Women's Prize for Fiction

1996:

• A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (winner)
• The Book of Colour by Julia Blackburn
• Spinsters by Pagan Kennedy
• The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
• Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
• Eveless Eden by Marianne Wiggins

1997:

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (winner)
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
• I was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelshn
• Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
• Hen’s Teeth by Manda Scott

1998:

• Larry’s Party by Carol Shields (winner)
• Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
• The Ventriloquist’s Tale by Pauline Melville
• The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
• Love Like Hate Adore by Deirdre Purcell
• The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

1999:

• A Crime in the Neighbourhood by Suzanne Berne (winner)
• The Leper’s Companion by Julia Blackburn
• Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering
• The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barabra Kingsolver
• Paradise by Toni Morrison

2000:

• When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant (winner)
• If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
• The Dancer’s Dancing by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

2001:

• The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville (winner)
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson
• Homestead by Rosina Lippi
• Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
• Hotel World by Ali Smith

2002:

• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (winner)
• No Bones by Anna Burns
• The Siege by Helen Dunmore
• The White Family by Maggie Gee
• A Child’s Book of True Crime by Chloe Hopper
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

2003:

• Property by Valerie Martin (winner)
• Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
• Heligoland by Shena Mackay
• Unless by Carol Shields
• The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

2004:

• Small Island by Andrea Levy (winner)
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Great Fire by Shirley Hazard
• Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
• The Colour by Rose Tremain

2005:

• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (winner)
• Billie Morgan by Joolz Denby
• Old Filth by Jane Gardam
• The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
• Lives and Saints by Maile Meloy

2006:

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith (winner)
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
• The Accidental by Ali Smith
• Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

2007:

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (winner)
• Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
• The Observations by Jane Harris
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler

2008:

• The Road Home by Rose Tremain (winner)
• Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
• The Outcast by Sadie Jones
• When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
• Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
• Lottery by Patricia Wood

2009:

• Home by Marilynne Robinson (winner)
• Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
• The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
• Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden
• Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

2010:

• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (winner)
• The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
• Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
• The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey

2011:

• The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht (winner)
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
• Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson
• Great House by Nicole Krauss
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter

2012:

• The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller (winner)
• Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
• The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
• Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
• Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

2013:

• May We Be Forgotten by A M Homes (winner)
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
• NW by Zadie Smith

2014:

• A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (winner)
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2015:

• How to be Both by Ali Smith (winner)
• Outline by Rachel Cusk
• The Bees by Laline Paull
• A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

2016:

• The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney (winner)
• Ruby by Cynthia Bond
• The Green Road by Anne Enright
• The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
• The Improbability of Love by Hannah Mary Rothschild
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

2017:

• The Power by Naomi Alderman (winner)
• Stay with me by Ayobami Adebayo
• The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
• The Sport of Kings by C E Morgan
• First Love by Gwendoline Riley
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

2018:

• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (winner)
• The Idiot by Elif Batumna
• The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen HermesGowar
• Sight by Jessie Greengrass
• When I Hit You, or the portrait of the writer as a young wife ny Meena Kandasmy
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

2019:

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jons (winner)
• The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barke
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• Ordinary People by Diana Evans
• Circe by Madeleine Miller

2020:

• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (winner)
• Dominicana by Angie Cruz
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
• The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
• Weather by Jenny Offill

2021:

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (winner)
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones
• No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood

2022:

• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (inner)
• The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

2023:

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (winner)
• Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
• Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
• Pod by Laline Paull