We are delighted to announce the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist with authors drawn from a wide range of professional spheres and expertise, including a music icon, human rights lawyer, political adviser, marine biologist, NHS palliative care doctor and Pulitzer Prize winner.
 

These 16 books are an incisive and original reading list for 2025. Varying in subject matter, style and genre, readers will find agenda-setting reportage on contemporary issues alongside revisionist histories and myth-busting biographies; memoirs of self-determination and intimate narratives that shine a light on ordinary people combine with real-life criminal cases, notorious and forgotten, whilst a handful of the books defy genre-classification, weaving multiple disciplines into one compelling narrative work.