Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Helen Garner

Justin Marozzi

Frances Wilson

Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe

Adam Weymouth

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

Richard Holmes

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s

Jason Burke

Richard Flanagan

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

David Van Reybrouck

The Story of a Heart

Rachel Clarke

Sue Prideaux

John Vaillant

Mr. B: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century

Jennifer Homans

Tania Branigan

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849

Christopher Clark

Hannah Barnes

Time's Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and The Music of Remembrance

Jeremy Eichler

Katherine Rundell

Polly Morland

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

Caroline Elkins

My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

Sally Hayden

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (about Rudolf Vrba)

Jonathan Freedland

The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Anna Keay

Patrick Radden Keefe

Harald Jähner

John Preston

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Lea Ypi

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

Kei Miller

Craig Brown

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Christina Lamb

Amy Stanley

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

Kate Summerscale

The Idea of the Brain: A History

Matthew Cobb

Hallie Rubenhold

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Casey Cep

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS

Azadeh Moaveni

Julia Lovell

On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons

Laura Cumming

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth (about Lucian Freud)

William Feaver

Serhii Plokhy

Thomas Page McBee

Hannah Fry

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

Stephen R. Platt

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity

Carl Zimmer

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre

David France

Daniel Mendelsohn

Simon Schama

Kapka Kassabova

Christopher de Bellaigue

Mark O'Connell

Philippe Sands

Negroland: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

Svetlana Alexievich

Hisham Matar

Steve Silberman

Landmarks

Robert Macfarlane

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (about Ted Hughes)

Jonathan Bate

The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

Laurence Scott

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

Emma Sky

This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War

Samanth Subramanian

Helen Macdonald

Alison Light

Roy Jenkins: A Biography (about Roy Jenkins)

John Campbell

Greg Grandin

The Iceberg: A Memoir

Marion Coutts

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

Caroline Moorehead

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Dave Goulson

David Crane

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography

Charles Moore

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan

William Dalrymple

Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain

Charlotte Higgins

Wade Davis

Katherine Boo

Strindberg: A Life (about August Strindberg)

Sue Prideaux

The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

Steven Pinker

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Robert Macfarlane

The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

Paul Preston

Frank Dikötter

Jonathan Steinberg

Andrew Graham-Dixon

Maya Jasanoff

Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

John Stubbs

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Matt Ridley

Barbara Demick

Jenny Uglow

Alex Bellos

Luke Jennings

Richard Wrangham

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Philip Hoare

Ben Goldacre

Liaquat Ahamed

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality

Manjit Kumar

Richard Holmes

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann

Kate Summerscale

Tim Butcher

Mark Cocker

Alex Ross

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

Orlando Figes

The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul (about V. S. Naipaul)

Patrick French

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Dominic Streatfeild

Georgina Howell

Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

Peter Hennessy

Ian Buruma

The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England

Adrian Tinniswood

James S. Shapiro

Carmen Callil

Tony Judt

The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West

Tom Reiss

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection

Jerry Brotton

Untold Stories

Alan Bennett

Jonathan Coe

Istanbul: Memories and the City

Orhan Pamuk

Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909–1954 (about Henri Matisse)

Hilary Spurling

Suketu Mehta

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Alexander Masters

The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London

Sarah Wise

Anna Funder

Bill Bryson

Anne Applebaum

John Clare: A Biography (about John Clare)

Jonathan Bate

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War

Aidan Hartley

T. J. Binyon

Olivia Judson

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Orlando Figes

Nelson: Love and Fame (about Lord Nelson)

Edgar Vincent

Claire Tomalin

The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent

Aminatta Forna

Margaret MacMillan

Roy Jenkins

Richard Hamblyn

The Snow Geese

William Fiennes

The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

Eamon Duffy

Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia

Brendan Simms

Michael Burleigh

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946 (about John Maynard Keynes)

Robert Skidelsky

Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia

Catherine Merridale

Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin (about Grigory Potemkin)

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Rimbaud (about Arthur Rimbaud)

Graham Robb

Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution

Richard Fortey

David Cairns

William Shawcross

Matt Ridley

Karl Marx (about Karl Marx)

Francis Wheen

Playing the Moldovans at Tennis

Tony Hawks

Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats (about W. B. Yeats)

Brenda Maddox

Antony Beevor

John Diamond

Richard Holmes

Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris (about Adolf Hitler)

Ian Kershaw

Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man (about Pontius Pilate)

Ann Wroe

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

David Landes