The longlist for the 2015 Baileys women’s prize for fiction has been announced!

The chair of judges Shami Chakrabarti says: ‘The Prize’s 20th year is a particularly strong one for women’s fiction. All judges fought hard for their favourites and the result is a 2015 list of 20 to be proud of – with its mix of genres and styles, first-timers and well-known names from around the world.’

Here are the 20 longlisted titles:

• Outline by Rachel Cusk
• Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
• Aren’t We Sisters? by Patricia Ferguson
• I Am China by Xiaolu Guo
• Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey
• Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Offering by Grace McCleen
• The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neil
• The Bees by Laline Paull
• The Table of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips
• The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert
• A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
• How to be Both by Ali Smith
• The Shore by Sara Taylor
• A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
• After Before by Jemma Wayne
• The Life of a Banana by PP Wong

You can read more about the Baileys women’s prize for fiction here.