Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women.

The winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is Rachel Clarke’s clear-sighted and vital exploration into the human experience behind organ donation, The Story of a Heart.

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Updated June 19, 2025
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Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women.

The winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is Rachel Clarke’s clear-sighted and vital exploration into the human experience behind organ donation, The Story of a Heart.

womensprize.com

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Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign...
Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking Age
Barraclough, Eleanor
Paper Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 A "brilliantly written, brilliantly conceived" (Tom Holland) history of the Viking Age, from mighty leaders to rebellious teenagers, told through their runes and ruins, games and combs,...
Raising hare : a memoir
Dalton, Chloe
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE * A fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.
Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life
Miller, Lulu
Paper Book
A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab,...
Agent Zo : the untold story of a fearless World War II resistance fighter
Mulley, Clare
Paper Book
The incredible and inspiring story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. During World War II, Elzbieta Zawacka--the WWII female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo--was the only woman to reach London as an emissary of the Polish Home...
Wild thing : a life of Paul Gauguin
Prideaux, Sue
Paper Book
Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture. In this gorgeously illustrated...
The peepshow : the murders at Rillington Place
Summerscale, Kate
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable Book * A New York Times Review Editors' Choice * Named a Best Book of the year by FT * Nominated for the Women's prize for nonfiction * Winner of the 2025 ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-fiction "A trove of thrilling...
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