- announced October 15, 2013
2013 Shortlist
- announced September 10, 2013
2013 Longlist
- announced July 23, 2013
2012 Man Booker Prize Winner
- Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
- Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (5 stars)
- The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
- Umbrella by Will Self
- Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
- The Yips by Nicola Barker
- The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
- Philida by Andre Brink
- Skios by Michael Frayn
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (4 stars)
- Communion Town by Sam Thompson (4 stars)
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (5 stars)
2011 Shortlist
- Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (4 stars)
- Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (4 stars)
- Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman (3 stars)
- Snowdrops by A.D. Miller (4.5 stars)
- On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
- A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
- The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
- The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
- Far to Go by Alison Pick (4 stars)
- The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
- Derby Day by D.J. Taylor
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
- The Long Song by Andrea Levy
- C by Tom McCarthy
- The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
- February by Lisa Moore
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
- Trespass by Rose Tremain
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
- The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
- Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
- The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
- The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
- How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
- The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
- Me Cheeta by James Lever
- Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin
- Heliopolis by James Scudamore
- Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
- Love and Summer by William Trevor
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
- The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
- The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
- A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
- Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
- From A to X by John Berger
- The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
- The Enchantress of Florence by Jonathan Cape
- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
2007 Winner
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
2007 Shortlist
- Darkmans by Nicola Barker
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- Animal's People by Indra Sinha
2007 Longlist
- Self Help by Edward Docx
- The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
- Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
- What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
- Consolation by Michael Redhill
- The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
- Winnie & Wolf by A.N. Wilson
2006 Winner
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2006 Shortlist
- The Secret River by Kate Grenville
- Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
- In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
- Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
2006 Longlist
- Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
- Gathering the Water by Robert Edric
- Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer
- Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
- Seven Lies by James Lasdun
- The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
- So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
- The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr
- Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
- The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
- The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth
2005 Winner
- The Sea by John Banville
2005 Shortlist
- Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
- A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- The Accidental by Ali Smith
2005 Longlist
- The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
- Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
- In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
- All For Love by Dan Jacobson
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrania by Marina Lewycka
- Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
- Saturday by Ian McEwan
- The People's Act of Love by James Meek
- Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
- This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
- This Is The Country by William Wall
2004 Winner
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2004 Shortlist
- Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
- The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The Master by Colm Toibin
- I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
2004 Longlist
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
- Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
- Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker
- The Island Walkers by John Bemrose
- Havoc, in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Always the Sun by Neil Cross
- Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
- A Blade of Grass by Lewis Desoto
- Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
- The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe
- The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
- Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
- The Unnumbered by Sam North
- Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
- Cherry by Matt Thorne
2003 Winner
- Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2003 Shortlist
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
- Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
2003 Longlist
- Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
- Turn Again Home by Carol Birch
- Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg
- Elizabeth Costello J.M. Coetzee
- The Taxi Driver's Daughter by Julia Darling
- Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan
- The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- The Nick of Time by Francis King
- Heligoland by Shena Mackay
- Jazz etc by John Murray
- Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson
- Judge Savage by Tim Parks
- A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
- Waxwings by Jonathan Raban
- The Light of Day by Graham Swift
- Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido
2002 Winner
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2002 Shortlist
- Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
- Unless by Carol Shields
- The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- Dirt Music by Tim Winton
2002 Longlist
- The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds & Dr. Glas by Dannie Abse
- Shroud by John Banville
- Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot
- Any Human Heart by William Boyd
- The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner
- Peacetime by Robert Edric
- Spies by Michael Frayn
- Still Here by Linda Grant
- The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
- Who's Sorry Now? by Howard Jacobson
- If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
- Dorian by Will Self
- The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
- To The Last City by Colin Thubron
2001 Winner
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2001 Shortlist
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Oxygen by Andrew Miller
- number9dream by David Mitchell
- The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
- Hotel World by Ali Smith
2001 Longlist
- According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
- If the Invader Comes by Derek Beaven
- A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
- Shamrock Tea by Ciaran Carson
- The Element of Water by Stevie Davies
- The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
- Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
- By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
- Wolfy and the Strudelbakers by Zvi Jagendorf
- Translated Accounts by James Kelman
- The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee
- Fairness by Ferdinand Mount
- Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
- The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
- The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner
2000 Winner
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
2000 Shortlist
- The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
- The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
- English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
- The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty