Inheritance
of Loss by Kiran Desai (2006)The Man Booker Prize (1969-2006)
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Inheritance
of Loss by Kiran Desai (2006)
The
Sea by John Banville (2005)
The
Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
Vernon
God Little by D.B.C. Pierre (2003)
Life
of Pi by Yann Martel (2002)
True
History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001)
The
Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)
Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee (1999)
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan (1998)
The
God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
Last
Orders by Graham Swift (1996)
The
Ghost Road by Pat Barker (1995)
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman (1994)
Paddy Clarke Ha-Ha-Ha by Roddy Doyle (1993)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992)
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (1992)
The Famished Road by Ben Okri (1991)
Possession
by A.S. Byatt (1990)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (1988)
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (1987)
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (1986)
The Bone People by Keri Hulme (1985)
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (1984)
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee (1983)
Schindler's
List by Thomas Keneally (1982)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
Rites of Passage by William Golding (1980)
Offshore
by Penelope Fitzgerald (1979)
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)
Staying On by Paul Scott (1977)
Saville by David Storey (1976)
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975)
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (1974)
Holiday Hutchinson by Stanley Middleton (1974)
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell (1973)
G by John Berger (1972)
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul (1971)
The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (1970)