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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.
This list consists of all shortlisted non-winners for all years. Vote for your favorites!
Man Booker Prize Eligible Books by Year
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2017
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Never Let Me Go
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Atonement
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Room
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Cloud Atlas
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A Little Life
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Alias Grace
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The Night Watch
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The Little Stranger
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On Chesil Beach
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A Tale for the Time Being
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A Fine Balance
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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Quarantine
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Mister Pip
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Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
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The Satanic Verses
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On Beauty
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The Stone Diaries
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Brick Lane
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The Secret Scripture
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What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy, #2)
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The Children's Book
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When We Were Orphans
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The Story of Lucy Gault
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How to be Both
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Arthur & George
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
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Notes on a Scandal
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Cat’s Eye
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3.95 avg rating — 71,970 ratings
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The Secret River
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Harvest
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The Butcher Boy
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Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose, #4)
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Half Blood Blues
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Number9Dream
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Amongst Women
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The Sisters Brothers
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Remembering Babylon
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Exit West
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The Testament of Mary
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The Bookshop
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Black Dogs
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3.45 avg rating — 13,684 ratings
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Empire of the Sun
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Shame
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The Comfort of Strangers
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3.39 avg rating — 20,461 ratings
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Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
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Utz
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Carry Me Down
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Under the Frog
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Eva Trout
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Elmet
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Parrot and Olivier in America
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Time's Arrow
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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History of Wolves
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Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1)
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A Spool of Blue Thread
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3.44 avg rating — 100,797 ratings
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The Lighthouse
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Satin Island
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The Good Doctor
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A Long Long Way (Dunne Family #3)
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The Glass Room
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Unless
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A Month in the Country
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Earthly Powers
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Good Behaviour
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Illywhacker
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Eileen
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The Lives of Others
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An Artist of the Floating World
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Swimming Home
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Waterland
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James
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Dirt Music
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English Passengers
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Jamrach's Menagerie
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The Van (The Barrytown Trilogy, #3)
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Such a Long Journey
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The Moor's Last Sigh
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We Need New Names
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Impossible Object (British Literature Series)
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The White Hotel
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The Driver's Seat
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Small Things Like These
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Reading in the Dark
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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
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Great Circle
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Umbrella
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Glory
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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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