Booker Prize: every winner 1969–2025, on audiobook
Which books won the Booker Prize? All 60 winners from 1969 to 2025 are listed below, newest first — most recently Flesh by David Szalay (2025) — each linked to its audiobook record where one exists.
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award for fiction written in English, awarded annually since 1969. Its winners are flagship literary-fiction titles, the vast majority available as full audiobook productions.
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Every Booker Prize winner, 1969–2025
| Year | Winning novel | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Flesh | David Szalay |
| 2024 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey |
| 2023 | Prophet Song | Paul Lynch |
| 2022 | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Shehan Karunatilaka |
| 2021 | The Promise | Damon Galgut |
| 2020 | Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart |
| 2019 | The Testaments | Margaret Atwood |
| 2019 | Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo |
| 2018 | Milkman | Anna Burns |
| 2017 | Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders |
| 2016 | The Sellout | Paul Beatty |
| 2015 | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James |
| 2014 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan |
| 2013 | The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton |
| 2012 | Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel |
| 2011 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes |
| 2010 | The Finkler Question | Howard Jacobson |
| 2009 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel |
| 2008 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga |
| 2007 | The Gathering | Anne Enright |
| 2006 | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai |
| 2005 | The Sea | John Banville |
| 2004 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst |
| 2003 | Vernon God Little | DBC Pierre |
| 2002 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| 2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey |
| 2000 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| 1999 | Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee |
| 1998 | Amsterdam | Ian McEwan |
| 1997 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| 1996 | Last Orders | Graham Swift |
| 1995 | The Ghost Road | Pat Barker |
| 1994 | How Late It Was, How Late | James Kelman |
| 1993 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle |
| 1992 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje |
| 1992 | Sacred Hunger | Barry Unsworth |
| 1991 | The Famished Road | Ben Okri |
| 1990 | Possession | A. S. Byatt |
| 1989 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 1988 | Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey |
| 1987 | Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively |
| 1986 | The Old Devils | Kingsley Amis |
| 1985 | The Bone People | Keri Hulme |
| 1984 | Hotel du Lac | Anita Brookner |
| 1983 | Life & Times of Michael K | J. M. Coetzee |
| 1982 | Schindler's Ark | Thomas Keneally |
| 1981 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie |
| 1980 | Rites of Passage | William Golding |
| 1979 | Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| 1978 | The Sea, the Sea | Iris Murdoch |
| 1977 | Staying On | Paul Scott |
| 1976 | Saville | David Storey |
| 1975 | Heat and Dust | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| 1974 | The Conservationist | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1974 | Holiday | Stanley Middleton |
| 1973 | The Siege of Krishnapur | J. G. Farrell |
| 1972 | G. | John Berger |
| 1971 | In a Free State | V. S. Naipaul |
| 1970 | The Elected Member | Bernice Rubens |
| 1969 | Something to Answer For | P. H. Newby |
Frequently asked questions
Who won the 2025 Booker Prize?
The 2025 Booker Prize went to Flesh by David Szalay.
How many books have won the Booker Prize?
60 winners are on record from 1969 to 2025, all listed on this page with their year and author, sourced from Wikipedia.
Who has won the Booker Prize more than once?
Margaret Atwood (2 wins), Hilary Mantel (2 wins), Peter Carey (2 wins), J. M. Coetzee (2 wins).
Are Booker Prize winners available as audiobooks?
Most are: Booker Prize-winning novels are perennial audiobook favourites, and an Audible free trial includes one credit good for any of them.
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