# Booker Prize winners of the 1970s

The novels that won the Booker Prize from 1970 to 1979, including the shared prize of 1974.

- 63 votes · 11 items
- Dec 19, 2023 · Olivia
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## Top 11

1. **In a Free State — V. S. Naipaul** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — 1971. Stories of displacement, from Washington to Africa.
2. **The Elected Member — Bernice Rubens** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 1970. A Jewish family in London and a son's breakdown.
3. **Holiday — Stanley Middleton** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1974 (shared). A lecturer alone at a seaside resort.
4. **The Siege of Krishnapur — J. G. Farrell** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1973. The 1857 Indian Rebellion seen from a besieged residency.
5. **The Conservationist — Nadine Gordimer** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1974 (shared). A white industrialist and his farm in apartheid South Africa.
6. **G. — John Berger** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 1972. A Don Juan in pre-1914 Europe.
7. **Saville — David Storey** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1976. A miner's son grows up in Yorkshire.
8. **Staying On — Paul Scott** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1977. A British couple who stay in India after independence.
9. **Offshore — Penelope Fitzgerald** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1979. Houseboat dwellers on the Thames.
10. **Heat and Dust — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — 1975. Two Englishwomen in India, fifty years apart.
11. **The Sea, the Sea — Iris Murdoch** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — 1978. A retired theatre director obsessed with his first love.

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