Women's Prize for Fiction
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Women's Prize for Fiction, 30 Books
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996-2006 & 2009-12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007-2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014-2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year.
This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site almost 3 years ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17162 | A Spell Of Winter | Helen Dunmore | 1995 | British | English | |
| 2957 | Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels | 1996 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | Larry's Party | Carol Shields | 1997 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | A Crime In The Neighborhood | Suzanne Berne | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17162 | When I Lived In Modern Times | Linda Grant | 2000 | British | English | |
| 17162 | The Idea Of Perfection | Kate Grenville | 1999 | Australian | English | |
| 947 | Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | 2001 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Property | Valerie Martin | 2003 | American | English | |
| 2487 | Small Island | Andrea Levy | 2004 | British | English | |
| 3875 | We Need To Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | 2003 | American | English | |
| 2469 | On Beauty | Zadie Smith | 2005 | British | English | |
| 1158 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2006 | Nigerian | English | |
| 9327 | The Road Home | Rose Tremain | 2007 | British | English | |
| 1876 | Home | Marilynne Robinson | 2008 | American | English | |
| 14985 | The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver | 2009 | American | English | |
| 4687 | The Tiger's Wife | Téa Obreht | 2011 | Serbian | English | |
| 1330 | The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | 2011 | American | English | |
| 11629 | May We Be Forgiven | A. M. Homes | 2012 | American | English | |
| 3604 | A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing | Eimear McBride | 2013 | Irish | English | |
| 2336 | How to be both | Ali Smith | 2014 | British | English | |
| 7075 | The Glorious Heresies | Lisa McInerney | 2015 | Irish | English | |
| 2642 | The Power | Naomi Alderman | 2016 | British | English | |
| 4756 | Home Fire | Kamila Shamsie | 2017 | British | English | |
| 2636 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2589 | Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell | 2020 | Irish | English | |
| 3848 | Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | 2020 | British | English | |
| 14985 | The Book Of Form And Emptiness | Ruth Ozeki | 2021 | Japanese | English | |
| 2108 | Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | 2022 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Brotherless Night | V.V. Ganeshananthan | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 6369 | The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown |