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
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Cat Bohannon is excellent as a narrator, researcher, and author! Eve tackles cultural assumptions about sex, gender, reproduction, power structures, and multitudes of other prejudicial ideas through the lens of the scientific study of evolution. Anchored in data, yet very readable and poignant, this is a all-around fun, fascinating and enjoyable... 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... Read more
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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
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“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,... Read more
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Code Dependent
Living in the Shadow of AI
By: Madhumita Murgia
Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“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
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This lyrical memoir details the literary journey of Safiya Sinclair, whose upbringing in an unconventionally strict Rastafarian household led her to pursue poetry as a means of escape. This audiobook is read by the author, which drives the magnitude of each vivid memory closer home for the listener. Beautiful, informative, heartbreaking and... Read more
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