We are very happy to announce here the books submitted for the 2020 award. To qualify, all titles must fit the award’s political requirements, and have been published in 2019 by an author who is primarily resident in the UK.
Due to uncertainties created by the Covid-19 pandemic the dates of the shortlist and award ceremony are currently being rescheduled.
Our thanks to all publishers and authors who have submitted titles.
The Submission List is presented here in alphabetical order, by book title.
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| A Left for Itself: Left-wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism | David Swift | Zero |
| A Seat at the Table: Interviews with Women on the Frontline | Amy Raphael | Virago |
| A Virtue of Disobedience | Asim Qureshi | Unbound |
| Afropean: Notes from Black Europe | Johny Pitts | Allen Lane |
| All Together Now?: One Man’s Walk in Search of His Father and a Lost England | Mike Carter | Guardian / Faber |
| Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus | Sandi Toksvig | Virago |
| Billionaires | Darryl Cunningham | Myriad |
| BOSH! How to Live Vegan | Henry Firth and Ian Theasby | HQ |
| Brave New Words | Susheila Nasta (Editor) | Myriad |
| Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being | Paul Mason | Allen Lane |
| Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War | Duncan White | Little Brown |
| Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers | Kit De Waal (Editor) | Unbound |
| Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People | Frances Ryan | Verso |
| Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima | Becky Alexis-Martin | Pluto Press |
| Don’t Touch my Hair | Emma Dabiri | Allen Lane |
| Equal: How We Fix the Gender Pay Gap | Carrie Gracie | Virago |
| Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History | Richard J Evans | Little Brown |
| Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires | James Walvin | Robinson |
| From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want | Rob Hopkins | Chelsea Green |
| Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto | Aaron Bastani | Verso |
| Give Birth Like a Feminist | Milli Hill | HQ |
| The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism | Ruth Kinna | Pelican |
| Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats | Maya Goodfellow | Verso |
| How to be Autistic | Charlotte Amelia Poe | Myriad |
| Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent | Priyamvada Gopal | Verso |
| It’s About Bloody Time. Period. | Emma Barnett | HQ |
| Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel | Gardner Thompson | Saqi |
| Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India | K.S. Komireddi | Hurst |
| Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World | Christopher Wylie | Profile |
| Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City | Alev Adil et al (Editors) | Saqi |
| One Man’s Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA | Daniel Finn | Verso |
| Our City: Migrants and the Making of Modern Birmingham | Jon Bloomfield | Unbound |
| Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth | Guy Standing | Pelican |
| The Prison Doctor | Amanda Brown | HQ |
| Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party | David Kogan | Bloomsbury |
| Rife: Twenty-One Stories from Britain’s Youth | Nikesh Shukla and Sammy Jones (Editors) | Unbound |
| Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History | Holly Kyte | HQ |
| Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide – A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 | Kate Charlesworth | Myriad |
| Sex, Power, Money | Sara Pascoe | Faber |
| Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen | Sabrina Mahfouz (Editor) | Westbourne Press |
| Stage Invasion: Poetry and the Spoken Word Renaissance | Peter Bearder | Out-Spoken |
| Surrender | Joanna Pocock | Fitzcarraldo |
| This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health | Nathan Filer | Faber |
| This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality | Peter Pomerantsev | Faber |
| Tunnel Vision | Kevin Beathnach | Faber |
| We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post War Britain | Daniel Sonabend | Verso |
| What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia | Nimko Ali | Penguin Viking |
| Where Are the Women?: A Guide To An Imagined Scotland | Sara Sheridan | Historic Environment Scotland |
| The Windrush BetrayalThe Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment | Amelia Gentleman | Guardian / Faber |
| Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can’t Have It All in a Free Market Economy | Vicky Pryce | Hurst |
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