Announcing the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist!

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.