Shortlist Mind on Fire by Arnold Thomas Fanning Heart by Sandeep Jauhar The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
Longlist Polio by Thomas Abraham This Really Isn’t About You by Jean Hannah Edelstein Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Sight by Jessie Greengrass Astroturf by Matthew Sperling Educated by Tara Westover
2018 Winner To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O'Connell Shortlist Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing The Vaccine Race by Meredith Wadman Longlist In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's by Joseph Jebelli Plot 29 by Allan Jenkins The White Book by Han Kang translated by Deborah Smith Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell Behave by Robert Sapolsky
2017 Winner Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal translated by Jessica Moore Shortlist How to Survive A Plague by David France When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong Longlist Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari The Golden Age by Joan London Cure by Jo Marchant The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford Miss Jane by Brad Watson
2016 Winner It’s All in Your Head by Suzanne O'Sullivan Shortlist The Outrun by Amy Liptrot Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss Playthings by Alex Pheby The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman
2015 Winner The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts Shortlist Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being by Alice Roberts My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
2014 Winner Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon Shortlist The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert Wounded by Emily Mayhew Creation by Adam Rutherford Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise
2012 Winner Circulation by Thomas Wright Shortlist The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates The Train in the Night by Nick Coleman Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif Perfect People by Peter James Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
2011 Winner Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante Shortlist The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Nemesis by Philip Roth My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
2010 Winner The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Shortlist Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson Medic by John Nichols & Tony Rennell Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks So Much for That by Lionel Shriver Angel of Death by Gareth Williams
2009 Winner Keeper by Andrea Gillies Shortlist Illness by Havi Carel Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon Intuition by Allegra Goodman Three Letter Plague by Jonny Steinberg Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese