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This is the official list of winners, to 2019.

Last updated 1/7/20

The List

2020  TBA
2019  The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, joint winner with Girl, Woman, Other by Barnardine Evaristo, on my TBR
2018  Milkman by Anna Burns, on my TBR
2017  Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, abandoned
2016  The Sellout by Paul Beatty, abandoned
2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, not interested
þ 2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, see Lisa’s review
þ 2013 The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, see Lisa’s review
þ 2012 Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, see a Sensational Snippet
þ 2011 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, see Lisa’s review
2010 – The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson, abandoned
þ 2009 – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, see Lisa’s review
þ 2008 – The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, see Lisa’s review.
þ 2007 – The Gathering by Anne Enright, see Lisa’s review.
þ 2006 – The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, See Lisa’s review.
þ 2005 – The Sea by John Banville see Lisa’s review.
þ 2004 – The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
þ 2003 – Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre see Lisa’s review.
þ 2002 – Life of Pi by Yann Martel see Lisa’s review.
2001 – True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
þ 2000 – The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood see Lisa’s review.
þ 1999 – Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
þ 1998 – Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1997 – The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1996 – Last Orders by Graham Swift, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1995 – The Ghost Road by Pat Barker, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1994 – How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman, see Lisa’s review
þ 1993 – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1992 – The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, see Lisa’s review
1992 – Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
þ 1991 – The Famished Road  by Ben Okri, see Lisa’s review
þ 1990 – Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
þ 1989 – The Remains of the Day  by Kasuo Ishiguro, See Lisa’s review.
þ 1988 – Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
þ 1987 – Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1986 – The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
þ 1985 – The Bone People  by Keri Hulme
þ 1984 – Hotel Du Lac  by Anita Brookner, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1983 – Life & Times of Michael K  by J.M. Coetzee, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1982 – Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
þ 1981 – Midnight’s Children  by Salman Rushdie
þ 1980 – Rites of Passage by William Golding,  see Lisa’s review.
1979 – Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
þ 1978 – The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch,  see Lisa’s review.
þ 1977 – Staying on by Paul Scott
1976 – Saville  by David Storey
þ 1975 – Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1974 – The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer, see Lisa’s review
1974 – Holiday by Stanley Middleton
þ 1973 – The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell,  see Lisa’s review.
þ 1972 – G. by John Berger, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1971 – In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1970 – The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens, see Lisa’s review.
þ 1969 – Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby, See Lisa’s review.

Progress so far:

þ = read
Some of these I read so long ago that they pre-date keeping a reading journal.  Those read after 2009 are reviewed on this blog or at The Complete Booker.  (Click the ‘review’ links above.)