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Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year - British Book Awards

2021
Winner
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Shortlist
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day by Captain Sir Tom Moore
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Me And White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
2020
Winner
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

Shortlist
The Body by Bill Bryson
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner
Me by Elton John
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
2019
Winner
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Shortlist
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How it's Broken by  The Secret Barrister
First Man In: Leading From the Front by Ant Middleton
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
2018
Winner
Why I ‘m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge ​

Shortlist
What Does This Button Do? by Bruce Dickinson 
This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
Ask An Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space by Tim Peake
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young 
2017
Winner
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity by Philippe Sands
 
Shortlist
Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen