# The Booker Prize winners of the 2010s

The novels that won the Booker Prize from 2010 to 2019, including the shared award of 2019.

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- Jul 14, 2023 · Ayanda
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## Top 11

1. **The Finkler Question — Howard Jacobson** (23 · ▲23 ▼0) — 2010. A comic novel about friendship and Jewish identity in London.
2. **The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes** (18 · ▲18 ▼0) — 2011. A retired man revisits a youthful friendship and a suicide.
3. **The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton** (16 · ▲18 ▼2) — 2013. A gold-rush mystery in New Zealand; at the time the longest winner.
4. **A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James** (14 · ▲16 ▼2) — 2015. The attempted assassination of Bob Marley; first Jamaican winner.
5. **Bring Up the Bodies — Hilary Mantel** (10 · ▲12 ▼2) — 2012. Cromwell and the fall of Anne Boleyn; Mantel's second Booker.
6. **Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders** (10 · ▲12 ▼2) — 2017. Lincoln's dead son among the ghosts of a cemetery.
7. **The Testaments — Margaret Atwood** (9 · ▲12 ▼3) — 2019, shared. The sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.
8. **The Sellout — Paul Beatty** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — 2016. A satire on race; the first American winner.
9. **The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan** (7 · ▲10 ▼3) — 2014. An Australian surgeon on the Burma Death Railway.
10. **Girl, Woman, Other — Bernardine Evaristo** (5 · ▲11 ▼6) — 2019, shared. Twelve British women, mostly Black; Evaristo was the first Black woman to win.
11. **Milkman — Anna Burns** (1 · ▲7 ▼6) — 2018. A young woman in Belfast during the Troubles.

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