Rachel Clarke's 'The Story of a Heart' won the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. Here's the rest of the longlist if you're looking for more prize-nominated non-fiction written by women!
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last updated August, 2025
A Thousand Threads
Neneh Cherry
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux
Tracker
Alexis Wright
Autocracy, Inc.
Anne Applebaum
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Rebecca Nagle
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the Worldâs Ocean
Helen Scales
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
Clare Mulley
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
Eleanor Barraclough
Ootlin
Jenni Fagan
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
Helen Castor
Private Revolutions
Yuan Yang
The Story of a Heart
Rachel Clarke
Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men
Harriet Wistrich
The Peepshow
Kate Summerscale
Raising Hare
Chloe Dalton
Why Fish Donât Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller
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