Orange Prize


Bel Canto
On Beauty
The Song of Achilles
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Tiger's Wife
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Lacuna
Small Island
Property
Fugitive Pieces
Larry's Party
Home (Gilead, #2)
The Road Home
A Spell of Winter
The Idea of Perfection
Bel Canto by Ann PatchettHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSmall Island by Andrea LevyOn Beauty by Zadie SmithHome by Marilynne Robinson
Orange Prize for Fiction Winners
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Daisy Goodwin
When she was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, Daisy Goodwin wrote a controversial essay lamenting the 'unrelenting grimness' of so many novels and pointing out that 'generally great fiction contains light and shade'---not only misery but joy and humor. 'It is time for publishers to stop treating literary fiction as the novelistic equivalent of cod-liver oil: if it's nasty it must be good for you. ...more
Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress

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