Winner
Fire Weather A True Story from a Hotter World
John Vaillant
Books & authors
Discover the world’s best non-fiction writing. The longlist, shortlist and winning books from the world’s most prestigious and longest running non-fiction book prize.
Showing 1–12 of 37 books
Longlist
Ultra Processed People Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?
Chris van Tulleken
Longlist
The Song of the Cell An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Longlist
Otherlands A World in the Making
Thomas Halliday
Shortlist
Islands of Abandonment Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Cal Flyn
Longlist
The Mutant Project Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
Eben Kirksey
Shortlist
The Idea of The Brain A History
Matthew Cobb
Shortlist
Hello World How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
Hannah Fry
Shortlist
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity
Carl Zimmer
Winner
How to Survive a Plague
David France
Shortlist
To Be A Machine Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Mark O'Connell
Longlist
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee