Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize

Given by The Royal Society

Other Names: Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books (Russian)
383 Works 319,795 Books 5,908 Reviews ½ 4.0
The Royal Society gives an annual award for new popular science writing for a general adult readership. The Prize is open to science books written for a non-specialist audience. The winner show more receives £25,000 and the authors of the short listed books £2,500.

The awards have changed names many times:
1988 - 89: Science Book Prizes
1990 - 00: Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books
2001 - 06: Aventis Prizes for Science Books
2007 - 2010 : Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
2011- 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books (General prize)
2016 - : Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize

More details of the Prizes are avaialble at Royal Society Book Prizes show less
Stages:
All, Winner (67), Shortlist (318), Longlist (65)
Categories:
All, General (288), Junior (95)
Years:
All, 2024 (6), 2023 (6), 2022 (6), 2021 (6), 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (6), 2017 (6), 2016 (7), 2015 (7), 2014 (13), 2013 (14), 2012 (13), 2011 (14), 2010 (11), 2009 (13), 2008 (13), 2007 (9), 2006 (19), 2005 (18), 2004 (18), 2003 (10), 2002 (10), 2001 (10), 2000 (11), 1999 (11), 1998 (10), 1997 (11), 1996 (11), 1995 (11), 1994 (10), 1993 (8), 1992 (12), 1991 (12), 1990 (14), 1989 (9), 1988 (6)
Announced:
October 24: Winner2024 Recent
August 14: Shortlist2024 Recent

Winner 67

WorkCategoryYear
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly WeinersmithGeneral2024
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed YongGeneral2023
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters by Henry GeeGeneral2022
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin SheldrakeGeneral2021
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020 by Camilla PangGeneral2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado PerezGeneral2019
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne BlakemoreGeneral2018
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia FineGeneral2017
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea WulfGeneral2016
How Machines Work: Zoo Break! by David MacaulayJunior2016
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia VinceGeneral2015
Utterly Amazing Science by Robert WinstonJunior2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark MiodownikGeneral2014
Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing by Clive GiffordJunior2014
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean M. CarrollGeneral2013
Look Inside Space (Look Inside (Usborne)) by Rob Lloyd JonesJunior2013
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James GleickGeneral2012
Science experiments by Ian GrahamJunior2012
The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves Via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and all the Rest of Life's Undulations by Gavin Pretor-PinneyGeneral2011
How the World Works: A Hands-On Guide to Our Amazing Planet (Explore the Earth) by Christiane DorionJunior2011
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick LaneGeneral2010
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard HolmesGeneral2009
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark LynasGeneral2008
The Usborne Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do by Rebecca GilpinJunior2008
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel GilbertGeneral2007
Can You Feel the Force? (Big Questions) by Richard HammondJunior2007
Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity by David BodanisGeneral2006
The Global Garden by Kate PettyJunior2006
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip BallGeneral2005
What Makes Me, Me? (Big Questions) by Robert WinstonJunior2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGeneral2004
Really Rotten Experiments (Horrible Science) by Nick ArnoldJunior2004
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures by Chris McManusGeneral2003
Ocean (DK Guides) by Frances DipperJunior2003
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen HawkingGeneral2002
Human Body (Eyewitness Books) by Steve ParkerJunior2002
Mapping The Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert KunzigGeneral2001
DK Guide to Weather by Michael AllabyJunior2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian GreeneGeneral2000
DK Guide to Space by Peter BondJunior2000
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul HoffmanGeneral1999
The Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope by Kirsteen RogersJunior1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared DiamondGeneral1998
The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Oceans by David LambertJunior1998
The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins by Alan WalkerGeneral1997
Blood, Bones and Body Bits by Nick ArnoldJunior1997
Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times by Arno KarlenGeneral1996
The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon-free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life by John EmsleyGeneral1995
The Most Amazing Pop-up Science Book by Jay YoungJunior1995
The Language of the Genes by Steve JonesGeneral1994
Evolution (Eyewitness Books) by Linda GamlinJunior1994
Science With Weather (Usborne Science Activities) by Rebecca HeddleJunior1994
The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind by Steven RoseGeneral1993
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. DiamondGeneral1992
How Nature Works (How It Works) by David BurnieJunior1992
The Amazing Voyage of the Cucumber Sandwich by Peter RowanJunior1992
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay GouldGeneral1991
Cell Wars (Cells and Things) by Frances R. BalkwillJunior1991
Cells Are Us (Cells and Things) by Frances R. BalkwillJunior1991
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger PenroseGeneral1990
What Makes a Flower Grow? by Susan MayesJunior1990
What Makes It Rain? (Usborne Starting Point Science) by Susan MayesJunior1990
What's Under the Ground? by Susan MayesJunior1990
Where Does Electricity Come From? by Susan MayesJunior1990
Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins by Roger LewinGeneral1989
The Way Things Work by David MacaulayJunior1989
Living with Risk: The British Medical Assocation Guide (Wiley Medical Publications) by British Medical AssociationGeneral1988

Shortlist 318

WorkCategoryYear
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly WeinersmithGeneral2024
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat BohannonGeneral2024
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World by Tom ChiversGeneral2024
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir HillGeneral2024
The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gisli PalssonGeneral2024
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki RamakrishnanGeneral2024
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed YongGeneral2023
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way by Roma AgrawalGeneral2023
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas BrendborgGeneral2023
Taking Flight by Lev ParikianGeneral2023
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David QuammenGeneral2023
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate ZernikeGeneral2023
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters by Henry GeeGeneral2022
The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History by Nick DavidsonGeneral2022
Spike: The Virus v The People - the inside story by Jeremy FarrarGeneral2022
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life The No 1 International Bestseller by Rose Anne KennyGeneral2022
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial by Peter StottGeneral2022
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de WaalGeneral2022
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin SheldrakeGeneral2021
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily LevesqueGeneral2021
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James NestorGeneral2021
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias by Jessica NordellGeneral2021
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O'SullivanGeneral2021
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth by Stuart RitchieGeneral2021
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020 by Camilla PangGeneral2020
The World According to Physics by Jim Al-KhaliliGeneral2020
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill BrysonGeneral2020
The Great Pretender by Susannah CahalanGeneral2020
The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women's Empowerment by Linda ScottGeneral2020
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia VinceGeneral2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado PerezGeneral2019
Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World by John GribbinGeneral2019
The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ by Monty LymanGeneral2019
Clearing the Air: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019 by Tim SmedleyGeneral2019
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter by Paul J. SteinhardtGeneral2019
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven StrogatzGeneral2019
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne BlakemoreGeneral2018
The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife by Lucy CookeGeneral2018
The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body's Natural Defences by Daniel M. DavisGeneral2018
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah FryGeneral2018
Liquid Rules by Mark MiodownikGeneral2018
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon WinchesterGeneral2018
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia FineGeneral2017
Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics by Eugenia ChengGeneral2017
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-SmithGeneral2017
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's by Joseph JebelliGeneral2017
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O'ConnellGeneral2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed YongGeneral2017
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea WulfGeneral2016
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg by Tim BirkheadGeneral2016
The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe by Thomas LevensonGeneral2016
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body by Jo MarchantGeneral2016
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver MortonGeneral2016
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha MukherjeeGeneral2016
How Machines Work: Zoo Break! by David MacaulayJunior2016
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia VinceGeneral2015
The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought by David AdamGeneral2015
The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex BellosGeneral2015
Smashing Physics: Inside the World’s Biggest Experiment by Jon ButterworthGeneral2015
Life’s Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew CobbGeneral2015
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFaddenGeneral2015
Utterly Amazing Science by Robert WinstonJunior2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark MiodownikGeneral2014
Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler by Philip BallGeneral2014
Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery by John BrowneGeneral2014
The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity by Pedro G. FerreiraGeneral2014
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery by George JohnsonGeneral2014
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary RoachGeneral2014
Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing by Clive GiffordJunior2014
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean M. CarrollGeneral2013
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim BirkheadGeneral2013
Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life by Enrico CoenGeneral2013
Buzzing! by Anneliese Emmans DeanGeneral2013
Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories We Tell About Our Pasts by Charles FernyhoughGeneral2013
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary by Caspar HendersonGeneral2013
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum RobertsGeneral2013
Look Inside Space (Look Inside (Usborne)) by Rob Lloyd JonesJunior2013
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James GleickGeneral2012
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua FoerGeneral2012
My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time by Lone FrankGeneral2012
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian GreeneGeneral2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven PinkerGeneral2012
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan WolfeGeneral2012
Science experiments by Ian GrahamJunior2012
The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves Via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and all the Rest of Life's Undulations by Gavin Pretor-PinneyGeneral2011
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex BellosGeneral2011
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy DeutscherGeneral2011
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam KeanGeneral2011
Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science by Ian SampleGeneral2011
The Rough Guide to the Future by Jon TurneyGeneral2011
How the World Works: A Hands-On Guide to Our Amazing Planet (Explore the Earth) by Christiane DorionJunior2011
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick LaneGeneral2010
We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe by Marcus ChownGeneral2010
Why Does E=mc²?: (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian CoxGeneral2010
Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic by Frederick GrinnellGeneral2010
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James HannamGeneral2010
A World Without Ice by Henry N. PollackGeneral2010
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard HolmesGeneral2009
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery GilbertGeneral2009
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben GoldacreGeneral2009
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer—and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets by Jo MarchantGeneral2009
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard MlodinowGeneral2009
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil ShubinGeneral2009
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark LynasGeneral2008
The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began by Stuart ClarkGeneral2008
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd GigerenzerGeneral2008
Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve JonesGeneral2008
Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry by Ian StewartGeneral2008
A Life Decoded by J. Craig VenterGeneral2008
The Usborne Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do by Rebecca GilpinJunior2008
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel GilbertGeneral2007
The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert HensonGeneral2007
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. KandelGeneral2007
Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon by Henry NichollsGeneral2007
Homo Britannicus : The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris StringerGeneral2007
One in Three: A Son's Journey into the History and Science of Cancer by Adam WishartGeneral2007
Can You Feel the Force? (Big Questions) by Richard HammondJunior2007
Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and Other Natural Disasters (Kingfisher Knowledge) by Andrew LangleyJunior2007
How Nearly Everything Was Invented By The Brainwaves by Jilly MacleodJunior2007
Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity by David BodanisGeneral2006
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. DiamondGeneral2006
Parallel Worlds : A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio KakuGeneral2006
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick LaneGeneral2006
Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes by Arthur I. MillerGeneral2006
The Truth About Hormones by Vivienne ParryGeneral2006
The Global Garden by Kate PettyJunior2006
Usborne 100 Science Experiments (100 Science Experiments Il) by Georgina AndrewsJunior2006
Go Figure!: A Totally Cool Book About Numbers by Johnny BallJunior2006
It's True! Squids Suck by Nicki GreenbergJunior2006
Blame My Brain by Nicola MorganJunior2006
Kingfisher Knowledge: Forensics by Richard PlattJunior2006
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip BallGeneral2005
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard DawkinsGeneral2005
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past by Douwe DraaismaGeneral2005
Matters of Substance: Drugs--and Why Everyone's a User by Griffith EdwardsGeneral2005
Earth: An Intimate History by Richard ForteyGeneral2005
Human Mind: How to Make the Most ItGeneral2005
What Makes Me, Me? (Big Questions) by Robert WinstonJunior2005
Endangered Planet (Kingfisher Knowledge) by David BurnieJunior2005
Mysteries & Marvels of Science by Phillip ClarkeJunior2005
Earthquake by Nicholas HarrisJunior2005
Night Sky Atlas: The Moon, Planets, Stars and Deep Sky Objects by Robin ScagellJunior2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGeneral2004
In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite by Andrew BrownGeneral2004
Magic Universe: A Grand Tour of Modern Science by Nigel CalderGeneral2004
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie LeroiGeneral2004
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt RidleyGeneral2004
The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin by Francis SpuffordGeneral2004
Really Rotten Experiments (Horrible Science) by Nick ArnoldJunior2004
The Beginning by Peter AckroydJunior2004
Riotous Robots by Dr. Mike GoldsmithJunior2004
Survivor's Science In the Rainforest (Survivor's Science) by Peter D. RileyJunior2004
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures by Chris McManusGeneral2003
Small World: Uncovering Nature's Hidden Networks by Mark BuchananGeneral2003
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd GigerenzerGeneral2003
The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos (Princeton Science Library) by Robert P. KirshnerGeneral2003
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven PinkerGeneral2003
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … Where Is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen WebbGeneral2003
Ocean (DK Guides) by Frances DipperJunior2003
The Terrible Truth About Time by Nick ArnoldJunior2003
Dinosaur (Fast Forward Books) by Nicholas HarrisJunior2003
The Way Science Works by DKJunior2003
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen HawkingGeneral2002
Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin GorstGeneral2002
The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things by Hannah HolmesGeneral2002
The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity by David HorrobinGeneral2002
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. SapolskyGeneral2002
Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers: Eight Scientific Rivalries That Changed the World by Michael WhiteGeneral2002
Human Body (Eyewitness Books) by Steve ParkerJunior2002
The Kingfisher Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia by David BurnieJunior2002
Albert Einstein and His Inflatable Universe by Dr. Mike GoldsmithJunior2002
Materials (Library of Science) by Alastair SmithJunior2002
Mapping The Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science by Robert KunzigGeneral2001
Creation: Life and How to Make It by Steve GrandGeneral2001
Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics by George JohnsonGeneral2001
Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life by Mark RidleyGeneral2001
Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements by Paul StrathernGeneral2001
Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression by Lewis WolpertGeneral2001
DK Guide to Weather by Michael AllabyJunior2001
Suffering Scientists (Horrible Science) by Nick ArnoldJunior2001
DK Guide to Dinosaurs by David LambertJunior2001
Epidemic (Eyewitness Books) by Brian WardJunior2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian GreeneGeneral2000
The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis by Thomas DormandyGeneral2000
A Brief History of the Future: Origins of the Internet by John NaughtonGeneral2000
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt RidleyGeneral2000
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan WeinerGeneral2000
Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution by Christopher WillsGeneral2000
DK Guide to Space by Peter BondJunior2000
The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Our World by Felicity BrooksJunior2000
Evolve or Die by Phil GatesJunior2000
The History News In Space by Michael JohnstoneJunior2000
The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Planet Earth (Kingfisher Book Of) by Martin RedfernJunior2000
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul HoffmanGeneral1999
Mapping the Mind by Rita CarterGeneral1999
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia NasarGeneral1999
How the Mind Works by Steven PinkerGeneral1999
One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins by Robert A. WeinbergGeneral1999
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. WilsonGeneral1999
The Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope by Kirsteen RogersJunior1999
Science School by Mick ManningJunior1999
Incredible Body : Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections by Richard PlattJunior1999
Big Head: A Book About Your Brain and Your Head by Peter RowanJunior1999
Ask Uncle Albert: 100 1/2 Tricky Science Questions Answered by Russell StannardJunior1999
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared DiamondGeneral1998
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications by David DeutschGeneral1998
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard A. ForteyGeneral1998
This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World by Ernst MayrGeneral1998
Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle That Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years by Simon SinghGeneral1998
Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are by Lawrence WrightGeneral1998
The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Oceans by David LambertJunior1998
Big Bang by Heather CouperJunior1998
Yum Yum: A book about food chains (Wonderwise) by Mick ManningJunior1998
Understanding Your Muscles & Bones by Rebecca TreaysJunior1998
The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins by Alan WalkerGeneral1997
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard DawkinsGeneral1997
Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order by George JohnsonGeneral1997
In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny by Steve JonesGeneral1997
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt RidleyGeneral1997
Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time by Dava SobelGeneral1997
Blood, Bones and Body Bits by Nick ArnoldJunior1997
The Incredible Journey to the Centre of the Atom / The Incredible Journey to the Edge of the Universe by Trevor DayJunior1997
What Happens When...? (What's Inside?) by John FarndonJunior1997
The Young Gaia Atlas of Earthcare: An Illustrated Reference Guide to Looking After Our Planet by Miles LitvinoffJunior1997
The Big Bug Search by Caroline YoungJunior1997
Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times by Arno KarlenGeneral1996
Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management by Stephen BudianskyGeneral1996
The Faber Book of Science by John CareyGeneral1996
About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Paul DaviesGeneral1996
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard DawkinsGeneral1996
Nature's Numbers by Ian StewartGeneral1996
Microbes, Bugs & Wonder Drugs (Making Sense of Science) by F. BalkwillJunior1996
Everyday Machines: Amazing Devices We Take for Granted by David BurnieJunior1996
Creatures That Glow (Weird and Wonderful) by Anita GaneriJunior1996
Wild Technology by Phil GatesJunior1996
Our Universe: A Guide to What's Out There by Russell StannardJunior1996
The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon-free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life by John EmsleyGeneral1995
The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage by W. F. BodmerGeneral1995
The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication by Stephen BudianskyGeneral1995
The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars by Arthur C. ClarkeGeneral1995
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration by Bert HölldoblerGeneral1995
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven PinkerGeneral1995
The Most Amazing Pop-up Science Book by Jay YoungJunior1995
The Egg and Sperm Race by Frances R. BalkwillJunior1995
Life (Eyewitness Books) by David BurnieJunior1995
The Robot Zoo: A Mechanical Guide to the Way Animals Work by John KellyJunior1995
Lucky Science: Accidental Discoveries From Gravity to Velcro, with Experiments by Royston M. RobertsJunior1995
The Language of the Genes by Steve JonesGeneral1994
Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples by Marcus ChownGeneral1994
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt RidleyGeneral1994
The Neandertals: Of Skeletons, Scientists, and Scandal by Erik TrinkausGeneral1994
The Engineer in the Garden: Genes and Genetics : From the Idea of Heredity to the Creation of Life by Colin TudgeGeneral1994
Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven WeinbergGeneral1994
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. WilsonGeneral1994
Evolution (Eyewitness Books) by Linda GamlinJunior1994
Science With Weather (Usborne Science Activities) by Rebecca HeddleJunior1994
The Body Atlas: A Pictorial Guide to the Human Body by Steve ParkerJunior1994
The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind by Steven RoseGeneral1993
Insects in Flight by John BrackenburyGeneral1993
The Mind of God : The Scientific Basis for a Rational World by Paul DaviesGeneral1993
The Malaria Capers : More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality by Robert S. DesowitzGeneral1993
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James GleickGeneral1993
Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality (Penguin Science) by Benjamin WoolleyGeneral1993
How the Earth Works (Reader's Digest) by John FarndonJunior1993
"Newsround" Book of Space by Nick HeathcoteJunior1993
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. DiamondGeneral1992
Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian DesmondGeneral1992
Fossils: The Evolution and Extinction of Species by Niles EldredgeGeneral1992
Dawn of a Millennium: Beyond Evolution and Culture by Erich HarthGeneral1992
The Natural History of the Universe by Colin A. RonanGeneral1992
Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped by Colin TudgeGeneral1992
How Nature Works (How It Works) by David BurnieJunior1992
The Amazing Voyage of the Cucumber Sandwich by Peter RowanJunior1992
Tomorrow's Earth: A Squeaky-Green Guide by David J. BellamyJunior1992
Dinosaur (Eyewitness Books) by David NormanJunior1992
Big Green Book by Fred PearceJunior1992
Black Holes and Uncle Albert by Russell StannardJunior1992
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay GouldGeneral1991
The Trials of Life by David AttenboroughGeneral1991
Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time the Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human by Jerry E. BishopGeneral1991
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology by Eric DrexlerGeneral1991
The Stuff of the Universe: Dark Matter, Mankind and the Coincidences of Cosmology by John GribbinGeneral1991
Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? by Stephen H. SchneiderGeneral1991
Cell Wars (Cells and Things) by Frances R. BalkwillJunior1991
Cells Are Us (Cells and Things) by Frances R. BalkwillJunior1991
Amazing Schemes Within Your Genes (Cells and Things) by Frances R. BalkwillJunior1991
The Big Book of Prehistoric Life by Dougal DixonJunior1991
The Big Book of Stars and Planets by Robin KerrodJunior1991
Why Is Night Dark? (Usborne Starting Point Science) by Sophy TahtaJunior1991
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger PenroseGeneral1990
Time Reversal: An Autobiography by Anatole AbragamGeneral1990
Evolution: The Great Debate by Vernon BlackmoreGeneral1990
The Mind Machine by Colin BlakemoreGeneral1990
The New Physics by Paul DaviesGeneral1990
Senses and sensibilities by Jillyn SmithGeneral1990
What Makes a Flower Grow? by Susan MayesJunior1990
What Makes It Rain? (Usborne Starting Point Science) by Susan MayesJunior1990
What's Under the Ground? by Susan MayesJunior1990
Where Does Electricity Come From? by Susan MayesJunior1990
Acid Rain (Conserving Our World) by John D. BainesJunior1990
Helicopters (How It Works) by Ian GrahamJunior1990
The World of the Microscope by Chris OxladeJunior1990
The Time and Space of Uncle Albert by Russell StannardJunior1990
Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins by Roger LewinGeneral1989
Apocalypse When?: Cosmic Catastrophe and the Fate of the Universe by Frank CloseGeneral1989
Chaos: Making a New Science by James GleickGeneral1989
A brief History of Time from the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen HawkingGeneral1989
The Crumbs of Creation: Trace elements in history, medicine, industry, crime and folklore by J LenihanGeneral1989
The Way Things Work by David MacaulayJunior1989
Bricks (Threads) by Terry CashJunior1989
Lots of Rot by Vicki CobbJunior1989
Ecology (Usborne Science & Experiments) by Richard SpurgeonJunior1989
Living with Risk: The British Medical Assocation Guide (Wiley Medical Publications) by British Medical AssociationGeneral1988
Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence by Igor AleksanderGeneral1988
Molecules by P. W. AtkinsGeneral1988
Egg: A Photographic Story of Hatching by Robert BurtonGeneral1988
The Omega Point: The Search for the Missing Mass and the Ultimate Fate of the Universe (Bantam New Age Books) by John GribbinGeneral1988
The Quantum Universe by Tony HeyGeneral1988

Longlist 65

WorkCategoryYear
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard CarlsonGeneral2014
What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff by Marcus ChownGeneral2014
Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe by Brian CleggGeneral2014
The Compatibility Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves by Daniel M. DavisGeneral2014
My Brief History by Stephen HawkingGeneral2014
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene ZukGeneral2014
The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body by Frances AshcroftGeneral2013
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet by Robert M. HazenGeneral2013
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos by Peter M. HoffmannGeneral2013
Air: The Restless Shaper of the World by William Bryant LoganGeneral2013
The Cosmic Tourist: Visit the 100 Most Awe-Inspiring Destinations in the Universe! by Brian MayGeneral2013
The Life of a Leaf by Steven VogelGeneral2013
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Sarah MangusoGeneral2012
The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard PanekGeneral2012
The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things by Tim RadfordGeneral2012
Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation by George G. SzpiroGeneral2012
Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth by Ian TattersallGeneral2012
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert TriversGeneral2012
Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating by Leslie BrunettaGeneral2011
Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet by Tim FlanneryGeneral2011
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren HarmanGeneral2011
What Technology Wants by Kevin KellyGeneral2011
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt RidleyGeneral2011
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary RoachGeneral2011
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia ShahGeneral2011
Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. CoyneGeneral2010
In Search of the Multiverse: Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the Ultimate Quest for the Frontiers of Reality by John GribbinGeneral2010
Storms of my grandchildren by James HansenGeneral2010
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchristGeneral2010
Complexity : A Guided Tour by Melanie MitchellGeneral2010
Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 (Macmillan Science) by Mark HonigsbaumGeneral2009
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality by Manjit KumarGeneral2009
Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate by Kenan MalikGeneral2009
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. MullerGeneral2009
Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past by Chris TurneyGeneral2009
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl ZimmerGeneral2009
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It by Robert ZimmermanGeneral2009
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul DaviesGeneral2008
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis by David M. FriedmanGeneral2008
Bang!: The Complete History of the Universe by Brian MayGeneral2008
The Science of Doctor Who by Paul ParsonsGeneral2008
The Giant Leaps: Mankind's Greatest Scientific Advances by John PerryGeneral2008
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt RidleyGeneral2008
The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John EmsleyGeneral2006
The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature by Peter ForbesGeneral2006
The Silicon Eye: How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete (Ent by George GilderGeneral2006
Venomous Earth: How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst Mass Poisoning (Macmillan Science) by A. MehargGeneral2006
Seven Deadly Colours by Andrew ParkerGeneral2006
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers by Dan RockmoreGeneral2006
The Fruits of War by Michael WhiteGeneral2006
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian FaganGeneral2005
Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science & Power in the Enlightenment by Patricia FaraGeneral2005
Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John GribbinGeneral2005
Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug by Diarmuid JeffreysGeneral2005
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity by Michael MarmotGeneral2005
Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents by Raymond TallisGeneral2005
Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control by Kathleen TaylorGeneral2005
Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science by Peter AtkinsGeneral2004
The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism by Simon Baron-CohenGeneral2004
A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable by Brian CleggGeneral2004
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. DennettGeneral2004
Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science) by Patricia FaraGeneral2004
After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC by Steven MithenGeneral2004
How to Clone the Perfect Blonde: Using Science to Make Your Wildest Dreams Come True by Sue NelsonGeneral2004
Adam's Curse: A Future without Men by Bryan SykesGeneral2004

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The Royal Society gives an annual award for new popular science writing for a general adult readership. The Prize is open to science books written for a non-specialist audience. The winner receives £25,000 and the authors of the short listed books £2,500.

The awards have changed names many times:
1988 - 89: Science Book Prizes
1990 - 00: Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books
2001 - 06: Aventis Prizes for Science Books
2007 - 2010 : Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
2011- 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books (General prize)
2016 - : Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize

More details of the Prizes are avaialble at Royal Society Book Prizes (English, Member-written)
The Royal Society gives out awards for popular science writing. Typically they give two awards per year - a junior and a general. There is no 2009 junior award because of budgetary reasons.

The awards have changed names many times:
1988 - 89: Science Book Prizes
1990 - 00: Rhône-Poulenc Prizes for Science Books
2001 - 06: Aventis Prizes for Science Books
2007 - : Royal Society Prizes for Science Books.

See also http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Royal+Society+Winton+Prize+for+Science+Books+shortlist for 2012-2016, although the sponsorship had changed again in 2016. (English, Member-written)
See also the longlist and the winners.

See also http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Royal+Society+Prize+for+Science+Books+Shortlist for 1988-2011. (English, Member-written)
The Royal Society gives an annual prize for new popular science writing for a general adult readership. The prize is open to science books written for a non-specialist audience. The winner receives £25,000 and the authors of the short listed books £2,500.

The name of the prize has changed over the years:
1988-1989: Science Book Prize
1990-2000: Rhône-Poulenc Prize for Science Books
2001-2006: Aventis Prize for Science Books
2007-2010: Royal Society Prize for Science Books
2011-date: Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

More details of the prize are available at Royal Society Winton Prize for Science books.

See also the longlist and the shortlist. (English, Member-written)
See also the shortlist and the winners. (English, Member-written)
see also Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books (Italian, Member-written)

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