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1 | Year | Outcome | Title | Author | Publisher | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | 2024 | Winner | A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? | Kelly and Zach Weinersmith | Particular Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 2024 | Shortlisted | Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution | Cat Bohannon | Hutchinson Heinemann | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 2024 | Shortlisted | Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World | Tom Chivers | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 2024 | Shortlisted | The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction | Gísli Pálsson | Princeton University Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 2024 | Shortlisted | Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and and the Quest for Immortality | Venki Ramakrishnan | Hodder Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | 2024 | Shortlisted | Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy | Kashmir Hill | Simon & Schuster | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | 2023 | Winner | An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | Ed Yong | Vintage | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | 2023 | Shortlisted | Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus | David Quammen | Bodley Head | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 2023 | Shortlisted | Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity | Nicklas Brendborg | Hodder & Stoughton | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | 2023 | Shortlisted | Nuts & Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work | Roma Agrawal | Hodder & Stoughton | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | 2023 | Shortlisted | Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing | Lev Parikian | Elliott & Thompson | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | 2023 | Shortlisted | The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science | Kate Zernike | Simon & Schuster | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | 2022 | Winner | A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters | Henry Gee | Pan Macmillan | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | 2022 | Shortlisted | Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life | Professor Rose Anne Kenny | Bonnier Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 2022 | Shortlisted | Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender | Frans de Waal | Granta Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | 2022 | Shortlisted | Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial | Peter Stott | Atlantic Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | 2022 | Shortlisted | Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story | Jeremy Farrar with Anjana Ahuja | Profile Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | 2022 | Shortlisted | The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History | Nick Davidson | Profile Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 2021 | Winner | Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures | Merlin Sheldrake | Bodley Head | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | 2021 | Shortlisted | Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art | James Nestor | Penguin Life | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | 2021 | Shortlisted | Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science | Stuart Ritchie | Bodley Head | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | 2021 | Shortlisted | The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds | Jessica Nordell | Granta Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | 2021 | Shortlisted | The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers | Emily Levesque | Oneworld | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | 2021 | Shortlisted | The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness | Suzanne O'Sullivan | Picador | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | 2020 | Winner | Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships | Camilla Pang | Viking | |||||||||||||||||||||
27 | 2020 | Shortlisted | The World According to Physics | Jim Al-Khalili | Princeton University Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | 2020 | Shortlisted | The Body: A Guide for Occupants | Bill Bryson | Transworld Publishers | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | 2020 | Shortlisted | The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness | by Susannah Cahalan | Canongate Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | 2020 | Shortlisted | The Double X Economy: The Epic Power of Empowering Women | Linda Scott | Faber & Faber | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | 2020 | Shortlisted | Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time | Gaia Vince | Allen Lane | |||||||||||||||||||||
32 | 2019 | Winner | Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed For Men | Caroline Criado Perez | Chatto & Windus | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | 2019 | Shortlisted | Clearing the Air: The Beginning and End of Air Polution | Tim Smedley | Bloomsbury Sigma | |||||||||||||||||||||
34 | 2019 | Shortlisted | Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World | John Gribbin | Icon Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
35 | 2019 | Shortlisted | The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Surface | Monty Lyman | Bantam Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | 2019 | Shortlisted | The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter | Paul Steinhardt | Simon & Schuster | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | 2019 | Shortlisted | Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus – The Language of the Universe | Steven Strogatz | Atlantic Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
38 | 2018 | Winner | Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain | Sarah Jayne Blakemore | Doubleday | |||||||||||||||||||||
39 | 2018 | Shortlisted | The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Wild Tales | Lucy Cooke | Doubleday/Black Swan | |||||||||||||||||||||
40 | 2018 | Shortlisted | The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences | Daniel M Davis | Bodley Head | |||||||||||||||||||||
41 | 2018 | Shortlisted | Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine | Hannah Fry | Doubleday | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | 2018 | Shortlisted | Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives | Mark Miodownik | Viking | |||||||||||||||||||||
43 | 2018 | Shortlisted | Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World | Simon Winchester | William Collins | |||||||||||||||||||||
44 | 2017 | Winner | Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds | Cordelia Fine | Icon Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | 2017 | Shortlisted | Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of the Mathematical Universe | Eugenia Cheng | Profile Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | 2017 | Shortlisted | Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life | Peter Godfrey-Smith | William Collins | |||||||||||||||||||||
47 | 2017 | Shortlisted | In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's | Joseph Jebelli | John Murray | |||||||||||||||||||||
48 | 2017 | Shortlisted | To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death | Mark O'Connell | Granta Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
49 | 2017 | Shortlisted | I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life | Ed Yong | Bodley Head | |||||||||||||||||||||
50 | 2016 | Winner | The Invention of Nature | Andrea Wulf | Hodder | |||||||||||||||||||||
51 | 2016 | Shortlisted | Cure | Jo Marchant | Canongate | |||||||||||||||||||||
52 | 2016 | Shortlisted | The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World | Oliver Morton | Granta | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | 2016 | Shortlisted | The Gene | Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Bodley Head | |||||||||||||||||||||
54 | 2016 | Shortlisted | The Hunt for Vulcan | Thomas Levenson | Head of Zeus | |||||||||||||||||||||
55 | 2016 | Shortlisted | The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg | Tim Birkhead | Bloomsbury | |||||||||||||||||||||
56 | 2015 | Winner | Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made | Gaia Vince | Chatto & Windus | |||||||||||||||||||||
57 | 2015 | Shortlisted | Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life | Alex Bellos | Bloomsbury | |||||||||||||||||||||
58 | 2015 | Shortlisted | The Man Who Couldn’t Stop | David Adam | Picador | |||||||||||||||||||||
59 | 2015 | Shortlisted | Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology | Johnjoe Mcfadden and Professor Jim Al-Khalili | Bantam Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
60 | 2015 | Shortlisted | Smashing Physics: Inside the World’s Biggest Experiment | Jon Butterworth | Headline | |||||||||||||||||||||
61 | 2015 | Shortlisted | Life’s Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code | Matthew Cobb | Profile | |||||||||||||||||||||
62 | 2014 | Winner | Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World | Mark Miodownik | Viking – an imprint of Penguin Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
63 | 2014 | Shortlisted | The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery | George Johnson | The Bodley Head | |||||||||||||||||||||
64 | 2014 | Shortlisted | Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon | John Browne | Weidenfeld & Nicolson - an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group | |||||||||||||||||||||
65 | 2014 | Shortlisted | Gulp: Adventures of the Alimentary Canel | Mary Roach | Oneworld | |||||||||||||||||||||
66 | 2014 | Shortlisted | The Perfect Theory | Pedro G. Ferreira | Little, Brown Book Group | |||||||||||||||||||||
67 | 2014 | Shortlisted | Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler | Philip Ball | The Bodley Head | |||||||||||||||||||||
68 | 2014 | Longlisted | Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe | Brian Clegg | Icon Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
69 | 2014 | Longlisted | The Compatibility Gene | Daniel M Davis | Allen Lane, Penguin Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
70 | 2014 | Longlisted | What a Wonderful World: One Man’s Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff | Marcus Chown | Faber & Faber | |||||||||||||||||||||
71 | 2014 | Longlisted | Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live | Marlene Zuk | W.W. Norton | |||||||||||||||||||||
72 | 2014 | Longlisted | My Brief History | Stephen Hawking | Transworld | |||||||||||||||||||||
73 | 2014 | Longlisted | Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age | W. Bernard Carlson | Princeton University Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
74 | 2013 | Winner | The Particle at the End of the Universe | Sean Carroll | One World Publications | |||||||||||||||||||||
75 | 2013 | Shortlisted | Ocean of Life | Callum Roberts | Allen Lane (Penguin Books) | |||||||||||||||||||||
76 | 2013 | Shortlisted | The Book of Barely Imagined Beings | Caspar Henderson | Granta | |||||||||||||||||||||
77 | 2013 | Shortlisted | Pieces of Light | Charles Fernyhough | Profile Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
78 | 2013 | Shortlisted | Cells to Civilizations | Enrico Coen | Princeton University Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
79 | 2013 | Shortlisted | Bird Sense | Tim Birkhead | Bloomsbury | |||||||||||||||||||||
80 | 2013 | Longlisted | The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body | Frances Ashcroft | Allen Lane | |||||||||||||||||||||
81 | 2013 | Longlisted | Life’s Ratchet | Peter Hoffmann | Basic Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
82 | 2013 | Longlisted | The Story of Earth | Robert Hazen | Viking | |||||||||||||||||||||
83 | 2013 | Longlisted | The Cosmic Tourist | Sir Patrick Moore, Brian May and Chris Lintott | Carlton Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
84 | 2013 | Longlisted | The Life of a Leaf | Steven Vogel | The University of Chicago Press | |||||||||||||||||||||
85 | 2013 | Longlisted | Air: The Restless Shaper of the World | William Bryant Logan | WW Norton | |||||||||||||||||||||
86 | 2012 | Winner | The Information | James Gleick | Fourth Estate | |||||||||||||||||||||
87 | 2012 | Shortlisted | The Hidden Reality | Brian Greene | Allen Lane (Penguin Books) | |||||||||||||||||||||
88 | 2012 | Shortlisted | Moonwalking with Einstein | Joshua Foer | Allen Lane (Penguin Books) | |||||||||||||||||||||
89 | 2012 | Shortlisted | My Beautiful Genome | Lone Frank | Oneworld | |||||||||||||||||||||
90 | 2012 | Shortlisted | The Viral Storm | Nathan Wolfe | Allen Lane (Penguin Books) | |||||||||||||||||||||
91 | 2012 | Shortlisted | The Better Angels of Our Nature | Steven Pinker | Allen Lane (Penguin Books) | |||||||||||||||||||||
92 | 2012 | Longlisted | Pricing the Future | George G Szpiro | Basic Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
93 | 2012 | Longlisted | Race? Debunking a Scientific Myth | Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle | Texas A&M | |||||||||||||||||||||
94 | 2012 | Longlisted | The 4 percent Universe | Richard Panek | Oneworld | |||||||||||||||||||||
95 | 2012 | Longlisted | The Folly of Fools | Robert Trivers | Basic Books | |||||||||||||||||||||
96 | 2012 | Longlisted | The Two Kinds of Decay | Sarah Manguso | Granta | |||||||||||||||||||||
97 | 2012 | Longlisted | The Address Book | Tim Radford | Fourth Estate | |||||||||||||||||||||
98 | 2011 | Winner | The Wavewatcher’s Companion | Gavin Pretor-Pinney | Bloomsbury | |||||||||||||||||||||
99 | 2011 | Shortlisted | Alex’s Adventures in Numberland | Alex Bellos | Bloomsbury | |||||||||||||||||||||
100 | 2011 | Shortlisted | Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World | Guy Deutscher | William Heinemann |