Booker Prize for Fiction The Mann Booker Prize, commonly known as the Booker Prize, aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The Man Booker judges are selected from the country's finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize. The award was established in 1969. 2006 The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai 2005 The Sea, John Banville 2004 The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 2003 Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre 2002 Life of Pi, Yann Martel 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey 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 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle 1992 The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje; Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth 1991 The Famished Road, Ben Okri 1990 Possession: A Romance, A.S. Byatt 1989 The 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 & Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee 1982 Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally 1981 Midnight's Children, 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; Holiday, Stanley Middleton 1973 The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell 1972 G.: A Novel, John Berger 1971 In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul 1970 The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens 1969 Something to Answer For, P.H. Newby Topics: Awards,