Reading Challenge: Reading All The Booker Prize Winners.

The Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards. The winners are announced in October of each year and in order to be eligible, the books have to be in English and published in the UK. I have only read a few of the Booker Prize winners and I've been impressed so far. I always see a lot of excitement and mixed reviews about the winners and the longlist each year, so I'm excited to see where I stand on each book.

I will highlight in green the books I've read with the dates read, and link the ones I've reviewed. DNF = I Did Not Finish, which means that I did not like the book enough to continue reading it.

Booker Prize Winners:

1. 1969: Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby

2. 1970: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

3. 1970 (Lost Man Booker Prize): Troubles by J. G. Farrell

4. 1971: In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul

5. 1972: G. by John Berger

6. 1973: The Siege of Krishnapur by J. mG. Farrell

7. 1974: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

8. 1974: Holiday by Stanley Middleton

9. 1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

10. 1976: Saville by David Storey

11. 1977: Staying On by Paul Scott

12. 1978: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

13. 1979: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald **Read in 2023**

14. 1980: Rites of Passage by William Golding

15. 1981: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

16. 1982: Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

17. 1983: Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee

18. 1984: Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner **Read in 2021**

19. 1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme

20. 1986: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

21. 1987: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively **Read in 2022**

22. 1988: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

23. 1989: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro **Read in 2023**

24. 1990: Possession, a Romance by A. S. Byatt

25. 1991: The Famished Road by Ben Okri

26. 1992: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

27. 1992: Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

28. 1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

29. 1994: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman

30. 1995: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

31. 1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift

32. 1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ** DNF 2022**

33. 1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan **Read 2023**

34. 1999: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

35. 2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

36. 2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

37. 2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel **Read 2023**

38. 2003: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre

39. 2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

40. 2005: The Sea by John Banville **Read 2023**

41. 2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

42. 2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright ** Read 2023**

43. 2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga **Read in 2023**

44. 2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel **Read in 2022**

45. 2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

46. 2011: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes **Read 2023**

47. 2012: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

48. 2013: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

49. 2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

50. 2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James ** Read in 2021**

51. 2016: The Sellout by Paul Beatty

52. 2017: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders **Read in 2022**

53. 2018: Milkman by Anna Burns **Read 2023**

54. 2019: Girl, Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo **DNF 2022**

55. 2019: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

56. 2020: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart

57. 2021: The Promise by Damon Galgut

58. 2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

59. 2023: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch