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Booker Prize winners
Order these Booker Prize winners by the year each won. You place all 44 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
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How to play the Booker Prize winners timeline
Each card is a Booker Prize-winning novel with its author underneath, and you place the winners by the year they took the prize. One winner sits on the timeline at the start, its year showing. Each new card goes into a gap before, between or after the winners already down. When the guess is good, the year shows; a wrong guess moves the book to its true spot and costs you one of three lives.
The winners include historical epics, slim literary novels and books from across the Commonwealth and beyond. Some authors have won twice, which makes them a trap if you confuse their two books. Winners that became well-known films can seem older or newer than they are, so think about when the book itself was the talk of the season.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 44 cards you might be dealt, with 16 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
- Schindler's Ark Thomas Keneally
- Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner
- The Bone People Keri Hulme
- Moon Tiger Penelope Lively
- Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
- Possession A. S. Byatt
- The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
- The Ghost Road Pat Barker
- Last Orders Graham Swift
- Amsterdam Ian McEwan
- Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
- True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey
- Vernon God Little DBC Pierre
- The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
- The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
- The Gathering Anne Enright
- Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
- The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson
- Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan
- A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
- Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
- Milkman Anna Burns
- Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart
- The Promise Damon Galgut
- Prophet Song Paul Lynch
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