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The Long List for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The short list will be announced on April 26. It looks like I’ve only read one of these novels (the Nicole Krauss), but I have a couple of the others and should read them soon. I was pleased/surprised to see Lorraine Adams on the list. She was the Fellow in my Charles Baxter workshop at Bread Loaf last summer. I’ve put off reading her book much too long.
Leila Aboulela Minaret Bloomsbury British 2nd Novel
Lorraine Adams Harbor Portobello American 1st Novel
Naomi Alderman Disobedience Viking British 1st Novel
Jill Dawson Watch Me Disappear Sceptre British 5th Novel
Helen Dunmore House of Orphans Fig Tree British 9th Novel
Philippa Gregory The Constant Princess HarperCollins British 17th Novel
Alice Greenaway White Ghost Girls Atlantic American 1st Novel
Gail Jones Dreams of Speaking Harvill Secker Australian 3rd Novel
Nicole Krauss The History of Love Viking American 2nd Novel
Hilary Mantel Beyond Black Harper Perennial British 10th Novel
Sue Miller Lost in the Forest Bloomsbury American 8th Novel
Joyce Carol Oates Rape: A Love Story Atlantic American 43rd Novel
Marilynne Robinson Gilead Virago American 2nd Novel
Curtis Sittenfeld Prep Picador American 1st Novel
Ali Smith The Accidental Hamish Hamilton British 3rd Novel
Zadie Smith On Beauty Hamish Hamilton British 3rd Novel
Carrie Tiffany Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living Picador Australian 1st Novel
Célestine Hitiura Vaite Frangipani Hutchinson Tahitian 2nd Novel
Sarah Waters The Night Watch Virago British 4th Novel
Meg Wolitzer The Position Chatto & Windus American 7th Novel
