📚✨ VoW 2025 English Non-Fiction Longlist ✨📚

This year’s English Non-Fiction longlist is a celebration of the ideas, histories, and reflections that help us understand the world—and ourselves—just a little better.

From untold stories of nation-building by remarkable individuals to journeys through India’s culinary and natural heritage, these books showcase the best of non-fiction writing today:

🌿 The Longlist: 🔹 Ananda: An Exploration of Cannabis in India — Karan Madhok (published by Aleph) 🔹 Engineering a Nation: The Life and Career of M. Visvesvaraya — Aparajith Ramnath (published by Penguin) 🔹 From the King's Table to Street Food — Pushpesh Pant (published by Speaking Tiger) 🔹 Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar — Anand Teltumbde (published by Penguin) 🔹Iconic Trees of India: 75 Natural Wonders — S. Natesh (published by Roli Books) 🔹Nehru's First Recruits — Kallol Bhattacherjee (published by HarperCollins) 🔹Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries — Sumana Roy (published by Aleph) 🔹Rukhmabai: The Life and Times of a Child Bride Turned Rebel-Doctor — Sudhir Chandra (published by PanMacmillan) 🔹The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of the Women in India’s Constituent Assembly — Angellica Aribam & Akash Satyawali (published by Hachette) 🔹This Land We Call Home: The Story of a Family, Caste, Conversions & Modern India — Nusrat Jafri (published by Penguin)

✨ Join us in celebrating these voices!Which of these books is on your reading list? Tell us in the comments!