The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist
Selected by the Bookshop
Each of the shortlisted six books explore the need for personal freedom and human connection, illustrating the ways in which autonomy, love, and friendship can act as a salve to life’s challenges. Written with nuance and depth, they offer compelling multi-layered stories that urge you to sit up and take notice of the world around you.
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance,…
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her lifeA 2024…
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted author.It’s…
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025A riotously funny and moving debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside downMeet the women of the Valiat…
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge'Surprising, chilling, and electric' - Alice Winn, bestselling author of IN…
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025‘By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?’When academic Nadia is disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, she decides to make a getaway…
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