Book awards and reading-list selections

Maurice and Maralyn; People the Planet Needs Now; Axe in Hand. 16 books from recent award and reading lists.

Fav Tings selection from the following official lists, grouped by source rather than ranked: NOBA 2025: https://www.noba-web.org/books25.htm; WNBA 2025: https://wnba-books.org/2025-great-groups-reads/; Women’s Prize 2026: https://womensprize.com/revealing-the-2026-womens-prize-for-non-fiction-longlist/; International Booker 2026: https://thebookerprizes.com/media-centre/press-releases/longlist-announced-for-the-international-booker-prize-2026

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

1. Maurice and Maralyn — Sophie Elmhirst
2. People the Planet Needs Now — Dudley Edmondson
3. Axe in Hand — Nicole Coenen
4. The Correspondent — Virginia Evans
5. I See You've Called in Dead — John Kenney
6. The Lilac People — Milo Todd
7. You Deserve to Know — Aggie Blum Thompson
8. Raising Hare — Chloe Dalton
9. To Be Young, Gifted and Black — Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
10. Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy
11. Finding Albion — Zakia Sewell
12. Indignity — Lea Ypi
13. The Deserters — Mathias Enard
14. Small Comfort — Ia Genberg
15. On Earth As It Is Beneath — Ana Paula Maia, Padma Viswanathan
16. The Witch — Marie NDiaye