Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction
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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, 27 Books
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, which 'is one of the world's most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing'. It was called the Samuel Johnson Prize before 2016.
This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8835 | Fire Weather | John Vaillant | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17165 | Super Infinite | Katherine Rundell | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 8300 | Empire Of Pain | Patrick Radden Keefe | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17165 | One Two Three Four | Craig Brown | 2020 | British | English | |
| 14006 | The Five | Hallie Rubenhold | 2019 | British | English | |
| 17165 | Chernobyl | Serhii Plokhy | 2018 | Ukrainian | English | |
| 8879 | How To Survive A Plague | David France | 2016 | American | English | |
| 14985 | East West Street | Philippe Sands | 2016 | British | English | |
| 14232 | Neurotribes | Steve Silberman | 2015 | American | English | |
| 2679 | H Is For Hawk | Helen MacDonald | 2014 | British | English | |
| 17165 | The Pike | Lucy Hughes-Hallett | 2013 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Into The Silence | Wade Davis | 2011 | Canadian | English | |
| 14985 | Mao's Great Famine | Frank Dikötter | 2010 | Chinese | English | |
| 3520 | Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17165 | The Whale | Philip Hoare | 2008 | British | English | |
| 10557 | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Kate Summerscale | 2008 | British | English | |
| 5088 | Imperial Life in the Emerald City | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | 2006 | American | English | |
| 17165 | 1599 | James Shapiro | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17165 | Like A Fiery Elephant | Jonathan Coe | 2004 | British | English | |
| 5353 | Stasiland | Anna Funder | 2002 | Australian | English | |
| 17165 | Pushkin | T. J. Binyon | 2002 | British | English | |
| 17165 | Paris, 1919 | Margaret MacMillan | 2001 | Canadian | English | |
| 17165 | The Third Reich | Michael Burleigh | 2000 | British | English | |
| 17165 | Berlioz: Volume Two | David Cairns | 1999 | British | English | |
| 14985 | Stalingrad | Antony Beevor | 1998 | British | English | |
| 7213 | Question 7 | Richard Flanagan | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 4383 | How To End A Story | Helen Garner | 2021 | Australian | English |