Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Given by The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction Limited

Muut nimet: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction (1999-2015; englanti), The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (englanti)
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The Samuel Johnson Prize (awarded 1999-2015) is one of the world's most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award.

The name was näytä lisää changed in 2016 to the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, after a new sponsor, but still officially administered by the non-profit Samuel Johnson Prize Limited.

See also Wikipedia and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist and Samuel Johnson Prize Longlist näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (25), Shortlist (126), Longlist (129)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2023 (14), 2022 (12), 2021 (13), 2020 (12), 2019 (12), 2018 (6), 2017 (12), 2016 (10), 2015 (12), 2014 (15), 2013 (17), 2012 (13), 2011 (17), 2010 (19), 2009 (19), 2008 (18), 2007 (6), 2006 (6), 2005 (6), 2004 (7), 2003 (6), 2002 (6), 2001 (6), 2000 (6), 1999 (7)
Announced:
marraskuu 2023: Winner2023 Viimeksi

Winner 25

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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (tekijä: John Vaillant)2023
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (tekijä: Katherine Rundell)2022
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (tekijä: Patrick Radden Keefe)2021
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (tekijä: Craig Brown)2020
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (tekijä: Hallie Rubenhold)2019
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (tekijä: Serhii Plokhy)2018
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS (tekijä: David France)2017
East West Street (tekijä: Philippe Sands)2016
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (tekijä: Steve Silberman)2015
H niin kuin haukka (tekijä: Helen Macdonald)2014
The Pike (tekijä: Lucy Hughes-Hallett)2013
Into the silence (tekijä: Wade Davis)2012
Mao : Kiinan suuri nälänhätä 1958-1962 (tekijä: Frank Dikötter)2011
Suljettu maa : elämää Pohjois-Koreassa (tekijä: Barbara Demick)2010
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (tekijä: Philip Hoare)2009
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (tekijä: Kate Summerscale)2008
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (tekijä: Rajiv Chandrasekaran)2007
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (tekijä: James S. Shapiro)2006
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson (tekijä: Jonathan Coe)2005
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (tekijä: Anna Funder)2004
Pushkin: A Biography (tekijä: T. J. Binyon)2003
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (tekijä: Margaret MacMillan)2002
The Third Reich : A New History (tekijä: Michael Burleigh)2001
Berlioz: Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness, 1832-1869 (tekijä: David Cairns)2000
Stalingrad (tekijä: Antony Beevor)1999

Shortlist 126

TeosVuosi
Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children (tekijä: Hannah Barnes)2023
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution (tekijä: Tania Branigan)2023
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 (tekijä: Christopher Clark)2023
Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance (tekijä: Jeremy Eichler)2023
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century (tekijä: Jennifer Homans)2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (tekijä: John Vaillant)2023
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (tekijä: Caroline Elkins)2022
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (tekijä: Jonathan Freedland)2022
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route (tekijä: Sally Hayden)2022
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown (tekijä: Anna Keay)2022
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story (tekijä: Polly Morland)2022
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (tekijä: Lea Ypi)2021
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape (tekijä: Cal Flyn)2021
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 (tekijä: Harald Jähner)2021
Things I Have Withheld (tekijä: Kei Miller)2021
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell (tekijä: John Preston)2021
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (tekijä: Lea Ypi)2021
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience (tekijä: Matthew Cobb)2020
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (tekijä: Sudhir Hazareesingh)2020
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women (tekijä: Christina Lamb)2020
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (tekijä: Amy Stanley)2020
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story (tekijä: Kate Summerscale)2020
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (tekijä: Casey Cep)2019
On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons (tekijä: Laura Cumming)2019
The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922–1968 (tekijä: William Feaver)2019
Maoism: A Global History (tekijä: Julia Lovell)2019
Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS (tekijä: Azadeh Moaveni)2019
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms (tekijä: Hannah Fry)2018
Vakooja ja petturi: Kylmän sodan tärkein vakoiluoperaatio (tekijä: Ben Macintyre)2018
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man (tekijä: Thomas Page McBee)2018
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (tekijä: Stephen R. Platt)2018
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (tekijä: Carl Zimmer)2018
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times (tekijä: Christopher De Bellaigue)2017
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (tekijä: Kapka Kassabova)2017
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (tekijä: Daniel Mendelsohn)2017
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death (tekijä: Mark O'Connell)2017
The Story of the Jews: Belonging, 1492–1900 (tekijä: Simon Schama)2017
Neuvostoihmisen loppu (tekijä: Svetlana Alexievich)2016
Negroland: A Memoir (tekijä: Margo Jefferson)2016
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (tekijä: Hisham Matar)2016
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (tekijä: Jonathan Bate)2015
Landmarks (tekijä: Robert Macfarlane)2015
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World (tekijä: Laurence Scott)2015
The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq (tekijä: Emma Sky)2015
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War (tekijä: Samanth Subramanian)2015
The Story of the Jews: Belonging, 1492–1900 (tekijä: Simon Schama)2014
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life (tekijä: John Campbell)2014
The Iceberg (tekijä: Marion Coutts)2014
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World (tekijä: Greg Grandin)2014
Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors (tekijä: Alison Light)2014
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France (tekijä: Caroline Moorehead)2014
Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's War Graves (tekijä: David Crane)2013
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 (tekijä: William Dalrymple)2013
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees (tekijä: Dave Goulson)2013
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain (tekijä: Charlotte Higgins)2013
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands (tekijä: Charles Moore)2013
Kätkössä kauniin ikuisen : Mumbain slummien toivo ja toivottomuus (tekijä: Katherine Boo)2012
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (tekijä: Robert Macfarlane)2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (tekijä: Steven Pinker)2012
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain (tekijä: Paul Preston)2012
Strindberg: A Life (tekijä: Sue Prideaux)2012
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (tekijä: Andrew Graham-Dixon)2011
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (tekijä: Maya Jasanoff)2011
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (tekijä: Matt Ridley)2011
Bismarck: A Life (tekijä: Jonathan Steinberg)2011
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War (tekijä: John Stubbs)2011
Kiehtova matematiikka : seikkailu numeroiden ihmemaassa (tekijä: Alex Bellos)2010
Blood Knots (tekijä: Luke Jennings)2010
Too Big to Fall: America's Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward (tekijä: Barry B. LePatner)2010
A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game (tekijä: Jenny Uglow)2010
Tulella kypsennetty. Miten keittotaito teki meistä ihmisiä (tekijä: Richard Wrangham)2010
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (tekijä: Liaquat Ahamed)2009
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks (tekijä: Ben Goldacre)2009
Z : Amazonin kadonnut kaupunki (tekijä: David Grann)2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (tekijä: Richard Holmes)2009
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality (tekijä: Manjit Kumar)2009
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (tekijä: Tim Butcher)2008
Crow Country (tekijä: Mark Cocker)2008
Kuiskaajat : ihmiskohtaloita Stalinin Neuvostoliitossa (tekijä: Orlando Figes)2008
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul (tekijä: Patrick French)2008
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (tekijä: Alex Ross)2008
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (tekijä: Ian Buruma)2007
Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties (tekijä: Peter Hennessy)2007
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations (tekijä: Georgina Howell)2007
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control (tekijä: Dominic Streatfeild)2007
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England (tekijä: Adrian Tinniswood)2007
Untold Stories (tekijä: Alan Bennett)2006
The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection (tekijä: Jerry Brotton)2006
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France (tekijä: Carmen Callil)2006
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (tekijä: Tony Judt)2006
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life (tekijä: Tom Reiss)2006
Stuart: A Life Backwards (tekijä: Alexander Masters)2005
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (tekijä: Suketu Mehta)2005
Istanbul : muistot ja kaupunki (tekijä: Orhan Pamuk)2005
Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 (tekijä: Hilary Spurling)2005
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London (tekijä: Sarah Wise)2005
Gulag: A History (tekijä: Anne Applebaum)2004
John Clare (tekijä: Jonathan Bate)2004
Lyhyt historia lähes kaikesta (tekijä: Bill Bryson)2004
The Zanzibar Chest (tekijä: Aidan Hartley)2004
Rubikon : Rooman tasavallan loisto ja rappio (tekijä: Tom Holland)2004
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (tekijä: Orlando Figes)2003
The Devil That Danced On the Water: A Daughter's Memoir (tekijä: Aminatta Forna)2003
Tohtori Tatjanan seksineuvoja koko luomakunnalle (tekijä: Olivia Judson)2003
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (tekijä: Claire Tomalin)2003
Nelson: Love and Fame (tekijä: Edgar Vincent)2003
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village (tekijä: Eamon Duffy)2002
The Snow Geese (tekijä: William Fiennes)2002
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies (tekijä: Richard Hamblyn)2002
Churchill: A Biography (tekijä: Roy Jenkins)2002
Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (tekijä: Brendan Simms)2002
Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution (tekijä: Richard Fortey)2001
Night of Stone (tekijä: Catherine Merridale)2001
Rimbaud: A Biography (tekijä: Graham Robb)2001
Ruhtinas Potemkin ja Katariina Suuri (tekijä: Simon Sebag-Montefiore)2001
John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 (tekijä: Robert Skidelsky)2001
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis (tekijä: Tony Hawks)2000
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats (tekijä: Brenda Maddox)2000
Perimä : ihmisen historia 23 kappaleessa (tekijä: Matt Ridley)2000
Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict (tekijä: William Shawcross)2000
Karl Marx (tekijä: Francis Wheen)2000
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too... (tekijä: John Diamond)1999
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 (tekijä: Richard Holmes)1999
Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris (tekijä: Ian Kershaw)1999
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor (tekijä: David S. Landes)1999
Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man (tekijä: Ann Wroe)1999

Longlist 129

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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (tekijä: Daron Acemoglu)2023
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder (tekijä: David Grann)2023
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany (tekijä: Katja Hoyer)2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (tekijä: Tiya Miles)2023
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (tekijä: Siddhartha Mukherjee)2023
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (tekijä: Nathan Thrall)2023
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food (tekijä: Chris van Tulleken)2023
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (tekijä: Andrea Elliott)2022
Otherlands: A World in the Making (tekijä: Thomas Halliday)2022
Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age (tekijä: Daisy Hay)2022
Original Sins: A Memoir (tekijä: Matt Rowland Hill)2022
The Barefoot Woman (tekijä: Scholastique Mukasonga)2022
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (tekijä: Jing Tsu)2022
Consumed: A Sister's Story (tekijä: Arifa Akbar)2021
Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey into Muslim Europe (tekijä: Tharik Hussain)2021
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans (tekijä: Eben Kirksey)2021
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery (tekijä: Alex Renton)2021
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain (tekijä: Sathnam Sanghera)2021
In Memory of Memory (tekijä: Maria Stepanova)2021
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence (tekijä: Frances Wilson)2021
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (tekijä: Francesca Wade)2020
Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care (tekijä: Madeleine Bunting)2020
Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss (tekijä: Rachel Clarke)2020
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town (tekijä: Barbara Demick)2020
The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame: 1968-2011 (tekijä: William Feaver)2020
Diary of a Young Naturalist (tekijä: Dara McAnulty)2020
Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning (tekijä: Geraldine Schwarz)2020
I Will Never See the World Again (tekijä: Ahmet Altan)2019
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (tekijä: William Dalrymple)2019
Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed (tekijä: Catrina Davies)2019
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment (tekijä: Amelia Gentleman)2019
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 (tekijä: Dorian Lynskey)2019
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier (tekijä: Ian Urbina)2019
Punainen nälkä : Stalinin sota Ukrainassa (tekijä: Anne Applebaum)2017
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (tekijä: Reni Eddo-Lodge)2017
Plot 29: A Memoir (tekijä: Allan Jenkins)2017
I Was Told to Come Alone (tekijä: Souad Mekhennet)2017
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (tekijä: Caroline Moorehead)2017
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense (tekijä: Jenny Uglow)2017
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece (tekijä: Laura Cumming)2016
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide (tekijä: Charles Foster)2016
Stalin and the scientists: a history of triumph and tragedy 1905-1953 (tekijä: Simon Ings)2016
This is London: Life and Death in the World City (tekijä: Ben Judah)2016
The Gene: An Intimate History (tekijä: Siddhartha Mukherjee)2016
Guilty thing: a life of Thomas De Quincey (tekijä: Frances Wilson)2016
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance (tekijä: Robert Gildea)2015
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World (tekijä: Oliver Morton)2015
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia (tekijä: Peter Pomerantsev)2015
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper (tekijä: Bruce Robinson)2015
Guantánamo Diary (tekijä: Mohamedou Ould Slahi)2015
Musta maa - Holokausti: tapahtumat, opetukset (tekijä: Timothy Snyder)2015
The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books (tekijä: John Carey)2014
God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England (tekijä: Jessie Childs)2014
Hack Attack (tekijä: Robert Elmer)2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (tekijä: Atul Gawande)2014
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery (tekijä: Henry Marsh)2014
An Encyclopaedia of Myself (tekijä: Jonathan Meades)2014
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters (tekijä: Adam Nicolson)2014
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars 1793-1815 (tekijä: Jenny Uglow)2014
Romany and Tom: A Memoir (tekijä: Ben Watt)2014
Small Wars, Faraway Places : The Genesis of the Modern World 1945-65 (tekijä: Michael Burleigh)2013
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors (tekijä: Edward Hollis)2013
Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59 (tekijä: David Kynaston)2013
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (tekijä: Margaret MacMillan)2013
Time's anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination (tekijä: Richard Morris)2013
Edmund Burke: The First Conservative (tekijä: Jesse Norman)2013
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE (tekijä: Simon Schama)2013
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity (tekijä: Andrew Solomon)2013
Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland (tekijä: Amanda Mackenzie Stuart)2013
Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made it Possible (tekijä: Harriet Pugh Tuckey)2013
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe (tekijä: Simon Winder)2013
One on One (tekijä: Craig Brown)2012
Kasvoton mies: Vladimir Putinin nousu Venäjän valtiaaksi (tekijä: Masha Gessen)2012
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle (tekijä: Thor Hanson)2012
Ajattelu, nopeasti ja hitaasti (tekijä: Daniel Kahneman)2012
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (tekijä: Sylvia Nasar)2012
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England (tekijä: Thomas Penn)2012
Joseph Anton : muistelmat (tekijä: Salman Rushdie)2012
Tolstoy: a Russian life (tekijä: Rosamund Bartlett)2011
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 (tekijä: Rodric Braithwaite)2011
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (tekijä: Guy Deutscher)2011
Jänis jolla on meripihkanväriset silmät (tekijä: Edmund De Waal)2011
Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis (tekijä: Anatole Kaletsky)2011
Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (tekijä: Stuart Kelly)2011
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (tekijä: Richard Lloyd Parry)2011
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (tekijä: David Remnick)2011
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl (tekijä: Donald Sturrock)2011
Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War (tekijä: Daniel Swift)2011
Amexica: War Along the Borderline (tekijä: Ed Vulliamy)2011
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It (tekijä: Philip Ball)2010
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (tekijä: Stewart Brand)2010
Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History (tekijä: Nick Bunker)2010
Yhdeksän elämää pyhää etsimässä nykypäivän Intiassa (tekijä: William Dalrymple)2010
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip (tekijä: Peter Hessler)2010
The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (tekijä: Edward Hollis)2010
Family Britain: 1951-57 (tekijä: David Kynaston)2010
On Roads: A Hidden History (tekijä: Joe Moran)2010
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini (tekijä: Frances Stonor Saunders)2010
When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood (tekijä: Said Sayrafiezadeh)2010
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth (tekijä: Hilary Spurling)2010
Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir (tekijä: Ngugi wa'Thiong'o)2010
The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle (tekijä: Sara Wheeler)2010
Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare (tekijä: Jonathan Bate)2009
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (tekijä: Mary Beard)2009
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (tekijä: Alain de Botton)2009
A Fork in the Road (tekijä: André Brink)2009
Science: a Four Thousand Year History (tekijä: Patricia Fara)2009
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families (tekijä: Michael Holroyd)2009
Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England (tekijä: Steve Jones)2009
A Book of Silence (tekijä: Sara Maitland)2009
The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History (tekijä: Justin Marozzi)2009
Hester: the Remarkable Life of Dr. Johnson's 'Dear Mistress' (tekijä: Ian McIntyre)2009
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (tekijä: Adam Nicolson)2009
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS (tekijä: Elizabeth Pisani)2009
The house of Wittgenstein : a family at war (tekijä: Alexander Waugh)2009
Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 (tekijä: Lisa Appignanesi)2008
Miracles of Life (tekijä: J. G. Ballard)2008
Nothing to Be Frightened Of (tekijä: Julian Barnes)2008
Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature (tekijä: Marcus Du Sautoy)2008
Austerity Britain: 1945-51 (tekijä: David Kynaston)2008
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury (tekijä: Alison Light)2008
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes (tekijä: Ferdinand Mount)2008
Watching the Door: Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast (tekijä: Kevin Myers)2008
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner (tekijä: Fred Pearce)2008
Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland (tekijä: Jonathan Powell)2008
Perpetual Motion: The Public and Private Lives of Rudolf Nureyev (tekijä: Otis Stuart)2008
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession (tekijä: Andrea Wulf)2008
High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis (tekijä: Mark Lynas)2004
Winona Ryder: The Biography (tekijä: Nigel Goodall)1999

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The Samuel Johnson Prize (awarded 1999-2015) is one of the world's most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award.

The name was changed in 2016 to the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, after a new sponsor, but still officially administered by the non-profit Samuel Johnson Prize Limited.

See also Wikipedia and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction shortlist and Samuel Johnson Prize Longlist (English, Member-written)
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction is the continuation of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction under the name of a new sponsor.

See also Wikipedia. (English, Member-written)
The Samuel Johnson Prize (awarded 1999-2015) is one of the world's most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award.

The name was changed in 2016 to the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, after a new sponsor, but still officially administered by the non-profit Samuel Johnson Prize Limited.

See also Wikipedia and Samuel Johnson Prize Winners and Samuel Johnson Prize Longlist (English, Member-written)
The Samuel Johnson Prize (awarded 1999-2015) is one of the world's most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award.

The name was changed in 2016 to the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, after a new sponsor, but still officially administered by the non-profit Samuel Johnson Prize Limited.

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