The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually in Britain to the work of fiction judged the year's best. Many of the recent winners have been controversial, either due to their content, their style, or their author. A majority of the winners in the last decade comes from Commonwealth nations, rather than from England proper. Here's a complete list, should you want to continue your exploration of Modern Britain through fiction.
| 2008 | Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger |
| 2007 | Anne Enright, The Gathering |
| 2006 | Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss |
| 2005 | John Banville, The Sea |
| 2004 | Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty |
| 2003 | DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little |
| 2002 | Yann Martel, The Life of Pi |
| 2001 | Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang |
| 2000 | Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin |
| 1999 | J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace |
| 1998 | Ian McEwan, Amsterdam |
| 1997 | Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things |
| 1996 | Graham Swift, Last Orders |
| 1995 | Pat Barker, The Ghost Road |
| 1994 | James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late |
| 1993 | Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha |
| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient and
Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger |
| 1991 | Ben Okri, The Famished Road |
| 1990 | A. S. Byatt, Possession |
| 1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day |
| 1988 | Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda |
| 1987 | Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger |
| 1986 | Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils |
| 1985 | Keri Hulme, The Bone People |
| 1984 | Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac |
| 1983 | J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K. |
| 1982 | Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark |
| 1981 | Salman Rusdie, Midnight's Children
also chosen the "Booker of Bookers" in 1994 |
| 1980 | William Golding, Rites of Passage |
| 1979 | Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore |
| 1978 | Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea |
| 1977 | Paul Scott, Staying On |
| 1976 | David Storey, Saville |
| 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust |
| 1974 | Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist and
Stanley Middleton, Holiday |
| 1973 | J. G. Farrell, Siege of Krishnapur |
| 1972 | John Berger, G. |
| 1971 | V. S. Naipul, In A Free State |
| 1970 | Bernice Rubens, Elected Member |
| 1969 | P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For |