Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025

by The Women's Prize Trust

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16 books

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women.

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See the source list and commentary at womensprize.com

Winner

The Story of a Heart

'Profoundly Moving and at the Same Time Wildly Inspiring' Rob Delaney

Rachel Clarke, 2024

Shortlist

Raising Hare

Chloe Dalton, 2024

Private Revolutions

Coming of Age in a New China

Yuan Yang, 2024

AGENT ZO

The Untold Story of Fearless Ww2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka

CLARE. MULLEY, 2025

What the Wild Sea Can Be

The Future of the World’s Ocean

Helen Scales, 2024

A Thousand Threads

Neneh Cherry, 2024

Longlist

The Peepshow

The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

Kate Summerscale, 2024

Sister in Law

Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men

Harriet Wistrich, 2025

Why Fish Don't Exist

A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Lulu Miller, 2021

The Eagle and the Hart

The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

Helen Castor, 2024

Ootlin

Jenni Fagan, 2024

Embers of the Hands

Hidden Histories of the Viking Age: Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

Eleanor Barraclough, 2024

By the Fire We Carry

The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle, 2024

Autocracy, Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum, 2025

Tracker

Alexis Wright, 2025

Wild Thing

A Life of Paul Gauguin

Sue Prideaux, 2025