How many Booker prize winners have you read?

I'm quite amazed by how many I have read. 27 winners and nearly 50 of the short list (including 3 from this year), and quite a few other short listed ones I have on my Kindle but haven't managed to read yet.
I loved anything about India having lived there as a teenager, so the earliest on my list is The Seige of Krishnapur which I would heartily recommend. Also Paul Scott's Staying On which is the end to his Jewel in the Crown series that was made into a big TV drama in the 80s. I liked The Sea of Poppies too and of course the Rohinton Mistry ones.
Robertson Davies is an amazing Canadian author that I hadn't realised was on there - What's Bred in the Bone 1986 . His books are massive saga styles and very readable.
It's interesting how much certain authors are repeated. I think recent lists have tried to diverge more, but before that the same names pop up again and again.

23 of the winners and 71 of the short listed ones. There are some great books in there in the winners - Lincoln in the Bardo, Ghost Road, Possession, Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies. Some equally great, or even better, books in the short lists too.

I have a late summer birthday so DH often buys me the all the long listed books for my birthday. It's definitely got less interesting since they let American writers in - I feel like we get to hear about fewer Irish/Indian/Australian/Zimbabwean etc etc authors as about half the list now seems to be American. I've read two of this year's shortlist so far and they were OK. Not brilliant.

I've read 9. Couldn't get into either Milkman or Wolf Hall. Would like to read Shuggie Bain. Didn't rate The Narrow Road to the Deep North, although there is a very good bit towards the end (the fire storm).

23 winners and The Narrow Road to the Deep North is my favourite. I loved Shuggie Bain too.

Really interesting to count up how many I've read .. I love a book list!

Twenty winners and 44 of the runners-up.

I'm surprised to see the likes of David Lodge on the short-list at all; I used to find his books amusing, although I suspect they would feel dated now, but high quality literature they weren't. As for Room, it was a page-turner but that's all, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves didn't deserve to be there either imo.

just one - Midnight's Children

Nominated: Handmaid's Tale and Satanic Verses. Possibly the Reluctant Fundamentalist but I may have just thought about it...

Goodness, that's a totally inaccurate picture of my reading tastes.

Possession - Heavy going at times, but ultimately rewarding and one of my favourite books
The Blind Assassin - Sublime! Loved it, definitely in my top 10 of all time best reads.

Love both of these. Blind Assassin is my second favourite Atwood after Alias Grace (which was shortlisted for the Booker in a very good year, same year as A Fine Balance and Every Man for Himself which is one of Beryl Bainbridge's finest IMHO).

Agree that Possession is wonderful, should really read more A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book was one of my favourites last year.

Read and finished 19 winners, 9 more I abandoned part way through. Earliest was Siege Of Krishnapoor, 1973 (a book group choice)

Read 30 shortlisted books.

Of all of the ones I read, I think Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow was the one I most resented stealing hours of my life and The Luminaries was the most unreadable.

I agree about The Luminaries, it was tedious and trying to be clever.
Hotel du Lac , a bit meh, not memorable.

I saw a documentary in celebration of Angela Carter who was up for the Booker but lost out to Hotel du Lac, and the contributors (Jeanette Winterson springs to mind) absolutely blasted Hotel du Lac.

Oh and I forgot The Luminaries, long tedious and boring. So that makes 6 for me.

Milkman defeated me.

Brief History of Seven Killings is my (current) favourite.

Hotel du Lac - Unimpressive. I've enjoyed other Anita Brookner books far more than this one.
Possession - Heavy going at times, but ultimately rewarding and one of my favourite books
The Blind Assassin - Sublime! Loved it, definitely in my top 10 of all time best reads.
Lincoln In the Bardo - Unintelligible, well for me at any rate, hated it Top of my "the worst books I've ever read" list
Milkman - Thought it was clever, I veered between finding it tedious and then enjoying it some of the time once I got into what felt like a rhythm that ran through the narrative.

15 actual winners.
Had to give up on Vernon God Little.

I've recently read Shuggie Bain - it is absolutely incredible. I've failed to get through any others...

All between 1997 and 2018 as my Christmas present from DH was always the shortlist, but I stopped asking for them as there were too many weird, depressing books and reading most of them became a chore rather than a pleasure.

15. I own more but keep not getting round to them!

4 and a quarter winners (couldn’t get into Life of Pi) and 2 shortlisted. What a pathetic list, must try harder 😆

3, possibly 4. I think I have read Vernon God Little and quite liked it but not sure. I have read and hated both The God of Small Things and The Finkler Question (especially the Finkler one) but I quite liked Life of Pi. The two that I hated made me realise I probably shouldn't buy anything based on whether it had won or been nominated for the Booker as me and the judges obviously have very different ideas.

I'm closely related to a Booker winner.

1, and that’s only because I read it at school (Schindler’s List) (#holds head in shame).

I did start ‘Life of Pi’ but gave up.

Even if I add it shortlisted books, I can only add in another three.

14 winners and 15 shortlisted. Not too bad.

9 winners (boosted by my love of JG Farrell) and 12 shortlisted books. Plus English Passengers & The Children's Book, both of which I have started, and found fine, but never been engaged enough to actually finish.

More than I thought!

48 from the winners and shortlisted titles
plus 3 started but DNF.

My recommendations for perhaps less well known bookers would be:
JG Farrell 1970s
Beryl Bainbridge 1970s
The Butcher Boy 1992
England, England and Arthur and George, Julian Barnes

More well known favourites would be:
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
Empire of the Sun, Ballard
English Patient
Vernon God Little
Fingersmith
Margaret Atwood (not the testaments)
The Secret River
Deborah Levy - both Swimming Home and Hot Milk
His Bloody Project