The longlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced! If you’re on Goodreads, please visit The Mookse and the Gripes group, where there’s already been a lot of fun conversation about this year’s books. Here is the link to the Women’s Prize threads.

• The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett
• Small Pleasures, by Claire Chambers
• Piranesi, by Susanna Clark
• The Golden Rule, by Amanda Craig
• Exciting Times, by Naoise Dolan
• Burnt Sugar, by Avni Doshi
• Because of You, by Dawn French
• Unsettled Ground, by Claire Fuller
• Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi
• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, by Cherie Jones
• Luster, by Raven Leilani
• No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood
• Consent, by Annabel Lyon
• Nothing But Blue Sky, by Kathleen MacMahon
• Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters
• Summer, by Ali Smith