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Richard Holmes

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Books from Richard Holmes that won awards or were shortlisted.

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  1. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science cover
    The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

    2009

    19

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    • WonNational Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2009)Major
    • ShortlistedBaillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2009)Major
    • ShortlistedLos Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2009)
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  2. The Age of Wonder cover
    The Age of Wonder

    2009

    8

    score

    • WonRoyal Society Science Book Prize (2009)
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  3. Coleridge: Darker Reflections (about Samuel Taylor Coleridge) cover
    Coleridge: Darker Reflections (about Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

    1999

    4

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    • ShortlistedBaillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (1999)Major
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  4. The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

    4

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    • ShortlistedBaillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2025)Major
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Recent Standouts (2020+)

  1. 1Tiya Miles39 score
  2. 2Adam Higginbotham36 score
  3. 3Roxanna Asgarian35 score
  4. 4Kathleen DuVal33 score
  5. 5Beverly Gage32 score
  6. 6Les Payne and Tamara Payne31 score
  7. 7Ed Yong30 score
  8. 8Ada Ferrer26 score
  9. 9Greg Grandin26 score
  10. 10Ned Blackhawk25 score

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  6. 6Steven Pinker6 books
  7. 7Adam Hochschild5 books
  8. 8David Levering Lewis5 books
  9. 9Deirdre Bair5 books
  10. 10Garry Wills5 books