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Me, last night - I‘m not reading the #wpnf2025 list this year, I‘m saving myself for the Fiction list.

Also me, at 8am this morning - hmmm, these all look very interesting.

Me again, mid-afternoon - oh, I have a meeting *quite* near the library, might just pop in.

Me once more, a bit later in the afternoon - oops - I seem to have made a spreadsheet and reserved or borrowed nearly all of the books!

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The Women's Prize For Nonfiction 2025 Long List has been announced!

How exciting!
Have you read any already?
Are there any books you predicted (I got 2) ?
Any books you are especially excited for?
Any of the you are surprised made it?

I know many are waiting for the fiction list to drop and might just skip around on the NF but I know a couple people are super excited for this list, there are a few I am already in line for at the library!

The Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Longlist has just been announced.

My library had some of these, but I need to go back I check some more since I didn‘t manage to type fast enough as you announced the list.

But it seems an interesting list

What do you think of the list? Anything you‘re particularly interested in reading? Or would recommend?

Time to get excited One more day before the announcement of the #WPNF25 Longlist

I live on the west coast of the currently terrifying US so I will be asleep when the list drops at 8am London time. But I will post a few hours after.

I feel like this list is too western/ too American. but here is my list of books I hope to see on the longlist. Even is they are not they are now on my TBR because all of them sound fantastic (Except Raising Hare, which I don't want to read if the Hare dies...)

#WPNF25 predictions!

The Nonfiction Longlist is scheduled to be dropped in 12 days!!
Anyone have any predictions of what might be on this list?
Rules: a woman writing in English, regardless of nationality or country of residence, published in the UK between April 1 2024 and March 31 2025; the book must be a narrative non-fiction title intended for a general readership, judged on the basis of excellence, originality, & accessibility.
I will post my list this weekend!

The winner of the Women‘s Prize for Fiction was just announced

I‘m so happy about Brotherless Night winning. I loved this book

The winner of the Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction just announced

I found this interesting and I learned so much

Definitely pushing The Shock Doctrine up my tbr pile

What do you think of the winner?

Sent the kids upstairs so I can watch this in peace 😂

I‘m still reading Code Dependent & A Flat Place (loving this one) from the non-fiction list but from the ones I‘ve read I would love All That She Carried to win.

The Women‘s Prize for Fiction Shortlist was just announced

I‘ve read 5 out of 6, so I‘m happy about that

Two of my favorites made it: Brotherless Night and Soldier Sailor

I also enjoyed Restless Dolly Maunder, but I haven‘t read anything by her before

I‘ve seen mixed reviews of River East, River West, so I‘m not sure what I‘ll do about that

What do you make of the list?

Here‘s my shortlist for the Women‘s Prize for fiction, with the caveat that I have yet to read three: Nightbloom, A Trace of Sun (I acquired both recently), and Soldier Sailor (not out in the US until June 4). Brotherless Night and 8 Lives are absolutely my top two. I can‘t wait to see what books they pick tomorrow!

My top six #WomensPrize2024 fiction books (in random order because I have trouble choosing between them). I think maybe The Wren The Wren will get shortlisted, but the question is will we get a triple Irish? I think no, and went with the other two.

#WomensPrize

The Women‘s Prize for Fiction shortlist will be announced tomorrow morning.
I‘ve read 8 of the longlisted books

I would love to see Brotherless Night, Ordinary Human Failings and Soldier Sailor on the shortlist

I‘m not a huge fan of Western Lane, which probably means that it‘ll be shortlisted

Looking forward to the announcement

I am in the middle of And Then She Fell. I loved it immediately but now I am not so sure anymore. So for now I stick to these six favorites for the #WomenPrize shortlist (which I know is exactly the same as yours, Helen!). If I change my mind again after a few more chapters of ATSF and before the announcement on Wednesday morning, I‘ll add it and remove Enter Ghost (with pain in my heart).

Here‘s my #womensprize shortlist, in approx order, although I can‘t choose between the first two.

I have to say I‘m slightly disappointed in the longlist this year. Usually there are at least 5 / 6 books that would make it onto my personal favourites list for that year - this year only 2. (Defence and Brotherless Night)

I‘m not a completist, as I bailed on The Blue Beautiful World, which means it will make the shortlist, along with Hangman! 🤣

The Short List announcement is in 3 days!
(April 25 - 6 books will be chosen)

What are your Top Picks for it?

I still need to read 4 books (will not get Soldier Sailor from the library until the SL is announced) but I have a rough list of what I think I would like to see on it.

One week until the announcement of the short list!!

Making my way through, I am starting A Trace of Sun and And Then She Fell next.

I have decided that I am not going to read The Blue, Beautiful World since it is in a series and I have not read the others.

I am shying away from Nightbloom also - I am really really tired of rape being a plot device. So unless it is on the short list I am skipping it. That leaves 4 for me to get through...

We are 2 weeks away from the announcement of the short list.

I am currently half into Restless dolly Maunder

Overall I am a bit underwhelmed with the selections this year. Broltherless Night is staying as my top pick so far. I did enjoy In Defence and I think if I was not judging books by past years The Maiden and 8 Lives would have been more enjoyable. I just don't think they held up against what I was expecting from this prize's long list.

The Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist has just been announced.

No Eve or Wifedom which I read/ almost finished and absolutely loved.

But All That She Carried that I‘ve also read and enjoyed, and Thunderclap which I‘ve bought

I‘ve seen great reviews for the others as well.

What do you make of the shortlist?

It has been 2 weeks since the announcement of the Women's Prize Long List 2024!

How are you doing if you are reading the list? I am struggling a bit.

Three of the four books I have read have not been great (in my opinion) I hope that means I am gettig the duds out of the way first.

I am sill calling Brotherless Night as my favorite so far, I checked it out of the library but it is on my list of books I will probably buy to have at home.

We are one week into the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction Long List!
How are you doing?
Hae you changed your mind in either direction on if you are going to read them all?

#WPFL24
#womensprize

I will be reading the Women's Prize for Fiction long list the next 2 months - as they get to me from Blackwells or the Library.

If you would like to join me please do! I am so excited to see what everyone thinks about these books, most of which were not on my radar.

Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist Readathon 2024 tag-

#WPFL24

A Trace of Sun - Pam Williams
Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan
Hangman - Maya Binyam
Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy
The Wren The Wren - Anne Enright
The Maiden - Kate Foster
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster - Mirinae Lee
Nightbloom - Peace Adzo Medie
In Defence of the Act - Effie Black
Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
Restless Dolly Maunder -Kate Grenville
River East River West - Aube Rey Lescure
Brotherless Night - V.V. Ganeshananthan

Well. I guessed 2 long list titles!

As always most of the ones they picked were not on my radar at all. Though a few were already on my TBR.

I just finished The Wren The Wren this morning, and honestly it was a 3 star read for me, so I am a bit nervous going into this.

The Women‘s Prize for Fiction Longlist was just announced.

I‘ve read one, Western Lane, and didn‘t love it

But this year I‘m in luck, my library has 6 of these and now I‘m waiting for notifications to pick them up. I‘m first in line for most of them

A lot of new titles for me. So looking forward to discovering a new favorite

What did you make of the Longlist?

I know lots of us have been anticipating today‘s longlist announcement. I‘m quite surprised. Only 3 of these made prediction lists multiple times: Soldier Sailor, The Wren, The Wren and Enter Ghost. I‘ve only read Western Lane. Which have you read?

The countdown is on! My favorite book day of the year!

My guesses for ulitmate winner:
Julia by Sandra Newman
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

I watched 10 or so booktube predictions for the 2024 Women‘s Prize over the last few days. Julia is the top predicted book with 9 mentions. I thought I would share the top 16 plus one bonus book. This was probably a mistake on my part because there are so many amazing books being mentioned that I want to read. It will be interesting to see which, if any, of these make the longlist. Which do you think should make the list?

I am making 20 predictions for the 16 books on the Women's Prize Long List.

I think that if they are on the list they will only pick one of either Smith, Patchett, or Ward - women that were on the list and are very popular already. They all feel a bit too obvious.

I heard a theory that Enright will be on it becuase she gets pulled every 4 years! 2012, 2016, 2020 it is her time again

#womensprizefiction2024

The first ever Women‘s Prize for Non-Fiction had been announced

As someone who‘s trying to read more nonfiction, I‘be been looking forward to this

I‘m of to a good start as I‘ve already read All That She Carried and enjoyed it

I‘ve put in holds at the library for Eve and Wifedom

I also find Thunderclap and Vulture Capitalism interesting and will see if I can get hold of them

What do you make of the longlist?

Inspired by @TheKidUpstairs and @BarbaraBB here‘s my #womensdozen using only the short list and winners. Purposefully no overlap with my #bookerdozen with either author or title. Some are my favorite books of all time.

1. The Poisonwood Bible
2. Bel Canto
3. Purple Hibiscus
4. Old Filth
5. The Observations
6. The Tiger‘s Wife
7. Life After Life
8. The Goldfinch
9. Do No Say We Have Nothing
10. The Idiot
11. Girl, Woman, Other
12. Piranesi

Okay @TheKidUpstairs I checked out the history of the Women‘s Prize for Fiction and it turned out some of my all time favorites were nominated on it. So here are my #womensdozen (I didn‘t use books I already posted in my #bookerdozen post).

Titles below in the comments!

We are a random 41 days away from the announcement of the Women's Prize long list of 2024.
To qualify the books must be full length (30k words), written in English by a woman (translations do not qualify) and must be published in the UK between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024.

I have been thinking a lot about which books I am hoping and which I am expecting to see on this list this year.

What are you thinking will be on the long list?

And the women winner is …

Not my favorite, are you happy about the winner?

The winner of the Women‘s Prize for Fiction 2023 will be announced tomorrow.

Who do you think/ hope will win.

I will be happy if Black Butter, Trespasses or Fire Rush, but especially the to first.

“Everyone” seem to think that Demon Copperhead will win, but I didn‘t get along with that one.

The shortlist has just been announced and I‘m not sure how I feel about it

No The Bandit Queens, in one way not surprising since my favorite hardly ever makes it to the shortlist

I‘m happy that Trespasses is there.

Probably no surprise that MP and DC is there, but I‘m not a fan of those

I have Fire Rush on hold at the library and looking forward to reading that

What do you make of the shortlist?

I‘m really rather pleased with this shortlist. Well, apart from one!

For once, I got it nearly right. Except for Pod, which is just really, really wrong. 😱 Even more convinced now that it‘s going to win, just to spite me as I hated it so much! 🤣

Black Butterflies is my favourite from the long list and the only one I‘m disappointed to not see there is The Bandit Queens.

The shortlist is announced tomorrow. So I thought I should post my hopes on this snowy day.

I‘ve read 6 of the books, DNFed 1 and have previously DNFed 1 book by one of these authors and aren‘t jumping on the possibility to try another

I loved The Bandit Queens and would love to see it on the shortlist
I would also be very happy to see Trespasses and Children of Paradise there

What favorite to you hope to see on the Women‘s Prize Shortlist?

This year‘s Women‘s Prize for Fiction Longlist has been announced

I already own Glory so think I will get to that first

I DNF The Marriage Portrait last month and I didn‘t get along with the Haynes book I read so won‘t rush to that

The library has Trespasses so I‘m waiting on that

I‘ve seen some rave reviews for Demon Copperhead and I Am A Fan, so I might pick those up

There‘s so many I haven‘t heard of before

What do you think of this list?

It's Here!
I guessed 4 of them, and I had 2 others on my long long list of possibilities.
I have only read one of these and as usual there are so many I have never heard of, which is why I LOVE following this prize.
I think the one I am most excited to read is Fire Rush. It sounds so good and the cover is gorgeous.
https://womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/2023-prize
@BarbaraBB; @Chelsea.Poole; @squirrelbrain; @jlhammar; @Cazxxx; @Hooked_on_books

So excited. I cannot believe I have only read 3 of these books, and only 3 others were on my TBR.
Women's Prize for Fiction is a UK based yearly prize for women across the Globe.
My boyfriend calls today my Book Christmas because I wait all year for the new list, and automatically order everything on the list that I do not already have. Each year they give some of the best reads I didn't know about!