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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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...
The girl in the middle : growing up between black and white, rich and poor
Granofsky, Anais.
Paper Book
A moving and vivid memoir of a young girl--long before her starring role in the Degrassi series--who was always switching between worlds, wanting only to be loved When Anais Granofsky's parents meet in the early 1970s, they are foreign and fascinating to each other. Stanley is the son of a...
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,...
Wages for housework : the feminist fight against unpaid labor
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, Am erica : 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,...

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