Longlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize For Fiction Released

The Women’s Prize Trust announced the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which highlights sixteen novels—including seven debuts, seven American writers, and nine offerings from indie publishers—published in the last year.

• Lucy Apps, Gloria Don’t Speak
• Hannah Lillith Assadi, Paradiso 17
• Elaine Castillo, Moderation
• Susan Choi, Flashlight
• Addie E. Citchens, Dominion
• Wendy Erskine, The Benefactors
• Virginia Evans, The Correspondent
• Marcia Hutchinson, The Mercy Step
• Sheena Kalayil, The Others
• Rozie Kelly, Kingfisher
• Lily King, Heart the Lover
• Katie Kitamura, Audition
• Megha Majumdar, A Guardian and a Thief
• Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore
• Kit de Waal, The Best of Everything
• Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

I have only read one of them (Katie Kitamura’s Audition) so I have a lot of catching up to do.

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