The Booker Prize 1981
7 shortlisted · 1 winner. This cycle’s shortlist is the whole of what we hold — the Booker published no longlist before 2001.
Winner
Midnight's Children
Shortlist
Rhine Journey
The White Hotel
The Comfort of Strangers
The Sirian Experiments
Good Behaviour
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