Booker Prize

In chronological order, most recent first. Where a book is reviewed in this blog, there will be a link to it

• 2024
• Shortlisted:
• James by Percival Everett
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
• Held by Anne Michaels
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
• Longlisted:
• Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
• Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
• My Friends by Hisham Matar
• This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
• Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
• Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
• Playground by Richard Powers
2023
• Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
• Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
• This Other Eden by Paul Harding
• If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
• Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein 
• Longlisted:
• A Spell of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo
• Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
• How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
• Pearl by Sian Hughes
• All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
• In Ascension by Martin McInnes
• The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

• 2022
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
• The Trees by Percival Everett
• Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
• Longlisted:
• Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
• Trust by Hernan Diaz
• Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Colony by Audrey Magee
• Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
• After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

• 2021
• The Promise by Damon Galgut (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• A Passage North by Anuk Ahudpragasam
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
• The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
• Bewilderment by Richard Powers
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
• Longlisted:
• Second Place by Rachel Cusk
• The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• An Island by Karen Jennings
• A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
• China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
• Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
• 2020
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
• This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Bangarembga
• Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• Longlisted:
• Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze
• The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
• Apeirogon by Colum McCann
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
• Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
• 2019
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (joint winner)
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo (joint winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Ducks, Newbury Port by Lucy Ellmann
• An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
• Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
• 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
• Longlisted:
• Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• The Wall by John Lanchester
• The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• Lanny by Max Porter
• Frankisstein by Jeanette Winterson
• 2018:
• Milkman by Anna Burns (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• The Long Take by Robin Robertson
• Longlisted:
• Snap by  Belinda Bauer
• Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
• In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
• The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
• Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
• 2017
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Elmet by Fiona Mozley
• Autumn by Ali Smith
• Longlisted:
• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
• Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
• Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• 2016
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
• His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
• Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
• All That Man Is by David Szalay
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
• Longlisted:
• The Schooldays of Jesus by J M Coetzee
• Serious Sweet by A L Kennedy
• The North Water by Ian McGuire
• Hystopia by David Means
• The Many by Wyl Menmuir
• Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• 2015
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
• The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
• The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• Longlisted:
• Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
• The Green Road by Anne Enright
• The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
• The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
• Lila by Marilynne Robinson
• Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
• The Chimes by Anna Smaill
• 2014
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Fowler
• J by Howard Jacobson
• The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
• How To Be Both by Ali Smith
• Longlisted:
• The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
• The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
• Us by David Nicholls
• The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
• Orfeo by Richard Powers
• History of the Rain by Niall Williams
• 2013
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Harvest by Jim Crace
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahin
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin
• Longlisted:
• Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
• The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
• The Kills by Richard House
• Unexploded by Alison Macleod
• TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
• Almost English by Charlotte Mendelson
• The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
• 2012
• Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
• The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
• Umbrella by Will Self
• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
• Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
• Longlisted:
• The Yips by Nicola Barker
• The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
• Philida by Andre Brink
• Skios by Michael Frayn
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• Communion Town by Sam Thompson
• 2011
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Shortlisted:
• Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
• Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
• Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
• Snowdrops by A D Miller
• Longlisted:
• On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
• A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvette Edwards
• The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
• The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
• Far To Go by Alison Pick
• The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
• Derby Day by D J Taylor
• 2010
• The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Parrot and Oliver in America by Peter Carey
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
• The Long Song by Andrea Levy
• C by Tom McCarthy
• Longlisted:
• The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
• February by Lisa Moore
• Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
• Trespass by Rose Tremain
• The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
• The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner
• 2009
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• The Children's Book by A S Byatt
• Summertime by J M Coetzee
• The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
• The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• Longlisted:
• How To Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
• The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
• Mr Cheeta by James Lever
• Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
• Heliopolis by James Scudamore
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
• Love and Summer by William Trevor
• 2008
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
• Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
• The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
• The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
• Longlisted:
• Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
• From A to X by John Berger
• The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
• A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
• Netherland by Joseph O'Neil
• The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
• Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
• 2007
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Darkmans by Nicola Barker
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
• Master Pip by Lloyd Jones
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Animal's People by Indra Sinha
• Longlisted:
• Self Help by Edward Docx
• The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
• Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
• What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
• Consolation by Michael Redhill
• The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
• Winnie & Wolf by A N Wilson
• 2006:
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville
• Carry Me Down by M J Hyland
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• Longlisted:
• Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
• Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
• Get a Life by Nadime Gordimer
• Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
• Seven Lies by James Lasdun
• The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
• So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
• The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr
• Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
• The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
• The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth
• 2005
• The Sea by John Banville
• Shortlisted:
• Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
• A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Accidental by Ali Smith
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• Longlisted:
• The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
• Slow Man by J M Coetzee
• In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
• All For Love by Dan Jacobson
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Monica Lewycka
• Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
• Saturday by Ian McEwan
• The People's Act of Love by James Meek
• Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
• This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
• This Is Our Country by William Wall
• 2004
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
• The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• The Master by Colm Toibin
• I'll Go To Bed At Noon by Gerard Woodward
• Longlisted:
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
• Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker
• The Island Walkers by John Bemrose
• Havoc, in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Always the Sun by Neil Cross
• Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
• A Blade of Grass by Louis Desoto
• Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Patterson
• The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe
• The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
• The Unnumbered by Sam North
• Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
• Cherry by Matt Thorne
• 2003
• Vernon God Little by  D B C Pierre (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
• Amazing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
• Longlisted:
• Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
• Turn Again Home by Carol Birch
• Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg
• Elizabeth Costello by J M Coetzee
• The Taxi Driver's Daughter by Julia Darling
• Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan
• The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Nick of Time by Francis King
• Heligoland by Sheena Mackay
• Jazz etc by John Murray
• Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson
• Judge Savage by Tim Parks
• A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
• Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
• The Light of Day by Graham Swift
• Frankie & Starkie by Barbara Trapido
• 2002
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
• Unless by Carol Shields
• The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
• Dirt Music by Tim Winton
• Longlisted:
• The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass by Dannie Abse
• Shroud by John Banville
• Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot
• Any Human Heart by William Boyd
• The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner
• Peacetime by Robert Edric
• Spies by Michael Frayn
• Still Here by Linda Grant
• The Mulberry Empire by Phillip Hensher
• Who's Sorry Now? by Howard Jacobson
• If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
• Dorian, an Imitation by Will Self
• The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
• To the Last City by Colin Thubron
• 2001
• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (winner)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Oxygen by Andrew Miller
• number9dream by David Mitchell
• The Fark Room by Rachel Seiffert 
• Hotel World by Ali Smith
• 2000
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (winner)
• Shortlisted:
• The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
• The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
• The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty
• Longlisted:
• According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
• If the Invader Comes by Derek Beaven
• A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
• Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson
• The Element of Water by Stevie Davis
• The Pickup by Nadime Gordimer
• Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
• By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• How to be Good by Nick Hornby
• Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf
• Translated Accounts by James Kelman
• The Blue Tango bu Eion McNamee
• Fairness by Ferdinand Mount
• Half a Life by V S Naipaul
• The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman 
• The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
• The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
• The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner
• 1999
• Disgrace by J M Coetzee (winner)
• Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
• Headlong by Michael Frayn
• Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
• The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
• The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
• 1998
• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (winner)
• Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
• England, England by Julian Barnes
• The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth
• Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe
• The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
• 1997
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (winner)
• Quarantine by Jim Crace
• The Underground Man by Mick Jackson
• Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
• Europa by Tim Parks
• The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St John
• 1996
• Last Orders by Graham Swift (winner)
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
• Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
• The Orchard on Five by Shena Mackay
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• 1995
• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (winner)
• In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright
• The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
• Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
• The Riders by Tim Winton
• 1994
• How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman (winner)
• Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
• Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
• Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
• Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh
• 1993
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (winner)
• Shortlist:
• Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
• Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
• Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
• Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• 1992
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (shared winner)
• Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (shared winner)
• Shortlist:
• Serenity House by Christopher Hope
• The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
• Daughters of the House by Michele Roberts
• 1991
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri (winner)
• Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
• The Van by Roddy Doyle
• Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
• The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
• Reading Turgenev by William Trevor
• 1990
• Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt (winner)
• An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Amongst Women by John McGahern
• Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
• Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
• 1989
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (winner)
• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
• The Book of Evidence by John Banville
• Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford
• A Disaffection by James Kelman
• Restoration by Rose Tremain
• 1988
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (winner)
• Utz by Bruce Chatwin
• The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Nice Work by David Lodge
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• The Lost Father by Marina Warner
• 1987
• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (winner)
• Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
• Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
• Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden
• The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore
• The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
• 1986
• The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (winner)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Gabriel's Lament by Paul Bailey
• What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo
• 1985
• The Bone People by Keri Hulme (winner)
• Illywhacker by Peter Carey
• The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J L Carr
• The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
• Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris
• The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
• 1984
• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (winner)
• Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
• In Custody by Anita Desai
• According to Mark by Penelope Lively
• Small World by David Lodge
• 1983
• Life & Times of Michael K by J M Coetzee (winner)
• Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
• Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
• The Illusionist by Anita Mason
• Shame by Salman Rushdie
• Waterland by Graham Swift
• 1982
• Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (winner)
• Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden
• An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
• Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell
• The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
• Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
• 1981
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (winner)
• Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
• The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing
• The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
• Rhone Journey by Ann Schlee
• Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
• The White Hotel by D M Thomas
• 1980
• Rites of Passage by William Golding (winner)
• Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
• Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
• The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
• No Country for Young Men by Julia O'Faolain
• Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth
• A Month in the Country by J L Carr
• 1979
• Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (winner)
• Confederates by Thomas Keneally
• A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
• Joseph by Julian Rathbone
• Praxis by Fay Weldon
• 1978
• The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (winner)
• Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
• Rumours of Rain by Andre Brink
• The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
• God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
• A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens
• 1977
• Staying On by Paul Scott (winner)
• Peter Smart's Confessions by Paul bailey
• Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
• Shadows on Our Skin by Jennifer Johnston
• The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively
• Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
• 1976
• Saville by David Storey
• An Instant in the Wind by Andre Brink
• Rising by R C Hutchinson
• The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore
• King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone
• The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
• 1975
• Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (winner)
• Gossip From the Forest by Thomas Kenneally
• 1974
• The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (winner)
• Holiday by Stanley Middleton
• Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
• The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
• In Their Wisdom by C P Snow
• 1973
• The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell (winner)
• The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
• The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
• 1972
• G by John Berger (winner)
• The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Kenneally
• Pasmore by David Storey
• 1971
• In  a Free State by V S Naipaul (winner)
• The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy
• Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
• St Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler
• Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson
• Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
• 1970 (the Lost Booker)
• Troubles by J G Farrell (winner)
• The Birds on the Trees by Nina Bawden
• The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
• Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault
• The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
• The Vivisector by Patrick White
• 1970
• The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (winner)
• John Brown's Body by A L Barker
• Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
• Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch
• Mrs Eckdorff in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor
• The Conjunction by Terence Wheeler
• 1969
• Something to Answer For by P H Newby
• Figures in a Landscape by Barry England
• The Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley
• The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
• The Public Image by Muriel Spark
• From Scenes Like These by Gordon Williams