In its inaugural year, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction provides a platform for non-fiction written by women that has been previously overlooked and underestimated.
From gripping memoirs and polemic narratives, to groundbreaking investigative journalism and revisionist history, these 16 titles below will change the way you view the non-fiction section of the bookshop.
Whether you are a seasoned non-fiction reader or considering trying for the first time, with this list you have at your fingertips a breadth of titles that reflects the quality and ambition of non-fiction writing by women around the globe that spark curiosity and might just change the world.
- The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale by Alice Albinia
- Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley (due for publication around 12 March)
- Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
- Intervals by Marianne Brooker
- Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji
- Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
- Some People Need Killling: A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines by Patricia Evangelista
- Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
- Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
- A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
- All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
- Code-Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
- The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
- Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond
- How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
