Longlist for 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

The longlist for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction was released yesterday: http://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/2016/announcing-the-2016-baileys-womens-prize-for-fiction-longlist.  The prize was established to recognize the literary achievement of female writers.  One of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, it is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year.

Here are the 20 novels on that list:

Kate Atkinson:  A God in Ruins    (United Kingdom) – See my review posted on January 16, 2016

Shirley Barrett:  Rush Oh!    (Australia)

Cynthia Bond:  Ruby     (U.S.)

Geraldine Brooks:  The Secret Chord    (Australia)

Becky Chambers:  The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet    (U.S.)

Jackie Copleton:  A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding    (United Kingdom)

Rachel Elliott:  Whispers Through a Megaphone     (United Kingdom)

Anne Enright:  The Green Road     (Ireland)

Petina Gappah:  The Book of Memory     (Zimbabwae)

Vesna Goldsworthy:  Gorsky     (Serbia)

Clio Gray:  The Anatomist’s Dream     (United Kingdom)

Melissa Harrison:  At Hawthorn Time     (United Kingdom)

Attica Locke:  Pleasantville     (U.S.)

Lisa McInerney:  The Glorious Heresies     (Ireland)

Elizabeth McKenzie:  The Portable Veblen     (U.S.)

Sara Nović:  Girl at War     (U.S.)

Julia Rochester:  The House at the Edge of the World     (United Kingdom)

Hannah Rothschild:  The Improbability of Love     (United Kingdom)

Elizabeth Strout:  My Name is Lucy Barton     (U.S.) – See my review posted on January 12, 2016

Hanya Yanagihara:  A Little Life     (U.S.) – See my review posted on August 10, 2015

The shortlist of six titles will be revealed on April 11 and the winner, who will receive £30,000, will be announced on June 8.