Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction Long List

The 2014 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction longlist has just been announced:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
Suzanne Berne, The Dogs of Littlefield
Fatima Bhutto, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
Claire Cameron, The Bear
Lea Carpenter, Eleven Days
M.J. Carter, The Strangler Vine
Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Deborah Kay Davies, Reasons She Goes to the Woods
Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
Audrey Magee, The Undertaking
Eimear McBride, A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing
Charlotte Mendelson, Almost English
Anna Quindlen, Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Evie Wyld, All The Birds, Singing

The shortlist will be announced on 7 April, and the winner on 4 June. More info: http://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/2014-prize/longlist-2014

Of the long list I will most likely be reading Americanah because I find this author quite brilliant,
Eleven Days as I read a lot of books on mental illness, PTSD & the sort,
The Undertaking, perhaps and most probably
Anna Quindlen's Still Life with Bread Crumbs because what is not to love about any Quindlen work.
The remainder will most likely wait for another year as I have a lot of Orange books on my shelves to read to fulfill Orange July & Darryl's 'an Orange a month' challenge.

I've read The Bear, Burial Rites, The Burgess Boys and All the Birds, Singing. I liked them all! I have many of these titles waiting for me to read them on my e-reader. One day I will get to them.

I haven't read any yet, but I definitely plan on reading Lowland and Americanah sooner than later since I've loved work by those authors in the past. I'm planning on starting Atwood's Oryx and Crake soon, and I think that's the first book in the trilogy that Maddaddam finishes, so whether or not I read that will be determined pretty soon here...

Here's what I plan to read:

The Goldfinch
The Luminaries
Americanah
The Signature of All Things
Almost English
Burial Rites
The Flamethrowers
The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon
The Dogs of Littlefield

Here's the ones I have already read:

The Lowland
The Burgess Boys
Still Life with Bread Crumbs