The Women's Prize for Fiction 2025.
Hot on the heels of the non fiction longlist the 2025 Women's Prize for fiction longlist will be announced on Tuesday and I've seen lots of social media speculating on what might make the cut (and lots of 'dream' longlists) so I thought I would join in.
Thanks to a list that has been pulled together on Good Reads (which you don't need an account to see) and careful scrutiny of my reading journal I think that I've read 42 books that are eligible for the prize, as well as having two on my to be read pile as they aren't out yet, and another two that I abandoned.
At first I was quite surprised how few books that I read last year were eligible and then I looked more closely at the rules for the prize:
- Books have to have been published between 1st April 2024 and 31st March 2025
- No translations
- No short stories or novellas
- The book has to have been published in the UK between the above dates
- There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
- The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
- The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson
- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
- Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
- The Glass Maker by Tracey Chevalier
- Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts
- Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
- Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
- Le Fay by Sophie Keetch
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