Haste Ye Books | Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist Predictions @hasteyebooks | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Join me as I try to predict the 16 picks for the longlist of the newly-launched Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro / About the prize
03:10 Longlist predictions
15:27 Books that didn't make my list

My list:
1. On our best behaviour: the price women pay to be good – Elise Loehnen (May 2023)
2. The Tidal Year – Freya Bromley (May 2023)
3. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma – Claire Dederer (May 2023)
4. Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes our World – Helen Czerski (June 2023)
5. This Ragged Grace – Octavia Bright (June 2023)
6. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake – Tiya Miles (July 2023)
7. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life – Anna Funder (August 2023)
8. The Britannias: An Island Quest – Alice Albinia (October 2023)
9. Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History – Philippa Gregory (October 2023)
10. Bad Taste: Or the politics of ugliness – Nathalie Olah (November 2023)
11. Not the end of the world: How we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet – Hannah Ritchie (January 2024)
12. Splinters: A Memoir – Leslie Jamison (February 2024)
13. How the world made the west: A 4,000-year history – Josephine Quinn (February 2024)
14. Grief is for people: A Memoir – Sloane Crosley (February 2024)
15. Just friends: On the joy, power and influence of friendship – Gyan Yankovich (February 2024)
16. Weathering: How the earth’s deep wisdom can help us endure life’s storms – Ruth Allen (March 2024)


Didn’t make the cut:
1. The Women Who Made Modern Economics – Rachel Reeves (October 2023)
2. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom – Grace Blakeley (March 2024)
3. The Sisterhood – Liza Mundy (October 2023)
4. Thunderclap – Laura Cumming (July 2023)
5. Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the middle ages and beyond – Dr Alice Roberts (February 2024)
6. Dopppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World – Naomi Klein (September 2023)
7. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth – Natalie Haynes (September 2023)
8. Emperor of Rome – Mary Beard (September 2023)
9. Breaking Through – Katalin Kariko (January 2024)
10. The Chain: The relationships that break us, the women who rebuild us – Chimene Suleyman (March 2024)

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