A 16-book longlist has been released for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist. The shortlist will be unveiled April 22, and the winner named June 11 at the Women's Prize Trust's summer party in London (along with the winner of its sister prize, the 2026 Women's Prize for Nonfiction). The winner receives £30,000 (about $39,960), along with a statuette known as the Bessie, created and donated by the late artist Grizel Niven. This year's longlisted titles are:
Gloria Don't Speak by Lucy Apps
Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi
Moderation by Elaine Castillo
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Dominion by Addie E. Citchens
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson
The Others by Sheena Kalayil
Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Audition by Katie Kitamura
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang