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The Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. The prize is the world’s most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of authors and even publishers.

Now in its 40th year, the prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. (Awards given since 1969)

(found at: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/archive)
1.
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 Something to Answer for
by P.H. Newby
  
2. Elected Member
by B. Rubens
  
3. In a Free State: A Novel
by V.S. Naipaul
  
4. G
by John Berger
  
5. The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics)
by J.G. Farrell
  
6.
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 Holiday
by Stanley Middleton
  
7. The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
  
8. Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  
9.
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 Saville
by David Storey
  
10. Staying On
by Paul Scott
  
11. The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch
  
12. Offshore (Flamingo)
by Penelope Fitzgerald
  
13. Rites of Passage (Faber Fiction Classics)
by William Golding
  
14. Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
  
15. Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
  
16. Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel
by J. M. Coetzee
  
17. Hotel Du Lac
by Anita Brookner
  
18. The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
  
19. Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis
  
20. Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively
  
21. Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
  
22. The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
23. Possession: A Romance
by A.S. Byatt
  
24. The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
  
25. Sacred Hunger
by Barry Unsworth
  
26. The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
  
27. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle
  
28. How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
by James Kelman
  
29. The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy)
by Pat Barker
  
30. Last Orders
by Graham Swift
  
31. The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
  
32. Amsterdam: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
  
33. Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
  
34. The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
  
35. True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
by Peter Carey
  
36. Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
  
37. Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre
  
38. The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
  
39. The Sea
by John Banville
  
40. The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
  
41. The Gathering
by Anne Enright
  
42. The White Tiger: A Novel
by Aravind Adiga
  
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