This year Man Booker Prize celebrates its 50 year anniversary of honouring best fiction works published in English. The event will take place on 6-8 July at Southbank Centre, London, but you can start celebrating now by participating in #ManBooker50 challenge: reading as many of the winner works as you can before end of May 2018 and tracking your progress on Instagram.
Even though my reading plan for this year is already overly ambitious, I decided to give it my best try – and why not? Everyone knows Booker nominations (never mind winners!) are the books you don’t regret opening.
If you’re game, here’s the list and best of luck in completing the challenge, but mostly – do not forget to enjoy the process!
2017
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
United States
2016
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
United States
2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Jamaica
2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
Australia
2013
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
Canada / New Zealand
2012
Bring Up The Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
United Kingdom
2011
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
United Kingdom
2010
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
United Kingdom
2009
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
United Kingdom
2008
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
India
2007
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Ireland
2006
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
India
2005
The Sea
by John Banville
Ireland
2004
The Line of Beauty
by Allan Hollinghurst
United Kingdom
2003
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
Australia
2002
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Canada
2001
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
Australia
2000
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Canada
1999
Disgrace
by J.
M. Coetzee
South Africa
1998
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
United Kingdom
1997
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
India
1996
Last Orders
by Graham Swift
United Kingdom
1995
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
United Kingdom
1994
How Late It Was, How Late
by James Kelman
United Kingdom
1993
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle
Ireland
1992
Sacred Hunger
by Barry Unsworth
United Kingdom
and
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
Canada / Sri Lanka
1991
The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
Nigeria
1990
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
United Kingdom
1989
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
United Kingdom / Japan
1988
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
Australia
1987
Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively
United Kingdom
1986
The Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis
United Kingdom
1985
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
New Zealand
1984
Hotel du Lac
by Anita Brookner
United Kingdom
1983
Life & Times of Michael K
by J. M. Coetzee
South Africa
1982
Schindler’s Ark
by Thomas Keneally
Australia
1981
Midnight’s Children
by Salman Rushdie
United Kingdom / India
1980
Rites of Passage
by William Golding
United Kingdom
1979
Offshore
by Penelope Fitzgerald
United Kingdom
1978
The Sea, The Sea
by Iris Murdoch
Ireland / United Kingdom
1977
Staying On
by Paul Scott
United Kingdom
1976
Saville
by David Storey
United Kingdom
1975
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
United Kingdom / Germany
1974
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
South Africa
and
Holiday
by Stanley Middleton
United Kingdom
1973
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J.G. Farrell
United Kingdom / Ireland
1972
G.
by John Berger
United Kingdom
1971
In a Free State (short story)
by V. S. Naipaul
United Kingdom / Trinidad and Tobago
1970
Troubles
by J. G. Farrell
United Kingdom / Ireland
and
The Elected Member
by Bernice Rubens
United Kingdom
1969
Something to Answer For
by P. H. Newby
United Kingdom