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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016

The 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction went to East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands. 4 books made the shortlist and 10 the longlist.

Winner

  1. East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sandssource (opens in a new tab)

Shortlist

  1. Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jeffersonsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Second-hand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievichsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matarsource (opens in a new tab)

Longlist

  1. Being a Beast by Charles Fostersource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Guilty Thing by Frances Wilsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Stalin and the Scientists by Simon Ingssource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjeesource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Vanishing Man by Laura Cummingsource (opens in a new tab)
  6. This is London by Ben Judahsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Samuel Johnson Prize until 2014. Winner, shortlist and longlist from the official year-by-year pages; 2018 published no longlist, so 2018 counts the shortlist. Two corrections to the official pages, which show only four shortlisted books beside the winner in 2007 and 2013: Brainwash is a 2007 shortlist book, not longlist, and Return of a King is a 2013 shortlist book, not 2012 (both per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baillie_Gifford_Prize). Expected counts for 2012 and 2013 reflect the move.

Organization: Baillie Gifford Prize. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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