Year-End Lists

Women's Prize: Non-Fiction 2026

Winner

• The Finest Hotel in Kabul

  A People's History of Afghanistan
  Lyse Doucet

Shortlist

• Art Cure

  The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health
  Daisy Fancourt
• Artists, Siblings, Visionaries

  The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John
  Judith Mackrell
• Hotel Exile

  Paris in the Shadow of War
  Jane Rogoyska
• Mother Mary Comes to Me
  Arundhati Roy
• Nation of Strangers

  Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
  Ece Temelkuran

Longlist

• Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

  From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
  Barbara Demick
• Don’t Let It Break You, Honey

  A Memoir About Saving Yourself
  Jenny Evans
• With the Law on Our Side

  How the Law Works for Everyone and How We Can Make It Work Better
  Lady Hale
• To Be Young, Gifted and Black

  Creativity and Race in the 21st Century
  Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
• Ask Me How It Works

  Love in an Open Marriage
  Deepa Paul
• Death of an Ordinary Man
  Sarah Perry
• The Genius of Trees

  How Trees Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World
  Harriet Rix
• Finding Albion

  Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain
  Zakia Sewell
• To Exist As I Am

  A Doctor’s Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance
  Grace Spence Green
• Indignity

  A Life Reimagined
  Lea Ypi