The Booker Prize winners of the 2000s
The top 3 according to 25 votes from people: The Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood · True History of the Kelly Gang — Peter Carey · The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai. (Updated Dec 9, 2024.)
The ten novels that won the Booker Prize from 2000 to 2009, from The Blind Assassin to Wolf Hall.
Top 10
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1
The Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood
2000. Two sisters, a novel within a novel and a 1940s Canada.
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2
True History of the Kelly Gang — Peter Carey
2001. The outlaw Ned Kelly in his own voice; Carey's second Booker.
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3
The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai
2006. A retired judge in the Himalayas and an illegal immigrant in New York.
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4
Life of Pi — Yann Martel
2002. A boy and a Bengal tiger in a lifeboat.
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5
The Sea — John Banville
2005. A widower returns to the seaside town of his childhood.
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6
The White Tiger — Aravind Adiga
2008. A driver's rise through murder in modern India.
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7
The Gathering — Anne Enright
2007. An Irish family gathers after a brother's suicide.
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8
Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel
2009. Thomas Cromwell at the court of Henry VIII.
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9
Vernon God Little — DBC Pierre
2003. A Texan teenager blamed for a school shooting.
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10
The Line of Beauty — Alan Hollinghurst
2004. A young gay man in Thatcher's London.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (2)
Wolf Hall and Life of Pi in the same decade, great Booker run.
The Inheritance of Loss is underrated.