Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2025 - predictions, omissions & hot(ish) takes
03/26/25 • 46 min
On this week’s episode we catch up on what we’ve been reading, share our thoughts on the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist, and talk about some of the April releases we’re looking forward to picking up soon.
Recent reads
Carnality by Lina Wolf, tr. by Frank Perry
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas
The Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist
Good Girl by Aria Aber
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches
Amma by Saraid de Silva
Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings
All Fours by Miranda July
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell
A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike
Birding by Rose Ruane
The Artist by Lucy Steeds
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
Our Contenders
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak
Gliff by Ali Smith
The Echoes by Evie Wylde
It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
Excited to Read in April
Room on the Sea by Andre Aciman
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt
Also mentioned
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes
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On this week’s episode we catch up on what we’ve been reading, share our thoughts on the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist, and talk about some of the April releases we’re looking forward to picking up soon.
Recent reads
Carnality by Lina Wolf, tr. by Frank Perry
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas
The Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist
Good Girl by Aria Aber
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches
Amma by Saraid de Silva
Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings
All Fours by Miranda July
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell
A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike
Birding by Rose Ruane
The Artist by Lucy Steeds
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
Our Contenders
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak
Gliff by Ali Smith
The Echoes by Evie Wylde
It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
Excited to Read in April
Room on the Sea by Andre Aciman
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt
Also mentioned
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Previous Episode
Our Favourite New York/London Novels
Join either side of the Atlantic as we dive into our favourite London/New York novels. It’s an episode full of stiff upper lips, demonic possessions, sociopaths, bedsits, alcoholic dollmakers, sassy parrots, and white asparagus. Plus we talk about our must visit NY-LON bookshops and reading spots, and we look ahead to new releases set in and around the Big Smoke and the Big Apple we can’t wait to read.
Recent reads
Universality by Natasha Brown
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (translated by Polly Barton)
Stories of Place:///zinc.level.blindfold edited by Niamh McAnally
Our Favourite NY-LON Novels
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
The Vulnerables by Sigird Nunez
Look At Me by Anita Brookner
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
There Are More Things by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
NY-LON Books We're Excited to Read in 2025
Confessions by Catherine Airey
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay MacCleod Chapman
Lorne by Susan Morrison
Cursed Under London by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
An Opinionated Guide to Literary London by John Clegg
Also mentioned
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes
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Next Episode
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (Deep Dive) & April releases
On this week’s episode we dive deep into Rejection – not the emotion – the novel in stories by Tony Tulathimutte. We also discuss things we’ve read and want to read in April and revisit the Women’s Prize nominations now that they have been shortlisted.
Our deep dive
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
Recent reads
The Iliad by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
The Odyssey by Homer
Hype Machine: Inside the Cult of Crypto by Joshua Oliver
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Green Dot by Madeline Gray
Women’s prize shortlist
Good Girl by Aria Aber
All Fours by Miranda July
The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
What we’re looking forward to in April
Twist by Column McCann
Tilt by Emma Pattee
The Colony by Annika Norlin
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Notes to John by Joan Didion
Also mentioned
The Coach and Horses Pub Quiz, Whitstable
Adolescence on Netflix
Let the Great World Spin by Column McCann
Apeirogon by Column McCann
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
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