The twenty titles on the longlist of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) were announced:

  • A Trick I Learned from a Dead Man, by Kitty Aldridge
  • Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
  • The Marlowe Papers, by Ros Barber
  • The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, by Shani Boianjiu
  • Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
  • How Should a Person Be?, by Sheila Heti
  • May We Be Forgiven, by A.M. Homes
  • Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Red Book, by Deborah Copaken Kogan
  • Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel
  • Lamb, by Bonnie Nadzam
  • The Forrests, by Emily Perkins
  • Ignorance, by Michèle Roberts
  • The Innocents, by Francesca Segal
  • Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
  • Honour, by Elif Shafak
  • NW, by Zadie Smith
  • The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman
  • Mateship with Birds, by Carrie Tiffany
  • Alif the Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson
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