The Baillie Gifford Prize
1. 
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
by:
Cal Flyn
4.20 avg rating — 5,632 ratings 
3. 
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
by:
Caroline Elkins
4.26 avg rating — 1,099 ratings 4. 
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World 4.37 avg rating — 23,252 ratings
5. 
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
by:
Sally Hayden
4.49 avg rating — 1,764 ratings 
9. 
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
by:
Jing Tsu
3.86 avg rating — 1,737 ratings 
11. 
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
by:
Harald Jähner
4.09 avg rating — 4,660 ratings 
18. 
Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
by:
Christina Lamb
4.64 avg rating — 4,091 ratings 19. 
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
by:
Amy Stanley
3.77 avg rating — 2,297 ratings 20. 
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.21 avg rating — 4,815 ratings 
22. 
Those Who Forget: One Family's Story; A Memoir, a History, a Warning 4.31 avg rating — 1,554 ratings
24. 
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,213 ratings 25. 
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by:
Casey Cep
3.77 avg rating — 25,708 ratings 26. 
On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
by:
Laura Cumming
3.58 avg rating — 6,487 ratings 
29. 
Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
by:
Azadeh Moaveni
4.03 avg rating — 2,465 ratings 
31. 
Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
by:
Hannah Fry
4.11 avg rating — 11,480 ratings 32. 
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.52 avg rating — 83,053 ratings 33. 
34. 
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
by:
Stephen R. Platt
4.34 avg rating — 2,932 ratings 35. 
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.16 avg rating — 7,098 ratings 36. 
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by:
David France
4.44 avg rating — 4,223 ratings 37. 
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times 3.60 avg rating — 607 ratings
40. 
To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
by:
Mark O'Connell
3.77 avg rating — 3,077 ratings 41. 
The Story of the Jews: When Words Fail, 1492-1900
by:
Simon Schama CBE
4.26 avg rating — 728 ratings 
44. 
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
by:
Philippe Sands
4.46 avg rating — 12,203 ratings 
48. 
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by:
Steve Silberman
4.29 avg rating — 17,211 ratings 
50. 
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
by:
Laurence Scott
3.44 avg rating — 456 ratings 51. 
The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
by:
Emma Sky
4.08 avg rating — 865 ratings 
57. 
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
by:
Greg Grandin
3.98 avg rating — 931 ratings 
61. 
Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
by:
David Crane
3.71 avg rating — 182 ratings 62. 
63. 
64. 
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: From Grantham to the Falklands
by:
Charles Moore
4.17 avg rating — 1,211 ratings 65. 
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
by:
Wade Davis
4.27 avg rating — 4,653 ratings 66. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by:
Katherine Boo
3.98 avg rating — 114,809 ratings 67. 
68. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,267 ratings 
70. 
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
by:
Paul Preston
4.07 avg rating — 752 ratings 