2025 Women’s Prize For Non-Fiction Longlist

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36 participants (16 books)

01 Jan 2024—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read the 16 books longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize For Non-Fiction before the winner is announced on 12th June 🏆 

Challenge Books

1

Autocracy Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum

Autocracy Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum

2

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

Eleanor Barraclough

3

The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor

The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

Helen Castor

4

A Thousand Threads: A Memoir by Neneh Cherry

A Thousand Threads: A Memoir

Neneh Cherry

5

The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke

The Story of a Heart

Rachel Clarke

6

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

Raising Hare

Chloe Dalton

7

Ootlin by Jenni Fagan

Ootlin

Jenni Fagan

8

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Lulu Miller

9

Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley

Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka

Clare Mulley

10

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle

11

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

Sue Prideaux

12

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean by Helen Scales

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean

Helen Scales