Royal Society Science Book Prize

Deborah Cohen

Fred Pearce

Rose George

Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity

Lise Barnéoud, translated by Bronwyn Haslam

How To Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest To Alter the Past

Steve Ramirez

The Age of Alchemy: The Secret History of Chemistry From Ancient Magic to Modern Science

Kit Chapman

Masud Husain

Neil Shubin

Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power

Daniel Levitin

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege

Simon Parkin

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction

Sadiah Qureshi

Your Life is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better

Tim Minshall

Zach Weinersmith and Kelly Weinersmith

Cat Bohannon

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

Tom Chivers

The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction

Gísli Pálsson

Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality

Venki Ramakrishnan

Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy

Kashmir Hill

Ed Yong

David Quammen

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

Nicklas Brendborg, trans. by Elizabeth de Noma

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)

Roma Agrawal

Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

Lev Parikian

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Kate Zernike

Henry Gee

Rose Anne Kenny

Frans de Waal

Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial

Peter A. Stott

Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside Story

Jeremy Farrar with Anjana Ahuja

The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History

Nick Davidson

Merlin Sheldrake

Camilla Pang

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson

The Double X Economy

Linda Scott

The Great Pretender

Susannah Cahalan

The World According to Physics

Jim Al-Khalili

Transcendence

Gaia Vince

Caroline Criado-Perez

Tim Smedley

Infinite Powers

Steven Strogatz

Six Impossible Things

John Gribbin

The Remarkable Life of the Skin

Monty Lyman

The Second Kind of Impossible

Paul Steinhardt

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Simon Winchester

Hannah Fry

Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives

Mark Miodownik

The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences

Daniel M. Davis

The Unexpected Truth About Animals

Lucy Cooke

Cordelia Fine

Eugenia Cheng

Ed Yong

In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's

Joseph Jebelli

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Mark O'Connell

Andrea Wulf

Jo Marchant

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Hunt for Vulcan: ... and How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe

Thomas Levenson

The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg

Tim Birkhead

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

Oliver Morton

Gaia Vince

Alex Bellos

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili

Life's Greatest Secret

Matthew Cobb

Smashing Physics

Jon Butterworth

The Man Who Couldn’t Stop

David Adam

Mark Miodownik

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Mary Roach

Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

Philip Ball

Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon

John Browne

The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery

George Johnson

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

Pedro G. Ferreira

Sean Carroll

Tim Birkhead

Enrico Coen

Ocean of Life

Callum Roberts

Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory

Charles Fernyhough

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Caspar Henderson

James Gleick

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

My Beautiful Genome

Lone Frank

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

The Hidden Reality

Brian Greene

The Viral Storm

Nathan Wolfe

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Alex Bellos

Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science

Ian Sample

The Disappearing Spoon

Sam Kean

The Rough Guide to The Future

Jon Turney

Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World

Guy Deutscher

Nick Lane

Henry Pollack

Frederick Grinnell

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

James Hannam

We Need To Talk About Kelvin

Marcus Chown

Why Does E=mc2?

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

Richard Holmes

Ben Goldacre

Jo Marchant

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow

What the Nose Knows

Avery Gilbert

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

Mark Lynas

J. Craig Venter

Steve Jones

Gut Feelings

Gerd Gigerenzer

The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

Stuart Clark

Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry

Ian Stewart

Daniel Gilbert

Homo Britannicus

Chris Stringer

In Search of Memory

Eric R. Kandel

Lonesome George

Henry Nicholls

One in Three

Adam Wishart

The Rough Guide to Climate Change

Robert Henson

David Bodanis

Jared Diamond

Arthur I. Miller

Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos

Michio Kaku

Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

Nick Lane

The Truth About Hormones: What's Going on when We're Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain Awful

Vivienne Parry

Philip Ball

Matters Of Substance: Drugs - And Why Everyone's A User

Griffith Edwards

The Ancestor's Tale

Richard Dawkins

The Earth: An Intimate History

Richard Fortey

The Human Mind

Robert Winston

Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older

Douwe Draaisma

Bill Bryson

Francis Spufford

How to Clone the Perfect Blonde

Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham

In The Beginning Was the Worm

Andrew Brown

Magic Universe

Nigel Calder

Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

Armand Marie Leroi

Nature Via Nurture

Matt Ridley

Chris McManus

Reckoning With Risk

Gerd Gigerenzer

Small World

Mark Buchanan

The Blank Slate

Steven Pinker

The Extravagant Universe

Robert P. Kirshner

Where Is Everybody?

Stephen Webb

Stephen Hawking

Robert M. Sapolsky

Martin Gorst

Rivals: Conflict as the Fuel of Science

Michael White

The Madness of Adam and Eve: Did Schizophrenia Shape Humanity?

David Horrobin

The Secret Life of Dust

Hannah Holmes

Robert Kunzig

Steve Grand

Malignant Sadness

Lewis Wolpert

Mendel's Demon

Mark Ridley

Mendeleyev's Dream

Paul Strathern

Strange Beauty

George Johnson

Brian Greene

John Naughton

Christopher Wills

Genome

Matt Ridley

The White Death

Thomas Dormandy

Jonathan Weiner

Paul Hoffman

Jared Diamond

Alan Walker and Pat Shipman

Arno Karlen

John Emsley

Steve Jones

Steven Rose

Jared Diamond

Stephen Jay Gould

Roger Penrose

Roger Lewin

British Medical Association Board of Science