The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 14 October 2019.[1] The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 23 July,[2] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 3 September.[3] The Booker Prize was awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. This was the first time the prize was shared since 1992, despite a rule change banning joint winners.[1]
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | Novel | Canada | Vintage, Chatto & Windus |
| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
| Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | Novel | USA/UK | Galley Beggar Press |
| Chigozie Obioma | An Orchestra of Minorities | Novel | Nigeria | Little Brown |
| Salman Rushdie | Quichotte | Novel | UK/India | Jonathan Cape |
| Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Novel | UK/Turkey | Viking |
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | Novel | Canada | Vintage, Chatto & Windus |
| Kevin Barry | Night Boat to Tangier | Novel | Ireland | Canongate Books |
| Oyinkan Braithwaite | My Sister, the Serial Killer | Novel | UK/Nigeria | Atlantic Books |
| Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | Novel | USA/UK | Galley Beggar Press |
| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
| John Lanchester | The Wall | Novel | UK | Faber & Faber |
| Deborah Levy | The Man Who Saw Everything | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
| Valeria Luiselli | Lost Children Archive | Novel | Mexico/Italy | Fourth Estate |
| Chigozie Obioma | An Orchestra of Minorities | Novel | Nigeria | Little Brown |
| Max Porter | Lanny | Novel | UK | Faber & Faber |
| Salman Rushdie | Quichotte | Novel | UK/India | Jonathan Cape |
| Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Novel | UK/Turkey | Viking |
| Jeanette Winterson | Frankissstein | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
