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After writing this post for seven years in a row, apparently I took last year off, but I'm back with my thoughts on a very U.S.-friendly and number of pages-friendly 16-book longlist filled with many novels from my TBR and a few I hadn't heard of that sound really interesting. The hardest part: deciding which one to read first. The Ones Available in the U.S. Now The Silence of the Girls  by Pat Barker My Sister, The Serial Killer  by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Pisces  by Melissa Broder Milkman by Anna Burns Freshwater  by Akwaeke Emezi Ordinary People  by Diana Evans An American Marriage  by Tayari Jones Number One Chinese Restaurant  by Lillian Li Bottled Goods  by Sophie van Llewyn Lost Children Archive  by Valeria Luiselli Praise Songs for the Butterflies  by Bernice L. McFadden Circe  by Madeline Miller Ghost Wall  by Sarah Moss The One Coming to the U.S. Soon Normal People  by Sally Rooney (coming...

With the announcement of this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction coming Monday, March 10th, I decided to revive the tradition of predicting the longlist. Eligibility The Baileys Prize is given to a novel written by a woman, originally in English, and published in the UK between April 1 of the last year and March 31 of the year the prize is awarded. Only the UK publishing date matters. This year, books had to be published between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015. My predictions As always, there are far more than twenty novels I think could (and/or should) be longlisted. There were some tough decisions to make, and I certainly don't envy the judges! I chose a mix of debuts, books already listed for other prizes, books that seem to be under the radar, and books from former winners, shortlisted, and longlisted authors. Here are my selections, alphabetically by title: All My Puny Sorrows  by Miriam Toews (longlisted in 2009 for The Flying Troutmans) The Countr...