Poetry Month!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Featured Titles


spacer

Featured Titles
Man Booker Prize Winners


There are 46 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.

Featured Titles in Featured Titles - Man Booker Prize Winners
Page 1 of 3 next

Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
Staff Pick
Do we really need another sweeping historical epic set in 16th-century England? One which possesses at its heart yet another subplot about Henry VIII and his volatile affections? We certainly do if the novel is written by Hilary Mantel. Written in a... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $10.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Sense of an Ending (Vintage International)
The Sense of an Ending (Vintage International)
by Julian Barnes
Staff Pick
Julian Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for this lyrical little tome, and, in spite of the controversy surrounding the prize and the 2011 shortlist, I believe he deserved the award. It's the kind of book that one races through, stopping every now and then... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $7.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book)
Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book)
by Hilary Mantel
Staff Pick
Would the sequel live up to expectations? Actually, yes. Hilary Mantel's talent for rich detail and sensuous atmosphere is still apparent, and Bring Up the Bodies is, in some ways, a much more gripping, riveting, and textured read than Wolf Hall. For one... (read more)

Your price: $28.00
New - Hardcover

add to wish list


Life of Pi
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Staff Pick
I admit it; before reading Life of Pi, I thought, There's just no way that Yann Martel can write a whole book about a teenage boy and a tiger stranded together in a lifeboat for 277 days. But, I was so wrong; he pulls it off beautifully. You will love... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $6.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
Staff Pick
One of the best works of contemporary literature. This rare work of fiction by Roy is a gem. Her intensity and intellect are felt in both her nonfiction and in her fiction.... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $3.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Staff Pick
Heralded upon release for its elegance and restraint, The Remains of the Day has become a classic of British literature — and one of my favorite books! Ishiguro's simple, painstakingly precise language beautifully captures a man and an era that... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $1.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The White Tiger
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
Staff Pick
A remarkable first novel, ingeniously written in the form of a letter to the Chinese premier soon to visit India, Adiga's dark yet witty debut brings to Western readers the tense drama of a developing country and a character caught up in corruption and... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel
The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel
by Kiran Desai
Publisher Comments
From the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard comes a masterpiece set in a corner of the Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life — Kiran Desai's new novel about belonging and estrangement, exile and homecoming, is... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $0.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Ghost Road
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
Publisher Comments
 The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize   The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


English Patient
English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
Publisher Comments
Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached... (read more)

Your price: $6.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The English Patient
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
Publisher Comments
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $3.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Gathering
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Publisher Comments
The new novel from one of Ireland's most prominent voices, The Gathering is an extraordinary anatomization of a family confronting the ghosts of its history. A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular... (read more)

List Price $14.00
Your price: $2.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Possession: A Romance
Possession: A Romance
by A.S. Byatt
Staff Pick
Byatt's use of language is lyrical and poignant. It drips from the pages like honey from a lover's tongue....Possession is the sheer essence of Byatt's work. She weaves the tale of a pair of literary scholars studying the lives of two Victorian poets. As... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $4.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Amsterdam
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Publisher Comments
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence... (read more)

List Price $13.95
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Finkler Question
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
Publisher Comments
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher... (read more)

Your price: $5.97
Sale - Hardcover

add to wish list


The Sea: A Novel
The Sea: A Novel
by John Banville
Staff Pick
Banville's fluid prose glides over the pages of The Sea, a rich story filled with heart and bittersweet longing. I pored over the luminescent descriptions of time and place and the beautiful characters that make up this world. Clearly the Man Booker was... (read more)

List Price $24.00
Your price: $3.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


The Finkler Question
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson
Publisher Comments
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer, and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $3.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
Publisher Comments
Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of "Oscar and Lucinda, " powerfully evokes the legend of 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive prose by the barely literate bushranger himself. 1 map & 3... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Sacred Hunger (Norton Paperback Fiction)
Sacred Hunger (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Barry Unsworth
Publisher Comments
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In this... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $7.98
Sale - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics)
The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics)
by J G Farrell
Publisher Comments
'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $10.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


1 3 next»


Browse the entire aisle:
by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
There are 46 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Featured Titles
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.