Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly the Orange Prize
1996
Helen Dunmore, A Spell of Winter
Julia Blackburn, The Book of Colour
Pagan Kennedy, Spinsters
Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
Marianne Wiggins, Eveless Eden
1997
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Deirdre Madden, One by One in the Darkness
Jane Mendelsohn, I Was Amelia Earhart
Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes
Manda Scott, Hen's Teeth
1998
Carol Shields Larry's Party
Kirsten Bakis Lives of the Monster Dogs
Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist's Tale
Ann Patchett The Magician's Assistant
Deirdre Purcell Love Like Hate Adore
Anita Shreve The Weight of Water
1999
Suzanne Berne A Crime in the Neighbourhood
Jane Hamilton The Short History of a Prince
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Toni Morrison Paradise
Julia Blackburn The Leper's Companions
Marilyn Bowering Visible Worlds
2000
Linda Grant When I Lived in Modern Times
Judy Budnitz If I Told You Once
Elizabeth Strout Amy and Isabelle
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne The Dancers Dancing
Zadie Smith White Teeth
2001
Kate Grenville The Idea of Perfection
Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
Jill Dawson Fred & Edie
Ali Smith Hotel World
Rosina Lippi Homestead
Jane Smiley Horse Heaven
2002
Ann Patchett Bel Canto
Anna Burns No Bones
Helen Dunmore The Siege
Maggie Gee The White Family
Chloe Hooper A Child's Book of True Crime
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
2003
Valerie Martin Property
Anne Donovan Buddha Da
Shena Mackay Heligoland
Carol Shields Unless
Zadie Smith The Autograph Man
Donna Tartt The Little Friend
2004
Andrea Levy Small Island
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake
Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire
Gillian Slovo Ice Road
Rose Tremain The Colour
2005
Lionel Shriver We Need to Talk About Kevin
Jane Gardam Old Filth
Sheri Holman The Mammoth Cheese
Maile Meloy Liars and Saints
Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
2006
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Hilary Mantel Beyond Black
Ali Smith The Accidental
Carrie Tiffany Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
Sarah Waters The Night Watch
2007
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
Rachel Cusk Arlington Park
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Jane Harris The Observations
Anne Tyler Digging to America
2008
Rose Tremain The Road Home
Nancy Huston Fault Lines
Sadie Jones The Outcast
Charlotte Mendelson When We Were Bad
Heather O’Neill Lullabies for Little
Patricia Wood Lottery
2009
Marilynne Robinson Home
Ellen Feldman Scottsboro
Samantha Harvey The Wilderness
Samantha Hunt The Invention of Everything Else
Deirdre Madden Molly Fox's Birthday
Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows
2010
Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna
Rosie Alison The Very Thought of You
Attica Locke Black Water Rising
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
Monique Roffey The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
2011
Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
Emma Donoghue, Room
Aminatta Forna, The Memory of Love
Emma Henderson, Grace Williams Says it Loud
Nicole Krauss, Great House
Kathleen Winter, Annabel
2012
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues
Anne Enright, The Forgotten Waltz
Georgina Harding, Painter of Silence
Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies
Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
2013
A.M. Homes, May we be Forgiven
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behaviour
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Zadie Smith, NW