Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017

Winner
The Power by Naomi Alderman

Shortlist
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien

Longlist
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Midwinter by Fiona Melrose
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Barkskins by E Annie Proulx
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

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The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time

1 The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
2 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
3 Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
4 The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
5 Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
6 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
7 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
8 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
9 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
10 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
11 Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
12 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
13 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
14 The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
15 The Godfather by Mario Puzo
16 The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
17 The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
18 Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
19 The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
20 The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
21 Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
22 The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
23 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
24 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25 Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
26 Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
27 Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
28 The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers
29 Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
30 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
31 The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
32 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
33 Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley
34 Double Indemnity by James M Cain
35 Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
36 Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers
37 Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
38 The Hot Rock by Donald E Westlake
39 Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
40 The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
41 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
42 The Firm by John Grisham
43 The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
44 Laura by Vera Caspary
45 I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane
46 The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
47 Bank Shot by Donald E Westlake
48 The Third Man by Graham Greene
49 The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
50 Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
51 A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
52 The First Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders
53 A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
54 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
55 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
56 Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers
57 The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton
58 Smiley's People by John le Carré
59 The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
60 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
61 Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
62 The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
63 Wobble to Death by Peter Lovesey
64 Ashenden by W Somerset Maugham
65 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
66 The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout
67 Stick by Elmore Leonard
68 The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
69 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
70 Dracula by Bram Stoker
71 The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
72 The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
73 A Time to Kill by John Grisham
74 Last Seen Wearing ... by Hillary Waugh
75 Little Caesar by WR Burnett
76 The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins
77 Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers
78 From Russia, with Love by Ian Fleming
79 Beast in View by Margaret Millar
80 Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert
81 The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
82 Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
83 Shroud for a Nightingale by PD James
84 The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
85 Chinaman's Chance by Ross Thomas
86 The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
87 The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D MacDonald
88 The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
89 A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell
90 Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
91 The Chill by Ross Macdonald
92 Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
93 The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh
94 God Save the Mark by Donald E Westlake
95 Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice
96 The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr
97 Prizzi's Honor by Richard Condon
98 The Steam Pig by James H McClure
99 Time and Again by Jack Finney
100 Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
100 A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters

1995

MWA (US)

The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time

1 The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
2 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
3 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
4 Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
5 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
6 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
7 Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
8 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
9 The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
10 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
11 The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
12 Last Seen Wearing ... by Hillary Waugh
13 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
14 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
15 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
16 Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
17 The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
18 The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers
19 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
20 The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
21 The Collected Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
22 Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers
23 Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
24 The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
25 The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
26 The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
27 The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey
28 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
29 A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
30 The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
31 The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
32 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
33 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
34 Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley
35 From Russia, with Love by Ian Fleming
36 The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter
36 Cop Hater by Ed McBain
38 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
39 A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell
40 The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
41 The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
42 A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
42 The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters
44 A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
45 The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
46 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
47 The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
48 Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
49 A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell
50 The Devil in Velvet by John Dickson Carr
50 A Fatal inversion by Barbara Vine
52 The Journeying Boy by Michael Innes
53 A Taste for Death by PD James
54 The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins
55 My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart
56 Bertie and the Tin Man by Peter Lovesey
56 Penny Black by Susan Moody
58 Game, Set & Match by Len Deighton
59 The Danger by Dick Francis
60 Devices and Desires by PD James
61 Underworld by Reginald Hill
62 Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
63 A Running Duck by Paula Gosling
64 Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert
65 The Rose of Tibet by Lionel Davidson
66 Innocent Blood by PD James
67 Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers
68 Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes
69 A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
70 A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms & SJ Simon
71 Dead Heads by Reginald Hill
72 The Third Man by Graham Greene
73 The Labyrinth Makers by Anthony Price
74 The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
75 Beast in View by Margaret Millar
76 The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell
77 Running Blind by Desmond Bagley
78 Twice Shy by Dick Francis
79 The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
80 The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham
81 The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake (Cecil Day-Lewis)
81 Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
83 Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
84 Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
85 Tragedy at Law by Cyril Hare
86 The Collector by John Fowles
87 Gideon's Day by JJ Marric
88 The Sun Chemist by Lionel Davidson
89 The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
90 The Colour of Murder by Julian Symons
91 Greenmantle by John Buchan
92 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
93 Wobble to Death by Peter Lovesey
94 Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
95 The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
96 Sadie When She Died by Ed McBain
97 The Murder of the Maharaja by HRF Keating
98 What Bloody Man Is That? by Simon Brett
99 Shooting Script by Gavin Lyall
100 The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace

1990

CWA (UK)