Booker McConnell Prize for Fiction
Something to Answer For, The Elected Member, In a Free State, The Siege of Krishnapur
An annual award for the best novel by a British or Commonwealth writer. Founded in 1969, the prize is sponsored by the multi-national company Booker McConnell and administered by the Book Trust.
| 1969 | P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For |
| 1970 | Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member |
| 1971 | V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State |
| 1972 | John Berger, G |
| 1973 | J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur |
| 1974 | Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist |
| Stanley Middleton, Holiday | |
| 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust |
| 1976 | David Storey, Saville |
| 1977 | Paul Scott, Staying On |
| 1978 | Iris Mourdoch, The Sea, The Sea |
| 1979 | Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore |
| 1980 | William Golding, Rites of Passage |
| 1981 | Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children |
| 1982 | Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark |
| 1983 | J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K |
| 1984 | Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac |
| 1985 | Keri Hulme, The Bone People |
| 1986 | Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils |
| 1987 | Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger |
| 1988 | Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda |
| 1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day |
| 1990 | A. S. Byatt, Possession |
| 1991 | Ben Okri, The Famished Road |
| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient |
| Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger | |
| 1993 | Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| 1994 | James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late |
| 1995 | Pat Barker, The Ghost Road |
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