Index

• The Man Booker Prize
• The Women’s Prize for Fiction
• Desmond Elliott Prize
• Goldsmiths Prize
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• The Folio Prize
• Costa Book Award
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
• The Man Booker International Prize
• Other:
  • List of literary awards
  • Prize-winning books online

The Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker-McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language, and published in the UK. From its inception, only Commonwealth, Irish, and Zimbabwean citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2013, however, this eligibility was widened to any English language novel. Below you will only find the list of books written by women shortlisted for the prize (full list: here). The winner for each year is highlighted. Read books are marked as (✓). Reviews, when available, are linked below. I have crossed off a few books which do not interest me (DNF).

2017

• Shortlist: 13/09
• Winner: 17/10
• 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
• Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
• Elmet by Fiona Mozley
• The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
• Autumn by Ali Smith ✓
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

2016

• Deborah Levy, Hot Milk ✓
• Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen ✓
• Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing

2015

• Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread Chatto
• Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

2014

• Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
• Ali Smith, How to Be Both ✓

2013

• Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries ✓
• NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names ✓
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland ✓
• Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being ✓

2012

• Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
• Deborah Levy, Swimming Home ✓
• Alison Moore, The Lighthouse

2011

• Carol Birch, Jamrach’s Menagerie
• Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues

2010

• Emma Donoghue, Room
• Andrea Levy, The Long Song

2009

• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall ✓
• A. S. Byatt, The Children’s Book
• Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger ✓

2008

• Linda Grant, The Clothes on Their Backs

2007

• Anne Enright, The Gathering
• Nicola Barker, Darkmans

2006

• Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
• Kate Grenville, The Secret River
• M. J. Hyland, Carry Me Down
• Sarah Waters, The Night Watch

2005

• Ali Smith, The Accidental
• Zadie Smith, On Beauty

2004

• Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo

2003

• Monica Ali, Brick Lane
• Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake ✓
• Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal
• Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes of Colour

2002

• Carol Shields, Unless
• Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

2001

• Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room
• Ali Smith, Hotel World

2000

• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place

1999

• Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting
• Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

1998

• Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie

1997

• Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things ✓
• Madeleine St John, The Essence of the Thing

1996

• Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
• Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself
• Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire

1995

• Pat Barker, The Ghost Road

1994

• Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels

1993

• Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

1992

• Michèle Roberts,Daughters of the House

1991

• No woman was shortlisted

1990

• A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
• Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure
• Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels

1989

• Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
• Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw
• Rose Tremain, Restoration

1988

• Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
• Marina Warner, The Lost Father

1987

• Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
• Nina Bawden, Circles of Deceit
• Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood

1986

• Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

1985

• Keri Hulme, The Bone People
• Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
• Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav
• Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice

1984

• Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
• Anita Desai, In Custody
• Penelope Lively, According to Mark

1983

• Anita Mason, The Illusionist

1982

• Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom

1981

• Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
• Doris Lessing, The Sirian Experiments
• Ann Schlee, Rhine Journey
• Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent

1980

• Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
• Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid
• Julia O’Faolain, No Country for Young Men

1979

• Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
• Fay Weldon, Praxis

1978

• Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
• Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
• Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks
• Bernice Rubens, A Five-Year Sentence

1977

• Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster
• Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on our Skin
• Penelope Lively, The Road to Lichfield
• Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn

1976

• No woman was shortlisted

1975

• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust

1974

• Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
• Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing

1973

• Beryl Bainbridge, The Dressmaker
• Elizabeth Mavor, The Green Equinox
• Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

1972

• Susan Hill, The Bird of Night

1971

• Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell
• Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

1970

(Awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize)

• Nina Bawden, The Birds on the Trees
• Shirley Hazzard, The Bay of Noon
• Mary Renault, Fire From Heaven
• Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat

1970

• Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
• A L Barker, John Brown’s Body
• Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
• Iris Murdoch, Bruno’s Dream

1969

• Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
• Muriel Spark, The Public Image

The Women’s Prize for Fiction

The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (previously called Women’s Prize for Fiction (2013), Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–12) and Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08)) 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. In italics, you will find the list of books that have been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (source: here). The winner for each year is highlighted. Read books are marked as (✓). Reviews, when available, are linked below. I have crossed off a few books which do not interest me from the list.

2017

• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀
• 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
• Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood ✓
• Little Deaths by Emma Flint
• The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
• 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

1. The Glorious Heresies, Lisa McInerney ✓
2. The Green Road, Anne Enright
3. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
4. The Portable Veblen, Elizabeth McKenzie
5. Ruby, Cynthia Bond
6. The Improbability of Love, Hannah Rothschild
7. A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson
8. Rush Oh!, Shirley Barrett
9. The Secret Chord, Geraldine Brooks
10. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
11. A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding, Jackie Copleton
12. Whispers Through a Megaphone, Rachel Elliott
13. The Book of Memory, Petina Gappah
14. Gorsky, Vesna Goldsworthy
15. The Anatomist’s Dream, Clio Gray
16. At Hawthorn Time, Melissa Harrison
17. Pleasantville, Attica Locke
18. Girl at War, Sara Nović
19. The House at the Edge of the World, Julia Rochester
20. My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout

2015

1. How to Be Both, Ali Smith ✓
2. Outline, Rachel Cusk
3. The Bees, Laline Paull
4. A God in Every Stone, Kamila Shamsie
5. A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler
6. The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
7. Crooked Heart, Lissa Evans
8. Aren’t We Sisters?, Patricia Ferguson
9. I Am China, Xiaolu Guo
10. Dear Thief, Samantha Harvey
11. Elizabeth is Missing, Emma Healey
12. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
13. The Offering, Grace McCleen
14. The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman
15. The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, Heather O’Neil
16. The Table of Less Valued Knights, Marie Phillips
17. The Walk Home, Rachel Seiffert
18. The Shore, Sara Taylor ✓
19. After Before, Jemma Wayne
20. The Life of a Banana, PP Wong

2014

1. A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride ✓
2. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt ✓
3. Burial Rites, Hannah Kent ✓
4. The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri ✓
5. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ✓
6. The Undertaking, Audrey Magee ✓
7. Margaret Atwood – MaddAddam ✓
8. Suzanne Berne – The Dogs of Littlefield
9. Fatima Bhutto – The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
10. Claire Cameron – The Bear
11. Lea Carpenter – Eleven Days
12. M.J. Carter – The Strangler Vine
13. Eleanor Catton – The Luminaries ✓
14. Deborah Kay Davies – Reasons She Goes to the Woods
15. Elizabeth Gilbert – The Signature of All Things
16. Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
17. Charlotte Mendelson – Almost English
18. Anna Quindlen – Still Life with Bread Crumbs
19. Elizabeth Strout – The Burgess Boys
20. Evie Wyld – All The Birds, Singing

2013

1. May We Be Forgiven, A.M. Homes
2. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
3. Flight Behaviour, Barbara Kingsolver
4. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
5. Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple
6. NW, Zadie Smith ✓
7. The Marlowe Papers, Ros Barber
8. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, Shani Boianjiu
9. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
10. How Should A Person Be?, Sheila Heti
11. The Red Book, Deborah Copaken
12. Lamb, Bonnie Nadzam
13. The Forrests, Emily Perkins
14. Ignorance, Michèle Roberts
15. The Innocents, Francesca Segal
16. Honour, Elif Shafak
17. The Light Between Oceans, M L Stedman
18. Mateship with Birds, Carrie Tiffany
19. Alif the Unseen, G Willow Wilson

20. A Trick I Learned from Dead Men, Kitty Aldridge

2012

1. The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller 
2. State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
3. Foreign Bodies, Cynthia Ozick
4. Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
5. Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding
6. The Forgotten Waltz, Anne Enright ✓
7. Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg
8. On the Floor by Aifric Campbell
9. The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen
10. The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
11. The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki
12. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
13. Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
14. The Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay
15. The Blue Book by A.L. Kennedy
16. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
17. There but for the by Ali Smith ✓
18. The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard
19. Tides of War by Stella Tillyard
20. The Submission by Amy Waldman

2011

1. The Tiger’s Wife, Tea Obreht 
2. Great House, Nicole Krauss
3. Annabel, Kathleen Winter ✓
4. Grace Williams Says It Loud, Emma Henderson
5. The Memory of Love, Aminatta Forna
6. Room, Emma Donoghue
7. Leila Aboulela – Lyrics Alley
8. Carol Birch – Jamrach’s Menagerie
9. Tishani Doshi – The Pleasure Seekers
10. Louise Doughty – Whatever You Love
11. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad
12. Tessa Hadley – The London Train
13. Samantha Hunt – The Seas
14. Joanna Kavenna – The Birth of Love
15. Wendy Law-Yone – The Road to Wanting
16. Julie Orringer – The Invisible Bridge
17. Anne Peile – Repeat it Today with Tears
18. Karen Russell – Swamplandia!
19. Lola Shoneyin – The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
20. Roma Tearne – The Swimmer

2010

1. The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
2. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, Monique Roffey
3. A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
4. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantle ✓
5. Black Water Rising, Attica Locke
6. The Very Thought of You, Rosie Alison
7. Clare Clark: Savage Lands
8. Amanda Craig: Hearts and Minds
9. Roopa Farooki: The Way Things Look to Me
10. Rebecca Gowers: The Twisted Heart
11. M.J. Hyland: This is How
12. Sadie Jones: Small Wars
13. Laila Lalami: Secret Son
14. Andrea Levy: The Long Song
15. Maria McCann: The Wilding
16. Nadifa Mohamed: Black Mamba Boy
17. Amy Sackville: The Still Point
18. Kathryn Stockett: The Help
19. Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger ✓
20. Eleanor Catton: The Rehearsal ✓

2009

1. Home, Marilynne Robinson ✓
2. Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie ✓
3. The Invention of Everything Else, Samantha Hunt
4. The Wilderness, Samantha Harvey
5. Scottsboro, Ellen Feldman
6. Molly Fox’s Birthday, Deirdre Madden
7. Debra Adelaide: The Household Guide to Dying
8. Gaynor Arnold: Girl in a Blue Dress
9. Lissa Evans: Their Finest Hour and a Half
10. Bernadine Evaristo: Blonde Roots
11. Laura Fish: Strange Music
12. V.V. Ganeshananthan: Love Marriage
13. Allegra Goodman: Intuition
14. Michelle de Kretser: The Lost Dog
15. Toni Morrison: A Mercy
16. Gina Ochsner: The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
17. Preeta Samarasan: Evening is the Whole Day
18. Curtis Sittenfeld: American Wife
19. Miriam Toews: The Flying Troutmans
20. Ann Weisgarber: The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

2008

1. The Road Home, Rose Tremain
2. Lottery, Patricia Wood
3. Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O’Neill
4. When We Were Bad, Charlotte Mendelson
5. Fault Lines, Nancy Huston
6. The Outcast, Sadie Jones
7. The Gathering by Anne Enright
8. Monster Love by Carol Topolski
9. The End of Mr. Yby Scarlett Thomas
10. The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
11. The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
12. Mistress by Anita Nair
13. In the Dark by Deborah Moggach
14. The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
15. Sorry by Gail Jones
16. The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
17. The Clothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant
18. The Keep by Jennifer Egan
19. The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy
20. The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani

2007

1. Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. Digging to America, Anne Tyler
3. The Observations, Jane Harris
4. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo
5. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
6. Arlington Park, Rachel Cusk
7. Afterwards by Rachel Seiffert
8. Alligator by Lisa Moore
9. Careless by Deborah Robertson
10. Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland
11. The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
12. The Girls by Lori Lansens
13. The Housekeeper by Melanie Wallace
14. Over by Margaret Forster
15. Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson
16. Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan
17. Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
18. The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
19. What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
20. When to Walk by Rebecca Gowers

2006

1. On Beauty, Zadie Smith
2. The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
3. Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, Carrie Tiffany
4. The Accidental, Ali Smith
5. Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
6. The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
7. Minaret / Leila Aboulela
8. Harbor / Lorraine Adams
9. Disobedience / Naomi Alderman
10. Watch Me Disappear / Jill Dawson
11. House of Orphans / Helen Dunmore
12. The Constant Princess / Philippa Gregory
13. White Ghost Girls / Alice Greenaway
14. Dreams of Speaking / Gail Jones
15. Lost in the Forest / Sue Miller
16. Rape: A Love Story / Joyce Carol Oates
17. Gilead / Marilynne Robinson
18. Prep / Curtis Sittenfeld
19. Frangipani / Célestine Hitiura Vaite
20. The Position / Meg Wolitzer

2005

1.  We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
2. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
3. Liars and Saints, Maile Meloy
4. The Mammoth Cheese, Sheri Holman
5. Old Filth, Jane Gardam
6. Billie Morgan, Joolz Denby
7. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
8. The Great Stink by Clare Clark
9. Escape Routes for Beginners by Kira Cochrane
10. The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai
11. Hickey Tatty by Christine Dwyer
12. It So Happens by Patricia Ferguson
13. Away From You by Melanie Finn
14. The Mysteries of Glass by Sue Gee
15. Nelson’s Daughter by Miranda Hearn
16. Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill
17. Black Dirt by Nell Leyshon
18. The Remedy by Michelle Lovric
19. The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
20. The River by Tricia Wastvedt

2004

1. Small Island, Andrea Levy
2. The Colour, Rose Tremain
3. Ice Road, Gillian Slovo
4. The Great Fire, Shirley Hazard
5. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood ✓
6. Purple Hibiscus, Chimanda Ngozi Adichie ✓
7. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
8. The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
9. Brick Lane, by Monica Ali
10. Gilgamesh, by Joan London
11. The Flood, by Maggie Gee
12. Kith and Kin, by Stevie Davies
13. The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler
14. Love, by Toni Morrison
15. The Internationals, by Sarah May
16. A Visit from Voltaire, by Dinah Lee Küng
17. What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal], by Zoë Heller
18. The Electric Michelangelo, by Sarah Hall
19. State of Happiness, by Stella Duffy
20. The Sari Shop, by Rupa Bajwa

2003

1. Property, Valerie Martin
2. Buddha Da, Anne Donavan
3. Heligoland, Shena Mackay
4. The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
5. The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
6. Unless, Carol Shields
7. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
8. When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka
9. Water Street, by Crystal Wilkinson
10. The Cutting Room, by Louise Welsh
11. In the Forest, by Edna O’Brien
12. The Solace of Leaving Early, by Haven Kimmel
13. Fox Girl, by Nora Okja Keller
14. War Crimes For The Home, by Liz Jensen
15. What I Loved, by Siri Hustvedt
16. What the Birds See, by Sonya Hartnett
17. Dot in the Universe, by Lucy Ellmann
18. English Correspondence, by Janet Davey
19. Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros
20. Special, by Bella Bathurst

2002

1. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett ✓
2. The White Family, Maggie Gee
3. No Bones, Anna Burns
4. The Siege, Helen Dunmore
5. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
6. A Child’s Book of True Crime, Chloe Hooper
7. Middle Age: A Romance, by Joyce Carol Oates
8. Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris ✓
9. Pop, by Kitty Aldridge
10. The Element Of Water, by Stevie Davies
11. The Dark Room, by Rachel Seiffert
12. Sister Crazy, by Emma Richler
13. The Hero’s Walk, by Anita Rau Badami
14. La Cucina, by Lily Prior
15. Crawling at Night, by Nani Power
16. The Story of My Face, by Kathy Page
17. The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
18. Niagara Falls All Over Again, by Elizabeth McCracken
19. Now You See Me, by Lesley Glaister
20. A True Story Based on Lies, by Jennifer Clement

2001

1. The Idea of Perfection, Kate Grenville
2. Horse Heaven, Jane Smiley
3. Hotel World, Ali Smith
4. Fred & Edie, Jill Dawson
5. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
6. Homestead, Rosina Lippi
7. The Bonesetter’s Daughter, by Amy Tan
8. Ahab’s Wife, or The Star-Gazer, by Sena Jeter Naslund
9. The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt
10. The Hiding Place, by Trezza Azzopardi
11. The Powerbook, by Jeanette Winterson
12. Caucasia, by Danzy Senna
13. MotherKind, by Jayne Anne Phillips
14. Nowhere Else on Earth, by Josephine Humphreys
15. Dog Days, Glenn Miller Nights, by Laurie Graham
16. The Wild, by Esther Freud
17. Fish, Blood and Bone, by Leslie Forbes
18. In the Casa Azul: A Novel of Revolution and Betrayal, by Meaghan Delahunt

2000

1. When I Lived in Modern Times, Linda Grant
2. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
3. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
4. The Dancers Dancing, Eílís ní Dhiubhne
5. Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout
6. If I Told You Once, Judy Budnitz
7. The Translator by Leila Aboulela
8. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
9. Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
10. A Dangerous Vine by Barbara Ewing
11. Danny Boy by Jo-Ann Goodwin
12. A Sin of Colour by Sunetra Gupta
13. Born Free by Laura Hird
14. Everything You Need by AL Kennedy
15. The Hunter by Julia Leigh
16. Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
17. Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B. Nahai
18. Last Chance Texaco by Christine Pountney
19. Island by Jane Rogers
20. What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin

1999

1. A Crime in the Neighborhood, Suzanne Berne
2. The Leper’s Companion, Julia Blackburn
3. Visible Worlds, Marilyn Bowering
4. The Short History of a Prince, Jane Hamilton
5. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
6. Paradise, Toni Morrison
7. Evening News, by Marly Swick
8. Comfort Woman, by Nora Okja Keller
9. A History Of Silence, by Barbara Neil
10. The Most Wanted, by Jacquelyn Mitchard
11. The Giant, O’Brien, by Hilary Mantel
12. Marchlands, by Karla Kuban
13. The Vintner’s Luck (Vintner’s Luck, #1), by Elizabeth Knox
14. Buxton Spice, by Oonya Kempadoo
15. Trumpet, by Jackie Kay
16. Restitution, by Maureen Duffy
17. Crocodile Soup, by Julia Darling
18. In a Fishbone Church, by Catherine Chidgey
19. The Voyage of the Narwhal, by Andrea Barrett
20. Master Georgie, by Beryl Bainbridge

1998

1. Larry’s Party, Carol Shields
2. Lives of the Monster Dogs, Kirsten Bakis
3. The Ventriloquist’s Tale, Pauline Melville
4. The Magician’s Assistant, Ann Patchett
5. Love Like Hate Adore, Deirdre Purcell
6. The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve
7. The House Gun, by Nadine Gordimer
8. Baby Love (Evangeline Gower, #1), by Louisa Young
9. The Underpainter, by Jane Urquhart
10. Impossible Saints, by Michèle Roberts
11. Black and Blue, by Anna Quindlen
12. The Orchard, by Drusilla Modjeska
13. Undiscovered Country, by Christina Koning
14. Ark Baby, by Liz Jensen
15. Round Rock, by Michelle Huneven
16. The Breaking, by Kathryn Heyman
17. The Agüero Sisters, by Cristina García
18. Summer At Gaglow, by Esther Freud
19. Man or Mango?, by Lucy Ellmann
20. Bitter Grounds, by Sandra Benitez

1997

1. Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michael
2. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
3. One by One in the Darkness, Deirdre Madden
4. I Was Amelia Earhart, Jane Mendelsohn
5. Accordion Crimes, Annie Proulx
6. Hen’s Teeth, Manda Scott
7. Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald
8. Red Leaves, by Paullina Simons
9. All the Blood is Red, by Leone Ross
10. The Cast Iron Shore, by Linda Grant
11. The Frequency of Souls, by Mary Kay Zuravleff
12. Gut Symmetries, by Jeanette Winterson
13. Anita and Me, by Meera Syal
14. With Child (Kate Martinelli, #3), by Laurie R. King
15. The Autobiography of My Mother, by Jamaica Kincaid
16. The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, by Siri Hustvedt
17. The Last Thing He Wanted, by Joan Didion
18. Death Comes for Peter Pan, by Joan Brady
19. The Mistress of Spices, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
20. Every Man for Himself, by Beryl Bainbridge

1996

1. A Spell of Winter, Helen Dunmore
2. The Book of Colour, Julia Blackburn
3. Spinsters, Pagan Kennedy
4. The Hundred Secret Senses, Amy Tan
5. Ladder of Years, Anne Tyler
6. Eveless Eden, Marianne Wiggins
7. Mother of Pearl, by Mary Morrissy
8. The Love Letter, by Cathleen Schine
9. Promised Lands, by Jane Rogers
10. Never Far From Nowhere, by Andrea Levy
11. So I Am Glad: A Novel, by A.L. Kennedy
12. Egg Dancing, by Liz Jensen
13. The Passion of Alice, by Stephanie Grant
14. The Private Parts Of Women, by Lesley Glaister
15. The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald
16. Keeping Up with Magda, by Isla Dewar
17. The Rape of Sita, by Lindsey Collen
18. Official and Doubtful, by Ajay Close
19. The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3), by Pat Barker
20. River Lines, by Elspeth Sandys

Desmond Elliott Prize

The Desmond Elliott Prize is an annual award for the best debut novel written in English and published in the UK. Below you will only find the list of books written by women shortlisted for the prize (full list: here). The winner for each year is highlighted. Read books are marked as (✓). Reviews, when available, are linked below. I have crossed off a few books which do not interest me from the list.

2016

• The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney ✓
• The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester

2015

• Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
• Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
• A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray

2014

• A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride ✓

2013

• The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber 
• The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan

2012

• The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen 
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

2011

• Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph

2010

• Before the Earthquake by Maria Allen

2009

• A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

2008

• Gifted by Nikita Lalwani

Goldsmiths Prize

The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary award for fiction that “opens up new possibilities for the novel form”. It is limited to UK and Irish authors and books must be published by a UK-based publisher. Below you will only find the list of books written by women shortlisted for the prize (full list: here). The winner for each year is highlighted. Read books are marked as (✓). Reviews, when available, are linked below. I have crossed off a few books which do not interest me from the list.

2016

• Rachel Cusk, Transit
• Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians ✓
• Anakana Schofield, Martin John
• Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
• Deborah Levy, Hot Milk ✓

2015

• Only men were shortlisted.

2014

• Ali Smith, How to Be Both ✓
• Rachel Cusk, Outline

2013

• Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing ✓
• Ali Smith, Artful

Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel, produced “in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”. Below you will only find the list of women writers who won the prize (full list: here). Read authors are marked as (✓). Reviews, when available, are linked below.

• 2015 – Svetlana Alexievich
• 2013 – Alice Munro ✓
  • Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
  • Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
  • The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
  • Runaway (2004)
  • Too Much Happiness (2009)
  • Dear Life: Stories (2012)
• 2009 – Herta Müller ✓
  • Nadirs (1982)
  • Traveling on One Leg (1989)
  • The Land of Green Plums (1993)
  • The Appointment (1997)
• 2007 – Doris Lessing ✓
  • The Grass is Singing (1950)
  • African Stories (1964)
  • Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (1994)
  • Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography–1949-1962 (1997)
• 2004 – Elfriede Jelinek ✓
  • Women as Lovers (1975)
• 1996 – Wislawa Szymborska ✓
  • View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (1995)
  • Poems New and Collected (1998)
  • Here (2010)
• 1993 – Toni Morrison ✓
  • The Bluest Eye (1970)
  • Sula (1973)
  • Song of Solomon (1977)
  • Beloved (1987)
• 1991 – Nadine Gordimer
• 1966 – Nelly Sachs ✓
  • O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli (1967)
• 1945 – Gabriela Mistral ✓
  • Selected Poems (1941)
• 1938 – Pearl Buck ✓
  • The Good Earth (1931)
• 1928 – Sigrid Undset ✓
  • The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter #1, 1920)
  • The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter #2, 1921)
  • The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter #3, 1922)
• 1926 – Grazia Deledda
• 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf

The Folio Prize

The Folio Prize was given to an English-language book of fiction published in the UK by an author from any country. Below you will only find the list of books written by women shortlisted for the prize (full list: here). The winner for each year is highlighted. Read books are marked as (✓). Reviews, when available, are linked below. I have crossed off a few books which do not interest me from the list.

2015

• Rachel Cusk, Outline
• Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
• Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Dust
• Ali Smith, How to Be Both  ✓
• Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

2014

• Anne Carson, Red Doc
• Amity Gaige, Schroder
• Jane Gardam, Last Friends
• Rachel Kushner, The Flame Throwers
• Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing ✓

Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland. Below you will only find the list of books written by women who won the prize (full list: here). Read books are marked as (✓). Reviews, when available, are linked below. I have crossed off a few books which do not interest me from the list.

2015

• Novel: Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
• Biography: Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature

2014

• Novel Award — Ali Smith,  How to Be Both  ✓
• First Novel Award — Emma Healey, Elizabeth is Missing
• Biography Award — Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

2013

• Novel Award — Kate Atkinson, Life after Life
• Biography Award — Lucy Hughes-Hallet, The Pike
• Short Story Award – Angela Readman, “The Keeper of the Jackalopes”

2012

• First Novel Award — Francesca Segal, The Innocents
• Novel Award — Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies
• Poetry Award — Kathleen Jamie, The Overhaul
• Biography Award — Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes
• Short Story Award — Avril Joy, “Millie and Bird”

2011

• First Novel Award — Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
• Poetry Award — Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees

2010

• First Novel Award — Kishwar Desai, Witness the Night
• Novel Award — Maggie O’Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine
• Poetry Award — Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability

2009

• No woman

2008

• First Novel Award — Sadie Jones, The Outcast
• Biography Award — Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End

2007

• First Novel Award – Catherine O’Flynn, What Was Lost
• Novel Award — A.L. Kennedy, Day
• Poetry Award — Jean Sprackland, Tilt

2006

• First Novel Award – Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves

2005

• Novel Award – Ali Smith, The Accidental
• Biography Award – Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master

2004

• First Novel Award – Susan Fletcher, Eve Green ✓
• Novel Award – Andrea Levy, Small Island

2003

• No woman

2002

• Biography Award – Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

2001

• Poetry Award – Selima Hill, Bunny
• Biography Award – Diana Souhami, Selkirk’s Island

2000

• First Novel Award – Zadie Smith, White Teeth
• Biography Award – Lorna Sage, Bad Blood – A Memoir

Pulitzer for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. Below you will only find the list of books written by women shortlisted for the prize (full list: here). The winner for each year is highlighted. Read books are marked as (✓). Reviews, when available, are linked below. I have crossed off a few books which do not interest me from the list.

2016

• Get in Trouble: Stories, by Kelly Link
• Maud’s Line, by Margaret Verble

2015

• The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
• Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates

2014

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2013

• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

2012 – No award given

• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

2011

• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2010

• Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet

2009

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
• All Souls by Christine Schutt

2008

• Shakespeare’s Kitchen by Lore Segal

2007

• After This by Alice McDermott

2006

• March by Geraldine Brooks

2005

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

2004

• American Woman by Susan Choi
• Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins

2003

• Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett

2002

• No woman shortlisted.

2001

• Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams

2000

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 
• Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

1999

•  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

1998

• No woman shortlisted

1997

• Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Manikin by Joanna Scott

1996

• No woman shortlisted

1995

• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Collected Stories by Grace Paley

1994

• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

1993

• At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
• Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates

1992

• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

1991

• Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan

1990

• No woman

1989

• Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

1988

• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
• That Night by Alice McDermott

1987

• No woman

1986

• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

1985

• Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
• I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O’Hehir

1984

• No woman

1983

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

1982

• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

1981 – 1974

• No woman

1973

• The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty

1972- 1971

• No woman

1970

• Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

1969 – 1967

• No woman

1966 

• Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

1965

• The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau

1964-1962

• No woman

1961

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1960 – 1958

• No woman

1957 – No Award

• The Voice At The Back Door by Elizabeth Spencer

1956-1943

• No woman

1942

• In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow

1941 – 1940

• No woman

1939

• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1938

• No woman

1937

• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

1936

• No woman

1935

• Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson

1934

• Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller

1933

• No woman

1932

• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

1931

• Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes

1930

• No woman

1929

• Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin

1928 – 1926

• No woman

1925

• So Big by Edna Ferber

1924

• The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson

1923

• One of Ours by Willa Cather

1922

• No woman

1921

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

1920 – 1917

• No woman

T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry