Year-End Lists

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction: 2016 Award

Winner

• East West Street

  On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
  Philippe Sands

Shortlist

• Secondhand Time

  The Last of the Soviets
  Svetlana Alexievich
• Negroland

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• The Return

  Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
  Hisham Matar

Longlist

• The Vanishing Man

  In Pursuit of Velázquez
  Laura Cumming
• Being a Beast

  Adventures Across the Species Divide
  Charles Foster
• Stalin and the Scientists

  A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953
  Simon Ings
• This Is London

  Life and Death in the World City
  Ben Judah
• The Gene

  An Intimate History
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Guilty Thing

  A Life of Thomas De Quincey
  Frances Wilson