The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 longlist

The longlist for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced.

Here is the full longlist:

• A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (Read our review)
• Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett (Read our review)
• Ruby by Cynthia Bond
• The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (Read our review)
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Read our review)
• A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton
• Whispers Through a Megaphone by Rachel Elliott
• The Green Road by Anne Enright (Read our review)
• The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
• Gorsky by Vesna Goldsworthy
• The Anatomist’s Dream by Clio Gray
• At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison
• Pleasantville by Attica Locke
• The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
• The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie (Read our review)
• Girl at War by Sara Novic
• The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester
• The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (Read our review)
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

This year’s judges are Margaret Mountford, Naga Munchetty, Laurie Penny, Elif Shafak and Tracey Thorn. Of the longlist, Mountford said: “We are delighted with the quality, the imaginative scope and the ambition of our chosen books, a longlist which reflects the judges’ interests and tastes. We hope readers will enjoy the variety of outstanding work on offer.”

The 2016 shortlist of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction will be announced on Monday 11 April. Find out more about here.