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
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