If you haven't spent much time following literary book awards they are an excellent source for interesting reading lists. Here is a listing of books beginning in 1969 to present from the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Follow along in order or pick and choose as it pleases.

1969 - Something to Answer For (P. H. Newby)
1970 - The Elected Member (Bernice Rubens)
1971 - In a Free State (V.S. Naipaul)
1972 - G. (John Berger)
1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur (J. G. Farrell)
1974 - The Conservationist (Nadine Gordimer) / Holiday (Stanley Middleton)
1975 - Heat and Dust (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
1976 - Saville (David Storey)
1977 - Staying On (Paul Scott)
1978 - The Sea, the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
1979 - Offshore (Penelope Fitzgerald)
1980 - Rites of Passage (William Golding)
1981 - Midnight's Children (Salmon Rushdie)
1982 - Schindler's Ark (Thomas Keneally)
1983 - Life & Times of Michael K (J. M. Coetzee)
1984 - Hotel du Lac (Anita Brookner)
1985 - The Bone People (Keri Hulme)
1986 - The Old Devils (Kingsley Amis)
1987 - Moon Tiger (Penelope Lively)
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda (Peter Carey)
1989 - The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
1990 - Possession: a Romance (A. S. Byatt)
1991 - The Famished Road (Ben Okri)
1992 - The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) / Sacred Hunger (Barry Unsworth)
1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle)
1994 - How Late It Was, How Late (James Kelman)
1995 - The Ghost Road (Pat Barker)
1996 - Last Orders (Graham Swift)
1997 - The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
1998 - Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)
1999 - Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
2000 - The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang (Peter Carey)
2002 - Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
2003 - Vernon God Little (DBC Pierre)
2004 - The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
2005 - The Sea (John Banville)
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
2007 - The Gathering (Anne Enright)

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M. E. Wood lives in Eastern Ontario, Canada. If you are going to find this eclectic reader and writer anywhere it is probably at her computer. For more information visit her official website.