Women’s Prize Nonfiction Longlist 2025

History, memoir and nature writing meet in the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist, including Raising Hare, Agent Zo and The Story of a Heart.

Source: https://womensprize.com/announcing-the-2025-womens-prize-for-non-fiction-longlist/

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

1. Autocracy, Inc. — Anne Applebaum
2. Embers of the Hands — Eleanor Barraclough
3. Eagle and the Hart — Helen Castor
4. Thousand Threads — Neneh Cherry
5. Story of a Heart — Rachel Clarke
6. Raising Hare — Chloe Dalton
7. Ootlin — Jenni Fagan
8. Why Fish Don't Exist — Lulu Miller
9. Agent Zo — Clare Mulley
10. By the Fire We Carry — Rebecca Nagle
11. Wild Thing — Sue Prideaux
12. What the Wild Sea Can Be — Helen Scales
13. The Peepshow — Kate Summerscale
14. Sister in Law — Harriet Wistrich
15. Tracker — Alexis Wright
16. Private Revolutions — Yuan Yang