A Taste of Prize Reading 2024 - hosted by cheriebooksreadthisyear

Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
Inaugural year!
Longlist announced February 15th.
Shortlist March 27th.
Winner June 13th.
All books added
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia

The Britannias: An Island Quest

Alice Albinia

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Madhumita Murgia

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction politics technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

416 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

15 hours, 55 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
Young Queens: The Gripping, Intertwined Story of Catherine De' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond Chang

Young Queens: The Gripping, Intertwined Story of Catherine De' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots

Leah Redmond Chang

491 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history informative sad slow-paced
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles

9 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair

16 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

Grace Blakeley

384 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction economics informative fast-paced
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

Lucy Jones

310 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender health history nature philosophy psychology science sociology challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir politics true crime dark informative sad medium-paced