The 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The Baillie Gifford Prize, one of the UK’s most prestigious literary awards, honors the finest in non-fiction, spanning disciplines from history and science to politics and biography. The longlist for this year’s prize has just been announced, offering a snapshot of some of the most compelling and insightful works of the past year. Here are the titles that made the cut for 2024, along with a quote from the judges. Note: Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux is currently not available in the US.
11 books
Winner
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Richard Flanagan"Unique and brilliant, this soulful book reverberates long after reading. Richard Flanagan’s writing talent is something almost other-worldly" – The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlist
Alison Flood
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen"This is impossible to put down, and a book that everyone should read" – The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Alison FloodHardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlist
Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child's Life
Rachel Clarke“Rachel Clarke takes us deep into the drama, tragedy and triumph behind the modern miracle of a heart transplant. This is a unique and profoundly moving story of life and death" – The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Hardcover, 2024
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlist
Charles Finch & Lauren Christensen
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
Viet Thanh Nguyen"An exquisitely wrought memoir, fractured, bold, and far-reaching” – The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Charles Finch & Lauren ChristensenHardcover, 2023
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Shortlist
Feltrinelli Librerie & Il Post
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
David Van Reybrouck"Revolusi is an extraordinary achievement. David van Reybrouck's book argues powerfully and persuasively that Indonesia matters to the rest of the world" – The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Feltrinelli Librerie & Il PostHardcover, 2024
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Longlist
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Gary J. Bass"With impeccable scholarship and lucid writing, this is a magnificent book on an aspect of Asian history that has far-reaching repercussions today” – The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Hardcover, 2023
$46.00$23.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Longlist
Gus Bova 🗒️
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer“A story of geopolitics, human suffering and resilience, beautifully told, and a powerful reminder that today’s continuing crises can have deep roots” – The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Gus Bova 🗒️Hardcover, 2024
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Longlist
Gary Shteyngart & Dwight Garner
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie"Rushdie doesn’t back away from the knife attack that almost ended his life in 2022. Instead, he confronts it head on, with prose that is brutally clear, honest and, best of all, funny" – The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Gary Shteyngart & Dwight GarnerHardcover, 2024
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Longlist
Lydia Polgreen & Adam Rothman
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Adam Shatz"Rich in ideas and panoramic in scope, the themes of racism and colonialism traversed through the extraordinary life of Frantz Fanon are deeply resonant for our times” - The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Lydia Polgreen & Adam RothmanHardcover, 2024
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Longlist
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean
Helen Scales"Passionate and important, it lays out what is at stake if we don’t protect our seas. As Scales writes: Living together on this blue planet, we are all ocean people” – The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book