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Women's Prize for Fiction

Women's Prize Trust

A major British literary award celebrating excellence, originality, and accessibility in fiction written in English by women from anywhere in the world. Formerly known as the Orange Prize and later the Baileys Women's Prize, it is awarded annually to a full-length novel.

Search through 6,630 awarded or nominated books

2026

  1. The Correspondent

    Virginia Evans

    Won
  2. Dominion

    Addie E Citchens

    Shortlisted
  3. Flashlight

    Susan Choi

    Shortlisted
  4. Heart the Lover

    Lily King

    Shortlisted
  5. Kingfisher

    Rozie Kelly

    Shortlisted

  6. The Mercy Step

    Marcia Hutchinson

    Shortlisted

2025

  1. The Safekeep

    Yael van der Wouden

    Won
  2. All Fours

    Miranda July

    Shortlisted
  3. Fundamentally

    Nussaibah Younis

    Shortlisted
  4. Good Girl

    Aria Aber

    Shortlisted
  5. Tell Me Everything

    Elizabeth Strout

    Shortlisted
  6. The Persians

    Sanam Mahloudji

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. Brotherless Night

    V. V. Ganeshananthan

    Won
  2. Enter Ghost

    Isabella Hammad

    Shortlisted
  3. Restless Dolly Maunder

    Kate Grenville

    Shortlisted
  4. River East, River West

    Aube Rey Lescure

    Shortlisted
  5. Soldier Sailor

    Claire Kilroy

    Shortlisted
  6. The Wren, The Wren

    Anne Enright

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. Demon Copperhead

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Won
  2. Black Butterflies

    Priscilla Morris

    Shortlisted
  3. Fire Rush

    Jacqueline Crooks

    Shortlisted
  4. Pod

    Laline Paull

    Shortlisted
  5. The Marriage Portrait

    Maggie O'Farrell

    Shortlisted
  6. Trespasses

    Louise Kennedy

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. The Book of Form and Emptiness

    Ruth Ozeki

    Won
  2. Great Circle

    Maggie Shipstead

    Shortlisted
  3. Sorrow and Bliss

    Meg Mason

    Shortlisted
  4. The Bread the Devil Knead

    Lisa Allen-Agostini

    Shortlisted
  5. The Island of Missing Trees

    Elif Shafak

    Shortlisted
  6. The Sentence

    Louise Erdrich

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. Piranesi

    Susanna Clarke

    Won
  2. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

    Cherie Jones

    Shortlisted
  3. No One Is Talking about This

    Patricia Lockwood

    Shortlisted
  4. The Vanishing Half

    Brit Bennett

    Shortlisted
  5. Transcendent Kingdom

    Yaa Gyasi

    Shortlisted
  6. Unsettled Ground

    Claire Fuller

    Shortlisted

2020

  1. Hamnet

    Maggie O'Farrell

    Won
  2. A Thousand Ships

    Natalie Haynes

    Shortlisted
  3. Dominicana

    Angie Cruz

    Shortlisted
  4. Girl, Woman, Other

    Bernardine Evaristo

    Shortlisted
  5. The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Shortlisted
  6. Weather

    Jenny Offill

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. An American Marriage

    Tayari Jones

    Won
  2. Circe

    Madeline Miller

    Shortlisted
  3. Milkman

    Anna Burns

    Shortlisted
  4. My Sister, the Serial Killer

    Oyinkan Braithwaite

    Shortlisted
  5. Ordinary People

    Diana Evans

    Shortlisted
  6. The Silence of the Girls

    Pat Barker

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. Home Fire

    Kamila Shamsie

    Won
  2. Sight

    Jessie Greengrass

    Shortlisted
  3. Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    Shortlisted
  4. The Idiot

    Elif Batuman

    Shortlisted
  5. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

    Imogen Hermes Gowar

    Shortlisted
  6. When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

    Meena Kandasamy

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. The Power

    Naomi Alderman

    Won
  2. Do Not Say We Have Nothing

    Madeleine Thien

    Shortlisted
  3. First Love

    Gwendoline Riley

    Shortlisted
  4. Stay With Me

    Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

    Shortlisted
  5. The Dark Circle

    Linda Grant

    Shortlisted
  6. The Sport of Kings

    C. E. Morgan

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. The Glorious Heresies

    Lisa McInerney

    Won
  2. A Little Life

    Hanya Yanagihara

    Shortlisted
  3. Ruby

    Cynthia Bond

    Shortlisted
  4. The Green Road

    Anne Enright

    Shortlisted
  5. The Improbability of Love

    Hannah Rothschild

    Shortlisted
  6. The Portable Veblen

    Elizabeth McKenzie

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. How to Be Both

    Ali Smith

    Won
  2. A God in Every Stone

    Kamila Shamsie

    Shortlisted
  3. A God in Every Stone

    Kamila Shamsie

    Shortlisted
  4. A Spool of Blue Thread

    Anne Tyler

    Shortlisted
  5. Outline

    Rachel Cusk

    Shortlisted
  6. The Bees

    Laline Paull

    Shortlisted
  7. The Paying Guests

    Sarah Waters

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

    Eimear McBride

    Won
  2. Americanah

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Shortlisted
  3. Burial Rites

    Hannah Kent

    Shortlisted
  4. The Goldfinch

    Donna Tartt

    Shortlisted
  5. The Lowland

    Jhumpa Lahiri

    Shortlisted
  6. The Undertaking

    Audrey Magee

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. May We Be Forgiven

    A. M. Homes

    Won
  2. Bring Up the Bodies

    Hilary Mantel

    Shortlisted
  3. Flight Behaviour

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Shortlisted
  4. Life After Life

    Kate Atkinson

    Shortlisted
  5. NW

    Zadie Smith

    Shortlisted
  6. Where'd You Go, Bernadette

    Maria Semple

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. The Song of Achilles

    Madeline Miller

    Won
  2. Foreign Bodies

    Cynthia Ozick

    Shortlisted
  3. Half-Blood Blues

    Esi Edugyan

    Shortlisted
  4. Painter of Silence

    Georgina Harding

    Shortlisted
  5. State of Wonder

    Ann Patchett

    Shortlisted
  6. The Forgotten Waltz

    Anne Enright

    Shortlisted

2011

  1. The Tiger's Wife

    Téa Obreht

    Won
  2. Annabel

    Kathleen Winter

    Shortlisted
  3. Grace Williams Says it Loud

    Emma Henderson

    Shortlisted
  4. Great House

    Nicole Krauss

    Shortlisted
  5. Room

    Emma Donoghue

    Shortlisted
  6. The Memory of Love

    Aminatta Forna

    Shortlisted

2010

  1. The Lacuna

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Won
  2. A Gate at the Stairs

    Lorrie Moore

    Shortlisted
  3. Black Water Rising

    Attica Locke

    Shortlisted
  4. The Very Thought of You

    Rosie Alison

    Shortlisted
  5. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

    Monique Roffey

    Shortlisted
  6. Wolf Hall

    Hilary Mantel

    Shortlisted

2009

  1. Home

    Marilynne Robinson

    Won
  2. Burnt Shadows

    Kamila Shamsie

    Shortlisted
  3. Molly Fox's Birthday

    Deirdre Madden

    Shortlisted
  4. Scottsboro

    Ellen Feldman

    Shortlisted
  5. The Invention of Everything Else

    Samantha Hunt

    Shortlisted
  6. The Wilderness

    Samantha Harvey

    Shortlisted

2008

  1. The Road Home

    Rose Tremain

    Won
  2. Fault Lines

    Nancy Huston

    Shortlisted
  3. Lottery

    Patricia Wood

    Shortlisted
  4. Lullabies for Little Criminals

    Heather O'Neill

    Shortlisted
  5. The Outcast

    Sadie Jones

    Shortlisted
  6. When We Were Bad

    Charlotte Mendelson

    Shortlisted

2007

  1. Half of a Yellow Sun

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Won
  2. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

    Xiaolu Guo

    Shortlisted
  3. Arlington Park

    Rachel Cusk

    Shortlisted
  4. Digging to America

    Anne Tyler

    Shortlisted
  5. The Inheritance of Loss

    Kiran Desai

    Shortlisted
  6. The Observations

    Jane Harris

    Shortlisted

2006

  1. On Beauty

    Zadie Smith

    Won
  2. Beyond Black

    Hilary Mantel

    Shortlisted
  3. Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living

    Carrie Tiffany

    Shortlisted
  4. The Accidental

    Ali Smith

    Shortlisted
  5. The History of Love

    Nicole Krauss

    Shortlisted
  6. The Night Watch

    Sarah Waters

    Shortlisted

2005

  1. We Need to Talk About Kevin

    Lionel Shriver

    Won
  2. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

    Marina Lewycka

    Shortlisted
  3. Billie Morgan

    Joolz Denby

    Shortlisted
  4. Liars and Saints

    Maile Meloy

    Shortlisted
  5. Old Filth

    Jane Gardam

    Shortlisted
  6. The Mammoth Cheese

    Sheri Holman

    Shortlisted

2004

  1. Small Island

    Andrea Levy

    Won
  2. Ice Road

    Gillian Slovo

    Shortlisted
  3. Oryx and Crake

    Margaret Atwood

    Shortlisted
  4. Purple Hibiscus

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Shortlisted
  5. The Colour

    Rose Tremain

    Shortlisted
  6. The Great Fire

    Shirley Hazzard

    Shortlisted

2003

  1. Property

    Valerie Martin

    Won
  2. Buddha Da

    Anne Donovan

    Shortlisted
  3. Heligoland

    Shena Mackay

    Shortlisted
  4. The Autograph Man

    Zadie Smith

    Shortlisted
  5. The Little Friend

    Donna Tartt

    Shortlisted
  6. Unless

    Carol Shields

    Shortlisted

2002

  1. Bel Canto

    Ann Patchett

    Won
  2. A Child's Book of True Crime

    Chloe Hooper

    Shortlisted
  3. Fingersmith

    Sarah Waters

    Shortlisted
  4. No Bones

    Anna Burns

    Shortlisted
  5. The Siege

    Helen Dunmore

    Shortlisted
  6. The White Family

    Maggie Gee

    Shortlisted

2001

  1. The Idea of Perfection

    Kate Grenville

    Won
  2. Fred & Edie

    Jill Dawson

    Shortlisted
  3. Homestead

    Rosina Lippi

    Shortlisted
  4. Horse Heaven

    Jane Smiley

    Shortlisted
  5. Hotel World

    Ali Smith

    Shortlisted
  6. The Blind Assassin

    Margaret Atwood

    Shortlisted

2000

  1. When I Lived in Modern Times

    Linda Grant

    Won
  2. Amy and Isabelle

    Elizabeth Strout

    Shortlisted
  3. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

    Rebecca Wells

    Shortlisted
  4. If I Told You Once

    Judy Budnitz

    Shortlisted
  5. The Dancers Dancing

    Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

    Shortlisted
  6. White Teeth

    Zadie Smith

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. A Crime in the Neighborhood

    Suzanne Berne

    Won
  2. Paradise

    Toni Morrison

    Shortlisted
  3. The Leper's Companions

    Julia Blackburn

    Shortlisted
  4. The Poisonwood Bible

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Shortlisted
  5. The Short History of a Prince

    Jane Hamilton

    Shortlisted
  6. Visible Worlds

    Marilyn Bowering

    Shortlisted

1998

  1. Larry's Party

    Carol Shields

    Won
  2. Lives of the Monster Dogs

    Kirsten Bakis

    Shortlisted
  3. Love Like Hate Adore

    Deirdre Purcell

    Shortlisted
  4. The Magician's Assistant

    Ann Patchett

    Shortlisted
  5. The Ventriloquist's Tale

    Pauline Melville

    Shortlisted
  6. The Weight of Water

    Anita Shreve

    Shortlisted

1997

  1. Fugitive Pieces

    Anne Michaels

    Won
  2. Accordion Crimes

    Annie Proulx

    Shortlisted
  3. Alias Grace

    Margaret Atwood

    Shortlisted
  4. Hen's Teeth

    Manda Scott

    Shortlisted
  5. I Was Amelia Earhart

    Jane Mendelsohn

    Shortlisted
  6. One by One in the Darkness

    Deirdre Madden

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. A Spell of Winter

    Helen Dunmore

    Won
  2. Eveless Eden

    Marianne Wiggins

    Shortlisted
  3. Ladder of Years

    Anne Tyler

    Shortlisted
  4. Spinsters

    Pagan Kennedy

    Shortlisted
  5. The Book of Colour

    Julia Blackburn

    Shortlisted
  6. The Hundred Secret Senses

    Amy Tan

    Shortlisted