Orwell Prize Political Fiction Finalists 2025

The Orwell Prizes aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics. The winning entries should strive to meet Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. They should be of equal excellence in style and content – the writing must be both political and artful. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/ There are two prizes : Political Writing Book Prize 2025 Finalists and Political Fiction Book Prize 2025 Finalists

Updated August 6, 2025
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Heart, be at peace
Ryan, Donal
Paper Book
Winner of the Irish Book of the Year * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction * Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice From one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a...
Dream count
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD * A...
Precipice
Harris, Robert
Paper Book
A WORLD ON THE BRINK OF WAR. AN AFFAIR ON THE EDGE OF SCANDAL. A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue and betrayal set in England in the weeks leading to the Great War. From the bestselling author of Conclave, Act of Oblivion, Fatherland and Munich....
There are rivers in the sky
Shafak, Elif
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD * One of NPR's 2024 Books We Love * A Good Housekeeping Good Books Winner From the Booker Prize finalist,...
Universality
Brown, Natasha (Novelist)
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE * FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION * Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2025 * NPR's Books We Love Remember--words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent...

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