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Man Booker Prize 2010: All the winners, and the 2010 shortlist

The Man Booker Prize 2010 winner, Howard Jacobson, has been announced. But does winning the Booker mean a boost in sales? And which of the previous winners has sold the most? We look at the sales data for every winner since 1969
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The Man Booker prize has been won by Howard Jacobson with The Finkler Question.

Last year it was Hilary Mantel, who won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her historical novel Wolf Hall, which examines the life of Thomas Cromwell, an advisor to Henry VIII.

But does winning the Booker guarantee an author a boom in sales? Here at the Datablog we've pulled together Nielsen BookScan's sales figures of all 43 winners of the title since its inception in 1969 (the prize was a tie in 1974 and again in 1992).

Nielsen's data runs from 1998 onwards, so sales of older books aren't directly comparable, but the runaway winner of recent years is Life of Pi by Yann Martel, which won in 2002 and has taken over £9m and sold 1.3m copies so far, more than twice as many as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things in second place.

A look at the spreadsheet also reveals that Jonathan Cape is the publisher to sign to if you want to improve your chances of winning the Booker - seven of the previous winning novels have come from them, closely followed by Faber & Faber with six.

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And if you really have your heart set on a Booker, the words to include in the title of your novel are Sea, Ha, God, Tiger and Road, as our Wordle shows.

Click on the link to access the full list of winners, their sales figures and a link to the Guardian review of each book (many courtesy of Sam Jordison's Booker Club blog). Let's see what you can do with the data.

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• DATA: All the Man Booker prize winners, sales and reviews
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Man Booker prize winners

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Year
Winning author
Title
Publisher
1969 PH Newby Something To Answer For Faber & Faber 1970 Bernice Rubens The Elected Member Eyre & Spottiswoode 1971 VS Naipaul In a Free State Deutsch 1972 John Berger G Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1973 JG Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1974 Stanley Middleton Holiday Hutchinson 1974 Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist Jonathan Cape 1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust John Murray 1976 David Storey Saville Jonathan Cape 1977 Paul Scott Staying On William Heinemann 1978 Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea Chatto & Windus 1979 Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore Collins 1980 William Golding Rites of Passage Faber & Faber 1981 Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children Jonathan Cape 1982 Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark Hodder & Stoughton 1983 JM Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K Secker & Warburg 1984 Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac Jonathan Cape 1985 Keri Hulme The Bone People Hodder & Stoughton 1986 Kingsley Amis The Old Devils Hutchinson 1987 Penelope Lively Moon Tiger Deutsch 1988 Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda Faber & Faber 1989 Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Faber & Faber 1990 AS Byatt Possession Chatto & Windus 1991 Ben Okri The Famished Road Jonathan Cape 1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Bloomsbury 1992 Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger Hamish Hamilton 1993 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Secker & Warburg 1994 James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late Secker & Warburg 1995 Pat Barker The Ghost Road Viking 1996 Graham Swift Last Orders Picador 1997 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things Flamingo 1998 Ian McEwan Amsterdam Jonathan Cape 1999 JM Coetzee Disgrace Secker & Warburg 2000 Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Bloomsbury 2001 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Faber & Faber 2002 Yann Martel Life of Pi Canongate 2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Faber & Faber 2004 Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty Picador 2005 John Banville The Sea Picador 2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Hamish Hamilton 2007 Anne Enright The Gathering Jonathan Cape 2008 Aravind Adiga The White Tiger Atlantic 2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Fourth Estate 2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question Bloomsbury

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