List: The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - OLD VERSION

The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction is the now the name for the award formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction. The prize is awarded to the woman who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English.

I am particularly interested in reading reviews of these books, so if anyone is working on this list, please leave a comment with the link to your reviews or progress posts and I will include your link in this post.

Those I have read are in red; those on my TBR shelf are in blue.

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

NOTE

Last updated on December 31, 2018. I'm no longer updating this version and have re-posted a brand new version of this list. Please go to the new post, here. 

OTHERS READING THE WINNERS

If you are reading these books, please leave comments with links to related posts and I will list them here.

Internet Review of Books

The April edition of The Internet Review of Books is out -- it has taken me almost a year to figure out that they publish on the 15th of each month, not the first. The IRB keeps getting better and better, qualitatively and quantitatively. There are 14 non-fiction reviews and seven fiction reviews this month, plus an interview with Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, and a selection of Brief Reviews. I am pleased as punch that my review of Towers of Gold is included in such a fine selection.