Booker Prize

2026

• John of John by Douglas Stuart — longlist
• The Disappearers by Marlon James — longlist
• All Them Dogs by Djamel White — longlist
• The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis — longlist
• Black Bag by Luke Kennard — longlist
• Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman — longlist
• The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout — longlist
• May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry — longlist
• The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley — longlist
• Switzy by Emma Cline — longlist
• The End of Everything by M. John Harrison — longlist
• The Renovation by Kenan Orhan — longlist

2025

• The South by Tash Aw — shortlist
• What's Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott — longlist
• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai — shortlist
• I Give You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà — longlist
• Flashlight by Susan Choi — longlist
• The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits — longlist
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray — longlist
• One Boat by Jonathan Buckley — longlist
• Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li — shortlist
• Universality by Natasha Brown — longlist
• Love Forms by Claire Adam — longlist
• Audition by Katie Kitamura — shortlist
• Flesh by David Szalay

2024

• This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud — longlist
• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner — shortlist
• Long Island by Colm Tóibín — longlist
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• Playground by Richard Powers — longlist
• My Friends by Hisham Matar — longlist
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray — longlist
• Wild Houses by Colin Barrett — longlist
• Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel — longlist
• Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood — shortlist
• Held by Anne Michaels — shortlist
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden — shortlist

2023

• This Other Eden by Paul Harding — shortlist
• If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery — shortlist
• Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein — shortlist
• Western Lane by Chetna Maroo — shortlist
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray — shortlist
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr — longlist
• Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry — longlist
• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese — longlist
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray — longlist
• Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
• In Ascension by Martin MacInnes — longlist
• A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ — longlist

2022

• The Candy House by Jennifer Egan — longlist
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
• Treacle Walker by Alan Garner — longlist
• Booth by Karen Joy Fowler — longlist
• After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz — longlist
• Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer — longlist
• The Colony by Audrey Magee — longlist
• Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet — longlist
• The Trees by Percival Everett — shortlist
• Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo — shortlist
• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout — shortlist
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan — shortlist

2021

• A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson — longlist
• China Room by Sunjeev Sahota — longlist
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro — longlist
• A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam — shortlist
• Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford — longlist
• Second Place by Rachel Cusk — longlist
• The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris — longlist
• The Promise by Damon Galgut
• An Island by Karen Jennings — longlist
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead — shortlist
• Bewilderment by Richard Powers — shortlist
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood — shortlist
• The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed — shortlist

2020

• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste — shortlist
• The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel — longlist
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
• Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi — shortlist
• Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler — longlist
• The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld — longlist
• The New Wilderness by Diane Cook — shortlist
• Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze — longlist
• Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward — longlist
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid — longlist
• Apeirogon by Colum McCann — longlist
• This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga — shortlist
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor — shortlist

2019

• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Lanny by Max Porter — longlist
• The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy — longlist
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli — longlist
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite — longlist
• 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak — longlist
• Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson — longlist
• Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry — longlist
• Quichotte by Salman Rushdie — shortlist
• An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma — shortlist
• The Wall by John Lanchester — shortlist
• Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann — shortlist