Award
Royal Society Science Book Prize
16 years tracked (1989–2026), 47 entries total.
The Royal Society Science Book Prize is an annual £25,000 prize awarded by the Royal Society to celebrate outstanding popular science books from around the world. It is open to authors of science books written for a non-specialist audience, and since its establishment in 1988 has championed writers such as Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Bill Bryson. In 2015, The Guardian described the prize as "the most prestigious science book prize in Britain".
2026
Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health
Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive Into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them
Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity
How To Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest To Alter the Past
The Age of Alchemy: The Secret History of Chemistry From Ancient Magic to Modern Science
2025
Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future
Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
2024
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World
The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy
2023
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)
Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
2022
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside Story
The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History
