The Man Booker Prize was established in 1969 by Booker McConnell engineering company for British, Irish and Commonwealth fiction.
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga (India) |
| 2007 | The Gathering | Anne Enright (Ireland) |
| 2006 | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai (India) |
| 2005 | The Sea | John Banville (Ireland) |
| 2004 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst (UK) |
| 2003 | Vernon God Little | DBC Pierre (Australia/Mexico) |
| 2002 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel (Canada) |
| 2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey (Australia) |
| 2000 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood (Canada) |
| 1999 | Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee (South Africa/Australia) |
| 1998 | Amsterdam | Ian McEwan (UK) |
| 1997 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy (India) |
| 1996 | Last Orders | Graham Swift (UK) |
| 1995 | The Ghost Road | Pat Barker (UK) |
| 1994 | How Late It Was, How Late | James Kelman (UK) |
| 1993 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle (Ireland) |
| 1992 | The English Patient
Sacred Hunger |
Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka/Canada)
Barry Unsworth (UK) |
| 1991 | The Famished Road | Ben Okri (Nigeria) |
| 1990 | Possession: A Romance | A. S. Byatt (UK) |
| 1989 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro (UK/Japan) |
| 1988 | Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey (Australia) |
| 1987 | Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively (UK) |
| 1986 | The Old Devils | Kingsley Amis (UK) |
| 1985 | The Bone People | Keri Hulme (NNew Zealand) |
| 1984 | Hotel du Lac | Anita Brookner (UK) |
| 1983 | Life & Times of Michael K | J. M. Coetzee (South Africa/Australia) |
| 1982 | Schindler’s Ark | Thomas Keneally (Australia) |
| 1981 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie (UK/India) |
| 1980 | Rites of Passage | William Golding (UK) |
| 1979 | Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald (UK) |
| 1978 | The Sea, the Sea | Iris Murdoch (Ireland) |
| 1977 | Staying On | Paul Scott (UK) |
| 1976 | Saville | David Storey (UK) |
| 1975 | Heat and Dust | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (UK) |
| 1974 | The Conservationist
Holiday |
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
Stanley Middleton (UK) |
| 1973 | The Siege of Krishnapur | J. G. Farrell (UK) |
| 1972 | G. | John Berger (UK) |
| 1971 | In a Free State | V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad & Tobago) |
| 1970 | The Elected Member | Bernice Rubens (UK) |
| 1969 | Something to Answer For | P. H. Newby (UK) |
