The Baillie Gifford Prize is the UK’s leading award for non-fiction, open to books in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography and the arts. Founded in 1999 as the Samuel Johnson Prize, its winners run from Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain. This list collects the winning books by year.
How to End a Story
Helen Garner
Question 7
Richard Flanagan
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
John Vaillant
Super-Infinite
Katherine Rundell
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
One Two Three Four
Craig Brown
The Five
Hallie Rubenhold
Chernobyl
Serhii Plokhy
How to Survive a Plague
David France
East West Street
Philippe Sands
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Steve Silberman
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
The Pike
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Wade Davis
Mao’s Great Famine
Frank Dikötter
Nothing to Envy
Barbara Demick
Leviathan
Philip Hoare
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Kate Summerscale
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
1599
James Shapiro
Like a Fiery Elephant
Jonathan Coe
Stasiland
Anna Funder
Pushkin
T. J. Binyon
Peacemakers
Margaret MacMillan
The Third Reich
Michael Burleigh
Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness
David Cairns
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Antony Beevor
