Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland.

The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success and, for this reason, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be nominated for the Booker longlist or selected for inclusion in the shortlist. In 1993, the Booker of Bookers Prize was awarded to Salma
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Life of Pi
The Remains of the Day
The God of Small Things
The Sense of an Ending
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
The White Tiger
The Blind Assassin
Shuggie Bain
Girl, Woman, Other
Lincoln in the Bardo
Disgrace
Orbital
The Luminaries
Midnight’s Children
Milkman
Room by Emma DonoghueThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David  MitchellSkippy Dies by Paul MurrayThe Slap by Christos TsiolkasThe Long Song by Andrea Levy
Man Booker 2010 longlist
13 books — 46 voters

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerThe Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganThe Bone Clocks by David  MitchellHow to Be Both by Ali SmithThe Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
2014 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 101 voters
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaA Spool of Blue Thread by Anne TylerThe Fishermen by Chigozie ObiomaA Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesThe Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
Man Booker Prize shortlist 2015
6 books — 22 voters

The Goldfinch by Donna TarttAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddThe Circle by Dave EggersThe Bone Clocks by David  Mitchell
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2014
167 books — 699 voters
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiHullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran DesaiIndia Pack - 2003 by Kiran Desai
Best of Kiran Desai
3 books — 2 voters

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