2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist

Updated March 18, 2024
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All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
Miles, Tiya
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out...
The Britannias : an island quest
Albinia, Alice
Paper Book
The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known (wrote Pliny) by the collective term,...
Code-Dependent : Living in the Shadow of AI
Murgia, Madhumita.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Named a best book of the year by Esquire, The Spectator and Publishers Weekly A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial...
The dictionary people : the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary
Ogilvie, Sarah
Paper Book
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024** 'Enthralling and exuberant ... Here is a wonder-book for word-lovers' Jeanette Winterson 'A lively, entertaining, and illuminating read. I loved it' Susie Dent What do...
Doppelganger : a trip into the mirror world
Klein, Naomi
Paper Book
*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT* 'If I had to name a single book...
Eve : how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution
Bohannon, Cat
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST * THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution...
A flat place : moving through empty landscapes, naming complex trauma
Masud, Noreen
Paper Book
The New Yorker's Best Book of 2023 "sorrowful, tender...beautiful." - The New York Times Book Review "...arresting and memorable....Masud both finds a way to comprehend her own story and establishes a strong voice that confirms her as a...
How to say Babylon : a Jamaican memoir
Sinclair, Safiya
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER 'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN An award-winning, inspiring...
Intervals
Brooker, Marianne
Paper Book
Blending memoir, polemic and feminist philosophy, Intervals is a deeply moving work that harnesses the political potential of grief to raise essential questions about choice, interdependence and end-of-life care.What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties...
Matrescence : on the metamorphosis of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood
Jones, Lucy, (Journalist)
Paper Book
*A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR* *Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction* 'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer 'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know...
Shadows at noon : the South Asian twentieth century
Chatterji, Joya
Paper Book
Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research and scholarship which explores the key strands of South Asian history in the twentieth century with clarity and authority. Unlike other narrative histories of the subcontinent that concentrate exclusively on politics, here food,...
Some people need killing : a memoir of murder in my country
Evangelista, Patricia
Paper Book
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into fascism, through harrowing stories of the Philippines' state-sponsored assassinations of its citizens.
Thunderclap : a memoir of art and life & sudden death
Cumming, Laura
Paper Book
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I will never look at any painting in...
Vulture capitalism : corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts and the death of freedom
Blakeley, Grace
Paper Book
*A Foyles Top 10 Read for March and one of Glamour's Best Books of March* Longlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 'A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events'...
Wifedom : Mrs Orwell's invisible life
Funder, Anna
Paper Book
* A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023 * * THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2023 - LITERARY NON-FICTION * 'Simply, a masterpiece. Here, Anna Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full. And this in a narrative that grips the...
Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots
Chang, Leah Redmond.
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world...

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