Year-End Lists

The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: 2013 Award. The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is now known as The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

Winner

• The Pike

  Gabriele D’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
  Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Shortlist

• Empires of the Dead

  How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
  David Crane
• Return of a King

  The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839–42
  William Dalrymple
• A Sting in the Tale

  My Adventures with Bumblebees
  Dave Goulson
• Under Another Sky

  Journeys in Roman Britain
  Charlotte Higgins
• Margaret Thatcher

  The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning
  Charles Moore

Longlist

• Small Wars, Far Away Places

  The Genesis of the Modern World, 1945–65
  Michael Burleigh
• The Memory Palace

  A Book of Lost Interiors
  Edward Hollis
• Disraeli

  Or, The Two Lives
  Douglas Hurd & Edward Young
• Modernity Britain

  Opening the Box, 1957–59
  David Kynaston
• The War That Ended Peace

  How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War
  Margaret MacMillan
• Time’s Anvil

  England, Archaeology and the Imagination
  Richard Morris
• Edmund Burke

  Philosopher, Politician, Prophet
  Jesse Norman
• The Story of the Jews

  Finding the Words, 1000 BC–1492 AD
  Simon Schama
• Far From the Tree

  Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
  Andrew Solomon
• Diana Vreeland

  Empress of Fashion
  Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
• Everest: The First Ascent

  The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made It Possible
  Harriet Tuckey
• Danubia

  A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
  Simon Winder