The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Announces Its 2024 Finalists!

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION

From the acclaimed author of Losing Eden (“Powerful, beautifully written”—Anthony Doerr) an important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquiry—personal and scientific—into what happens—mentally, spiritually, physically, during the process of becoming a mother, from pregnancy and childbirth to early motherhood and what this profound process tells us about the way we live now.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION

In this “remarkable book” (New York Times), a renowned historian traces the life of an object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people left out of the archives.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION

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

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION

How did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? • Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? • Is sexism useful for evolution? • And why, seriously why, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause?

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of “flatness” and its literary tradition to find ways to understand ourselves and our trauma in one of nature’s most undervalued wonders. For readers of Robert Macfarlane, W. G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn, Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun, and Richard Mabey’s Nature Cure.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION

Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte. Some People Need Killing is Evangelista’s meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines’ drug war.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION

The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others.