The Orange Prize for Fiction honors the most excellent, accessible, and original work of fiction written in English by a woman. The shortlist for the 2012 award is:
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding (available 9/12)
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett