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"Banville's fluid prose glides over the pages of The Sea, a rich
story filled with heart and bittersweet longing. I pored over the luminescent
descriptions of time and place and the beautiful characters that make up this
world. Clearly the Man Booker was well deserved." Recommended by Ann,
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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
Amsterdam: A
Novel by
Ian McEwan
1997
The God of
Small Things by
Arundhati Roy
1996
Last Orders
by
Graham Swift
1995
The Ghost Road
by
Pat Barker
1994
How Late It
Was, How Late by
James Kelman
1993
Paddy Clarke Ha
Ha Ha by
Roddy Doyle
1992
The English
Patient by
Michael Ondaatje (co-winner)
1992
Sacred Hunger
by
Barry Unsworth (co-winner)
1991
The Famished
Road by
Ben
Okri
1990
Possession: A
Romance 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
List 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
1969
Something to Answer For by
P. H. Newby