2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist

The longlist for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced on International Women’s Day.  This year’s longlist honors both debut and acclaimed writers and a range of genres and themes, which span the globe in settings, from Trinidad, Cyprus and a dystopian England, to Cape Cod, Buchenwald, and Vietnam.

Here are the books listed:

• Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
• Careless by Kirsty Capes
• Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé
• Flamingo by Rachel Elliott
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
• Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
• Salt Lick by Lulu Allison
• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
• The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
• The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• This One Sky Day by Leone Ross

The judging panel will now bring these 16 books down to a shortlist of just 6 novels, announced on April 27th. The 27th winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction will be announced on Wednesday June 15th.

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