2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize

Celebrates the best popular science writing from across the globe.

Updated October 2, 2024
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Eve: ; How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Bohannon, Cat.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST * THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution...
Everything Is Predictable: ; How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World
Chivers, Tom.
Paper Book
A "fascinating, witty, and perspective-shifting" (Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author) tour of Bayes's theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy. At its...
Why we die
Ramakrishnan, Venki
Paper Book
"Utterly fascinating." --Bill Bryson "An incredible journey." --Siddhartha Mukherjee A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality--from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live...
A city on Mars : can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
Weinersmith, Kelly
Paper Book
* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Hugo Award * Scientific American's #1 Book for 2023 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Trivedi Prize * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 * A Tor.com Best Book of...

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