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Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist
49 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.

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Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
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The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
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Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1944 – 1955
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
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The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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View book & interviews ↗16 author interviewsFrom the archive

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
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Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn’t Food
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
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Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment
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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
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Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
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The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492 – 1900
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity
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The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times
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