The Women’s Prize for Fiction

The Women’s Prize for Fiction – 2025 Longlist

The longlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced, and it’s an exciting line-up of 16 books! The Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best full-length novel written in English by a female writer and published in the UK. From the shadows of imperialism and twentieth-century conflict, the continuing impact of immigration and exile, to the future impact of the global rise of big tech, this is a list to delight and engage readers everywhere! 

• Good Girl by Aria Aber 
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 
• Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches 
• Amma by Saraid de Silva
• Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings 
• All Fours by Miranda July 
• The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
• The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji (
• Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
• Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell 
• A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike 
• Birding by Rose Ruane
• The Artist by Lucy Steeds 
• Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout 
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden 
• Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

You can buy the longlisted books from our online shop, or drop into the bookshop to place an order: