Faber's Booker Prize Winning Books
by Faber Editor, 1 January 2026
Faber is the publisher of seven outstanding Booker Prize winners, most recently Milkman by Anna Burns in 2018 (pictured), more than any other independent publishing house.
The first ever winner, Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby, was published by Faber, in 1969. The novel is set in Egypt during the Suez crisis and for the Guardian it “boasts a wonderful sense of place”.
Three prizes went to Faber titles in the 1980s. Rites of Passage by William Golding in 1980 (the first book in Golding’s The Sea Trilogy). Then across two consecutive years, 1988 to 1989, Peter Carey won for Oscar and Lucinda followed by Kazuo Ishiguro with The Remains of the Day.
Peter Carey had a second Booker Prize win in 2001, with The True History of the Kelly Gang, later made into a movie starring Russell Crowe.
DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little won both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Prize in 2003.
The winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969, Something to Answer For is a humorous, macabre and beautifully intricate novel set in Egypt during the Suez Crisis.
Introduced by Annie Proulx, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.
Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Oscar and Lucinda is Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning historical novel set in Victorian times.
The Remains of the Day is Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Prize-winning novel.
True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey’s acclaimed Booker Prize-winning historical adventure about the life of Australian outlaw, Ned Kelly
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre – winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Prize in 2003 – is a controversial and astonishing reminder that desperate times throw up the unlikeliest of heroes.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 ‘Milkman is extraordinary. I’ve been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It’s frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time.’ Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
The 2018 Man Booker Prize winner by Anna Burns, reissued with a bespoke Liberty fabric cover.
The 2025 Prize
Last year’s shortlist of six titles (see in full here) included The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits, a ‘moving, smart and life-affirming’ (Observer) road trip novel that beautifully explores the nuance and complications of a long-term marriage. Read an extract from the novel on the Faber Journal.
The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize was announced on 10 November 2025 and went to Flesh by David Szalay (Vintage).
The longlist for the 2025 prize featured three Faber books out of thirteen titles, including Love Forms by Claire Adam, Universality by Natasha Brown.
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A version of this article was original published in 2021.