The Women’s Prize Announces Its 2025 Nonfiction Longlist
The latest in nonfiction book news is the second-ever Women’s Prize for nonfiction, Margaret Atwood’s first memoir, and how to stand up to book bans.
The Women’s Prize Announces Its 2025 Nonfiction Longlist
For years, the Women’s Prize has featured some of the best fiction from women published in the UK. Last year, it announced that, for the first time, they would be having a Women’s Prize for nonfiction. Now, they’ve just announced the second-ever nonfiction longlist, which features a range of titles written by authors from around the world.
- Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
- Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough
- The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor
- A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry
- The Story of a Heart by Dr. Rachel Clarke
- Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
- Ootlin by Jenni Fagan
- Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
- Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley
- By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
- Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
- What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales
- The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
- Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men by Harriet Wistrich
- Tracker by Alexis Wright
- Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
The nonfiction shortlist will be announced on March 26th, and the winner will be announced on June 12th.
Margaret Atwood Announces Her Long-Hoped-For Memoir
Canadian author Margaret Atwood is most well-known for her book The Handmaid’s Tale, which has been made into a popular TV series. Now, Atwood has announced her latest book, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts. This article from British Vogue, says that Book of Lives “links the golden threads from Atwood’s acclaimed literary works with her own expansive life and cultural impact.”
How to Stand Up for Your Local Library by Getting Involved
My colleague Katie McLain Horner writes for Book Riot’s library newsletter, Check Your Shelf. In the U.S., our libraries are facing ongoing book bans, reduced funding, and so much more. In one of Katie’s latest newsletters, she shares several different ways that we support our local libraries by doing everything from donating to volunteering.
That’s it for this week! You can find me over on my substack Winchester Ave or over on Instagram @kdwinchester. As always, feel free to drop me a line at kendra.d.winchester@gmail.com. For even MORE bookish content, you can find my articles over on Book Riot.
