To celebrate International Women’s Day, the long list for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 has been announced.
Celebrating its 21st year – and this year once again partnering with Grazia around the festivities – the Prize celebrates ‘excellence, originality and accessibility’ in writing by women in English from throughout the world.
This year’s judges include The Apprentice’s lawyer and business Margaret Mountford chairing proceedings, broadcaster and journalist Naga Munchetty, writer and journalist Laurie Penny, author Elif Shafak, and writer and singer, Tracey Thorn.
If you speed read, you’ve just got time to get through the full long list in the three months before the prize is announced on June 8th.
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 Long List
Kate Atkinson – A God in Ruins
Shirley Barrett – Rush Oh!
Cynthia Bond – Ruby
Geraldine Brooks – The Secret Chord
Becky Chambers – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Jackie Copleton – A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
Rachel Elliott – Whispers Through a Megaphone
Anne Enright – The Green Road
Petina Gappah – The Book of Memory
Vesna Goldsworthy _ Gorsky
Clio Gray – The Anatomist’s Dream
Melissa Harrison – At Hawthorn Time
Attica Locke – Pleasantville
Lisa McInerney – The Glorious Heresies
Elizabeth McKenzie – The Portable Veblen
Sara Nović – Girl at War
Julia Rochester – The House at the Edge of the World
Hannah Rothschild – The Improbability of Love
Elizabeth Strout – My Name is Lucy Barton
Hanya Yanagihara – A Little Life