Booker Prize Shortlist

Booker Prize Shortlist winners, showcasing the authors whose works were nominated but did not win the Booker Prize in those particular years.

Year	Winner	Book Title
2023	Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
	Claire Keegan	Small Things Like These
	Chetna Maroo	Western Lane
	Mary Lawson	A Town Called Solace
2022	Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
	Claire Keegan	Small Things Like These
	Damien Le Bas	The Summer of the Reckoning
	Elizabeth Strout	Oh William!
2021	Ahsan Ali	The Secret Life
	Damon Galgut	The Promise
	Richard Powers	The Overstory
	Maggie O'Farrell	Hamnet
2020	Damon Galgut	The Promise
	Hilary Mantel	The Mirror and the Light
	Colson Whitehead	The Nickel Boys
	Lucy Ellmann	Ducks, Newburyport
2019	Douglas Stuart	Shuggie Bain
	Margaret Atwood	The Testaments
	Elif Shafak	10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
	Bernardine Evaristo	Girl, Woman, Other
2018	Anna Burns	Milkman
	Rachel Cusk	Kudos
	Richard Powers	The Overstory
	Robin Robertson	The Long Take
2017	George Saunders	Lincoln in the Bardo
	Ali Smith	Autumn
	Sebastian Barry	Days Without End
	Colson Whitehead	The Underground Railroad
2016	Paul Beatty	The Sellout
	Deborah Levy	Hot Milk
	Graeme Macrae Burnet	His Bloody Project
	Elizabeth Strout	My Name Is Lucy Barton
2015	Marlon James	A Brief History of Seven Killings
	Tom McCarthy	Satin Island
	Sunjeev Sahota	The Year of the Runaways
	Hanya Yanagihara	A Little Life
2014	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North
	Neel Mukherjee	The Lives of Others
	Howard Jacobson	J
	Karen Joy Fowler	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries
	Jim Crace	Harvest
	Colm Tóibín	The Testament of Mary
	Ruth Ozeki	A Tale for the Time Being
2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies
	Will Self	Umbrella
	Alison MacLeod	Unexploded
	Tan Twan Eng	The Garden of Angels
2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending
	Carol Birch	Jamrach’s Menagerie
	Patrick deWitt	The Sisters Brothers
	Stephen Kelman	Pigeon English