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Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Winners and Shortlisted Books

Based on bookaward: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist

Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

3,601 members

273 reviews

4

8 Members: KimarieBee, raidergirl3, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, steller0707

2

14,852 members

799 reviews

3.9

7 Members: raidergirl3, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, steller0707

3

by Naomi Alderman

4,735 members

254 reviews

½ 3.7

8 Members: raidergirl3, sturlington, elkiedee, SonoranDreamer, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, steller0707

4

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

8,764 members

530 reviews

4.1

6 Members: raidergirl3, sturlington, elkiedee, ahef1963, jenniferw88, steller0707

5

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

8,242 members

589 reviews

4

6 Members: raidergirl3, sturlington, elkiedee, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy

6

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,701 members

296 reviews

4.2

6 Members: raidergirl3, sturlington, elkiedee, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, steller0707

7

Sing, Unburied, Sing

3,946 members

195 reviews

4.1

5 Members: raidergirl3, sturlington, elkiedee, kara.shamy, steller0707

8

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

3,939 members

256 reviews

3.9

5 Members: raidergirl3, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, steller0707

9

A Spool of Blue Thread

3,067 members

209 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

10

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

6,918 members

345 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: hipdeep, elkiedee, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

11

The Silence of the Girls

2,383 members

103 reviews

3.9

5 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

12

2,354 members

115 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

13

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

3,203 members

199 reviews

½ 3.6

5 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

14

by Maggie O'Farrell

4,352 members

228 reviews

4.2

5 Members: sturlington, elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

15

by Kamila Shamsie

1,732 members

81 reviews

4.1

4 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

16

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

by Maria Semple

7,484 members

541 reviews

3.9

4 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee, ahef1963, steller0707

17

My Sister, the Serial Killer

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

3,375 members

250 reviews

3.8

4 Members: raidergirl3, sturlington, jenniferw88, steller0707

18

Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver

3,971 members

234 reviews

3.9

4 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee, SonoranDreamer, steller0707

19

by Madeline Miller

12,361 members

476 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy, jenniferw88, steller0707

20

Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

3,167 members

132 reviews

4.2

4 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

21

by Anne Enright

988 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee, gypsysmom

22

1,869 members

106 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

23

by Hanya Yanagihara

7,455 members

326 reviews

4.1

3 Members: kara.shamy, jenniferw88, steller0707

24

1,571 members

51 reviews

3.8

3 Members: raidergirl3, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

25

by Jhumpa Lahiri

3,305 members

177 reviews

3.9

3 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, steller0707

26

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

by Madeleine Thien

1,281 members

54 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, jenniferw88, steller0707

27

The Portable Veblen

by Elizabeth McKenzie

612 members

39 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

28

by Elif Batuman

1,629 members

67 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

29

by Laline Paull

1,741 members

127 reviews

3.8

2 Members: raidergirl3, SonoranDreamer

30

The Glorious Heresies

by Lisa McInerney

594 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: elkiedee, jenniferw88, steller0707

31

May We Be Forgiven

1,090 members

59 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee

32

2,432 members

98 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee

33

by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

1,259 members

68 reviews

3.9

2 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee

34

by Jessie Greengrass

156 members

8 reviews

3.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

35

The Sport of Kings

by C. E. Morgan

428 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

36

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

by Imogen Hermes Gowar

1,079 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, jenniferw88

37

by Meena Kandasamy

226 members

8 reviews

4

2 Members: raidergirl3, kara.shamy

38

by Jenny Offill

1,180 members

68 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

39

The Improbability of Love

by Hannah Rothschild

673 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy

40

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

by Eimear McBride

1,056 members

60 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy

41

The Undertaking

by Audrey Magee

291 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

42

A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

1,569 members

47 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee

43

by Cynthia Bond

793 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: raidergirl3, jenniferw88,sturlington

44

A God in Every Stone

by Kamila Shamsie

273 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

45

629 members

36 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee

46

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

5,599 members

237 reviews

4.1

Member: steller0707

47

The Mirror & the Light

by Hilary Mantel

2,756 members

103 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

48

Transcendent Kingdom

2,100 members

101 reviews

4

Member: steller0707

49

The Dark Circle

127 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: elkiedee

50

Ordinary People

252 members

8 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: elkiedee

51

by Susanna Clarke

5,663 members

276 reviews

4.2

52

by Gwendoline Riley

185 members

9 reviews

½ 3.3

53

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

3,229 members

137 reviews

½ 4.3

54

The Marriage Portrait

by Maggie O'Farrell

1,645 members

82 reviews

4

55

by Maggie Shipstead

1,347 members

65 reviews

4

56

No One Is Talking About This

by Patricia Lockwood

1,109 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

57

The Island of Missing Trees

1,083 members

50 reviews

4

58

Sorrow and Bliss

705 members

23 reviews

3.9

59

by Louise Kennedy

486 members

26 reviews

4

60

Unsettled Ground

by Claire Fuller

474 members

31 reviews

3.9

61

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

by Cherie Jones

368 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

62

The Bread the Devil Knead

by Lisa Allen-Agostini

140 members

5 reviews

3.8

63

by Laline Paull

105 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

64

Black Butterflies

by Priscilla Morris

97 members

5 reviews

4.2

65

by Jacqueline Crooks

83 members

3 reviews

4

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Started: sturlington
March 2016
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