Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 Longlist

The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers. It covers all non-fiction in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.

Updated September 18, 2024
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Everyone who is gone is here : the United States, Central America, and the making of a crisis
Blitzer, Jonathan.
Paper Book
A National Bestseller * One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 * A Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist Finalist * Named a Best Book of 2024 (So Far) by New York Times "What an incredibly thorough documentation of the causes of the immigration crisis,...
Nuclear War : A Scenario
Jacobsen, Annie.
Paper Book
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize "In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if...
Judgment at Tokyo : World War II on trial and the making of modern Asia
Bass, Gary Jonathan
Paper Book
ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST * 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER * 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND AIR MAIL * 10 ESSENTIAL BOOKS BY THE TELEGRAPH<...
Question 7
Flanagan, Richard.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER * LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS * An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with his life and family, and the role of fiction in our...
A man of two faces : a memoir, a history, a memorial
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism,...
Knife Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Rushdie, Salman.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him   On the morning of August 12,...
The Rebel's Clinic : The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Shatz, Adam.
Paper Book
One of The New York Times' best books of 2024 so far Named a best book of 2024 by The New Yorker and Vulture Longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction "Nimble and engrossing . . . [An] exemplary...

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