Announcing the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist for Non-Fiction
The Best in Nonfiction Vies for £30,000
The Baillie-Gifford Prize for Nonfiction awards £30,000 to a work of non-fiction “in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.” The prize—among the richest in the world—is open to authors of any nationality. This year’s shortlist will be announced October 6th. Without further ado, the 2017 longlist (as chosen by this year’s judges):
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum
(Allen Lane)
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The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason
Christopher de Bellaigue
(The Bodley Head)
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
(Bloomsbury Circus)
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How to Survive A Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France
(Picador)
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Plot 29
Allan Jenkins
(Fourth Estate)
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Border: A Journey to The Edge of Europe
Kapka Kassabova
(Granta Books)
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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind The Lines of Jihad
Soaud Mekhennet
(Virago)
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic Poem
Daniel Mendelsohn
(William Collins)
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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rosselis and the Fight Against Mussolini
Caroline Moorehead
(Chatto & Windus)
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To Be A Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Mark O’Connell
(Granta Books)
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The Story of The Jews: Belonging
Simon Schama
(The Bodley Head)
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Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
Jenny Uglow
(Faber & Faber)
