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The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. The prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
Beginning with the 2014 prize, any novel published in English is eligible regardless of the citizenship of the author.
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Beginning with the 2014 prize, any novel published in English is eligible regardless of the citizenship of the author.
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The Fishermen
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Snowdrops
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The Book of Evidence (The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy, #1)
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Astonishing Splashes of Colour
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I'll Go to Bed at Noon (The Jones Trilogy, #2)
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Our Fathers
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Headlong
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Every Man for Himself
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Breakfast on Pluto
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England, England
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Master Georgie
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All That Man Is
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Europa
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The Deposition of Father McGreevy
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The Redundancy Of Courage
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Morality Play
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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Creation Lake
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Stone Yard Devotional
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Added (and in some cases verified) Short List non-winners from 1991-2024. And the first page looks good - every book was correct. I added at least 34 new books to this list.
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