The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Short List

When Sally mentioned in our team Slack that she was considering reading the six books on the short list for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, Renee chimed in that she’d already read two of them. Like the true feminist nerds they are, they teamed up to read three each. In this podcast episode, Sally and Renee rank the six books and make a prediction for which one will win the prize later this week.

Books/Resources Mentioned:

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma by Noreen Masud

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

Special thanks to Melville House for providing a complementary copy of A Flat Place.

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Renee Powers founded Feminist Book Club in 2018 to provide a space for intersectional feminists to learn, grow, and connect. When not reading or running the biz, you can find her drinking coffee and trying unsuccessfully to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Favorite genres: feminist thrillers, contemporary literary fiction, short stories, and anything that might be described as "irreverent"