Women's Prize For Fiction 2025

Available titles along with winners and nominees from previous years.

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The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world. Each of the shortlisted six books explore the need for personal freedom and human connection, illustrating the ways in which autonomy, love, and friendship can act as a salve to life’s challenges. Written with nuance and depth, they offer compelling multi-layered stories that urge you to sit up and take notice of the world around you.

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Updated April 2, 2025
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Good girl
Aber, Aria
Paper Book
**Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025** A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery
Dream count : a novel
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A publishing event...
The vanishing half
Bennett, Brit
Paper Book
Piranesi
Clarke, Susanna
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES' 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE THE TIMES,...
The wren, the wren
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. 'A magnificent novel'...
The Sentence
Erdrich, Louise.
Paper Book
Girl, woman, other
Evaristo, Bernardine
Paper Book
With her historic Booker win, Bernardine Evaristo is the author everyone is talking about. The standout book of 2019, Girl, Woman, Other is the number book you need to read this year. ***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** SUNDAY...
Unsettled ground
Fuller, Claire
Paper Book
Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. Inside its walls they make music, in its garden they grow (and...
Restless Dolly Maunder
Grenville, Kate
Paper Book
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors were starting to creak ajar for women. Growing up in a poor farming family in country New South Wales but clever, energetic and determined, Dolly spent her restless life pushing at those doors. ...
Transcendent Kingdom
Gyasi, Yaa.
Paper Book
**From the bestselling author of Homegoing** 'A BOOK OF BLAZING BRILLIANCE' Washington Post ______________________________________________ As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama,...
Enter ghost
Hammad, Isabella
Paper Book
**WINNER OF THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2024** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. 'A vital storyteller' ALI...
A thousand ships
Haynes, Natalie
Paper Book
In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. . .In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames....
How the one-armed sister sweeps her house
Jones, Cherie
Paper Book
All fours
July, Miranda
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her life
Trespasses
Kennedy, Louise
Paper Book
* THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER (The Times) * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 ** WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR: DEBUT FICTION ** WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES...
Demon Copperhead
Kingsolver, Barbara
Paper Book
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Flight Behaviour and The Poisonwood Bible comes this heart-rending instant classic.
No one is talking about this
Lockwood, Patricia
Ebook
The Persians
Mahloudji, Sanam
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 'The word-of-mouth breakout' STYLIST 'As funny as it is moving' GUARDIAN 'A joy of a debut' DAVID MITCHELL 'Mesmerising' MONICA ALI 'Glorious' SARAH WINMAN A stunning debut novel following five women from...
The mirror & the light
Mantel, Hilary
Paper Book
"If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's...
Sorrow and bliss
Mason, Meg
Ebook
Nesting
O'Donnell, Roisin
Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction From an unforgettable new voice in Irish fiction, a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. For fans of Claire Keegan and Emma Donoghue. ...
Hamnet
O'Farrell, Maggie
Paper Book
The marriage portrait
O'Farrell, Maggie
Paper Book
WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici...
Weather
Offill, Jenny
Paper Book
From the author of Dept. of Speculation, a dazzling and deadpan new novel about hope and despair, fear and comfort as it plays out in these times of environmental and political turbulence.
Pod
Paull, Laline
Paper Book
Bestselling author of The Bees Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world - its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies - that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race.Ea has always felt like an...
A little trickerie
Pike, Rosanna
Paper Book
Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. But her mother has taught her that if you're not too bound by the Big Man's rules, there are many ways a woman can find shelter in this world. Now her ma is dead in a trick gone wrong and young Tibb is orphaned and alone. As...
River East, River West : an unmissable coming-of-age story from a dazzling new voice
Rey Lescure, Aube.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 - a dark and glittering literary debut that traces a mixed family's troubled trajectory through developing China.
The island of missing trees
Shafak, Elif
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top 10...
Great circle
Shipstead, Maggie
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK * The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an "epic trip--through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood--and...
Tell me everything
Strout, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house...
The Safekeep
van der Wouden, Yael.

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