2009 年柑橘獎初選名單公佈
據評審團主席 Fi Glover 指出，評審們必須在大約三個月內讀完(?)一百三十本小說－讀「完」是不可能的，光是「瀏覽」一遍，三個月都不夠用吧？
另外，近來文學界的「流行」主題－流亡與移民－也讓 Glover 覺得有些頭疼。（就像去年的曼布克獎評審們抱怨哪兒冒出來這麼多二戰小說一樣...）
進入初選名單的二十本小說如下：
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
文壇祖師奶奶，不用多說啦。 - Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
- Home by Marilynne Robinson
這只是 Marilynne Robinson 的第三本小說而已。她並不是個多產的作家，但是每次出手都是佳作。她的上一部作品 Gilead 獲頒 2005 年普立茲獎及美國國家書評獎，中譯本《遺愛基列》，天培出版。首部作品 Housekeeping，中譯本《管家》，麥田出版。 - Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
- Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
- The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide
- Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
- Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo
- Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
- Strange Music by Laura Fish
- Love Marriage by V. V. Ganeshananthan
- Intuition by Allegra Goodman
中譯本《直覺》，由遠流出版社出版。 - The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
- The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
- The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
- The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight by Gina Ochsner
- Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
- American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber
來源： "American authors dominate Orange fiction longlist" (guardian.co.uk)
柑橘獎官網：Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 longlist (有入圍作品簡介。)