# The Booker Prize winners of the 1990s

The novels that won the Booker Prize from 1990 to 1999, including the shared award of 1992.

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- Apr 1, 2022 · vinylhead_grumpy
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## Top 11

1. **Possession — A. S. Byatt** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — 1990. Two scholars uncover a secret Victorian love affair.
2. **The English Patient — Michael Ondaatje** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — 1992, shared. A burned man in an Italian villa at the end of the war.
3. **Sacred Hunger — Barry Unsworth** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — 1992, shared. A slave ship in the 18th century.
4. **The Famished Road — Ben Okri** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — 1991. Azaro, a spirit child in a Nigerian city.
5. **How Late It Was, How Late — James Kelman** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1994. A Glasgow man wakes up blind after a police beating.
6. **Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha — Roddy Doyle** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1993. A Dublin boy in 1968.
7. **Last Orders — Graham Swift** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 1996. Four friends carry a friend's ashes to Margate.
8. **The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 1997. Twins in Kerala and a family tragedy; her debut.
9. **The Ghost Road — Pat Barker** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 1995. The final volume of the Regeneration trilogy, set in World War I.
10. **Disgrace — J. M. Coetzee** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — 1999. A disgraced professor in post-apartheid South Africa; Coetzee's second Booker.
11. **Amsterdam — Ian McEwan** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1998. Two friends make a fatal pact.

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