Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Fiction (Awarded by Women's Prize for Fiction)

Awards List

2023

Demon Copperhead
(Winner)
Barbara Kingsolver

Pod
(Shortlist)
Laline Paull

Trespasses
(Shortlist)
Louise Kennedy

Black Butterflies
(Shortlist)
Priscilla Morris

The Marriage Portrait
(Shortlist)
Maggie O'Farrell

Fire Rush
(Shortlist)
Jacqueline Crooks

I'm a Fan
(Longlist)
Sheena Patel
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Glory
(Longlist)
Noviolet Bulawayo

Memphis
(Longlist)
Tara M. Stringfellow

Children of Paradise
(Longlist)
Camilla Grudova

Homesick
(Longlist)
Jennifer Croft

The Bandit Queens
(Longlist)
Parini Shroff

Stone Blind
(Longlist)
Natalie Haynes

Cursed Bread
(Longlist)
Sophie Mackintosh

The Dog of the North
(Longlist)
Elizabeth McKenzie

Wandering Souls
(Longlist)
Cecile Pin

2022

The Book of Form and Emptiness
(Winner)
Ruth L. Ozeki

Sorrow and Bliss
(Shortlist)
Meg Mason

The Bread the Devil Knead
(Shortlist)
Lisa Allen-Agostini

Great Circle
(Shortlist)
Maggie Shipstead

The Island of Missing Trees
(Shortlist)
Elif Shafak

The Sentence
(Shortlist)
Louise Erdrich

Creatures of Passage
(Longlist)
Morowa Yejide

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
(Longlist)
Dawnie Walton

This One Sky Day
(Longlist)
Leone Ross

Careless
(Longlist)
Kirsty Capes

Remote Sympathy
(Longlist)
Catherine Chidgey

Build Your House Around My Body
(Longlist)
Violet Kupersmith

The Paper Palace
(Longlist)
Miranda Cowley Heller

Salt Lick
(Longlist)
Lulu Allison

Flamingo
(Longlist)
Rachel Elliott

The Exhibitionist
(Longlist)
Charlotte Mendelson

2021

Piranesi
(Winner)
Susanna Clarke

The Vanishing Half
(Shortlist)
Brit Bennett

Transcendent Kingdom
(Shortlist)
Yaa Gyasi

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
(Shortlist)
Cherie Jones

No One Is Talking About This
(Shortlist)
Patricia Lockwood

Unsettled Ground
(Shortlist)
Claire Fuller

Exciting Times
(Longlist)
Naoise Dolan

The Golden Rule
(Longlist)
Amanda Craig

Burnt Sugar
(Longlist)
Avni Doshi

Luster
(Longlist)
Raven Leilani

Summer
(Longlist)
Ali Smith

Because of You
(Longlist)
Dawn French

Detransition, Baby
(Longlist)
Torrey Peters

Consent
(Longlist)
Annabel Lyon

Nothing But Blue Sky
(Longlist)
Kathleen MacMahon

Small Pleasures
(Longlist)
Clare Chambers

2020

Hamnet
(Winner)
Maggie O'Farrell

A Thousand Ships
(Shortlist)
Natalie Haynes

Dominicana
(Shortlist)
Angie Cruz

Girl, Woman, Other
(Shortlist)
Bernardine Evaristo

Weather
(Shortlist)
Jenny Offill

The Mirror & the Light
(Shortlist)
Hilary Mantel

Queenie
(Longlist)
Candice Carty-Williams

How We Disappeared
(Longlist)
Jing-Jing Lee

The Most Fun We Ever Had
(Longlist)
Claire Lombardo

Fleishman Is in Trouble
(Longlist)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Dutch House
(Longlist)
Ann Patchett

Red at the Bone
(Longlist)
Jacqueline Woodson

Girl
(Longlist)
Edna O'Brien

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
(Longlist)
Deepa Anappara

Actress
(Longlist)
Anne Enright

Nightingale Point
(Longlist)
Luan Goldie

2019

An American Marriage
(Winner)
Tayari Jones

Circe
(Shortlist)
Madeline Miller

Milkman
(Shortlist)
Anna Burns

Ordinary People
(Shortlist)
Diana Evans

The Silence of the Girls
(Shortlist)
Pat Barker

My Sister, the Serial Killer
(Shortlist)
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Freshwater
(Longlist)
Akwaeke Emezi

The Pisces
(Longlist)
Melissa Broder

Number One Chinese Restaurant
(Longlist)
Lillian Li

Praise Song for the Butterflies
(Longlist)
Bernice L. McFadden

Ghost Wall
(Longlist)
Sarah Moss

Lost Children Archive
(Longlist)
Valeria Luiselli

Normal People
(Longlist)
Sally Rooney

Remembered
(Longlist)
Yvonne Battle-Felton

Bottled Goods
(Longlist)
Sophie van Llewyn

2018

Home Fire
(Winner)
Kamila Shamsie

The Idiot
(Shortlist)
Elif Batuman

Sing, Unburied, Sing
(Shortlist)
Jesmyn Ward

Sight
(Shortlist)
Jessie Greengrass

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
(Shortlist)
Imogen Hermes Gowar

When I Hit You
(Shortlist)
Meena Kandasamy

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
(Longlist)
Gail Honeyman

Miss Burma
(Longlist)
Charmaine Craig

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
(Longlist)
Arundhati Roy

H(a)ppy
(Longlist)
Nicola Barker

A Boy in Winter
(Longlist)
Rachel Seiffert

See What I Have Done
(Longlist)
Sarah Schmidt

Manhattan Beach
(Longlist)
Jennifer Egan

Elmet
(Longlist)
Fiona Mozley

The Trick to Time
(Longlist)
Kit De Waal

Three Things about Elsie
(Longlist)
Joanna Cannon

2017

The Power
(Winner)
Naomi Alderman

The Sport of Kings
(Shortlist)
C.E. Morgan

Do Not Say We Have Nothing
(Shortlist)
Madeleine Thien

The Dark Circle
(Shortlist)
Linda Grant

First Love
(Shortlist)
Gwendoline Riley

Stay with Me
(Shortlist)
Ayobami Adebayo

The Mare
(Longlist)
Mary Gaitskill

Barkskins
(Longlist)
Annie Proulx

The Lesser Bohemians
(Longlist)
Eimear McBride

The Gustav Sonata
(Longlist)
Rose Tremain

Hag-Seed
(Longlist)
Margaret Atwood

Little Deaths
(Longlist)
Emma Flint

The Lonely Hearts Hotel
(Longlist)
Heather O'Neill

The Woman Next Door
(Longlist)
Yewande Omotoso

The Essex Serpent
(Longlist)
Sarah Perry

Midwinter
(Longlist)
Fiona Melrose

2016

The Glorious Heresies
(Winner)
Lisa McInerney

Ruby
(Shortlist)
Cynthia Bond

A Little Life
(Shortlist)
Hanya Yanagihara

The Green Road
(Shortlist)
Anne Enright

The Improbability of Love
(Shortlist)
Hannah Rothschild

The Portable Veblen
(Shortlist)
Elizabeth McKenzie

The Glorious Heresies
(Shortlist)
Lisa McInerney

Pleasantville
(Longlist)
Attica Locke

Girl at War
(Longlist)
Sara Novic

A God in Ruins
(Longlist)
Kate Atkinson

The Anatomist's Dream
(Longlist)
Clio Gray

At Hawthorn Time
(Longlist)
Melissa Harrison

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
(Longlist)
Becky Chambers

Gorsky
(Longlist)
Vesna Goldsworthy

The Secret Chord
(Longlist)
Geraldine Brooks

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
(Longlist)
Jackie Copleton

My Name Is Lucy Barton
(Longlist)
Elizabeth Strout

The Book of Memory
(Longlist)
Petina Gappah

Rush Oh!
(Longlist)
Shirley Barrett

The House at the Edge of the World
(Longlist)
Julia Rochester

Whispers Through a Megaphone
(Longlist)
Rachel Elliott

2015

How to Be Both
(Winner)
Ali Smith

The Bees
(Shortlist)
Laline Paull

A God in Every Stone
(Shortlist)
Kamila Shamsie

The Paying Guests
(Shortlist)
Sarah Waters

Outline
(Shortlist)
Rachel Cusk

A Spool of Blue Thread
(Shortlist)
Anne Tyler

Elizabeth Is Missing
(Longlist)
Emma Healey

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
(Longlist)
Heather O'Neill

The Walk Home
(Longlist)
Rachel Seiffert

I Am China
(Longlist)
Xiaolu Guo

Station Eleven
(Longlist)
Emily St. John Mandel

Dear Thief
(Longlist)
Samantha Harvey

The Country of Ice Cream Star
(Longlist)
Sandra Newman

After Before
(Longlist)
Jemma Wayne

The Shore
(Longlist)
Sara Taylor

Crooked Heart
(Longlist)
Lissa Evans

2014

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
(Winner)
Eimear McBride

Americanah
(Shortlist)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Burial Rites
(Shortlist)
Hannah Kent

The Lowland
(Shortlist)
Jhumpa Lahiri

The Goldfinch
(Shortlist)
Donna Tartt

The Undertaking
(Shortlist)
Audrey Magee

The Burgess Boys
(Longlist)
Elizabeth Strout

The Flamethrowers
(Longlist)
Rachel Kushner

Eleven Days
(Longlist)
Lea Carpenter

Maddaddam
(Longlist)
Margaret Atwood

The Luminaries
(Longlist)
Eleanor Catton

The Signature of All Things
(Longlist)
Elizabeth Gilbert

The Bear
(Longlist)
Claire Cameron

Still Life with Bread Crumbs
(Longlist)
Anna Quindlen

All the Birds, Singing
(Longlist)
Evie Wyld

Reasons She Goes to the Woods
(Longlist)
Deborah Kay Davies

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
(Longlist)
Fatima Bhutto

The Strangler Vine
(Longlist)
M.J. Carter

2013

May We Be Forgiven
(Winner)
A.M. Homes

Bring Up the Bodies
(Shortlist)
Hilary Mantel

Where'd You Go, Bernadette
(Shortlist)
Maria Semple

NW
(Shortlist)
Zadie Smith

Flight Behavior
(Shortlist)
Barbara Kingsolver

Life After Life
(Shortlist)
Kate Atkinson

Lamb
(Longlist)
Bonnie Nadzam

The Red Book
(Longlist)
Deborah Copaken Kogan

Alif the Unseen
(Longlist)
G. Willow Wilson

Gone Girl
(Longlist)
Gillian Flynn

How Should a Person Be?
(Longlist)
Sheila Heti

Ignorance
(Longlist)
Michele Roberts

The Innocents
(Longlist)
Francesca Segal

The Forrests
(Longlist)
Emily Perkins

2012

The Song of Achilles
(Winner)
Madeline Miller

State of Wonder
(Longlist)
Ann Patchett

The Forgotten Waltz
(Longlist)
Anne Enright

Painter of Silence
(Longlist)
Georgina Harding

2011

The Tiger's Wife
(Winner)
Tea Obreht

Room
(Longlist)
Emma Donoghue

Great House
(Longlist)
Nicole Krauss

2010

The Lacuna
(Winner)
Barbara Kingsolver

Wolf Hall
(Longlist)
Hilary Mantel

2009

Home
(Winner)
Marilynne Robinson

Scottsboro
(Longlist)
Ellen Feldman

Burnt Shadows
(Longlist)
Kamila Shamsie

2008

The Road Home
(Winner)
Rose Tremain

Lullabies for Little Criminals
(Longlist)
Heather O'Neill

2007

Half of a Yellow Sun
(Winner)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Inheritance of Loss
(Longlist)
Kiran Desai

2006

On Beauty
(Winner)
Zadie Smith

The History of Love
(Longlist)
Nicole Krauss

2005

We Need to Talk About Kevin
(Winner)
Lionel Shriver

Liars and Saints
(Longlist)
Maile Meloy

2004

Small Island
(Winner)
Andrea Levy

The Colour
(Longlist)
Rose Tremain

Ice Road
(Longlist)
Gillian Slovo

2003

Property
(Winner)
Valerie Martin

The Autograph Man
(Longlist)
Zadie Smith

The Little Friend
(Longlist)
Donna Tartt

Unless
(Longlist)
Carol Shields

Heligoland
(Longlist)
Shena Mackay

2002

Bel Canto
(Winner)
Ann Patchett

No Bones
(Longlist)
Anna Burns

2001

The Idea of Perfection
(Winner)
Kate Grenville

Homestead
(Longlist)
Rosina Lippi

Horse Heaven
(Longlist)
Jane Smiley

Hotel World
(Longlist)
Ali Smith

Fred & Edie
(Longlist)
Jill Dawson

2000

When I Lived in Modern Times
(Winner)
Linda Grant

Amy and Isabelle
(Longlist)
Elizabeth Strout

If I Told You Once
(Longlist)
Judy Budnitz

1999

A Crime in the Neighborhood
(Winner)
Suzanne Berne

The Short History of a Prince
(Longlist)
Jane Hamilton

The Leper's Companions
(Longlist)
Julia Blackburn

1998

Larry's Party
(Winner)
Carol Shields

The Weight of Water
(Longlist)
Anita Shreve

The Magician's Assistant
(Longlist)
Ann Patchett

1997

Fugitive Pieces
(Winner)
Anne Michaels

Accordion Crimes
(Longlist)
Annie Proulx

I Was Amelia Earhart
(Longlist)
Jane Mendelsohn

Alias Grace
(Longlist)
Margaret Atwood

1996

A Spell of Winter
(Winner)
Helen Dunmore

Spinsters
(Longlist)
Pagan Kennedy

The Book of Color
(Longlist)
Julia Blackburn

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