The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2018 Shortlist

Submitted by kalderdice on Tue, 10/02/2018 - 8:01pm

Congratulations to all the authors and works that were recognized today by the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction! Check out the shortlisted works below and click on each image to buy the book online or at one of our stores. Read to the end to find out more about an upcoming Book Culture event with last year's winner, David France!

Hannah Fry's HELLO WORLD: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms (W.W. Norton)

Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Penguin Random House)

Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man (Scribner)

Stephen R. Platt's Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Knopf)

Serhii Plokhy's CHERNOBYL: A History of Tragedy (Hachette)

Carl Zimmer's She Has Her Mother's Laugh - The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity (Penguin Random House)

Looking for more Baillie Gifford honored works? Join Harper's Magazine and Book Culture on Columbus on Thursday, October 11th at 7pm, as we welcome David France, last year's winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, for a talk on a new postscript to his celebrated book, How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS. David France will be in conversation with Charles Kaiser, author of The Gay Metropolis and The Cost of Courage. Click on the image for more information!