Wellcome Trust Book PrizeShortlist

Given by Wellcome Trust

Other Names: Wellcome Book Prize
51 Works 57,030 Books 2,776 Reviews 4.0
"The Wellcome Trust Book Prize will highlight the value literature can bring to medicine by recognising the outstanding books that change the way each of us understands health and disease. The show more Wellcome Trust aims to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about medicine and literature, reaching audiences not normally engaged with medical science."
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All, Winner (10), Shortlist (51), Longlist (26)
Categories:
All, No Category (51)
Years:
All, 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (6), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5)

Shortlist 51

WorkYear
Mind on Fire by Arnold Thomas Fanning2019
Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar2019
The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein2019
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee2019
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh2019
Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀2018
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris2018
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Kathryn Mannix2018
Mayhem: A Memoir by Sigrid Rausing2018
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease by Meredith Wadman2018
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France2017
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi2017
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss2017
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong2017
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot2016
Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss2016
Playthings by Alex Pheby2016
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink2016
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman2016
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh2015
Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss2015
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us by Alice Roberts2015
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel2015
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews2015
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert2014
Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I by Emily Mayhew2014
Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself by Adam Rutherford2014
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks2014
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon2014
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise2014
The hour between dog and wolf : risk-taking, gut feelings and the biology of boom and bust by John Coates2012
The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss by Nick Coleman2012
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif2012
Perfect People by Peter James2012
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain2012
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Sarah Manguso2011
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee2011
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett2011
Nemesis by Philip Roth2011
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young2011
Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson2010
Medic: Saving Lives - From Dunkirk to Afghanistan by John Nichol2010
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks2010
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver2010
Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox by Gareth Williams2010
Illness: The Cry of the Flesh (The Art of Living) by Havi Carel2009
The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives by Brian Dillon2009
Intuition by Allegra Goodman2009
Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg2009
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese2009

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