I'm undergoing an experiment where I read all of the candidates of the Women's Prize for Fiction, and choose who I would pick as the winner. This is no critique on how the judges ranked the novels - this is purely based on my enjoyment of the novels!
The Women's Prize for Fiction website details that judges are given the criteria of "accessibility, originality, and excellence in writing by women." Rather than "reviews, publicity spends, an author's previous reputation, the sense of 'who deserves it,'" they are called to "choose simply on the basis of novels that inspire them, move them, make them think - and that they admire and enjoy."
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