The 2010 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 12 October 2010. The Man Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 27 July, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 7 September. The Man Booker Prize was awarded to Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question.

Judging panel

Nominees (Shortlist)

AuthorTitleGenre(s)CountryPublisher
Peter CareyParrot and Olivier in AmericaNovelAustraliaFaber and Faber
Emma DonoghueRoomNovelCanadaPicador
Damon GalgutIn a Strange RoomNovelSouth AfricaAtlantic Books
Howard JacobsonThe Finkler QuestionNovelUKBloomsbury
Andrea LevyThe Long SongNovelUK/JamaicaHeadline Review
Tom McCarthyCNovelUKJonathan Cape

Nominees (Longlist)

AuthorTitleGenre(s)CountryPublisher
Peter CareyParrot and Olivier in AmericaNovelAustraliaFaber and Faber
Emma DonoghueRoomNovelCanadaPicador
Helen DunmoreThe BetrayalNovelUKFig Tree
Damon GalgutIn a Strange RoomNovelSouth AfricaAtlantic Books
Howard JacobsonThe Finkler QuestionNovelUKBloomsbury
Andrea LevyThe Long SongNovelUK/JamaicaHeadline Publishing Group
Tom McCarthyCNovelUKJonathan Cape
David MitchellThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de ZoetNovelUKSceptre
Lisa MooreFebruaryFictionCanadaRandom House
Paul MurraySkippy DiesNovelUKHamish Hamilton
Rose TremainTrespassNovelUKChatto & Windus
Christos TsiolkasThe SlapNovelAustraliaAllen & Unwin
Alan WarnerThe Stars in the Bright SkyNovelScotlandJonathan Cape