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2019
Winner
Murmur by Will Eaves
 
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