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Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
61 books — 1,990 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonAtonement by Ian McEwanLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Major Award-Winning Fiction Since 1990
252 books — 567 voters

A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Buried Giant by Kazuo IshiguroThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberOur Souls at Night by Kent HarufLila by Marilynne Robinson
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2015
143 books — 357 voters
Life After Life by Kate AtkinsonThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBurial Rites by Hannah Kent
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2013
176 books — 322 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Literature of Social Change
434 books — 315 voters
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiThe Lowland by Jhumpa LahiriThe Luminaries by Eleanor CattonTransAtlantic by Colum McCannThe Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
2013 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 268 voters

The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersDays Without End by Sebastian BarryThe Nix by Nathan HillExit West by Mohsin Hamid
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2017
178 books — 240 voters
Slade House by David MitchellHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Noise of Time by Julian BarnesWhat Belongs to You by Garth GreenwellMy Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2016
176 books — 196 voters

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel JoyceBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan EngThe Lighthouse by Alison MooreSwimming Home by Deborah Levy
2012 Man Booker Prize Longlist
12 books — 177 voters
Bel Canto by Ann PatchettHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSmall Island by Andrea LevyOn Beauty by Zadie SmithHome by Marilynne Robinson
Orange Prize for Fiction Winners
30 books — 130 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanWatership Down by Richard AdamsThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Last Battle by C.S. LewisA Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Carnegie Medal Winners
86 books — 116 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Stranger by Albert CamusLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayDoctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Nobel Prize in Literature Goodreads Group Shelf
353 books — 108 voters

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerThe Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellHow to Be Both by Ali SmithThe Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
2014 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 102 voters
Hollow Heart by Viola Di GradoThe Vegetarian by Han KangA Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan PamukThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena FerranteMy Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
Man Booker International Prize: Eligible Books 2016
152 books — 97 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteZodiac by Robert GraysmithShadows of Truth by Barry FinlayEscaping the Arroyo by Joyce NanceKilling Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
True Crime Award Winners Collection
66 books — 89 voters
A Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThrough Black Spruce by Joseph BoydenLate Nights on Air by Elizabeth HayBloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners
28 books — 74 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanLongitude by Dava Sobel
Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize
128 books — 73 voters
Girls, Be Good by Bojan BabićFever Dream by Samanta SchweblinOne-Two by Igor EliseevThe Melancholy of Resistance by László KrasznahorkaiMoonstone by Sjón
Man Booker International Prize: Eligible Books 2017
141 books — 73 voters

Atonement by Ian McEwanThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
It Should Have Won an Award
58 books — 60 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyNot Okay by Brett Axel
Dark Literary Fiction
131 books — 51 voters

The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi GospodinovThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena FerranteWar, So Much War by Mercè RodoredaSigns Preceding the End of the World by Yuri HerreraThe Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
Best Translated Book Award Fiction Shortlist 2016
10 books — 49 voters
The Road by Cormac McCarthyMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithA Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
111 books — 39 voters

The Vegetarian by Han KangA Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan PamukMan Tiger by Eka KurniawanA Whole Life by Robert SeethalerThe Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Man Booker International Prize 2016 Longlist
13 books — 30 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsReady Player One by Ernest ClineHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardRed Rising by Pierce Brown
Let The Games Begin
42 books — 20 voters

Middle Miles by Cory MortensenThe Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de WaalMy Father's Fortune by Michael FraynRed Dust Road by Jackie KayWaking Up in Toytown by burnside-john
PEN/Ackerley Prize for Memoir 2011
5 books — 15 voters
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki MurakamiThe End of Days by Jenny ErpenbeckTiger Milk by Stefanie de VelascoThe Dead Lake by Hamid IsmailovBoyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgård
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 Longlist
15 books — 14 voters

The Story of a New Name by Elena FerranteThe Whispering Muse by SjónOrbitor. Aripa stângă by Mircea CărtărescuThe African Shore by Rodrigo Rey RosaSeiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai
Best Translated Book Award Fiction Longlist 2014
20 books — 11 voters
Songs for the Cold of Heart by Éric DupontAn Ocean of Minutes by Thea LimSplit Tooth by Tanya TagaqOur Homesick Songs by Emma HooperWashington Black by Esi Edugyan
2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist
12 books — 10 voters

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona AwadThe Wonder by Emma DonoghueThe Best Kind of People by Zoe WhittallBy Gaslight by Steven Price
2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist
12 books — 8 voters
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'NeillAll My Puny Sorrows by Miriam ToewsThe Betrayers by David BezmozgisUs Conductors by Sean MichaelsTell by Frances Itani
2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist
13 books — 7 voters

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