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
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner...
Piranesi
Clarke, Susanna
Paper Book
Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction A SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors' NEW YORK...
Fire Rush: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Crooks, Jacqueline
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR It's time to dance, to love, to be free... 'Mesmerising' BERNARDINE...
Dominicana
Cruz, Angie
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 'A story for now, an important story . . . told with incredible freshness' Martha Lane Fox, Chair of Judges, Women's Prize 2020 'The harsh reality of immigration is balanced with a refreshing dose...
The wren, the wren
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED 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
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN ----------------------------------------------------- In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book...
Girl, woman, other
Evaristo, Bernardine
Paper Book
Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s squatters' palace. Morgan, who used to be Megan, is blowing up on...
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
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 A DAILY MAIL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BEST FICTION IN THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS AUSTRALIA 2024 Born into the sweat and drudgery of a New South Wales sheep farm at the end of the 19th...
Transcendent Kingdom
Gyasi, Yaa.
Paper Book
As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty...
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. 'I absolutely loved it...
A thousand ships
Haynes, Natalie
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020One of the Guardian's 'Best Books of 2019''With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War' - Madeline Miller, author of CirceIn A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and...
How the one-armed sister sweeps her house
Jones, Cherie
Paper Book
Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 SHORTLISTED 'Jones's atmospheric debut has a multiracial, multigenerational cast who are brilliantly and even-handedly portrayed' Sunday Times 'Rare is the first book that reveals...
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** 'Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller' RUSSELL KANE 'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES ...
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.
The dream hotel
Lalami, Laila
Paper Book
* LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 * * A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 * 'A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future' JENNIFER EGAN'So cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and...
No one is talking about this
Lockwood, Patricia
Paper Book
'Patricia Lockwood is the voice of a generation' Namita Gokhale 'A masterpiece' Guardian 'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney 'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail 'I can't remember the...
The Persians
Mahloudji, Sanam
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
Soon to be a major TV series The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of...
Sorrow and bliss
Mason, Meg
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT 'Just read it. It's unforgettable' India Knight, The Sunday Times 'It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. It is...
Black butterflies
Morris, Priscilla
Paper Book
Nesting
O'Donnell, Roisin
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK  AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2025 'Tense,...
Hamnet
O'Farrell, Maggie
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER 2021 'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times 'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS...
The marriage portrait
O'Farrell, Maggie
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022) An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022) A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022)<...
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
The book of form & emptiness
Ozeki, Ruth
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . . After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad....
Pod
Paull, Laline
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2023 'Knocked my socks off . . . it is set entirely in the ocean. It's not science fiction. It's realistic. It's set in the here and now . . . And it's fascinating' Barbara Kingsolver in the New York Times ...
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 FOR FICTION 2022 THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK ***** You don't fall in love in Cyprus in the summer of 1974. Not here, not now. In 1974, two...
Great circle
Shipstead, Maggie
Paper Book
THE SENSATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Amazon Book of the Year Time Magazine Book of the Year Waterstones fiction Book of the Month ______________ ...
Tell me everything
Strout, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025 'Stunning, deeply felt and profoundly intelligent' Guardian It's autumn...
The Safekeep
van der Wouden, Yael.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of...

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