Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winners, 2005–2025

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winners by Year

21 winners from 2005 to 2025, newest first.

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction winners by year, most recent first.

Year	Winning work	Author	More information
2025	How to End a Story: Collected Diaries	Helen Garner	Book details
2024	Question 7	Richard Flanagan	Book details
2023	Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World	John Vaillant	Book details
2022	Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne	Katherine Rundell	Book details
2021	Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty	Patrick Radden Keefe	Book details
2020	One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time	Craig Brown	Book details
2019	The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper	Hallie Rubenhold	Book details
2018	Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy	Serhii Plokhy	Book details
2017	How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS	David France	Book details
2016	East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity	Philippe Sands	Book details
2015	NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently	Steve Silberman	Book details
2014	H Is for Hawk	Helen Macdonald	Book details
2013	The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War	Lucy Hughes-Hallett	Book details
2012	Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest	Wade Davis	Book details
2011	Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962	Frank Dikötter	Book details
2010	Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea	Barbara Demick	Book details
2009	Leviathan or, The Whale	Philip Hoare	Book details
2008	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House	Kate Summerscale	Book details
2007	Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone	Rajiv Chandrasekaran	Book details
2006	1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare	James S. Shapiro	Book details
2005	Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson	Jonathan Coe	Book details

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  2025How to End a Story: Collected Diaries

  by Helen Garner

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  2024Question 7

  by Richard Flanagan

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  2023Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

  by John Vaillant

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  2022Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

  by Katherine Rundell

• 
  2021Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

  by Patrick Radden Keefe

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  2020One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

  by Craig Brown

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  2019The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

  by Hallie Rubenhold

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  2018Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

  by Serhii Plokhy

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  2017How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

  by David France

• 
  2016East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

  by Philippe Sands

• 
  2015NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently

  by Steve Silberman

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  2014H Is for Hawk

  by Helen Macdonald

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  2013The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

  by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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  2012Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

  by Wade Davis

• 
  2011Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962

  by Frank Dikötter

• 
  2010Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

  by Barbara Demick

• 
  2009Leviathan or, The Whale

  by Philip Hoare

• 
  2008The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House

  by Kate Summerscale

• 
  2007Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

  by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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  20061599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

  by James S. Shapiro

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  2005Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson

  by Jonathan Coe