Winners of the Booker Prize
Booker Prize Public
Created by Phil in SF
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Phil in SF says: 1996 winner
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The God of small things by Arundhati Roy
4 stars
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the …
Phil in SF says: 1997 winner
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4 stars
Winner of the 1998 Booker PrizeOn a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium …
Phil in SF says: 1998 winner
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4 stars
David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical …
Phil in SF says: 1999 winner
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The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
4 stars
More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story …
Phil in SF says: 2000 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2001 winner
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4 stars
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only …
Phil in SF says: 2002 winner
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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
4 stars
Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble. And it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
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The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
4 stars
It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill …
Phil in SF says: 2004 winner
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4 stars
The Sea is a 2005 novel by John Banville. His thirteenth novel, it won the 2005 Booker Prize.
Phil in SF says: 2005 winner
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The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
4 stars
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants …
Phil in SF says: 2006 winner
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The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
MEET BALRANI HALWAI, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner
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4 stars
Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour …
Phil in SF says: 2009 winner
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The Finkler question by Howard Jacobson
The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel written by British author Howard Jacobson. The novel won the Booker Prize.
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
