Cundhill History Prize 2025 Longlist

The Cundill History Prize honours the abiding passion for history of its founder, F. Peter Cundill, by encouraging informed public debate through the wider dissemination of history writing to new audiences around the world and is awarded annually to the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal. https://www.cundillprize.com/news/the-2025-cundill-history-prize-longlist

Updated September 30, 2025
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The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
Rosenfeld, Sophia.
Paper Book
Finalist for the Cundill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedom Choice touches virtually every aspect...
Summer of fire and blood : the German peasants' war
Roper, Lyndal
Paper Book
In this "extraordinary and brilliant book" (Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves), a prize-winning historian offers the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in...
The girl in the middle : growing up between black and white, rich and poor
Granofsky, Anais
Paper Book
In this poignant and timely memoir--written with the searing power of Beautiful Struggle and Born a Crime--Degrassi Junior High star Anais Granofsky contemplates the lingering impact of a childhood spent in two opposite and warring worlds. Though recognized around the world for her role as...
To the success of our hopeless cause : the many lives of the Soviet dissident movement
Nathans, Benjamin
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize * Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still...
How the world made the West : a 4,000-year history
Quinn, Josephine Crawley
Paper Book
An award-winning Oxford history professor "makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve" (The Wall Street Journal)--that the West is, and always has been, truly global. "Those archaic 'Western Civ' classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues...
Disrupted city : walking the pathways of memory and history in Lahore
Asif, Manan Ahmed
Paper Book
A stunning history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia Longlisted, 2025 Cundill History Prize The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent...
Wages for housework : the feminist fight against unpaid labor
Callaci, Emily
Paper Book
The "illuminating, honest, nuanced"​ (Robin D. G. Kelley) story of a radical campaign to change the way we value work Women do more than three-quarters of all the world's unpaid care work, contributing over $9 trillion to the global economy each...

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