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  • May 04 2008

    Orange Prize Project

    Published by 3M

    Wow, I’ve only read three winners or shortlist titles! I plan on reading the titles in blue in 2008. The books I’ve read previously are highlighted in orange with links to reviews. I’ve updated my list to include the ‘extra credit’ longlist titles, of which I’ve read only six. I already own the bold titles.

    The Orange Prize for Fiction

    2008
    Shortlist:
    Nancy Huston Fault Lines
    Sadie Jones The Outcast
    Charlotte Mendelson When We Were Bad
    Heather O’Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals
    Rose Tremain The Road Home
    Patricia Wood Lottery

    Longlist:
    Anita Amirrezvani The Blood of Flowers
    Stella Duffy The Room of Lost Things
    Jennifer Egan The Keep
    Anne Enright The Gathering
    Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs
    Tessa Hadley The Master Bedroom
    Gail Jones Sorry
    Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
    Deborah Moggach In The Dark
    Anita Nair Mistress
    Elif Shafak The Bastard of Istanbul
    Dalia Sofer The Septembers of Shiraz
    Scarlett Thomas The End of Mr Y
    Carol Topolski Monster Love

    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

    Longlist:
    Poppy Shakespeare, by Clare Allan
    Peripheral Vision, by Patricia Ferguson
    Over, by Margaret Forster
    The Dissident, by Nell Freudenberger
    When to Walk, by Rebecca Gowers
    Carry Me Down, by MJ Hyland
    The Girls, by Lori Lansens
    Alligator, by Lisa Moore
    What Was Lost, by Catherine O’Flynn
    The Tenderness of Wolves, by Stef Penney
    Careless, by Deborah Robertson
    Afterwards, by Rachel Seiffert
    Ten Days in the Hills, by Jane Smiley
    The Housekeeper, by Melanie Wallace

    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

    Longlist:
    Minaret, by Leila Aboulela
    Harbor, by Lorraine Adams
    Disobedience, by Naomi Alderman
    Watch Me Disappear, by Jill Dawson
    House of Orphans, by Helen Dunmore
    The Constant Princess, by Philippa Gregory
    White Ghost Girls, by Alice Greenway
    Dreams of Speaking, by Gail Jones
    Lost in the Forest, by Sue Miller
    Rape: A Love Story, by Joyce Carol Oates
    Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (rating: 5)
    Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld
    Frangipani, by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
    The Position, by Meg Wolitzer

    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

    Longlist:
    Away From You, by Melanie Finn
    Black Dirt, by Nell Leyshon
    Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson (rating: 3.5)
    Escape Routes for Beginners, by Kira Cochrane
    The Falls, by Joyce Carol Oates
    It So Happens, by Patricia Ferguson
    The Mysteries of Glass, by Sue Gee
    Nelson’s Daughter, by Miranda Hearn
    The Remedy, by Michele Lovric
    The River, by Tricia Wastvedt
    The Great Stink, by Clare Clark
    Tatty, by Christine Dwyer Hickey
    The Zigzag Way, by Anita Desai
    Ursula, Under, by Ingrid Hill

    2004
    Winner:
    Small Island, by Andrea Levy

    Shortlist:
    Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
    The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard
    Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Ice Road, by Gillian Slovo
    The Colour, by Rose Tremain

    Longlist:
    Brick Lane, by Monica Ali
    The Sari Shop, by Rupa Bajwa
    Kith and Kin, by Stevie Davies
    State of Happiness, by Stella Duffy
    The Flood, by Maggie Gee
    The Electric Michelangelo, by Sarah Hall
    Notes on a Scandal, by Zoe Heller
    The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
    A Visit from Voltaire, by Dinah Lee Kung
    Gilgamesh, by Joan London
    The Internationals, by Sarah May
    Love, by Toni Morrison
    The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger (rating: 4)
    The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler (rating: 4)

    2003
    Winner:
    Property, by Valerie Martin

    Shortlist:
    Buddha Da, by Anne Donovan
    Heligoland, by Shena Mackay
    Unless, by Carol Shields
    The Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith
    The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt

    Longlist:
    Special, by Bella Bathhurst
    Caramelo, by Sandra Cisneros
    English Correspondence, by Janet Davey
    Dot in the Universe, by Lucy Ellmann
    What the Birds See, by Sonya Hartnett
    What I Loved, by Siri Hustvedt
    War Crimes for the Home, by Liz Jensen
    The Solace of Leaving Early, by Haven Kimmel
    In the Forest, by Edna O’Brien
    Fox Girl, by Okja Keller
    When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka
    Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
    The Cutting Room, by Louise Welsh
    Water Street, by Crystal Wilkinson

    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

    Longlist:
    Pop, by Kitty Aldridge
    A True Story Based on Lies, by Jennifer Clement
    Now You See Me, by Lesley Glaister
    The Element of Water, by Stevie Davies
    Five Quarters of an Orange, by Joanne Harris
    Niagara Falls All Over Again, by Elizabeth McCracken
    The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk (rating: 4.5)
    Middle Ages, by Joyce Carol Oates
    The Story of My Face, by Kathy Page
    Crawling at Night, by Nani Power
    La Cucina, by Lily Prior
    The Hero’s Walk, by Anita Rau Badami
    Sister Crazy, by Emma Richler
    The Dark Room, by Rachel Seiffert

    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

    Longlist:
    The Hiding Place, by Trezza Azzopardi
    In the Blue House, by Meaghan Delahunt
    The Last Samurai, by Helen Dewitt
    Fish, Blood & Bone, by Leslie Forbes
    The Wild, by Esther Freud
    Dog Days, Glenn Miller Nights, by Laurie Graham
    Nowhere Else on Earth, by Josephine Humphreys
    Ahab’s Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund
    From Caucasia, with Love, by Danzy Senna
    The Bonesetter’s Daughter, by Amy Tan
    The PowerBook, by Jeanette Winterson
    MotherKind, by Jayne Ann Phillips

    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

    Longlist:
    The Translator, by Leila Aboulela (rating: 4)
    Girl With A Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
    Fasting, Feasting, by Anita Desai
    A Dangerous Vine, by Barbara Ewing
    Danny Boy, by Jo-Ann Goodwin
    A Sin of Colour, by Sunetra Gupt
    Born Free, by Laura Hird
    Everything You Need, by A.L. Kennedy
    The Hunter, by Julia Leigh
    Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott
    Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, by Gina B. Nahai
    Island, by Jane Rogers
    Last Chance Texaco, by Christine Pountney
    What the Body Remembers, by Shauna Singh Baldwin

    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

    Longlist:
    Master Georgie, by Beryl Bainbridge
    The Voyage of the Narwhal, by Andrea Barrett
    In A Fishbone Church, by Catherine Chidgey
    Crocodile Soup, by Julia Darling
    Restitution, by Maureen Duffy
    Trumpet, by Jackie Kay
    Comfort Woman, by Nora Okja Keller
    Buxton Spice, by Oonya Kempadoo
    The Vintner’s Luck, by Elizabeth Knox
    Marchlands, by Karla Kuban
    The Giant O’Brien, by Hilary Mantel
    The Most Wanted, by Jacquelyn Mitchard
    A History of Silence, by Barbara Neil
    Evening News, by Marly Swick

    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

    Longlist:
    Bitter Grounds, by Sandra Benitez
    Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann
    Gaglow, by Esther Freud
    The Aguero Sisters, by Cristina Garcia
    The House Gun, by Nadine Gordimer
    The Breaking, by Kathryn Heyman
    Round Rock, by Michelle Huneven
    Ark Baby, by Liz Jensen
    Undiscovered Country, by Christina Koning
    The Orchard, by Drusilla Modjeska
    Black and Blue, by Anna Quindlen
    Impossible Saints, by Michele Roberts
    The Underpainter, by Jane Urquhart
    Baby Love, by Louis Young

    1997
    Winner:
    Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels

    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

    Longlist:
    Every Man For Himself, by Beryl Bainbridge
    Death Comes for Peter Pan, by Joan Brady
    The Mistress of Spices, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    The Last Thing He Wanted, by Joan Didion
    The Cast Iron Shore, by Linda Grant
    The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, by Siri Hustvedt
    The Autobiography of My Mother, by Jamaica Kincaid
    With Child, by Laurie R. King
    Fall On Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald
    All the Blood is Red, by Leone Ross
    Red Leaves, by Paulina Simons
    Anita and Me, by Meera Syal
    Gut Symmetries, by Jeanette Winterson
    The Frequency of Souls, by Mary Kay Zuravleff

    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

    Longlist:
    The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker
    Official and Doubtful, by Ajay Close
    The Rape of Sita, by Lindsey Collen
    Keeping Up with Magda, by Isla Dewar
    The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald
    The Private Parts of Women, by Lesley Glaister
    The Passion of Alice, by Stephanie Grant
    Egg Dancing, by Liz Jensen
    So I Am Glad, by A.L. Kennedy
    Never Far From Nowhere, by Andrea Levy
    Mother of Pearl, by Mary Morrissy
    Promised Lands, by Jane Rogers
    River Lines, by Elspeth Sandys

    Orange Prize for New Writers

    2008
    The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
    Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna
    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

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