Women's Prize for Fiction 2025

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world.

The 2025 longlist includes 16 genre-spanning novels, each offering an expansive world that pulls readers in with rich storytelling and deeply resonating themes, fitting for the Prize’s 30th year.

The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist

The full list in alphabetical order by author surname is:

• Good Girl by Aria Aber 
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 
• Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches 
• Amma by Saraid de Silva 
• Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings 
• All Fours by Miranda July 
• The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
• The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji 
• Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
• Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell 
• A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike 
• Birding by Rose Ruane 
• The Artist by Lucy Steeds
• Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout 
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden 
• Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis