2024Winner
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith Shortlist Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World by Tom Chivers Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gisli Palsson Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan |
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2023Winner
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong Shortlist Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg translated by Elizabeth de Noma Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike |
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2022Winner
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee Shortlist The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History by Nick Davidson Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender by Frans de Waal Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story by Jeremy Farrar & Anjana Ahuja Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life by Rose Anne Kenny Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial by Peter Stott |
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2021Winner
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake Shortlist The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor The End of Bias by Jessica Nordell The Sleeping Beauties by Suzanne O'Sullivan Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie |
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2020Winner
Explaining Humans by Camilla Pang Shortlist The World According to Physics by Jim Al-Khalili The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan The Double X Economy by Linda Scott Transcendence by Gaia Vince |
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2019Winner
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez Shortlist Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World by John Gribbin The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Surface by Monty Lyman Clearing the Air: The Beginning and End of Air Polution by Tim Smedley The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter by Paul Steinhardt Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus – The Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz |
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2018Winner
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Shortlist The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Wild Tales by Lucy Cooke The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences by Daniel M Davis Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester |
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2017Winner
Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine Shortlist Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of the Mathematical Universe by Eugenia Cheng Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's by Joseph Jebelli To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O'Connell I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong |
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2016Winner
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf Shortlist The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg by Tim Birkhead The Hunt for Vulcan by Thomas Levenson Cure by Jo Marchant The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee |
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2015Winner
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia Vince Shortlist The Man Who Couldn’t Stop by David Adam Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos Smashing Physics: Inside the World’s Biggest Experiment by Jon Butterworth Life’s Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe Mcfadden & Jim Al-Khalili |
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2014Winner
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World by Mark Miodownik Shortlist Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler by Philip Ball Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon by John Browne The Perfect Theory by Pedro G Ferreira The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery by George Johnson Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach Longlist Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W Bernard Carlson What a Wonderful World: One Man’s Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff by Marcus Chown Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe by Brian Clegg The Compatibility Gene by Daniel M Davis My Brief History by Stephen Hawking Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk |
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2013Winner
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll Shortlist Bird Sense by Tim Birkhead Cells to Civilizations by Enrico Coen Pieces of Light by Charles Fernyhough The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson Ocean of Life by Callum Roberts Longlist The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body by Frances Ashcroft Air: The Restless Shaper of the World by William Bryant Logan The Story of Earth by Robert Hazen Life’s Ratchet by Peter Hoffmann The Cosmic Tourist by Patrick Moore, Brian May & Chris Lintott The Life of a Leaf by Steven Vogel |
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2012Winner
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick Shortlist Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer My Beautiful Genome by Lone Frank The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene The Better Angels of our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes by Steven Pinker The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe Longlist The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso The 4 percent Universe by Richard Panek The Address Book by Tim Radford Pricing the Future by George G Szpiro Race? Debunking a Scientific Myth by Ian Tattersall & Rob DeSalle The Folly of Fools by Robert Trivers |
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2011Winner
The Wavewatcher’s Companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney Shortlist Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science by Ian Sample The Rough Guide to The Future by Jon Turney Longlist Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging and Mating by Leslie Brunetta & Catherine L Craig Here on Earth: A new beginning by Tim Flannery The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space by Mary Roach The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah |
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2010Winner
Life Ascending by Nick Lane Shortlist We Need to Talk About Kelvin by Marcus Chown Why Does E=mc2? by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic by Frederick Grinnell God's Philosophers: How the Medieval world laid the foundations of modern science by James Hannam A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack Longlist Why Evolution is True by Jerry A Coyne In Search of the Multiverse by John Gribbin Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen Darwin's Island by Steve Jones The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell |
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2009Winner
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Shortlist What the nose knows: The science of scent in everyday life by Avery Gilbert Bad Science by Ben Goldacre Decoding the heavens: Solving the mystery of the world's first computer by Jo Marchant The drunkard's walk: How randomness rules our lives by Leonard Mlodinow Your inner fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin Longlist Living with Enza: The forgotten story of Britain and the great flu pandemic of 1918 by Mark Honigsbaum Quantum: Einstein. Bohr and the great debate about the nature of reality by Manjit Kumar Strange fruit: Why both sides are wrong in the race debate by Kenan Malik Physics for future presidents: The science behind the headlines by Richard A Muller Ice, mud and blood: Lessons from climates past by Chris Turney Microcosm: E. coli and the new science of life by Carl Zimmer The universe in a mirror : The saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the visionaries who built it by Robert Zimmerman |
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2008Winner
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas Shortlist The sun kings by Stuart Clark Gut feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer Coral : A pessimist in paradise by Steve Jones Why beauty is truth by Ian Stewart A life decoded by J Craig Venter Longlist Better looking, better living, better loving: How chemistry can help you achieve life's goals by John Emsley Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World by Chris Frith Yes! by Noah Goldstein, Steve J Martin & Robert B Cialdini How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare The stuff of thought by Steven Pinker Why the lion grew its mane by Lewis Smith |
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2007Winner
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert Shortlist The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson In Search of Memory by Eric R Kandel Lonesome George: The Lives and Loves of a Conservation Icon by Henry Nicholls Homo Britannicus by Chris Stringer One in Three by Adam Wishart Longlist Giant Leaps by Jack Challoner & John Perry The Goldilocks Enigma by Paul Davies A Mind of its Own by Cordelia Fine Bang! The Complete History of the Universe by Brian May, Patrick Moore & Chris Lintott The Science of Doctor Who by Paul Parsons Francis Crick, Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley |
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2006Winner
Electric Universe - How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis Shortlist Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Parallel Worlds - The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos by Michio Kaku Power, Sex, Suicide - Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane Empire of the Stars - Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes by Arthur I Miller The Truth About Hormones - What's Going on when we're Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain Awful by Vivienne Parry Longlist The Elements of Murder - A History of Poison by John Emsley The Gecko's Foot - Bio-inspiration - Engineering New Materials from Nature by Peter Forbes The Silicon Eye - How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras and Cell Phones Obsolete by George Gilder Venomous Earth - How Arsenic Caused the World's Worst Mass Poisoning by Andrew Meharg Seven Deadly Colours - The Genius of Nature's Palette and how it Eluded Darwin by Andrew Parker Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis - The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers by Dan Rockmore The Fruits of War - How War and Conflict have Driven Science by Michael White |
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2005Winner
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball Shortlist The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older by Douwe Draaisma Matters of Substance by Griffith Edwards Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey The Human Mind by Robert Winston Longlist The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment by Patricia Fara Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin Aspirin: The Story of a Wonder Drug by Diarmuid Jeffreys Status Syndrome by Michael Marmot Hippocratic Oaths by Raymond Tallis Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control by Kathleen Taylor |
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2004Winner
A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Shortlist In the Beginning was the Worm by Andrew Brown Magic Universe by Nigel Calder Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford Longlist Galileo's Finger by Peter Atkins The Essential Difference by Simon Baron-Cohen A Brief History of Infinity by Brian Clegg Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett Sex, Botany & Empire by Patricia Fara After the Ice by Steven Mithen How to Clone the Perfect Blonde by Sue Nelson & Richard Hollingham Einstein's Refrigerator by Gino Segre Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes |
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2003Winner
Right Hand, Left Hand by Chris McManus Shortlist Small World by Mark Buchanan Reckoning with Risk by Gerd Gigerenzer The Extravagant Universe by Robert P Kirshner The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker Where Is Everybody? by Stephen Webb |
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2002Winner
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking Shortlist Aeons:The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst The Secret Life of Dust by Hannah Holmes The Madness of Adam & Eve by David Horrobin A Primate’s Memoir by Robert Sapolsky Rivals by Michael White |
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2001Winner
Mapping the Deep - The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert Kunzig Shortlist Creation: Life and How to Make it by Steve Grand Strange Beauty - Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth Century Physics by George Johnson Mendel's Demon - Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life by Matt Ridley Mendeleyev's Dream - The Quest for the Elements by Paul Strathern Malignant Sadness - The Anatomy of Depression by Lewis Wolpert |
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2000Winner
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene Shortlist The White Death by Thomas Dormandy A Brief History of the Future by John Naughton Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner Children of Prometheus by Christopher Wills |
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1999Winner
The Man who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman Shortlist Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker One Renegade Cell by Robert Weinberg Consilience by Edward O Wilson |
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1998Winner
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Shortlist The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch Life: An Unauthorised Biography by Richard Fortey This Is Biology by Ernst Mayr Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh Twins by Lawrence Wright |
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1997Winner
The Wisdom of Bones: In Search of Human Origins by Alan Walker & Pat Shipman Shortlist Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins Fire in the Mind by George Johnson In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny by Steve Jones The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley Longitude by Dava Sobel |
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1996Winner
Plague's Progress by Arno Karlen Shortlist Nature's Keepers by Stephen Budiansky The Faber Book of Science by John Carey About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Paul Davies River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart |
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1995Winner
The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide by John Emsley Shortlist The Book of Man by Walter Bodmer & Robin McKie The Covenant of the Wild by Stephen Budiansky The Snows of Olympus by Arthur C Clarke Journey to the Ants by Bert Holldobler & Edward O Wilson The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker |
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1994Winner
The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones Shortlist Afterglow of Creation by Marcus Chown The Red Queen by Matt Ridley The Neandertals by Eric Trinkaus & Pat Shipman The Engineer in the Garden by Colin Tudge Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg The Diversity of Life by Edward O Wilson |
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1993Winner
The Making of Memory by Steven Rose Shortlist Insects in Flight by John Brackenbury The Mind of God by Paul Davies The Malaria Capers by Robert S Desowitz Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick Virtual Worlds by Benjamin Woolley |
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1992Winner
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond Shortlist Darwin by Adrian Desmond & James Moore Fossils by Niles Eldridge Dawn of a Millennium by Erich Harth The Natural History of the Universe by Colin Ronan Last Animals at the Zoo by Colin Tudge |
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1991Winner
Wonderful Life - The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould Shortlist The Trials of Life by David Attenborough Genome by Jerry Bishop & Michael Waldholz Engines of Creation by K Eric Drexler The Stuff of the Universe by John Gribbin Global Warming by Stephen H Schneider |
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1990Winner
The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose Shortlist Time Reversal by Anatole Abragam Evolution The Great Debate by Vernon Blackmore & Andrew Page The Mind Machine by Colin Blakemore The New Physics by Paul Davies Senses and Sensibilities by Jillyn Smith |
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1989Winner
Bones of Contention by Robert Lewin Shortlist End. Cosmic Catastrophe etc... by Frank Close Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking The Crumbs of Contention by John Lenihan |
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1988Winner
Living with Risk by the British Medical Association Board of Science Shortlist Thinking Machines by Igor Aleksander & Piers Burnett Molecules by Peter Atkins Egg by Robert Burton The Omega Point by John Gribbin The Quantum Universe by Tony Hey & Patrick Walters |
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