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2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is a major new annual book prize in the UK that celebrates exceptional narrative non-fiction by women. The Prize promotes excellence in writing, robust research, original narrative voices and accessibility, showcasing women’s expertise across a range of fields.

Vulture Capitalism

Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

By: Grace Blakeley
Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely and “galvanizing” (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy.

It’s easy to look at the... Read more

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Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon
Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer

Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly... Read more

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Thunderclap

A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming
Narrated by: Laura Cumming
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers' Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction * Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply...
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Some People Need Killing

A Memoir of Murder in My Country

By: Patricia Evangelista
Narrated by: Patricia Evangelista
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

TIME’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

“Patricia Evangelista’s searing account is not only the definitive chronicle of a reign of terror in the Philippines, but a warning to the rest of the world about the true dangers of despotism—its nightmarish consequences and its terrible human... Read more

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Wifedom

Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder
Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood & Jane Slavin
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world

"Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full." —Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize,... Read more

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Matrescence

On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

By: Lucy Jones
Narrated by: Lucy Jones
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR


'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer
'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!'' Joanna Pocock, Spectator

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

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Doppelganger

A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein
Narrated by: Naomi Klein
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

“Born out of the author’s constantly being confused with the feminist-turned-conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf, Doppelganger examines the concept of doubles and mirroring in art and in life, with special focus on disinformation and the MAGA movement. Klein illustrates how ideas throughout history have been co-opted by opposing factions to create... Read more

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All That She Carried

The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.
 
WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize,...
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Code Dependent

Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia
Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

“As someone who doesn't really care for new technologies, listening to this book has been very enlightening for me, as it shows that not only AI is now more and more infused in our everyday lives, but also how it's not all black or white and how it can sometimes be really useful and sometimes frankly frightening and threatening to our very... Read more

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The Dictionary People

The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Sarah Ogilvie
Narrated by: Joan Walker & Sarah Ogilvie
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.

“Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie tells the surprising story of the making of the OED.... Read more

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Young Queens

Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

By: Leah Redmond Chang
Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots—three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.

Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de’ Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the... Read more

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How to Say Babylon

A Memoir

By: Safiya Sinclair
Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

“The author's own voice, a poets voice, illuminates this memoir by animating the members of her Rastafarian family and by amplifying the patriarchy and isolation she endured before persistence allowed her to express her art. Read more

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