The books I’ve read previously are highlighted in orange with links to reviews if available.
The Orange Prize for Fiction
2009
Winner:
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Shortlist:
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
2008
Winner:
Rose Tremain The Road Home
Shortlist:
Nancy Huston Fault Lines
Sadie Jones The Outcast
Charlotte Mendelson When We Were Bad
Heather O’Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals
Patricia Wood Lottery
2007
Winner:
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (rating: 4.5; review)
Shortlist:
Arlington Park, by Rachel Cusk
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (rating: 3; review)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo
The Observations, by Jane Harris
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
2006
Winner:
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
Shortlist:
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
Beyond Black, by Hilary Mantel
The Accidental, by Ali Smith
Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, by Carrie Tiffany
The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters
2005
Winner:
We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver
Shortlist:
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
The Mammoth Cheese, by Sheri Holman
Liars and Saints, by Maile Meloy
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka
2004
Winner:
Small Island, by Andrea Levy
Shortlist:
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood (rating: 2; review)
The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard
Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (rating: 4.5; review)
Ice Road, by Gillian Slovo
The Colour, by Rose Tremain
2003
Winner:
Property, by Valerie Martin (rating: 4; review)
Shortlist:
Buddha Da, by Anne Donovan
Heligoland, by Shena Mackay
Unless, by Carol Shields (rating: 4.5; review)
The Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith
The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt
2002
Winner:
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
Shortlist:
No Bones, by Anna Burns
The Siege, by Helen Dunmore
The White Family, by Maggie Gee
A Child’s Book of True Crime, by Chloe Hooper
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
2001
Winner:
The Idea of Perfection, by Kate Grenville
Shortlist:
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (rating 3.5; review)
Fred & Edie, by Jill Dawson
Hotel World, by Ali Smith
Homestead, by Rosina Lippi
Horse Heaven, by Jane Smiley
2000
Winner:
When I Lived in Modern Times, by Linda Grant
Shortlist:
If I Told You Once, by Judy Budnitz
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
The Dancers Dancing, by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
1999
Winner:
A Crime in the Neighborhood, by Suzanne Berne
Shortlist:
The Short History of a Prince, by Jane Hamilton
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Paradise, by Toni Morrison
The Leper’s Companions, by Julia Blackburn
Visible Worlds, by Marilyn Bowering
1998
Winner:
Larry’s Party, by Carol Shield
Shortlist:
Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirsten Bakis
The Ventriloquist’s Tale, by Pauline Melville
The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett
Love Like Hate Adore, by Deirdre Purcell
The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve
1997
Winner:
Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels (rating: 4.5; review)
Shortlist:
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
One by One in the Darkness, by Deirdre Madden
Accordion Crimes, by E. Annie Proulx
Hen’s Teeth, by Manda Scott
I Was Amelia Earhart, by Jane Mendelsohn
1996
Winner:
A Spell of Winter, by Helen Dunmore
Shortlist:
The Book of Colour, by Julia Blackburn
Spinsters, by Pagan Kennedy
The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler
Eveless Eden, by Marianne Wiggins
Orange Prize for New Writers
2008
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna – WINNER
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
2007
The Lizard Cage, by Karen Connelly – WINNER
Poppy Shakespeare, by Clare Allan
Bitter Sweets, by Roopa Farooki
2006
Disobedience, by Naomi Alderman – WINNER
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, by Yiyun Li
The Dream Life of Sukhanov, by Olga Grushin
2005
26a, by Diana Evans – WINNER
Lucky Girls, by Nell Freudenberger
How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff (rating: 3.5; review)
