Booker Prize winners and shortlisted books

The Booker Prize, founded in the UK in 1969, is awarded each year by a panel of judges to a single work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. The International Booker Prize is awarded each year to a single book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland, with the prize money shared equally between author and translator.

Here are 31 books that won or were shortlisted: 23 for the Booker Prize, including Flesh (winner 2025) and Orbital (winner 2024), and 8 for the International Booker Prize, including Time Shelter (winner 2023).