We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist with 16 genre-spanning novels, many of which explore the ramifications of global events in present, past and future. Each one offers an expansive world that pulls readers in with rich storytelling and deeply resonating themes, fitting for the Prize’s 30th year.
The sweeping themes of the books on this year’s longlist demonstrate how the prize continues to fulfill the Founding Advisory Committee’s original aims to celebrate the ‘breadth and diversity’ of women’s voices and honour work of originality, excellence and accessibility. 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.
These are important, far-reaching novels where brilliantly realised characters navigate the complexities of families and modern relationships, whilst pushing the boundaries placed around them. It’s a list that readers will devour and shows the echoes of world events on everyday lives as well as the power and brilliance of women writing today.
Kit de Waal, Chair of Judges
The 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist
The full list in alphabetical order by author surname is:
Good Girl by Aria Aber (published by Bloomsbury)
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (published by Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton, Hachette)
Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches (published by Scotland Street Press)
Amma by Saraid de Silva (published by Weatherglass Books)
Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (published by Holland House Books)
All Fours by Miranda July (published by Canongate Books)
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami (published by Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury)
The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji (published by 4th Estate, HarperCollins)
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (published by 4th Estate, HarperCollins)
Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell (published by Scribner, Simon & Schuster)
A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike (published by Fig Tree, Penguin General, Penguin Random House)
Birding by Rose Ruane (published by Corsair, Little, Brown Book Group, Hachette)
The Artist by Lucy Steeds (published by John Murray, John Murray Press, Hachette)
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (published by Viking, Penguin General, Penguin Random House)
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (published by Viking, Penguin General, Penguin Random House)
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis (published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Hachette)
