2025 Women's Prize Award Books

Updated August 29, 2025
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Dream Count
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FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A Heather's Pick A publishing event ten years in...
The ministry of time
Bradley, Kaliane
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024 * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL * WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE<...
Nesting
O'Donnell, Roisín.
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Women's Prize * An Instant Bestseller in Ireland and the UK  In this beautiful, urgent, and ultimately uplifting novel by a rising Irish literary star comes a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her...
Good girl
Aber, Aria.
Paper Book
"An exhilarating debut novel" (R.O. Kwon, The New York Times Book Review) about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery--a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can't escape its history A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if...
All fours
July, Miranda
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE NEW YORKER &...
Tell me everything : a novel
Strout, Elizabeth
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a "stunner" (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. "Tell Me Everything...
Tell me everything a novel
Strout, Elizabeth
Audiobook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a "stunner" (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. "Tell Me Everything...
Tell me everything
Strout, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters -- Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more -- as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it,...
The dream hotel
Lalami, Laila
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ● READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● From Laila Lalami--the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a "maestra of literary fiction" (NPR)--comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman's fight for freedom, set in...
The Persians
Mahloudji, Sanam
Paper Book
Shortlisted for The Women's Prize * Named a Most Anticipated Book by Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly, The BBC, Daily Mail (London), and more A darkly funny, life-affirming "joy of a debut novel" (David Mitchell) that follows five women from three...
The story of a heart : two families, one heart, and the medical miracle that saved a child's life
Clarke, Rachel
Paper Book
Winner of the Women's Prize for Nonfiction | Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize An unforgettable and inspiring true story of how one family's grief transformed into a lifesaving gift--written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor. ...
Raising Hare : The Heart-Warming True Story of an Unlikely Friendship
Dalton, Chloe
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY FESTIVAL, SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES,...
Raising Hare : The Heart-Warming True Story of an Unlikely Friendship
Dalton, Chloe
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY FESTIVAL, SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES,...
Private revolutions : four women face China's new social order
Yang, Yuan
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE PICK FINALIST FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION "Riveting . . . a powerful snapshot of four young Chinese women attempting to assert control over the direction of their lives." --The New York Times Book Review ...
Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking Age
Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund.
Paper Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice A "brilliantly written, brilliantly conceived" (Tom Holland) history of the Viking Age, from mighty leaders to rebellious teenagers, told through their runes and ruins, games and combs, trash and treasure. In imagining a Viking, a...
What the wild sea can be : the future of the world's ocean
Scales, Helen
Paper Book
The acclaimed marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss examines the existential threats the world's ocean will face in the coming decades and offers cautious optimism for much of the abundant life within in No matter where we live, "we are all ocean people," Helen...
By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on native land
Nagle, Rebecca
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"No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven't heard of into a legal thriller." --New York Times Book Review NATIONAL...
By the Fire We Carry : The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Paper Book
"No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven't heard of into a legal thriller." --New York Times Book Review NATIONAL...
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction * A New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller * Named a Best Book of 2024 by the Economist, Winnipeg Free Press, and Financial Times * One of Indigo's Top 100 Books of 2024
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
Applebaum, Anne
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction * A New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller * Named a Best Book of 2024 by the Economist, Winnipeg Free Press, and Financial Times * One of Indigo's Top 100 Books of 2024
Wild Thing : a life of Paul Gauguin
Prideaux, Sue.
Paper Book
Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture. In this gorgeously illustrated,...

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