Year-End Lists

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction: 2025 Award

Winner

• How to End a Story

  Collected Diaries
  Helen Garner

Shortlist

• Electric Spark

  The Enigma of Dame Muriel
  Frances Wilson
• Lone Wolf

  Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness
  Adam Weymouth
• Captives and Companions

  A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
  Justin Marozzi
• The Boundless Deep

  Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
  Richard Holmes
• The Revolutionists

  The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
  Jason Burke

Longlist

• The Finest Hotel in Kabul

  A People's History of Afghanistan
  Lyse Doucet
• Between the Waves

  The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945–2016
  Tom McTague
• Things in Nature Merely Grow
  Yiyun Li
• John & Paul

  A Love Story in Songs
  Ian Leslie
• The Last Days of Budapest

  The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
  Adam LeBor
• Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

  From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
  Barbara Demick