2016 Man Booker Prize

The 2016 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 25 October 2016.^[1] The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on 27 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 13 September.^[2] Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50,000 pounds ($61,000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.^[3]

Paul Beatty, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize

Judging panel

• Amanda Foreman (chair)
• Jon Day
• Abdulrazak Gurnah
• David Harsent
• Olivia Williams

Nominees

  indicates the winner

Shortlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Paul Beatty	The Sellout	Novel	US	Oneworld Publications
Deborah Levy	Hot Milk	Novel	UK	Hamish Hamilton
Graeme Macrae Burnet	His Bloody Project	Novel	UK	Contraband
Ottessa Moshfegh	Eileen	Novel	US	Jonathan Cape
David Szalay	All That Man Is	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Madeleine Thien	Do Not Say We Have Nothing	Novel	Canada	Granta Books

Longlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Paul Beatty	The Sellout	Novel	US	Oneworld Publications
Deborah Levy	Hot Milk	Novel	UK	Hamish Hamilton
Graeme Macrae Burnet	His Bloody Project	Novel	UK	Contraband
Ottessa Moshfegh	Eileen	Novel	US	Jonathan Cape
David Szalay	All That Man Is	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Madeleine Thien	Do Not Say We Have Nothing	Novel	Canada	Granta Books
J. M. Coetzee	The Schooldays of Jesus	Novel	South Africa-Australia	Harvill Secker
A. L. Kennedy	Serious Sweet	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Elizabeth Strout	My Name Is Lucy Barton	Novel	US	Viking
Ian McGuire	The North Water	Novel	UK	Scribner UK
David Means	Hystopia	Novel	US	Faber & Faber
Wyl Menmuir	The Many	Novel	Uk	Salt
Virginia Reeves	Work Like Any Other	Novel	UK	Scribner UK

See also

• List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction