The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

The winners and shortlisted titles for each year.

1969
Something to Answer For, P.H. Newby
Figures in a Landscape, Barry England
From Scenes like These, G.M. Williams
The Impossible Object, Nicholas Mosley
The Nice and the Good, Iris Murdoch
The Public Image, Muriel Spark

1970
The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens
Bruno's Dream, Iris Murdoch
Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
John Brown's Body, A.L. Barker
Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel, William Trevor
The Conjunction, T.W. Wheeler

1971
In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul
Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing
Goshawk Squadron, Derek Robinson
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor
St. Urbain's Horseman, Mordecai Richler
The Big Chapel, Thomas Kilroy

1972
G, John Berger
Bird of Night, Susan Hill
Pasmore, David Storey
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Thomas Keneally

1973
The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
The Dressmaker, Beryl Bainbridge
The Green Equinox, Elizabeth Mavor

1974
Holiday, Stanley Middlton
The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer
Ending Up, Kingsley Amis
In Their Wisdom, C.P. Snow
The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge

1975
Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Gossip from the Forest, Thomas Keneally

1976
Saville, by David Storey
An Instant in the Wind, Andre Brink
King Fisher Lives, Julian Rathbone
Rising, R.C. Hutchinson
The Children of Dynmouth, William Trevor
The Doctor's Wife, Brian Moore

1977
Staying On, Paul Scott
Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood
Peter Smart's Confessions, Paul Bailey
Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym
Shadows on Our Skin, Jennifer Johnston
The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively

1978
The Sea, the Sea, Iris Murdoch
A Five-Year Sentence, Bernice Rubens
God on the Rocks, Jane Gardam
Jake's Thing, Kingsley Amis
Rumours of Rain, Andre Brink
The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald

1979
Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
Confederates, Thomas Keneally
Joseph, Julian Rathbone
Praxis, Fay Weldon

1980
Rites of Passage, William Golding
A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
Clear Light of Day, Anita Desai
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
No Country for Young Men, Julia O'Faolain
Pascali's Island, Barry Unsworth
The Beggar Maid, Alice Munro

1981
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Good Behaviour, Molly Keane
Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark
Rhine Journey, Ann Schlee
The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan
The Sirian Experiments, Doris Lessing
The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas

1982
Schindler's Ark, Thomas Keneally
An Ice-Cream War, William Boyd
Constance or Solitary Practices, Lawrence Durrell
Silence among the Weapons, John Arden
Sour Sweet, Timothy Mo
The 27th Kingdom, Alice Thomas Ellis

1983
Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
Flying to Nowhere, John Fuller
Rates of Exchange, Professor Malcolm Bradbury
Shame, Salman Rushdie
The Illusionist, Anita Mason
Waterland, Graham Swift

1984
Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
According to Mark, Penelope Lively
Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes
In Custody, Anita Desai
Small World, David Lodge

1985
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
Illywacker, Peter Carey
Last Letters from Hav, Jan Morris
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing, J.L. Carr
The Good Apprentice, Iris Murdoch
The Good Terrorist, Doris Lessing

1986
The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
An Insular Possession, Timothy Mo
Gabriel's Lamet, Paul Bailey
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
What's Bred in the Bone, Robertson Davies

1987
Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe
Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd
Circles of Deceit, Nina Bawden
The Brook and the Brotherhood, Iris Murdoch
The Colour of Blood, Brian Moore

1988
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
Nice Work, David Lodge
The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
The Lost Father, Marina Warner
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
Utz, Bruce Chatwin

1989
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
A Disaffection, James Kelman
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
Jigsaw, Sybille Bedford
Restoration, Rose Tremain
The Book of Evidence, John Banville

1990
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Amongst Women, John McGahern
An Awfully Big Adventure, Beryl Bainbridge
Lies of Silence, Brian Moore
Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald

1991
The Famished Road, Ben Okri
Reading Turgenev, William Trevor
Such a Long Journey, Rohinton Mistry
The Redundancy of Courage, Timothy Mo
The Van, Roddy Doyle
Time's Arrow, Martin Amis

1992 (the year with two winners!)
The Enlish Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth
Black Dogs, Ian McEwan
Daughters of the House, Michele Roberts
Serenity House, Christopher Hope
The Butcher Boy, Parick McCabe

1993
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips
Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
Scar Tissue, Michael Ignatieff
The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
Under the Frog, Tibor Fischer

1994
How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
Beside the Ocean of Time, George Mackay Brown
Knowledge of Angels, Jill Paton Walsh
Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah
Reef, Romesh Gunesekera
The Folding Star, Alan Holinghurst

1995
The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
In Every Face I Meet, Justin Cartwright
Morality Play, Barry Unsworth
The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
The Riders, Tim Winton

1996
Last Orders, Graham Swift
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
Every Man for Himself, Beryl Bainbridge
Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
The Orchard on Fire, Shena Mackay

1997
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Europa, Tim Parks
Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty
Quarantine, Jim Crace
The Essence of the Thing, Madelaine St. John
The Underground Man, Mick Jackson

1998
Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick McCabe
England, England, Julian Barnes
Master Georgie, Beryl Bainbridge
The Industry of Souls, Martin Booth
The Restraint of Beasts, Magnus Mills

1999
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai
Headlong, Michael Frayn
Our Fathers, Andrew O'Hagan
The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif

2000
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
The Deposition of Father McGreevy, Brian O'Doherty
The Hiding Place, Trezza Azzopardi
The Keepers of Truth, Michael Collins
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro

2001
True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Hotel World, Ali Smith
number9dream, David Mitchell
Oxygen, Andrew Miller
The Dark Room, Rachel Sieffert

2002
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Dirt Music, Tim Winton
Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor
Unless, Carol Shields

2003
Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
Astonishing Splashes of Colour, Clare Morrall
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
The Good Doctor, Damon Galgut

2004
The Line of Beauty, Alan Holinghurst
Bitter Fruit, Achmat Dangor
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (thread)
I'll Go to Bed at Noon, Gerard Woodward
The Electric Michelangelo, Sarah Hall
The Master, Colm Toibin

2005
The Sea, John Banville
A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
Arthur and George, Julian Barnes
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
The Accidental, Ali Smith

2006
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
Carry Me Down, M.J. Hyland
In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
Mother's Milk, Edward St. Aubyn
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
The Secret River, Kate Grenville

2007
The Gathering, Anne Enright
Animal's People, Indra Sinha
Darkmans, Nicola Barker
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid

2008
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs, Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency, Philip Hensher
The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry

2009
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Summertime, J.M. Coetzee
The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt
The Glass Room, Simon Mawer
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds

The Lost Booker
(This was a special edition awarded by public vote in 2010 for a novel from 1970, when the prize rules were altered, leaving many books out of contention for the Booker)
Troubles, J.G. Farrell
The Birds on the Trees, Nina Bawden
The Bay of Noon, Shirley Hazzard
Fire from Heave, Mary Renault
The Driver's Seat, Muriel Spark
The Vivisector, Patrick White

2010
The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
C, Tom McCarthy
In a Strange Room, Damon Galgut
Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
Room, Emma Donoghue
The Long Song, Andrea Levy

2011
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch
Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman
Snowdrops, A.D. Miller
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt

2012
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil
Swimming Home, Deborah Levy
The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
The Lighthouse, Alison Moore
Umbrella, Will Self

2013
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
Harvest, Jim Crace
The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
The Testament of Mary, Colm Tóibín

2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
J, by Howard Jacobson
The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee
How to be both, Ali Smith

2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
Satin Island, Tom McCarthy
The Fisherman, Chigozie Obioma
The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota
A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

2016
The Sellout, Paul Beatty
Hot Milk, Deborah Levy
His Bloody Project, Graeme Macrae
Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh
All That Man Is, David Szalay
Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien

2017
Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
4 3 2 1, by Paul Auster
History of Wolves, by Emily Fridlund
Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
Elmet, by Fiona Mozley
Autumn, by Ali Smith

2018
Milkman, by Anna Burns
Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan
Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson
The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner
The Overstory, by Richard Powers
The Long Take, by Robin Robertson

2019
Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo
The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
Ducks, Newbury Port, by Lucy Ellmann
An Orchestra of Minorities, by Chigozie Obioma
Quichotte, by Salman Rushdie
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, by Elif Shafak

2020
Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart
The New Wilderness, by Diane Cook
This Mournable Body, by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Burnt Sugar, by Avni Doshi
The Shadow King, by Maaza Mengiste
Real Life, by Brandon Taylor