Year-End Lists

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction: 2021 Award

Winner

• Empire of Pain

  The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
  Patrick Radden Keefe

Shortlist

• Islands of Abandonment

  Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
  Cal Flyn
• Aftermath

  Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
  Harald Jähner
• Things I Have Withheld
  Kei Miller
• Fall

  The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron
  John Preston
• Free

  A Child and a Country at the End of History
  Lea Ypi

Longlist

• Consumed

  A Sister’s Story
  Arifa Akbar
• Minarets in the Mountains

  A Journey into Muslim Europe
  Tharik Hussain
• The Mutant Project

  Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
  Eben Kirksey
• Blood Legacy

  Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery
  Alex Renton
• Empireland

  How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
  Sathnam Sanghera
• In Memory of Memory
  Maria Stepanova
• Burning Man

  The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
  Frances Wilson