Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist

Wandering Souls

A Novel

By: Cecile Pin
Narrated by: Ainsleigh Barber, Aoife Hinds & Ioanna Kimbook
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

This program includes a multicast narration.

"Aoife Hinds, Ioanna Kimbook, and Ainsleigh Barber perform this stunning debut historical novel, which follows three orphaned Vietnamese refugees." - AudioFile Magazine

"A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope."—Ocean Vuong

A boldly imagined debut novel about three... Read more

Trespasses

A Novel

By: Louise Kennedy
Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

“Trespasses is set during the Troubles and explores the relationship of a Catholic woman and a Protestant man. Interesting concept as the bleakness of the subject is intertwined with daily life. The lore of the Irish is spellbinding. They know how to tell stories and are always page-turners. I love their gift of gab. Read more

The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club

A novel

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt & Maggie O'Farrell
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“Listened to the ALC and it was riveting. Highly recommend the audio version. Read more

The Dog of the North

A Novel

By: Elizabeth McKenzie
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

“Penny Rush wants to start her messy life over. When she heads to Santa Barbara to visit her grandmother, a supposedly retired doctor, bayonet brandisher, and hoarder of many things (including human bones), she realises that she's in way over her head. Penny’s days becomes populated by other idiosyncratic characters who keep popping up in her... Read more

The Bandit Queens

A Novel

By: Parini Shroff
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

“The Bandit Queens uses humor and a raucous, adventurous tale to approach the very real and very serious issues of violence against women and lower caste persons in India. The unlikely hero, Geeta, has been deserted by her violent husband and her small village assumes she has murdered him. That allows Geeta a certain amount of freedom – until... Read more

Stone Blind

A Novel

By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“This is not just a book about Medusa, it's about the gods who use her, her gorgon sisters, her killer Perseus...and her head. Haynes grounds these characters in the original mythology so well that that each voice is distinct, every action and mistake preceded by its motivating circumstance, and each monster shown with respect and humanity. It is... Read more

Glory

A Novel

By: NoViolet Bulawayo
Narrated by: Chipo Chung
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review

"Genius."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds

From the award-winning author of the... Read more

Memphis: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Tara M. Stringfellow
Narrated by: Karen Murray, Adenrele Ojo & Tara Stringfellow
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

“Centering Black joy above all, Stringfellow’s life-affirming debut follows three generations of unforgettable women in a gifted but tested family. Readers will cry, laugh, and sing. I hope we read Stringfellow for a long, long time. Read more

Homesick

A Memoir

By: Jennifer Croft
Narrated by: Jennifer Croft, Boris Dralyuk & Emily Sutton-Smith
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words, and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood.Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures,... Read more

Fire Rush

A Novel

By: Jacqueline Crooks
Narrated by: Leonie Elliot
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

WINNER OF THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023

“[A] powerful debut.” —The Washington Post

“An exceptional and stunningly original novel by a major new writer.” —Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a... Read more

Demon Copperhead

A Novel

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 21 hours 2 minutes

“Barbara Kingsolver intentionally wrote this novel as a 'modern day David Copperfield' story. Fans of Kingsolver will be pleased to find her usual wonderful word-smithing and soulful storytelling. Read more

Cursed Bread

A Novel

By: Sophie Mackintosh
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NOMINEE • Best Book of the Month: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Book Riot, CrimeReads • An elegant and hypnotic new novel of obsession that centers on the real unsolved mystery of the 1951 mass poisoning of a French village, by the Booker Prize–nominated author of The Water... Read more