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Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Winners and Shortlisted Books

Based on bookaward: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist
Members: 11 participating members
elkiedee, kara.shamy, steller0707, raidergirl3, jenniferw88, gypsysmom, sturlington, ahef1963, SonoranDreamer, hipdeep, KimarieBee

Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

3,409 members

263 reviews

4

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

2

13,633 members

764 reviews

3.9

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

3

by Naomi Alderman

4,125 members

230 reviews

3.8

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

4

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

7,671 members

484 reviews

4.1

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

5

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

7,787 members

571 reviews

4

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

6

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,075 members

285 reviews

4.2

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

7

Sing, Unburied, Sing

3,545 members

189 reviews

4.1

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

8

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

3,524 members

249 reviews

3.9

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

9

A Spool of Blue Thread

2,861 members

197 reviews

½ 3.6

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

10

Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel

6,516 members

331 reviews

½ 4.3

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

11

The Silence of the Girls

2,046 members

96 reviews

4

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

12

2,079 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

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

13

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

3,045 members

193 reviews

½ 3.6

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

14

by Maggie O'Farrell

3,466 members

193 reviews

4.2

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

15

by Kamila Shamsie

1,577 members

75 reviews

4.1

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

16

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

by Maria Semple

7,267 members

520 reviews

3.9

4 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee, ahef1963, steller0707

17

My Sister, the Serial Killer

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

2,906 members

229 reviews

3.8

4 Members: raidergirl3, sturlington, jenniferw88, steller0707

18

Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver

3,753 members

227 reviews

3.9

4 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee, SonoranDreamer, steller0707

19

by Madeline Miller

9,595 members

413 reviews

½ 4.3

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

20

Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

2,570 members

120 reviews

4.2

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

21

by Anne Enright

921 members

64 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee, gypsysmom

22

1,669 members

98 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

23

by Hanya Yanagihara

6,019 members

297 reviews

4.1

3 Members: kara.shamy, jenniferw88, steller0707

24

1,478 members

46 reviews

3.8

3 Members: raidergirl3, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

25

by Jhumpa Lahiri

3,135 members

174 reviews

3.9

3 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom, steller0707

26

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

by Madeleine Thien

1,176 members

52 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, jenniferw88, steller0707

27

The Portable Veblen

by Elizabeth McKenzie

572 members

36 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

28

by Elif Batuman

1,330 members

55 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy, jenniferw88

29

by Laline Paull

1,583 members

122 reviews

3.8

2 Members: raidergirl3, SonoranDreamer

30

The Glorious Heresies

by Lisa McInerney

558 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: elkiedee, jenniferw88, steller0707

31

May We Be Forgiven

1,038 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee

32

2,286 members

94 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee

33

by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

1,129 members

65 reviews

3.9

2 Members: raidergirl3, elkiedee

34

by Jessie Greengrass

147 members

8 reviews

3.2

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

35

The Sport of Kings

by C. E. Morgan

397 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

36

The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

by Imogen Hermes Gowar

1,000 members

44 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, jenniferw88

37

by Meena Kandasamy

209 members

7 reviews

4

2 Members: raidergirl3, kara.shamy

38

by Jenny Offill

1,051 members

65 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, steller0707

39

The Improbability of Love

by Hannah Rothschild

623 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy

40

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

by Eimear McBride

990 members

57 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, kara.shamy

41

The Undertaking

by Audrey Magee

277 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee

42

A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

1,214 members

42 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee

43

by Cynthia Bond

780 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: raidergirl3, jenniferw88,sturlington

44

A God in Every Stone

by Kamila Shamsie

257 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

45

557 members

30 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee

46

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

4,698 members

215 reviews

4.1

Member: steller0707

47

The Mirror and the Light

by Hilary Mantel

2,398 members

95 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

48

Transcendent Kingdom

1,734 members

90 reviews

4

Member: steller0707

49

The Dark Circle

119 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: elkiedee

50

Ordinary People

233 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: elkiedee

51

by Susanna Clarke

4,319 members

212 reviews

4.2

52

by Gwendoline Riley

151 members

7 reviews

3.2

53

by Maggie Shipstead

1,114 members

54 reviews

4.1

54

No One Is Talking About This

by Patricia Lockwood

908 members

46 reviews

½ 3.5

55

The Island of Missing Trees

738 members

42 reviews

4

56

Sorrow and Bliss

544 members

16 reviews

3.9

57

Unsettled Ground

by Claire Fuller

409 members

30 reviews

3.9

58

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

by Cherie Jones

312 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

59

The Bread the Devil Knead

by Lisa Allen-Agostini

92 members

2 reviews

3.9

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Started: sturlington
March 2016
Type: Numbered and unnumbered

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