here | nom 1990 | 2011 | A real mess |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The Gate of Angels | nom 1990 | 2016 | Wonderful |
| Ben Okri | The Famished Road | won 1991 | 2012 | Tough but worth it |
| Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey | won 1991 | 2022 | A wonderfully rtich and rewarding first novel |
| Martin Amis | Time's Arrow | nom 1991 | 1992 | disappointing. His worst, in my opinion |
| Roddy Doyle | The Van | nom 1991 | 2009 | A joy to read |
| Barrt Unsworth | Sacred Hunger | co-won 1992 | 2009 | Liked it alot |
| Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | co-won 1992 | 2010 | a slog |
| Ian McEwan | Black Dogs | nom 1992 | 2014 | short but still too long |
| Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha | won 1993 | 2009 | Disappointing |
| James Kelman | How Late it Was, How Late | won 1994 | 2005 | A wild post-modern ride |
| Pat Barker | The Ghost Road | won 1995 | 2005 | Intense and gut-wrenching |
| Barry Unsworth | Morality Play | nom 1995 | 2005 | A delightful read |
| Salmon Rushdie | The Moor's Last Sigh | nom 1995 | 2013 | more irritating than enjoyable |
| Tim Winton | The Riders | nom 1995 | 2015 | hugely enjoyable but no ending |
| Graham Swift | Last Orders | won 1996 | 2004 | Very Moving |
| Beryl Bainbridge | Every Man For Himself | nom 1996 | 2005 | Very Entertaining |
| Rohinton Mistry | A Fine Balance | nom 1996 | 2016 | Extremely well written |
| Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | won 1997 | 2006 | Brilliant work of art |
| Mick Jackson | The Underground Man | nom 1997 | 2013 | Weird and unsatisfying |
| Tim Parks | Europa | nom 1997 | 2010 | Readable but not edifying |
| Bernard MacLaverty | Grace Notes | nom 1997 | 2010 | very well written and interesting |
| Jim Crace | Quarantine | nom 1997 | 2014 | a somber tale of Christ's 40 days in the desert |
| Ian McEwan | Amsterdam | won 1998 | 2003 | liked it alot |
| Patrick McCabe | Breakfast on Pluto | nom 1998 | 2005 | Painful and Disgusting |
| Magnus Mills | The Restraint of Beasts | nom 1998 | 2008 | Slightly Kafkaesque |
| Julian Barnes | Englnd, England | nom 1998 | 2008 | dissapointing |
| Beryl Bainbridge | Master Georgie | nom 1998 | 2021 | very entertaining |
| J.M Coetzee | Disgrace | won 1999 | 2005 | Well written but depressing |
| Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | won 2000 | 2004 | well written but not to my taste |
| Michael Collins | The Keepers of Truth | nom 2000 | 2003 | liked it very much |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | When We Were Orphans | nom 2000 | 2005 | a disappointment |
| Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | won 2001 | 2004 | Interesting but not great |
| Ian McEwan | Atonement | nom 2001 | 2003 | very much enjoyed it |
| David Mitchell | number9dream | nom 2001 | 2004 | liked it alot |
| Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | nom 2001 | 2011 | stark and compelling |
| Andrew Miller | Oxygen | nom 2001 | 2012 | moderately moving |
| Ali Smith | Hotel World | nom 2001 | 2013 | unexpectedly delightful |
| Yann Martel | Life of Pi | won 2002 | 2004 | Absolutely loved it! |
| Rohinton Mistry | Family Matters | nom 2002 | 2004 | A Dickens like fun read |
| William Trevor | The Story of Lucy Gault | nom 2002 | 2005 | enjoyable. Recalls Thomass Hardy |
| Carol Shields | Unless | nom 2002 | 2005 | well written and very moving |
| Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | nom 2002 | 2010 | a thrilling page turner |
| Tim Winton | Dirt Music | nom 2002 | 2010 | interesting but somber |
| DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little | won 2003 | 2004 | It was somewhat good |
| Zoe Heller | Notes on a Scandal | nom 2003 | 2004 | Well written but repulsive |
| Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake | nom 2003 | 2004 | very well written but severely depressing |
| Monica Ali | Brick Lane | nom 2003 | 2004 | mildly enjoyed it |
| Damon Galgut | The Good Doctor | nom 2003 | 2004 | It was fairly good |
| Clare Morrall | Astonishing Splashes of Colour | nom 2003 | 2005 | I enjoyed it |
| Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | won 2004 | 2005 | Interesting but not great. Very gross |
| David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | nom 2004 | 2004 | It was outstanding! |
| Colm Toibin | The Master | nom 2004 | 2004 | A real snoozer |
| Achmat Dangor | Bitter Fruit | nom 2004 | 2005 | A very good read |
| Gerard Woodward | I'll Go To Bed at Noon | nom 2004 | 2005 | not bad |
| Sarah Hall | The Electric Michaelangelo | nom 2004 | 2005 | interesting writing style |
| John Banville | The Sea | won 2005 | 2005 | well written and short |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | nom 2005 | 2005 | subtly fascinating |
| Zadie Smith | On Beauty | nom 2005 | 2005 | absolutely delightful |
| Sebastian Barry | A Long Long Way | nom 2005 | 2005 | very moving |
| Julian Barnes | Arthur & George | nom 2005 | 2006 | fascinating |
| Ali Smith | The Accidental | nom 2005 | 2006 | a near miss |
| Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | won 2006 | 2006 | unsatisfying |
| Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | nom 2006 | 2006 | interesting |
| Edward St Aubyn | Mother's Milk | nom 2006 | 2006 | very entertaining |
| M.J. Hyland | Carry Me Down | nom 2006 | 2006 | enjoyed it thorougly |
| Kate Grenville | The Secret River | nom 2006 | 2006 | extremely educational |
| Hisham Matar | In the Country of Men | nom 2006 | 2007 | emotionally involving |
| Anne Enright | The Gathering | won 2007 | 2007 | well written but not enlightening |
| Ian McEwan | On Chesil Beach | nom 2007 | 2007 | nasty and short |
| Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip | nom 2007 | 2007 | remarkable achievement |
| Moshim Hamid | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | nom 2007 | 2007 | not especially good |
| Nicola Barker | Darkmans | nom 2007 | 2008 | a wonderful wild ride |
| Indra Sinha | Animal's People | nom 2007 | 2008 | moving |
| Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | won 2008 | 2008 | a strong social indictment |
| Steve Toltz | A Fraction of the Whole | nom 2008 | 2008 | not good |
| Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture | nom 2008 | 2008 | well written and moving |
| Amitav Ghosh | Sea of Poppies | nom 2008 | 2009 | Wonderful |
| Linda Grant | The Clothes on Their Backs | nom 2008 | 2009 | Enjoyable |
| Philip Hensher | The Northern Clemency | nom 2008 | 2009 | Nothing special |
| Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall | won 2009 | 2009 | very educational |
| Sarah Waters | The Little Stranger | nom 2009 | 2009 | Creepy ghost story |
| J. M. Coetzee | Summertime | nom 2009 | 2010 | Pretty good |
| A. S. Byatt | The Children's Book | nom 2009 | 2010 | Wise and Wonderful |
| Simon Mawer | The Glass Room | nom 2009 | 2010 | Almost excellent |
| Adam Foulds | The Quickening Maze | nom 2009 | 2010 | Very sad |
| Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | won 2010 | 2010 | Enjoyable |
| Andrea Levy | The Long Song | nom 2010 | 2010 | Entertaining |
| Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | nom 2010 | 2010 | Mildly Amusing |
| Tom McCarthy | C | nom 2010 | 2010 | Pynchonesque, but not enough so |
| Emma Donoghue | Room | nom 2010 | 2010 | Intense first half |
| Damon Galgut | In a Strange Room | nom 2010 | 2010 | Powerful and absorbing |
| Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | won 2011 | 2011 | Literary and well written |
| Carol Birch | Jamrach's Menagerie | nom 2011 | 2011 | A very good read |
| A.D. Miller | Snowdrops | nom 2011 | 2011 | Quick and OK |
| Stephen Kelman | Pidgeon English | nom 2011 | 2011 | Good book with a bad ending |
| Patrick DeWitt | The Sisters Brothers | nom 2011 | 2011 | Thoroughly satisfying |
| Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | nom 2011 | 2012 | Disappointing |
| Hilary Mantel | Bring up the Bodies | won 2012 | 2012 | Fascinating continuation to Henry VIII story |
| Tan Twan Eng | The Garden of Evening Mists | nom 2012 | 2012 | meditative history lesson |
| Deborah Levy | Swimming Home | nom 2012 | 2013 | a quick read, not too bad |
| Alison Moore | The Lighthouse | nom 2012 | 2013 | abstraactly interesting |
| Jeet Thayil | Narcopolis | nom 2012 | 2012 | unreadable |
| Will Self | Umbrella | nom 2012 | 2013 | unreadable |
| Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries | won 2013 | 2013 | a long interesting tale |
| Colm Toibin | The Testament of Mary | nom 2013 | 2013 | mercifully short |
| NoViolet Bulawayo | We Need New Names | nom 2013 | 2013 | brutally frank |
| Ruth Ozeki | A Tale for the Time Being | nom 2013 | 2013 | interesting but somewhat slow going |
| Jim Crace | Harvest | nom 2013 | 2013 | a morality tale from the middle ages |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland | nom 2013 | 2013 | well written and moving |
| Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | won 2014 | 2014 | mostly depressing |
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | nom 2014 | 2014 | compelling |
| Joshua Ferris | To Rise Again at a Decent Hour | nom 2014 | 2014 | funny and thoughtful but annoying as well |
| Neel Mukherjee | The Lives of Others | nom 2014 | grim history of late 60s Indian crisis |
| Ali Smith | How to Be Both | nom 2014 | 2015 | complicated but rewarding |
| Howard Jacobson | J | nom 2014 | 2015 | great characters |
| Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | won 2015 | 2016 | gruesome |
| Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | nom 2015 | 2015 | not good |
| Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life | nom 2015 | 2015 | worse |
| Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | nom 2015 | 2015 | uninteresting |
| Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | nom 2015 | 2015 | somewhat interesting |
| Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | nom 2015 | 2016 | grim and riveting |
| Paul Beatty | The Sellout | won 2016 | 2016 | utter tripe |
| Deborah Levy | Hot Milk | nom 2016 | 2016 | a little gem |
| Otessa Moshfegh | Eileen | nom 2016 | 2016 | sad and disturbing |
| David Szalay | All That Man Is | nom 2016 | 2016 | deeply felt |
| Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing | nom 2016 | 2016 | detailed look at Maoism |
| Graeme Macrae Burnet | His Bloody Project | nom 2016 | 2016 | rivetting |
| George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo | won 2017 | 2017 | fast moving |
| Ali Smith | Autumn | nom 2017 | 2017 | wonderful |
| Emily Fridlund/TD> | History of Wolves | nom 2017 | 2017 | slightly dissapointing |
| Moshin Hamid | Exit West | nom 2017 | 2017 | well done surrealism |
| Paul Auster | 4 3 2 1 | nom 2017 | 2017 | I bailed out at page 100 |
| Fiona Mozely | Elmet | nom 2017 | 2017 | Interesting story but gory conclusion |
| Anna Burns | Milkman | won 2018 | 2018 | good story but difficult style |
| Rachel Kushner | The Mars Room | nom 2018 | 2018 | powerful disturbing book |
| Richard Powers | The Overstory | nom 2018 | 2018 | great writing great subject |
| Esi Edugyan | Washington Black | nom 2018 | 2018 | a fun read |
| Daisy Johnson | Everything Under | nom 2018 | 2018 | very strange |
| Robin Robertson | The Long Take | nom 2018 | 2019 | novel but effective |
| Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | co-won 2019 | 2019 | Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale. More plotty but still good |
| Salman Rushdie | Quichotte | nom 2019 | 2019 | horrible |
| Lucy Ellman | Ducks Newberryport | nom 2019 | 2019 | only available in digital. I can wait |
| Chigozie Obioma | An Orchestra of Minorities | nom 2019 | 2019 | I had enough of Obioma in the Fisherman |
| Richard Powers | Bewilderment | nom 2021 | 2022 | Deep and Engrossing |
Personal Preference Ranking of the Booker Winners I've Read:
1 Yann Martel Life of Pi 2002
2 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things 1997
3 A. S. Byatt Possession 1990
4 J. G. Farrell Troubles 1970
5 J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur. 1973
6 Penelope Lively Moon Tiger 1987
7 Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark 1982
8 George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo 2017
9 Hilary Mantel Bring up the Bodies 2012
10 Ian McEwan Amsterdam 1998
11 Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day 1989
12 Pat Barker The Ghost Road 1995
13 J.M Coetzee Life andTimes of Michael K 1983
14 Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger 1992
15 Graham Swift Last Orders 1996
16 Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea 1978
17 Eleanor Catton The Luminaries 2013
18 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall 2009
19 Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2014
20 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending 2011
21 William Golding Rites of Passage 1980
22 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss 2006
23 Aravind Adiga The White Tiger 2008
24 James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late 1994
25 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question 2010
26 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha 1993
27 Anne Enright The Gathering 2007
28 Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore 1979
29 Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin 2000
30 Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac 1984
31 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust 1975
32 John Banville The Sea 2005
33 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient 1992
34 Kingsley Amis The Old Devils 1986
35 Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings 2015
36 Anna Burns Milkman 2018
37 Ben Okri The Famished Road 1991
38 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little 2003
39 J.M Coetzee Disgrace 1999
40 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang 2001
41 Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist 1974
42 Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty 2004
43 Paul Beatty The Sellout 2016
I have a copy of these 79
Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream. Nominated in 1970
Mary Renault, Fire From Heaven. nominated in 1970
Patrick White, The Vivisector. nominated in 1970
Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout. nominated in 1970
Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell. nominated in 1971
Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman. nominated in 1971
V. S. Naipaul,In a Free State. won in 1971
Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron. nominated in 1971
Susan Hill, Bird of Night. nominated in 1972
John Berger, G. won in 1972
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince. nominated in 1973
C.P. Snow, In Their Wisdom, nominated in 1974
Kingsley Amis, Ending Up, nominated in 1974
William Trevor, The Children of Dynmouth. nominated in 1976
David Storey, Saville. won in 1976
Andre Brink, An Instant in the Wind. nominated in 1976
Paul Scott, Staying On. won in 1977
Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing. nominated in 1978
Andre Brink, Rumours of Rain. nominated in 1978
Thomas Keneally, Confederates. nominated in 1979
Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day. nominated in 1980
Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers. nominated in 1980
Julia O' Faolain, No Country for Young Men. nominated in 1980
Doris Lessing, The Sirian Experiments. nominated in 1981
Molly Keane, Good Behaviour. nominated in 1981
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children. won in 1981
Anne Schlee, Rhine Journey. nominated in 1981
Lawrence Durrell, Constance or Solitary Practices. nominated in 1982
Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet. nominated in 1982
Malcolm Bradbury, Rates of Exchange. nominated in 1983
Anita Mason, The Illusionist. nominated in 1983
Salman Rushdie, Shame, nominated in 1983
Anita Desai, In Custody, nominated in 1984
Keri Hulme, The Bone People won in 1985
Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist. nominated in 1985
Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice. nominated in 1985
Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone. nominated in 1986
Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World. nominated in 1986
Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession. nominated in 1986
Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament. nominated in 1986
Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood. nominated in 1987
Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah. nominated in 1987
Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton. nominated in 1987
Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood. nominated in 1987
Nina Bawden, Circles of Deceit. nominated in 1987
Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda. won in 1988
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses. nominated in 1988
Rose Tremain, Restoration. nominated in 1989
John Banville, The Book of Evidence. nominated in 1989
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye. nominated in 1989
James Kelman, A Disaffection. nominated in 1989
Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw - an Unsentimental Education. nominated in 1989
Brian Moore, Lies of Silence. nominated in 1990
John McGahern, Amongst Women. nominated in 1990
Timothy Mo, The Redundancy of Courage. nominated in 1991
William Trevor, Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives). nominated in 1991
Michele Roberts, Daughters of the House. nominated in 1992
Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy, nominated in 1992
Christopher Hope, Serenity House, nominated in 1992
David Malouf, Remembering Babylon. nominated in 1993
Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog. nominated in 1993
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries. nominated in 1993
Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue. nominated in 1993
Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River. nominated in 1993
Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star. nominated in 1994
Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels. nominated in 1994
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise. nominated in 1994
Romesh Gunesekera, Reef. nominated in 1994
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace. nominated in 1996
Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire. nominated in 1996
Seamus Deane. Reading in the Dark. nominated in 1996
Madeleine StJohn, The Essence of the Thing. nominated in 1997
Martin Booth, The Industry of Souls. nominated in 1998
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love. nominated in 1999
Michael Frayn, Headlong. nominated in 1999
Colm Toibin, The Blackwater Lightship. nominated in 1999
Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting. nominated in 1999
Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place. nominated in 2000
Matthew Kneale, English Passengers. nominated in 2000
On the lookout for these 40
John Arden Silence Among the Weapons 1982
Paul Bailey Peter Smart's Confessions 1977
A. L. Barker John Brown's Body 1970
George MacKay Brown Beside the Ocean of Time 1994
J. L. Carr The Battle of Pollocks Crossing 1985
Justin Cartwright In Every face I Meet 1995
R. C. Hutchinson Rising 1976
Jennifer Johnston Shadows on Our Skin 1977
Thomas Kilroy The Big Chapel 1971
Elizabeth Mavor The Green Equinox 1973
Stanley Middleton Holiday 1974 cw
P. H. Newby Something to Answer For 1969 w
Brian O'Doherty The Deposition of Father McGreevy 2000
Andrew O'Hagan Our Fathers 1999
Julian Rathbone Joseph 1979
Julian Rathbone King Fisher Lives 1976
Bernice Rubens A Five Year Sentence 1978
Bernice Rubens The Elected Member 1970 w
Marina Warner The Lost Father 1988
T. W. Wheeler The Conjunction 1970
Gordon M. Williams From Scenes Like These 1969
Bernardine Evaristo Girl Woman Other 2019
Elif Shafak 10 Minutess 38 Secondss in This Strange World 2019
Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain 2020
Diane Cook The New Wilderness 2020
Tsitsi Dangarembga This Mournable Body 2020
Avni Doshi Burnt Sugar 2020
Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King 2020
Brandon Taylor Real Life 2020
Anuk Arudpragasam A Passage North 2021
Damon Galgut The Promise 2021
Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking About This 2021
Nadifa Mohamed The Fortune Men 2021
Maggie Shipstead Great Circle 2021
Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by 2022 w
NoViolet Bulawayo Glory 2022
Percival Everett The Trees 2022
Alan Garner Treacle Walker 2022
Claire Keegan Small Things Like These 2022
Elizabeth Strout Oh William! 2022