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Man Booker Shortlist

Notable shortlisted (but not winning) novels of the Booker Prize, sourced from the canonical Goodreads list.

96 books•Created by BookTribes Team•6/9/2026
Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Atonement

Atonement

Ian McEwan

Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood

Room

Room

Emma Donoghue

Cloud Atlas: a Novel

Cloud Atlas: a Novel

David Stephen Mitchell

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid, Satya Bhabha, Hamid Yoshin

Fingersmith

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

A Little Life

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Alias Grace

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

The Little Stranger

The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters, Jaime Zulaika Goicoechea

On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

A tale for the time being

A tale for the time being

Ruth L. Ozeki, 田中文

A fine balance

A fine balance

Rohinton Mistry

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Joy Fowler

Quarantine

Quarantine

Jim Crace

The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

The children's book

The children's book

A. S. Byatt

Fire from Heaven

Fire from Heaven

Mary Renault

On Beauty

On Beauty

Zadie Smith, Peter Francis James, Adjoa Andoh, Philippe Aronson, Ana María de la Fuente Suárez

The Stone Diaries

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

Brick lane

Brick lane

Monica Ali

The Secret Scripture

The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

What's bred in the bone

What's bred in the bone

Robertson Davies

When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Story of Lucy Gault

The Story of Lucy Gault

William Trevor

How to be both

How to be both

Ali Smith, Ali Smith

Arthur and George

Arthur and George

Julian Barnes

Number9Dream

Number9Dream

David Mitchell

His bloody project

His bloody project

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

Zoe Heller

Cat's eye

Cat's eye

Margaret Atwood

The secret river

The secret river

Kate Grenville

Harvest

Harvest

Jim Crace

The BUTCHER BOY

The BUTCHER BOY

Patrick McCabe, MacCabe, Colin., Redmond Morris, Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan

Shame

Shame

Salman Rushdie

Sea of poppies

Sea of poppies

Amitav Ghosh

Mother's milk

Mother's milk

Edward St Aubyn

Half-blood blues

Half-blood blues

Esi Edugyan

Amongst Women

Amongst Women

John McGahern

The sisters brothers

The sisters brothers

Patrick deWitt

Remembering Babylon

Remembering Babylon

David Malouf

Exit West

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

The testament of Mary

The testament of Mary

Colm Tóibín

The bookshop

The bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

Black Dogs

Black Dogs

Ian McEwan

Earthly Powers

Earthly Powers

Anthony Burgess

The comfort of strangers

The comfort of strangers

Ian McEwan

Utz

Utz

Bruce Chatwin

Carry Me Down

Carry Me Down

M. J. Hyland

Under the Frog

Under the Frog

Tibor Fischer

Eva Trout

Eva Trout

Elizabeth Bowen

Elmet

Elmet

Fiona Mozley, Gareth Bennett-Ryan, Joe Jameson

Parrot and Olivier in America

Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey

Time's Arrow

Time's Arrow

Martin Amis

The Garden Of Evening Mists

The Garden Of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng

History of Wolves

History of Wolves

Emily Fridlund

Autumn

Autumn

Ali Smith

The Shadow King

The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste

The lighthouse

The lighthouse

Alison Moore

Satin Island

Satin Island

Tom McCarthy

The Good Doctor

The Good Doctor

Damon Galgut

A long long way

A long long way

Sebastian Barry

The glass room

The glass room

Simon Mawer

Unless

Unless

Carol Shields

A Month in the Country

A Month in the Country

James Lloyd Carr

Good Behaviour

Good Behaviour

Molly Keane

Illywhacker

Illywhacker

Peter Carey

Eileen

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

4 3 2 1

4 3 2 1

Paul Auster

The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

Neel Mukherjee

An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

Swimming home

Swimming home

Deborah Levy

Waterland.

Waterland.

Graham Swift, Graham Swift

James: A Novel

James: A Novel

Percival Everett

Dirt music

Dirt music

Tim Winton

English passengers

English passengers

Matthew Kneale

Jamrach's Menagerie

Jamrach's Menagerie

Carol Birch

The Van

The Van

Roddy Doyle

Held

Held

Anne Michaels

Flaubert's Parrot

Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes

Such a long journey

Such a long journey

Rohinton Mistry

The Moor's last sigh

The Moor's last sigh

Salman Rushdie

We need new names

We need new names

NoViolet Bulawayo

Impossible Object

Impossible Object

Nicholas Mosley

The white hotel

The white hotel

D. M. Thomas

Pigeon English

Pigeon English

Stephen Kelman

The driver's seat

The driver's seat

Muriel Spark

Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

Reading in the dark

Reading in the dark

Seamus Deane

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Joshua Ferris

The Safekeep

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

Great Circle

Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead

Umbrella

Umbrella

Will Self

Western Lane

Western Lane

Chetna Maroo

Paradise

Paradise

Abdulrazak Gurnah