# The Booker Prize winners of the 1980s

The ten novels that won the Booker Prize from 1980 to 1989, from Golding to Ishiguro.

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- Oct 9, 2019 · pageturner_salty
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## Top 10

1. **Rites of Passage — William Golding** (21 · ▲21 ▼0) — 1980. A sea voyage to Australia in the early 19th century.
2. **Life & Times of Michael K — J. M. Coetzee** (17 · ▲17 ▼0) — 1983. A man crosses a South Africa at war with his mother's ashes.
3. **Midnight's Children — Salman Rushdie** (16 · ▲19 ▼3) — 1981. Children born at the moment of Indian independence; later named the 'Booker of Bookers'.
4. **Schindler's Ark — Thomas Keneally** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — 1982. The story that became Schindler's List.
5. **Hotel du Lac — Anita Brookner** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — 1984. A romance novelist at a Swiss hotel.
6. **The Old Devils — Kingsley Amis** (9 · ▲12 ▼3) — 1986. Retired Welsh friends and their drinking.
7. **The Bone People — Keri Hulme** (8 · ▲11 ▼3) — 1985. A painter, a mute boy and his foster father in New Zealand.
8. **Moon Tiger — Penelope Lively** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — 1987. A dying historian recalls her life and a wartime love in Egypt.
9. **Oscar and Lucinda — Peter Carey** (6 · ▲10 ▼4) — 1988. Two gamblers and a glass church shipped across Australia.
10. **The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — 1989. A butler looks back on his life of service.

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