# The Booker Prize winners of the 2000s

The ten novels that won the Booker Prize from 2000 to 2009, from The Blind Assassin to Wolf Hall.

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- Dec 9, 2024 · Brooke Parker
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## Top 10

1. **The Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 2000. Two sisters, a novel within a novel and a 1940s Canada.
2. **True History of the Kelly Gang — Peter Carey** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2001. The outlaw Ned Kelly in his own voice; Carey's second Booker.
3. **The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2006. A retired judge in the Himalayas and an illegal immigrant in New York.
4. **Life of Pi — Yann Martel** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2002. A boy and a Bengal tiger in a lifeboat.
5. **The Sea — John Banville** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2005. A widower returns to the seaside town of his childhood.
6. **The White Tiger — Aravind Adiga** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2008. A driver's rise through murder in modern India.
7. **The Gathering — Anne Enright** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2007. An Irish family gathers after a brother's suicide.
8. **Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2009. Thomas Cromwell at the court of Henry VIII.
9. **Vernon God Little — DBC Pierre** (-1 · ▲2 ▼3) — 2003. A Texan teenager blamed for a school shooting.
10. **The Line of Beauty — Alan Hollinghurst** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2004. A young gay man in Thatcher's London.

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