The Booker Prize winners of the 1990s
The top 3 according to 93 votes from people: Possession — A. S. Byatt · The English Patient — Michael Ondaatje · Sacred Hunger — Barry Unsworth. (Updated Apr 1, 2022.)
The novels that won the Booker Prize from 1990 to 1999, including the shared award of 1992.
Top 11
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1
Possession — A. S. Byatt
1990. Two scholars uncover a secret Victorian love affair.
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2
The English Patient — Michael Ondaatje
1992, shared. A burned man in an Italian villa at the end of the war.
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Sacred Hunger — Barry Unsworth
1992, shared. A slave ship in the 18th century.
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4
The Famished Road — Ben Okri
1991. Azaro, a spirit child in a Nigerian city.
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How Late It Was, How Late — James Kelman
1994. A Glasgow man wakes up blind after a police beating.
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6
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha — Roddy Doyle
1993. A Dublin boy in 1968.
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Last Orders — Graham Swift
1996. Four friends carry a friend's ashes to Margate.
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The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
1997. Twins in Kerala and a family tragedy; her debut.
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The Ghost Road — Pat Barker
1995. The final volume of the Regeneration trilogy, set in World War I.
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10
Disgrace — J. M. Coetzee
1999. A disgraced professor in post-apartheid South Africa; Coetzee's second Booker.
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Amsterdam — Ian McEwan
1998. Two friends make a fatal pact.
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The God of Small Things, a debut novel winning the Booker, extraordinary.