The Baillie Gifford Prize 2024

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4 participants (6 books)

Overview

This challenge is to read the shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024. The longlist books have been added as bonus prompts for those who want to expand the challenge. 

Challenge Books

1

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

David Van Reybrouck

2

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

Sue Prideaux

3

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

Viet Thanh Nguyen

4

Nuclear War : A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Nuclear War : A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

5

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

Question 7

Richard Flanagan

6

The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke

The Story of a Heart

Rachel Clarke

7

(bonus)

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz

8

(bonus)

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean by Helen Scales

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean

Helen Scales

9

(bonus)

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

10

(bonus)

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land: A groundbreaking family history for fans of Edmund de Waal and Philippe Sands by Rachel Cockerell

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land: A groundbreaking family history for fans of Edmund de Waal and Philippe Sands

Rachel Cockerell

11

(bonus)

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

12

(bonus)

Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass

Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

Gary J. Bass