I've been looking forward to the announcement of the inaugural Women's Prize for Nonfiction longlist. Every year I eagerly await the fiction list, think I'll tackle reading some of the titles that are listed, buy or borrow more than a few, but then am lucky to read one or two! Typical of me, I want to read everything but never enough time and my attention all over the place.
So for this list, I am curious and am happy to discover some new books and maybe I can manage to read one or two ... ? The thing with nonfiction is I can usually only manage one at a time (as opposed to a whole stack of novels on the go at once). I always want to read nonfiction slowly to take in as many details as I can. I do have a couple of nonfiction starts on my nightstand, but they have been woefully neglected for weeks now.
So, here is the list of possibilities:
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakely
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Intervals by Marianne Brooker
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines by Patricia Evangelista
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
Code-Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
Young Queens: The Intertwined Lives of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond Chang
How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
I'm familiar with only a few titles, had previously checked out Anna Funder's book from the library (but being slow had to return it unfinished -- it comes out in paperback in the UK in March, however, so easier to tote around and read slowly without due dates).
I follow a couple of Booktubers and they have interesting videos about the longlist, if you want to hear more about the titles:
LouiseSavidgeMuses (along with her son, Simon, also fun to listen to) And the Lonesome Reader.
Any favorites, interesting-looking books or must reads?