Year-End Lists

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction: 2023 Award

Winner

• Fire Weather

  A True Story from a Hotter World
  John Vaillant

Shortlist

• Mr. B

  George Balanchine's 20th Century
  Jennifer Homans
• Time's Echo

  The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
  Jeremy Eichler
• Revolutionary Spring

  Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
  Christopher Clark
• Red Memory

  The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
  Tania Branigan
• Time to Think

  The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
  Hannah Barnes

Longlist

• Beyond the Wall

  East Germany, 1949–1990
  Katja Hoyer
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• Ultra-Processed People

  The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
  Chris van Tulleken
• A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

  Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
  Nathan Thrall
• The Song of the Cell

  An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• All That She Carried

  The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
  Tiya Miles
• Power and Progress

  Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
  Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson