Women's Prize for Fiction

2026

• The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson — shortlist
• The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
• Flashlight by Susan Choi — shortlist
• Dominion by Addie E. Citchens — shortlist
• Heart the Lover by Lily King — shortlist
• Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly — shortlist

2025

• Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis — shortlist
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji — shortlist
• Good Girl by Aria Aber — shortlist
• Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout — shortlist
• All Fours by Miranda July — shortlist

2024

• Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
• Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy — shortlist
• Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad — shortlist
• The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright — shortlist
• Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville — shortlist
• River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure — shortlist

2023

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy — shortlist
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell — shortlist
• Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris — shortlist
• Pod by Laline Paull — shortlist
• Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks — shortlist

2022

• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason — shortlist
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich — shortlist
• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak — shortlist
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead — shortlist
• Three Rooms by Jo Hamya — shortlist

2021

• The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel — shortlist
• Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout — shortlist
• Luster by Raven Leilani — shortlist
• Transcendent Kingdom by Madeline Miller — shortlist
• Burntcoat by Sarah Hall — shortlist
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

2020

• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo — shortlist
• Weather by Jenny Offill — shortlist
• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes — shortlist
• Dominicana by Angie Cruz — shortlist
• Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler — shortlist
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

2019

• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite — shortlist
• Circe by Madeline Miller — shortlist
• Ordinary People by Diana Evans — shortlist
• Milkman by Anna Burns — shortlist
• The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker — shortlist
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

2018

• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman — shortlist
• The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar — shortlist
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward — shortlist
• Kudos by Rachel Cusk — shortlist
• Sight by Jessie Greengrass — shortlist

2017

• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ — shortlist
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien — shortlist
• The Dark Circle by Linda Grant — shortlist
• First Love by Gwendoline Riley — shortlist
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith — shortlist

2016

• The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie — shortlist
• The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild — shortlist
• The Green Road by Anne Enright — shortlist
• Ruby by Cynthia Bond — shortlist
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara — shortlist
• The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

2015

• Outline by Rachel Cusk — shortlist
• The Bees by Laline Paull — shortlist
• A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie — shortlist
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters — shortlist
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler — shortlist
• How to Be Both by Ali Smith

2014

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — shortlist
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent — shortlist
• The Undertaking by Audrey Magee — shortlist
• The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri — shortlist
• A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt — shortlist

2013

• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson — shortlist
• Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver — shortlist
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel — shortlist
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple — shortlist
• NW by Zadie Smith — shortlist
• May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes

2012

• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett — shortlist
• Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding — shortlist
• The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright — shortlist
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick — shortlist

2011

• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan — shortlist
• Room by Emma Donoghue — shortlist
• Great House by Nicole Krauss — shortlist
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna — shortlist
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter — shortlist
• The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

2010

• Black Water Rising by Attica Locke — shortlist
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel — shortlist
• The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey — shortlist
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore — shortlist