THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
The Women's Prize for Fiction is awarded each year for the best eligible, full-length novel in English. The prize started in 1996 as the Orange Prize for Fiction (because it was sponsored by the Orange telecommunications company). In 2014, Bailey's became the sponsor and the name changed to the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Since 2018, multiple sponsors support the prize, now called simply the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Those I have read are in red; those on my TBR shelf are in blue. So far, I've read 14 of the 25 winners. Several of my favorite books are on this list and I read them because they won this prize. See any favorites of your own?
2020 Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
2019 Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
2018 Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
2017 Naomi Alderman, The Power
2016 Lisa McInerne, The Glorious Heresies
2015 Ali Smith, How to be Both
2014 Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
2013 A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
2012 Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
2011 Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife
2010 Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
2009 Marilynne Robinson, Home
2008 Rose Tremain, The Road Home
2007 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
2006 Zadie Smith, On Beauty (reviewed here)
2005 Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
2004 Andrea Levy, Small Island (reviewed here)
2003 Valerie Martin, Property
2002 Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (reviewed here)
2001 Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection (reviewed here)
2000 Linda Grant, When I Lived in Modern Times
1999 Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood
1998 Carol Shields, Larry's Party
1997 Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
1996 Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter
OTHERS READING THE WINNERS
If you are reading the winners of the Women's Prize for Fiction and would like your post listed here, please leave comments with links to related posts and I will list them.
2018 Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
2017 Naomi Alderman, The Power
2016 Lisa McInerne, The Glorious Heresies
2015 Ali Smith, How to be Both
2014 Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
2013 A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
2012 Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
2011 Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife
2010 Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
2009 Marilynne Robinson, Home
2008 Rose Tremain, The Road Home
2007 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
2006 Zadie Smith, On Beauty (reviewed here)
2005 Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
2004 Andrea Levy, Small Island (reviewed here)
2003 Valerie Martin, Property
2002 Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (reviewed here)
2001 Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection (reviewed here)
2000 Linda Grant, When I Lived in Modern Times
1999 Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood
1998 Carol Shields, Larry's Party
1997 Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
1996 Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter
OTHERS READING THE WINNERS
If you are reading the winners of the Women's Prize for Fiction and would like your post listed here, please leave comments with links to related posts and I will list them.
Oooh, An American Marriage is definitely one of my favourites - well worth a read if you get to it!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to that one. I hope to get to it soon!
DeleteGreat list! Half of a Yellow Sun is the standout for me.
ReplyDeleteCynthia -- Why are you called 6th Grade Reader? :-) You must have set this up when your kids were in elementary school!
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