Winners of the Booker Prize
Booker Prize Public
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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
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he …
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
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A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
JAMAICA, 1976
Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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4 stars
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
5 stars
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell …
Phil in SF says: 2019 joint winner
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15 years after the sons of Jacob seized power in the USA and became Gilead. The story is told from …
Phil in SF says: 2019 joint winner
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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
4 stars
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s …
Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The …
Phil in SF says: 2021 winner
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Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
5 stars
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial …
Phil in SF says: 2022 winner
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On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB …
Phil in SF says: 2023 winner
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey, Sarah Naudi (Narrator)
4 stars
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of …
Phil in SF says: 2024 winner
