The Booker Prize
Shortlists from the 1990s
[Winners listed first]
1999
"Disgrace", J.M. Coetzee
"Fasting, Feasting", Anita Desai
"Headlong", Michael Frayn
"Our Fathers", Andrew O'Hagan
"The Map of Love", Ahdaf Soueif
"The Blackwater Lightship", Colm Tóibín
Booker 1999 page 		 
1998
"Amsterdam", Ian McEwan
"Master Georgie", Beryl Bainbridge
"England, England", Julian Barnes
"The Industry of Souls", Martin Booth
"Breakfast on Pluto", Patrick McCabe
"The Restraint of Beasts", Magnus Mills
Booker 1998 page 		 
1997
"The God of Small Things ", Arundhati Roy
"Quarantine", Jim Crace
"The Underground Man", Mick Jackson
"Grace Notes", Bernard MacLaverty
"Europa", Tim Parks
"The Essence of the Thing", Madeleine St John
Booker 1997 page 		 
1996
"Last Orders", Graham Swift
"Alias Grace", Margaret Atwood
"Every Man for Himself", Beryl Bainbridge
"Reading in the Dark", Seamus Deane
"The Orchard on Fire", Shena Mackay
"A Fine Balance", Rohinton Mistry
Booker 1996 page 		 
1995
"The Ghost Road", Pat Barker
"In Every face I Meet", Justin Cartwright
"The Moor's Last Sigh", Salman Rushdie
"Morality Play", Barry Unsworth
"The Riders", Tim Winton
Booker 1995 page 		 
1994
"How Late It Was, How Late", James Kelman
"Beside the Ocean of Time", George MacKay Brown
"Reef", Romesh Gunesekera
"Paradise", Abdulrazak Gurnah
"The Folding Star", Alan Hollinghurst
"Knowledge of Angels", Jill Paton Walsh
Booker 1994 page 		 
1993
"Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha", Roddy Doyle
"Under the Frog", Tibor Fischer
"Scar Tissue", Michael Ignatieff
"Remembering Babylon", David Malouf
"Crossing the River", Caryl Phillips
"The Stone Diaries", Carol Shields
Booker 1993 page 		 
1992
"The English Patient", Michael Ondaatje (co-winner)
"Sacred Hunger", Barry Unsworth (co-winner)
"Serenity House", Christopher Hope
"The Butcher Boy", Patrick McCabe
"Black Dogs", Ian McEwan
"Daughters of the House", Michele Roberts
Booker 1992 page 		 
1991
"The Famished Road", Ben Okri
"Time's Arrow", Martin Amis
"The Van", Roddy Doyle
"Such a Long Journey", Rohinton Mistry
"The Redundancy of Courage", Timothy Mo
"Reading Turgenev" (from "Two Lives"), William Trevor
Booker 1991 page 		 
1990
"Possession", A. S. Byatt
"An Awfully Big Adventure", Beryl Bainbridge
"The Gate of Angels", Penelope Fitzgerald
"Amongst Women", John McGahern
"Lies of Silence", Brian Moore
"Solomon Gursky was Here", Mordecai Richler
Booker 1990 page