Year-End Lists

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction: 2017 Award

Winner

• How to Survive a Plague

  The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
  David France

Shortlist

• The Islamic Enlightenment

  The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason
  Christopher de Bellaigue
• Border

  A Journey to the Edge of Europe
  Kapka Kassabova
• An Odyssey

  A Father, a Son, and an Epic
  Daniel Mendelsohn
• To Be a Machine

  Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
  Mark O'Connell
• Belonging

  The Story of the Jews, 1492–1900
  Simon Schama

Longlist

• Red Famine

  Stalin’s War on Ukraine
  Anne Applebaum
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
  Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Plot 29

  A Memoir
  Allan Jenkins
• I Was Told to Come Alone

  My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
  Souad Mekhennet
• A Bold and Dangerous Family

  The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini
  Caroline Moorehead
• Mr Lear

  A Life of Art and Nonsense
  Jenny Uglow