BOOKER PRIZE

2004 shortlist

• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Winner
• Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
• The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• The Master by Colm Tóibín
• I’ll go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward

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2003 shortlist

• Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre Winner
• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
• The Good Doctor: A Novel by Damon Galgut
• Astonishing Flashes of Color by Clare Morrall

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2002 shortlist

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel Winner
• 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

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2001 shortlist

• True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Winner
• Atonement Ian McEwan
• Oxygen Andrew Miller
• Number 9 Dream David Mitchell
• The Dark Room Rachel Seiffert
• Hotel World Ali Smith

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• 2000 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
• 1999 Disgrace J.M. Coetzee
• 1998 Amsterdam Ian McEwan
• 1997 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
• 1996 Last Orders Graham Swift
• 1995 The Ghost Road Pat Barker
• 1994 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman
• Special Prize for Best of the Past 25 years
  • Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
• 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
• 1992 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
• 1992 Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth
• 1991 The Famished Road Ben Okri
• 1990 Possession A.S. Byatt
• 1989 Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
• 1988 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
• 1987 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively
• 1986 The Old Devils Kingsley Amis
• 1985 The Bone People Keri Hulme
• 1984 Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner
• 1983 Life and Times of Michael K J.M.Coetzee
• 1982 Schindler’s Ark Thomas Keneally
• 1981 Salman Rushdie
• 1980 Rites of Passage William Golding
• 1979 Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald
• 1978 The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch
• 1977 Staying on Paul Scott
• 1976 Saville David Storey
• 1975 Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• 1974 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer
• 1974 Holiday Stanley Middleton
• 1973 The Siege of Krishnapur J.G.Farrell
• 1972 G John Berger
• 1971 In a Free State V.S.Naipaul
• 1970 The Elected Member Bernice Rubens
• 1969 Something to Answer for P.H.Newby