The Booker Prize winners of the 2010s
The top 3 according to 174 votes from people: The Finkler Question — Howard Jacobson · The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes · The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton. (Updated Jul 14, 2023.)
The novels that won the Booker Prize from 2010 to 2019, including the shared award of 2019.
Top 11
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The Finkler Question — Howard Jacobson
2010. A comic novel about friendship and Jewish identity in London.
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2
The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes
2011. A retired man revisits a youthful friendship and a suicide.
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The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton
2013. A gold-rush mystery in New Zealand; at the time the longest winner.
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A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James
2015. The attempted assassination of Bob Marley; first Jamaican winner.
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Bring Up the Bodies — Hilary Mantel
2012. Cromwell and the fall of Anne Boleyn; Mantel's second Booker.
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Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
2017. Lincoln's dead son among the ghosts of a cemetery.
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The Testaments — Margaret Atwood
2019, shared. The sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.
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The Sellout — Paul Beatty
2016. A satire on race; the first American winner.
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9
The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan
2014. An Australian surgeon on the Burma Death Railway.
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Girl, Woman, Other — Bernardine Evaristo
2019, shared. Twelve British women, mostly Black; Evaristo was the first Black woman to win.
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Milkman — Anna Burns
2018. A young woman in Belfast during the Troubles.
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Comments (4)
Bring Up the Bodies, Mantel won twice with the Cromwell books.
A Brief History of Seven Killings is intense, but brilliant.
Lincoln in the Bardo and Milkman, two very strange and great winners.
The Sense of an Ending, short and devastating.