Women's Prize

The Women's Prize for Fiction is awarded to the woman who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English. The award was known as the Orange Prize until 2013 and was known as the Baileys Prize from 2014-2017.

2023 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
• Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
• Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova
• Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie
• Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
• Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Homesick by Jennifer Croft
• I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel (5 stars)
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
• Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow (5 stars)
• Pod by Laline Paull
• Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
• Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

2022 Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

2022 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (6 stars)
• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

2022 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• Salt Lick by Lulu Allison
• Careless by Kirsty Capes
• Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller (4.5)
• Flamingo by Rachel Elliott
• Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
• The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
• This One Sky Day (Popisho) by Leone Ross
• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton (4 stars)
• Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide

2021 Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

2021 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• The Vanishing Half  by Brit Bennett (4.5 stars)
• Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House by Cheri Jones (3 stars)
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

2021 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
• The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig
• Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan (4.5 stars)
• Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
• Because of You by Dawn French
• Luster by Raven Leilani (5 stars)
• Consent  by Annabel Lyon (4.5 starss)
• Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• Summer by Ali Smith

2020 Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

2020 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• Dominicana by Angie Cruz (4.5 stars)
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
• The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
• Weather by Jenny Offill

2020 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
• Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (4.5 stars)
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (5 stars)
• Actress by Anne Enright
• Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
• How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee (4 stars)
• The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo (5 stars)
• Girl by Edna O'Brien (4.5 stars)
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (4.5 stars)
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

2019 Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (4.5 stars)

2019 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• Ordinary People by Diana Evans
• Circe by Madeline Miller

2019 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
• The Pisces by Melissa Broder (4.5 stars)
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephott
• Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li 
• Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden
• Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
• Normal People by Sally Rooney

2018 Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

2018 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• The Idiot by Elif Batuman
• The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
• Sight by Jessie Greengrass
• When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

2018 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• H(A)PPY  by Nicola Barker
• Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
• Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Elmet by Fiona Mozley
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
• See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt (4 stars)
• A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
• The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal

2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• The Power by Naomi Alderman

2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• 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 (3.5 stars)
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
• Little Deaths by Emma Flint (3 stars)
• The Mare by Mary Gaitskill (4.5 stars)
• The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
• Midwinter by Fiona Melrose
• The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
• The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
• Barkskins by Annie Proulx
• The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• Ruby by Cynthia Bond
• The Green Road by Anne Enright (4.5 stars)
• The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
• The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
• Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
• The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (4 stars)
• Whispers Through a Megaphone by Rachel Elliott
• The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah (3.5 stars)
• Gorsky by Verna Goldsworthy
• The Anatomist's Dream by Clio Gray
• At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison
• Pleasantville by Attica Locke
• Girl at War by Sara Novic (5 stars)
• The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester
• My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (4.5 stars)

2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• How to Be Both by Ali Smith (5 stars)

2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• Outline by Rachel Cusk (4.5 stars)
• The Bees by Laline Paull (4 stars)
• A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie 
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (4 stars)
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans (4 stars)
• I Am China by Xiaolu Guo (3 stars)
• Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey (4 stars)
• Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey (4 stars)
• Aren't We Sisters? by Patricia Ferguson
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (3 stars)
• The Offering by Grace McCleen (5 stars)
• The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
• The Table of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips
• The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert
• The Shore by Sara Taylor (6 stars)
• After Before by Jemma Wayne
• The Life of a Banana by P.P. Wong

2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (3.5 stars)

2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (4 stars)
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Undertaking by Audrey Magee (4.5 stars)
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
• The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne (4 stars)
• The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
• The Bear by Claire Cameron (4.5 stars)
• Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (4 stars)
• The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
• Reasons She Goes to the Woods by Deborah Kay Davies
• The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
• Almost English by Charlotte Medelson
• Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen (4 stars)
• The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout (3 stars)
• All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (3 stars)

2013 Women's Prize for Fiction winner

• May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes (3 stars)

2013 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist

• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (3 stars)
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (4 stars)
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (4.5 stars)
• NW by Zadie Smith

2013 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

• A Trick I Learned From Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge
• The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
• The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (4.5 stars)
• How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti (3 stars)
• The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan (4 stars)
• Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam (5 out of 5)
• The Forrests by Emily Perkins
• Ignorance by Michele Roberts
• The Innocents by Francesca Segal
• Honor by Elif Shafak
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
• Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

2012 Orange Prize winner

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (4 stars)

2012 Orange Prize shortlist

• Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (4 stars)
• The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (4 stars)
• Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding (4.5 stars)
• Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (4 stars)
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (6 stars)

2012 Orange Prize longlist

• Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg (4 stars)
• On the Floor by Aifric Campbell (3.5 stars)
• The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen (3.5 stars)
• The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (4 stars)
• The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki (4 stars)
• Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (2 stars)
• Gillespie and I by Jane Harris (4.5 stars)
• The Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay (3.5 stars)
• The Blue Book by A.L. Kennedy
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (3.5 stars)
• There but for the by Ali Smith (4 stars)
• The Pink Hotel by Ann Stothard (4.5 stars)
• Tides of War by Stella Tillyard (3.5 stars)
• The Submission by Amy Waldman (3 stars)

2011 Orange Prize winner

• The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (3.5 stars)

2011 Orange Prize shortlist

• Room by Emma Donoghue (6 stars)
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (4 stars)
• Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson
• Great House by Nicole Krauss (4.25 stars)
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter

2011 Orange Prize longlist

• Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
• Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
• The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi
• Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (5 stars)
• The London Train by Tessa Hadley
• The Seas by Samantha Hunt (3 stars)
• The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (4.5 stars)
• The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone (4 stars)
• The Invisible Bridge  by Julie Orringer (4.5 stars)
• Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile (4.5 stars)
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (4 stars)
• Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin (4 stars)
• The Swimmer by Roma Tearne

2010 Orange Prize winner

• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (3.5 stars)

2010 Orange Prize shortlist

• The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison (4 stars)
• Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (5 stars)
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (3 stars)
• The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey (5 stars)

2010 Orange Prize longlist

• The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
• Savage Lands by Clare Clark
• Heart and Minds by Amanda Craig
• The Way Things Look to Me by Roopa Farooki
• The Twisted Heart by Rebecca Gowers
• This is How by M.J. Hyland
• Small Wars by Sadie Jones(4.5 stars)
• Secret Son by Laila Lalami
• The Long Song by Andrea Levy (4.5 stars)
• The Wilding by Maria McCann
• Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
• The Still Point by Amy Sackville
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (3 stars)
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

2010 New Writers winner

• The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini

2010 New Writers shortlist

• The Book of Fire by Jane Borodale
• After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

2009 Orange Prize winner

• Home by Marilynne Robinson

2009 Orange Prize shortlist

• Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman (5 stars)
• Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
• Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
• Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

2009 Orange Prize longlist

• A Mercy by Toni Morrison
• Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
• A Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
• Their Finest Hour by Lissa Evans
• Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo
• Strange Music by Laura Fish
• Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
• Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshanathan
• Intuition by Allegra Goodman
• The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
• The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner
• Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
• American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld (6 stars)
• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber (4.5 stars)

2009 New Writers winner

• An Equal Stillness by Francesca Key

2009 New Writers shortlist

• Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber (4.5 stars)

2008 Orange Prize winner

• The Road Home by Rose Tremain

2008 Orange Prize shortlist

• 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

2008 Orange Prize longlist

• The Blood of Flowers  by Anita Amirrezvani
• The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy
• The Keep by Jennifer Egan
• The Gathering  by Anne Enright
• The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
• The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
• The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
• Sorry by Gail Jones
• The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
• In the Dark by Deborah Moggach
• Mistress by Anita Nair
• The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
• The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
• Monster Love by Carol Topolski

2008 New Writers winner

• Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna

2008 New Writers shortlist

• The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (4.5 stars)
• The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg

2007 Orange Prize winner

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2007 Orange Prize shortlist

• Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
• The Observations by Jane Harris
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler

2007 Orange Prize longlist

• Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allen
• Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson
• Over by Margaret Forster
• The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
• When to Walk by Rebecca Gowers
• Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
• Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
• The Girls by Lori Lansens
• Alligator by Lisa Moore
• What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
• The Tenderness of Wolves  by Stef Penney
• Careless by Deborah Robertson
• Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert
• The Housekeeper by Melanie Wallace

2007 New Writers winner

• The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly

2007 New Writers shortlist

• Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allen
• Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki

2006 Orange Prize winner

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith

2006 Orange Prize shortlist

• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (4 stars)
• 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

2006 Orange Prize longlist

• Minaret by Leila Aboulela
• Harbor by Lorraine Adams
• Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
• Watch Me Disappear by Jill Dawson
• House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore
• The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
• White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
• Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones
• Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
• Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2.5 stars)
• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Frangipani by Celestine Vaite
• The Position by Meg Wolitzer (4.5 stars)

2006 New Writers winner

• Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

2006 New Writers shortlist

• The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
• A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li

2005 Orange Prize winner

• We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (4.5 stars)

2005 Orange Prize shortlist

• Billie Morgan by Joolz Denby
• Old Filth by Jane Gardam
• The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
• Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy (5 stars)
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 

2005 Orange Prize longlist

• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
• The Great Stink by Clare Clark
• Escape Routes for Beginners by Kira Cochrane
• The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
• Tatty by Christine Hickey
• It So Happens by Patricia Ferguson
• Away From You by Melanie Finn
• Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee
• Nelson's Daughter by Miranda Hearn
• Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill
• Black Dirt by Nell Leyshon
• The Remedy by Michelle Lovric
• The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
• The River by Tricia Wastvedt

2005 New Writers winner

• 26a by Diana Evans

2005 New Writers shortlist

• Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

2004 Orange Prize winner

• Small Island by Andrea Levy

2004 Orange Prize shortlist

• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
• The Colour by Rose Tremain

2004 Orange Prize longlist

• Brick Lane by Monica Ali (4 stars)
• The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
• Kith & Kin by Stevie Davies
• State of Happiness by Stella Duffy (4.5 stars)
• The Flood by Maggie Gee
• Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
• Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• A Visit from Voltaire by Dinah Lee Kung
• Gilgamesh by Joan London
• The Internationals by Sarah May
• Love by Toni Morrison
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

2003 Orange Prize winner

• Property by Valerie Martin (4.5 stars)

2003 Orange Prize shortlist

• 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

2003 Orange Prize longlist

• Special by Bella Bathurst
• Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
• English Correspondence by Janet Davey
• Dot in the Universe by Lucy Ellmann
• What the Birds See by Sonya Hartnett
• What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
• The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
• War Crimes for the Home by Liz Jensen
• Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller
• The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
• In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (4 stars)
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Water Street by Crystal Wilkinson

2002 Orange Prize winner

• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (5 stars)

2002 Orange Prize shortlist

• No Bones by Anna Burns
• The Siege by Helen Dunmore (4.5 stars)
• The White Family by Maggie Gee
• A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

2002 Orange Prize longlist

• Pop by Kitty Aldridge 
• A True Story Based on Lies by Jennifer Clement
• The Element of Water by Stevie Davies
• Now You See Me by Lesley Glaister
• Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
• Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
• Sister Crazy by Emma Richler
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Middle Age by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Story of My Face by Kathy Page
• Crawling at Night by Nani Power (3 stars)
• La Cucina by Lily Prior
• The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
• The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert

2001 Orange Prize winner

• The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville

2001 Orange Prize shortlist

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Fred & Edie by Jill Dawson
• Hotel World by Ali Smith
• Homestead by Rosina Lippi
• Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley

2001 Orange Prize longlist

• The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
• In the Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
• Fish, Blood & Bone by Leslie Forbes
• The Wild by Esther Freud
• Dog Days, Glenn Miller Nights by Laurie Graham
• Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
• Motherkind by Jayne Anne Phillips
• From Caucasia, With Love by Danzy Senna
• The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
• The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
• Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys

2000 Orange Prize winner

• When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant (4.5 stars)

2000 Orange Prize shortlist

• If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
• Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (4 stars)
• The Dancers Dancing by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

2000 Orange Prize longlist

• The Translator by Leila Aboulela
• Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
• A Dangerous Vine by Barbara Ewing
• Danny Boy by Jo-Ann Goodwin
• A Sin of Colour by Sunetra Gupta
• Island by Jane Rogers
• Born Free by Sue Gee
• Everything You Need to Know by A.L. Kennedy
• The Hunter by Julia Leigh
• Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
• Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B. Nahai
• Last Chance Texaco by Christine Pountney
• What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin

1999 Orange Prize winner

• A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne (4.5 stars)

1999 Orange Prize shortlist

• The Leper's Companions by Julia Blackburn
• Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering
• The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Paradise by Toni Morrison

1999 Orange Prize longlist

• Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
• In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey
• Crocodile Soup by Julia Darling
• Restitution by Maureen Duffy
• Trumpet by Jackie Kay
• Comfort Women by Nora Okja Keller
• Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo
• The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
• Marchlands by Karla Kuban
• The Giant O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
• The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard
• A History of Silence by Barbara Neil
• Evening News by Marly Swick

1998 Orange Prize winner

• Larry's Party by Carol Shields (4.5 stars)

1998 Orange Prize shortlist

• Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis (3 stars)
• The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville
• The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett (3 stars)
• Love Like Hate Adore by Deirdre Purcell
• The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve (3 stars)

1998 Orange Prize longlist

• Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez
• Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann
• Gaglow by Esther Freud
• The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia
• The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
• The Breaking by Kathryn Heyman
• Round Rock by Michelle Huneven
• Ark Baby by Liz Jensen
• Undiscovered Country by Christina Koning
• The Orchard by Drusilla Modjeska
• Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
• Impossible Saints by Michele Roberts
• The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
• Baby Love by Louisa Young

1997 Orange Prize winner

• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (3 stars)

1997 Orange Prize shortlist

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
• One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
• I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn (4.5 stars)
• Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx (4 stars)
• Hen's Teeth by Manda Scott

1997 Orange Prize longlist

• Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
• The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Death Comes for Peter Pan by Joan Brady
• The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
• The Cast Iron Shore by Linda Grant
• The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt
• The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
• With Child by Laurie R. King
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• All the Blood is Red by Leone Ross
• Red Leaves by Paullina Simons
• Anita and Me by Meera Syal
• Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
• The Frequency of Souls by Mary Kay Zuravleff

1996 Orange Prize winner

• A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (4.5 stars)

1996 Orange Prize shortlist

• 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

1996 Orange Prize longlist

• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
• Official and Doubtful by Ajay Close (3 stars)
• The Rape of Sita by Lindsey Colleen
• Keeping Up with Magda by Isla Dewar (4.5 stars)
• The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
• The Private Parts of Women by Lesley Glaister
• The Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant
• Egg Dancing by Liz Jensen
• So I am Glad by A.L. Kennedy
• Never far from Nowhere by Andrea Levy
• Mother of Pearl by Mary Morrissy
• Promised Lands by Jane Rogers
• River Lines by Elspeth Sandys 
• The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine