Anchor Books

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. The author reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.

2011 Shortlist

Great House

Nicole Krauss

Annabel

Kathleen Winter

The Tiger's Wife - 2011 Winner

Téa Obreht

Grace Williams Says It Loud

Emma Henderson

The Memory of Love

Aminatta Forna

Room

Emma Donoghue

2011 Longlist

Great House

Nicole Krauss

Annabel

Kathleen Winter

The Swimmer

Roma Tearne

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Lola Shoneyin

Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

Repeat It Today With Tears

Anne Peile

The Invisible Bridge

Julie Orringer

The Tiger's Wife - 2011 Winner

Téa Obreht

The Road to Wanting

Wendy Law-Yone

The Birth of Love

Joanna Kavenna

The Seas

Samantha Hunt

Grace Williams Says It Loud

Emma Henderson

The London Train

Tessa Hadley

The Memory of Love

Aminatta Forna

Room

Emma Donoghue

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

Whatever You Love

Louise Doughty

The Pleasure Seekers

Tishani Doshi

Jamrach's Menagerie

Carol Birch

Lyrics Alley

Leila Aboulela

Previous winners

2023

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

2022

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

2021

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

2020

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

2019

An American Marriage - 2019 Winner

Tayari Jones

2018

Home Fire - 2018 Winner

Kamila Shamsie

2017

The Power - 2017 Winner

Naomi Alderman

2016

The Glorious Heresies - 2016 Winner

Lisa McInerney

2015

How to be Both - 2015 Winner

Ali Smith

2014

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - 2014 Winner

Eimear McBride

2013

May We Be Forgiven - 2013 Winner

A.M. Homes

2012

The Song of Achilles - 2012 Winner

Madeline Miller

2011

The Tiger's Wife - 2011 Winner

Téa Obreht

2010

The Lacuna - 2010 Winner

Barbara Kingsolver

2009

Home - 2009 Winner

Marilynne Robinson

2008

The Road Home - 2008 Winner

Rose Tremain

2007

Half of a Yellow Sun - 2007 Winner

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2006

On Beauty - 2006 Winner

2005

We Need to Talk About Kevin - 2005 Winner

Lionel Shriver

2004

Small Island

Andrea Levy

2003

Property - 2003 Winner

Valerie Martin

2002

Bel Canto - 2002 Winner

Ann Patchett

2001

The Idea of Perfection - 2001 Winner

Kate Grenville

2000

When I Lived in Modern Times - 2000 Winner

Linda Grant

1999

A Crime in the Neighborhood - 1999 Winner

Suzanne Berne

1998

Larry’s Party - 1998 Winner

Carol Shields

1997

Fugitive Pieces - 1997 Winner

Anne Michaels

1996

A Spell of Winter - 1996 Winner

Helen Dunmore

The Women's Prize Podcast

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