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True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey

A Book Sense 76 pick

Fellow Nominees:

• Oxygen
  by Andrew Miller
• Number 9 Dream
  by David Mitchell
• The Dark Room
  by Rachel Seiffert
• Hotel World
  by Ali Smith
• Atonement
  by Ian McEwan

2000
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood

1999
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee

1998
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan

1997
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy

1996
Last Orders
by Graham Swift

1995
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker

1994
How Late It Was, How Late
by James Kelman

1993
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle

1992
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje

1991
The Famished Road
by Ben Okri

1990
Possession
by A. S. Byatt

1989
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro

1988
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey

1987
Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively

1986
The Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis

1985
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme

1984
Hotel Du Lac
by Anita Brookner

1983
Life and Times of Michael K
by J. M. Coetzee

1982
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie

1981
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally

1980
Rites of Passage
by William Golding

1979
Offshore
by Penelope Fitzgerald

1978
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch

1977
Staying On
by Paul Scott

1976
Saville
by David Storey

1975
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1974
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer

1973
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J. G. Farrell

1973
G
by John Berger

1971
In a Free State
by V. S. Naipaul

1970
The Elected Member
by Bernice Rubens

1969
Something to Answer for
by P. H. Newby