Year-End Lists

The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: 2012 Award. The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is now known as The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

Winner

• Into the Silence

  The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
  Wade Davis

Shortlist

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
  Katherine Boo
• The Better Angels of Our Nature

  Why Violence Has Declined
  Steven Pinker
• The Old Ways

  A Journey on Foot
  Robert Macfarlane
• The Spanish Holocaust

  Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
  Paul Preston
• Strindberg

  A Life
  Sue Prideaux

Longlist

• One on One
  Craig Brown
• The Man Without a Face
  Masha Gessen
• Feathers

  The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
  Thor Hanson
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
  Daniel Kahneman
• Inside the Centre

  The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  Ray Monk
• Grand Pursuit

  The Story of Economic Genius
  Sylvia Nasar
• Winter King

  Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England
  Thomas Penn
• Joseph Anton

  A Memoir
  Salman Rushdie