The Booker Prize Winners of the Last 15 Years
Each year, the Booker Prize honors the best English language novel published in the UK or Ireland that year. Here are the last 15 winners, including Hilary Mantel's historical fiction masterpiece, Wolf Hall, Margaret Atwood's dystopian Handmaid's Tale sequel, and more.
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka2022: In this novel set in Sri Lanka in the 1980s, photographer Maali Almeida wakes up dead in a celestial visa office with no idea who killed him. Now, he must navigate his way across seven moons in the afterlife to share the photos that will expose the civil war's brutalities.
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Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner), Damon Galgut](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781609457440.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709842176)
The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Damon Galgut2021: An epic South African drama that tells the story of the white Swart family, divided by a promise made to their Black maid on her deathbed. The novel follows the family over thirty years, as they grapple with guilt, failure, and the ceaseless march of history.
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Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner), Douglas Stuart](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780802148506.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1719860028)
Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Douglas Stuart2020: A poignant tale of addiction, sexuality, and love, which follows the young Shuggie as he navigates life in a Glasgow public housing complex against the backdrop of 1980s Thatcherite Britain.
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Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner), Bernardine Evaristo](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780802156983.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1719860028)
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Bernardine Evaristo2019: Evaristo, who shared the prize with Atwood this year, wrote a moving and hopeful portrait of 12 Black British women from vastly different lives and intersecting identities, showing a side of Britain that is rarely celebrated in mainstream media and culture.
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Paperback, 2019
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Testaments, Margaret Atwood](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780525562627.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1719860028)
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood2019 (also): Set 15 years after The Handmaid's Tale, with the theocratic Gilead regime clinging to power, the book follows three very different women, including Aunt Lydia, as their destinies barrel towards a collision.
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Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Milkman, Anna Burns](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781644450000.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1719860028)
Milkman
Anna Burns2018: Set during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Milkman follows the unnamed 18-year-old “middle sister” as she is relentlessly pursued by a paramilitary officer, known as Milkman. As rumors spread about the nature of their relationship, violence lurks just around the corner.
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Paperback, 2018
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780812985405.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1719860028)
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders2017: The novel explores President Lincoln's grief for his recently departed son, Willie, and mostly takes place in the supernatural bardo, a liminal state between death and rebirth, where ghosts fight over Willie's soul.
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Paperback, 2018
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Sellout, Paul Beatty](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781250808240.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1719860028)
The Sellout
Paul Beatty2016: A biting satire which opens with our protagonist, a Black man named 'Bonbon,' on trial before the Supreme Court for his plot to introduce slavery and segregation to his southern California town in order restore its incorporated status.
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Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner), Marlon James](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781594633942.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1719860028)
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner)
Marlon James2015: This fictional exploration of Jamaica’s tumultuous past centers around the storied assassination attempt on Bob Marley and his family in 1976. The books follows an eclectic group of characters, moving between Kingston and New York across two decades.
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Paperback, 2015
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780804171472.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1719860028)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan2014: Moving between a WWII Japanese POW camp and present-day Australia, the book follows the life of Dorrigo Evans, a war veteran plagued by his own shortcomings, as he reflects on his life, his time as a prisoner of war on the Burma Death Railway and the aftermath of the war.
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Paperback, 2015
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book