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 October 21, 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 Notable Book of the Year 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 of...
Summer of fire and blood : the German Peasants' War
Roper, Lyndal
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2025 A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR The definitive history of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe. The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western...
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
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Observer, Economist, Guardian, BBC History Magazine, i-paper, Novara Media and History Today 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly...
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 Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise
Callaci, Emily.
Paper Book
'The women of the world are serving notice. We want wages for every dirty toilet, every indecent assault, every painful childbirth, every cup of coffee and every smile. And if we don't get what we want, we will simply refuse to work any longer!' Across the globe in the 1970s, a...
Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia
Chingaipe, Santilla.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards, The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award  Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction The story of Australia's Black convicts has been all but...
America, America: A New History of the New World
Grandin, Greg.
Paper Book
The story of the United States' unique sense of itself was forged facing south - no less than Latin America's was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Professor Greg Grandin reveals how the Americas emerged from...
A fractured liberation : Korea under US occupation
Chang, Kornel S.
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Shortlist, Cundill History Prize A poignant return to Korea's forgotten "Asian Spring"--a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation. When Japanese imperial rule ended in...
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
Miles, Tiya
Paper Book
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography * A Washington Post Notable Book * Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award *One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of the Year * One of AAIHS's Best Black History Books of 2024 "Though...

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