2019 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist Predictions

This coming Monday (March 4th) will see the announcement of the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, and around the internet, I have seen quite a few videos and blog posts in which people are attempting to guess what will be on there! Usually there are 16 books on the longlist, and past winners of the prize have included Madeline Miller, Ali Smith, Kamila Shamsie, Barbara Kingsolver, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Rose Tremain, Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith and loads of other amazing women writers.  The prize has had many iterations in terms of its name, with the naming rights having previously gone to the major sponsor (The Orange Prize, The Baileys Prize), but is now called The Women's Prize. It recognises a novel written originally in English by a writer identifying as female, and must have been published in the UK between April last year and March this year. (I think!) If you'd like to know more about the prize or see a full list of past winners, their website is linked here.

Without too much more preamble, here are a few books that I think we'll be seeing or that I would like to see on Monday's list..

                                       

Circe by Madeline Miller


                                        
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker


                                       
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

                                            

Normal People by Sally Rooney


                                           
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

                                         

Transcription by Kate Atkinson


                                          
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

                                        

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

                                            

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

                                          

The Incendiaries by R O Kwon

                                      

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

                                                   

Milkman by Anna Burns 

                                          

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

                                           

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

                                         

House of Glass by Susan Fletcher

                                           

The Mere Wife by Maria Davhana Headley 


What do you think? Are there any novels you think will be on the list that I haven't included here? Only a few days until we find out, and hopefully it will mean a chance to discover some amazing books I haven't even heard of yet.