2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist
The Baileys Women's Prize longlist was revealed on March 8, 2016. Twenty books were nominated from both big names including Geraldine Brooks and Kate Atkinson and from debut novelists like Becky Chambers who used a Kickstarter campaign to finance her novel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. Petina Gappah is the first Zimbabwean author nominated for the award. Gappah, who works as a trade lawyer in Geneva, Switzerland, is planning to quit her day job and write full time.
This year's finalists are:
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Anatomist's Dream by Clio Gray
Not yet available in Canada.
At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
• eBook
Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton
• eBook
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Girl at War by Sara Nović
• eBook
Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
• Audiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Gorsky by Vesna Goldsworthy
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The Green Road by Anne Enright
• Audiobook
• eBook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester
• eBook
Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
• eBook
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• Audiobook
• eBook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Pleasantville by Attica Locke
• eBook
• Large Print
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
• eBook
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Ruby by Cynthia Bond
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Whispers Through a Megaphone by Rachel Elliott
Not yet available in Canada.
A shortlist of six titles will be released on April 11 and the winner will be announced on June 8, 2016.
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