Winners of the Booker Prize
Booker Prize Public
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.' Thus begins The Blind Assassin …
Phil in SF says: 2000 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2001 winner
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4 stars
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only …
Phil in SF says: 2002 winner
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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble. And it has something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
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The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
5 stars
It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill …
Phil in SF says: 2004 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2005 winner
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The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai
3 stars
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants …
Phil in SF says: 2006 winner
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The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
MEET BALRANI HALWAI, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner
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4 stars
Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour …
Phil in SF says: 2009 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
4 stars
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the …
Phil in SF says: 2012 winner
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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
4 stars
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
