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Here are the 16 novels longlisted for the 2025 Womens Prize for Fiction! A new video is up on my YouTube channel discussing all these titles: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bNcZNaEWJjE<\/a> I’m glad to see some books I’ve read and enjoyed, some I’ve been wanting to read and others I’ve not heard of before. <\/p>\n

It’s an interesting group of authors who are not only novelists but include poets, short story writers, playwrights, academics and script editor on a soap opera. A few of them have been previously nominated for or won this prize before including Elizabeth Strout<\/a>, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Laila Lalami. However, a wide range of new talent is being highlighted as there are 9 debut novelists on the list including Yael Van Der Wouden, Rosanna Pike, Kaliane Bradley, Lucy Steeds, Roisin O’Donnell, Saraid de Silva, Nussaibah Younis, Sanam Mahloudji and Aria Aber. In my predictions video with Anna I correctly guessed 3 of these books and Anna guessed 4. <\/p>\n

Some of these books have been nominated for other book prizes such as \u201cThe Safekeep\u201d (Booker Prize 2024), \u201cAll Fours\u201d<\/a> (National Book Award for Fiction 2024), \u201cThe Ministry of Time\u201d<\/a> (Waterstones 2024 Debut Fiction) as well as \u201cCrooked Seeds\u201d and \u201cSomewhere Else\u201d which are currently on the Republic of Consciousness Prize shortlist. There are some authors who have previously won or been listed for this prize who I was surprised not to see listed such as Ali Smith<\/a>, Eimear McBride and Elif Shafak’s \u201cThere Are Rivers in the Sky\u201d<\/a> who some (including myself) not only predicted would be listed but probably would win this year’s prize. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are the 16 novels longlisted for the 2025 Womens Prize for Fiction! A new video is up on my YouTube channel discussing all these titles: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bNcZNaEWJjE I’m glad to see some books I’ve read and enjoyed, some I’ve been wanting to read and others I’ve not heard of before. 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