I have unofficially been trying to read books from the Booker Prize shortlist for several years, so I decided to make it official and start a project. Since the prize goes back a long way, though, it is too much to aim for reading all the books. So, I have arbitrarily selected a cut-off date of 2010. I have already read some of the books, and my reviews are linked. The winning novels appear in purple (if linked) or red (if not linked). Some of the novels are also shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, so that is convenient, since I also have a project to read that list.
2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Room by Emma Donoghue
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
The Long Song by Andrea Levy
C by Tom McCarthy
2011
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Pigeon English by Stephan Kelman
Snowdrops by A D Miller
2012
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Bring Up the Bodies by Hillary Mantel
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
Umbrella by William Self
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
2013
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Harvest by Jim Crace
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
2014
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
J by Howard Jacobson
The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2016
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
His Bloody Project by Graham Macrae Burnet
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
2017
4321 by Paul Auster
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozi Obioma
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
2020
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
The Shadow King by Maaze Mengiste
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
2021
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
The Promise by Damon Galgut
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
2022
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Trees by Percival Everett
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
2023
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
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