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
Winner of the István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History 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...
Summer of fire and blood : the German peasants' war
Roper, Lyndal
Paper Book
Winner of the Cundill Prize From a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe "A balanced, comprehensive survey of the uprising, gripping in its narrative and perceptive in its...
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
An award-winning Cambridge history professor "makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve" (The Wall Street Journal)--that the West is, and always has been, truly global. "Those archaic 'Western Civ' classes so many of us took in college should be updated,...
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 revelatory story of a radical campaign to change the way we value work "Illuminating, honest, nuanced, Wages for Housework is a must-read for anyone seeking to make a just and sustainable world for all." ―Robin D. G....
America, America: A New History of the New World
Grandin, Greg.
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller * A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker,The New Republic,...
A fractured liberation : Korea under US occupation
Chang, Kornel S.
Paper Book
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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