Year-End Lists

Women's Prize: Non-Fiction 2025

Winner

• The Story of a Heart

  Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life
  Rachel Clarke

Shortlist

• Raising Hare

  A Memoir
  Chloe Dalton
• Private Revolutions

  Four Women Face China's New Social Order
  Yuan Yang
• Agent Zo

  The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka
  Clare Mulley
• What the Wild Sea Can Be

  The Future of the World’s Ocean
  Helen Scales
• A Thousand Threads

  A Memoir
  Neneh Cherry

Longlist

• The Peepshow

  The Murders at Rillington Place
  Kate Summerscale
• Sister in Law

  Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men
  Harriet Wistrich
• Why Fish Don't Exist

  A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
  Lulu Miller
• The Eagle and the Hart

  The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
  Helen Castor
• Ootlin
  Jenni Fagan
• Embers of the Hands

  Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
  Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
• By the Fire We Carry

  The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
  Rebecca Nagle
• Autocracy, Inc.

  The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
  Anne Applebaum
• Tracker
  Alexis Wright
• Wild Thing

  A Life of Paul Gauguin
  Sue Prideaux