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.

---

---