Baillie Gifford Prize — Complete Winners List

20 years of winners · Baillie Gifford (sponsored); governed by Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction Limited · Since 1999 · ← Back to award page


2025	How to End a Story: Collected Diaries	Helen Garner	Text Publishing
2024	Question 7	Richard Flanagan	Penguin Random House Australia
2023	Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World	John Vaillant	Knopf
2022	Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne	Katherine Rundell	Faber & Faber
2021	Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty	Patrick Radden Keefe	Doubleday
2020	One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time	Craig Brown	Fourth Estate
2019	The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper	Hallie Rubenhold	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2018	Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy	Serhii Plokhy	Basic Books
2017	How to Survive a Plague	David France	Knopf
2016	East West Street	Philippe Sands	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
2015	NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism	Steve Silberman	Avery
2014	H Is for Hawk	Helen Macdonald	Jonathan Cape
2013	The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War	Lucy Hughes-Hallett	Fourth Estate
2012	Into the Silence	Wade Davis	Knopf
2011	Mao's Great Famine	Frank Dikötter	Walker & Company
2010	Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea	Barbara Demick	Spiegel & Grau
2009	Leviathan, or The Whale	Philip Hoare	Fourth Estate
2008	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher	Kate Summerscale	Walker & Company
2007	Imperial Life in the Emerald City	Rajiv Chandrasekaran	Alfred A. Knopf
2006	1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare	James Shapiro	Faber & Faber