Announcing: The 2025 Memoir Longlist

We are pleased to announce the Top 12 titles on our 2025 Memoir Longlist.

Congratulations! Well done to all the writers.

Memoir Longlist

An African Reliquary

Composed

For Sensitive Boys

Bad at Love

Hustling Vinyl – A Family History of the Record Business and How We Survived the Hype

Meeting the Water

Past Lives

Son of a Nun

The Good Chinese Son

Through the Briars and Brambles

Unleashed: Sex (& Love) in the Digital Age

Vee and Me – Our Travels with a Chromosome

We don’t announce names at this stage. Judging continues anonymously, so only the titles are featured.

Good luck to everyone as our final round of judging continues!

Shortlist announced: January 19th 2026.