Here is a table of past Booker Prize winners, organized by decade:
| Year | Winner |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Orbital by Samantha Harvey |
| 2023 | Prophet Song by Paul Lynch |
| 2022 | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka |
| 2021 | The Promise by Damon Galgut |
| 2020 | Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart |
| 2019 | Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo |
| 2019 | The Testaments by Margaret Atwood |
| 2018 | Milkman by Anna Burns |
| 2017 | Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders |
| 2016 | The Sellout by Paul Beatty |
| 2015 | A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James |
| 2014 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan |
| 2013 | The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton |
| 2012 | Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel |
| 2011 | The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes |
| 2010 | The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson |
| 2009 | Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel |
| 2008 | The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga |
| 2007 | The Gathering by Anne Enright |
| 2006 | The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai |
| 2005 | The Sea by John Banville |
| 2004 | The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst |
| 2003 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre |
| 2002 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel |
| 2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey |
| 2000 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood |
| 1999 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee |
| 1998 | The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens |
| 1997 | The Famished Road by Ben Okri |
| 1996 | Last Orders by Graham Swift |
| 1995 | The Ghost Road by Pat Barker |
| 1994 | How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman |
| 1993 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee |
| 1992 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje |
| 1991 | The Famished Road by Ben Okri |
| 1990 | Possession by A.S. Byatt |
| 1989 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 1988 | Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey |
| 1987 | Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively |
| 1986 | The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis |
| 1985 | The Bone People by Keri Hulme |
| 1984 | Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner |
| 1983 | Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee |
| 1982 | Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally |
| 1981 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie |
| 1980 | Rites of Passage by William Golding |
| 1979 | Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald |
| 1978 | The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch |
| 1977 | Staying On by Paul Scott |
| 1976 | Saville by David Storey |
| 1975 | Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| 1974 | The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer |
| 1973 | The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell |
| 1972 | G by John Berger |
| 1971 | In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul |
| 1970 | The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens |