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Samuel Johnson Prize (awards)

This award was given to 107 books.

  1. The Orientalist

    The Orientalist

    Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life

    by Tom Reiss

    Year: 2006
    Rank: Shortlist
  2. Like A Fiery Elephant

    Like A Fiery Elephant

    The Story of B. S. Johnson

    by Jonathan Coe

    Year: 2005
  3. The Safeguard of the Sea
    A Naval History of Britain: Book 1

    The Safeguard of the Sea

    A Naval History of Britain, 660-1649

    by N. A. M. Rodger

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  4. Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson

    Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson

    by Paula Byrne

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  5. Blood and Roses

    Blood and Roses

    One Family's Struggle and Triumph During the Tumultuous Wars of the Roses

    by Helen Castor

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  6. Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

    Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

    by Lyndall Gordon

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  7. Will in the World

    Will in the World

    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  8. Parallel Worlds

    Parallel Worlds

    A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

    by Michio Kaku

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  9. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950

    Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950

    by Mark Mazower

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  10. Mutants

    Mutants

    On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

    by Armand Marie Leroi

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  11. Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Flights of the Mind

    by Charles Nicholl

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  12. A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions

    A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions

    by Peter Robb

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  13. Hawkwood

    Hawkwood

    by Frances Stonor Saunders

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  14. A Little History of British Gardening

    A Little History of British Gardening

    by Jennifer Uglow

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  15. Bury the Chains

    Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    by Adam Hochschild

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  16. In Command of History

    In Command of History

    Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War

    by David Reynolds

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Longlist
  17. Maximum City

    Maximum City

    Bombay Lost and Found

    by Suketu Mehta

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Shortlist
  18. Istanbul

    Istanbul

    Memories and the City

    by Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Shortlist
  19. The Italian Boy

    The Italian Boy

    A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London

    by Sarah Wise

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Shortlist
  20. Matisse the Master
    A Life of Henri Matisse: Book 2

    Matisse the Master

    A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954

    by Hilary Spurling

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Shortlist
  21. Stuart

    Stuart

    A Life Backwards

    by Alexander Masters

    Year: 2005
    Rank: Shortlist
  22. Stasiland

    Stasiland

    True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

    by Anna Funder

    Year: 2004
  23. Gulag

    Gulag

    A History

    by Anne Applebaum

    Year: 2004
    Rank: Shortlist
  24. A Short History of Nearly Everything

    A Short History of Nearly Everything

    by Bill Bryson

    Year: 2004
    Rank: Shortlist
  25. The Zanzibar Chest

    The Zanzibar Chest

    A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands

    by Aidan Hartley

    Year: 2004
    Rank: Shortlist
  26. Rubicon

    Rubicon

    The Last Years of the Roman Republic

    by Tom Holland

    Year: 2004
    Rank: Shortlist
  27. John Clare

    John Clare

    A Biography

    by Jonathan Bate

    Year: 2004
    Rank: Shortlist
  28. Pushkin

    Pushkin

    A Biography

    by T. J. Binyon

    Year: 2003
  29. Natasha's Dance

    Natasha's Dance

    A Cultural History of Russia

    by Orlando Figes

    Year: 2003
    Rank: Shortlist
  30. The Devil That Danced on the Water

    The Devil That Danced on the Water

    A Daughter's Quest

    by Aminatta Forna

    Year: 2003
    Rank: Shortlist
  31. Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

    Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

    The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex

    by Olivia Judson

    Year: 2003
    Rank: Shortlist
  32. Samuel Pepys

    Samuel Pepys

    The Unequalled Self

    by Claire Tomalin

    Year: 2003
    Rank: Shortlist
  33. Nelson: Love and Fame

    Nelson: Love and Fame

    by Edgar Vincent

    Year: 2003
    Rank: Shortlist
  34. Paris 1919

    Paris 1919

    Six Months That Changed the World

    by Margaret MacMillan

    Year: 2002
  35. The Invention of Clouds

    The Invention of Clouds

    How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

    by Richard Hamblyn

    Year: 2002
    Rank: Shortlist
  36. Churchill

    Churchill

    A Biography

    by Roy Jenkins

    Year: 2002
    Rank: Shortlist
  37. Unfinest Hour

    Unfinest Hour

    Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia

    by Brendan Simms

    Year: 2002
    Rank: Shortlist
  38. The Snow Geese

    The Snow Geese

    by William Fiennes

    Year: 2002
    Rank: Shortlist
  39. The Voices of Morebath

    The Voices of Morebath

    Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

    by Eamon Duffy

    Year: 2002
    Rank: Shortlist
  40. The Third Reich

    The Third Reich

    A New History

    by Michael Burleigh

    Year: 2001
  41. Trilobite

    Trilobite

    by Richard Fortey

    Year: 2001
    Rank: Shortlist
  42. Night of Stone

    Night of Stone

    Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia

    by Catherine Merridale

    Year: 2001
    Rank: Shortlist
  43. Rimbaud

    Rimbaud

    A Biography

    by Graham Robb

    Year: 2001
    Rank: Shortlist
  44. Prince of Princes

    Prince of Princes

    by Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Year: 2001
    Rank: Shortlist
  45. John Maynard Keynes

    John Maynard Keynes

    1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman

    by Robert Skidelsky, Mark Poffenberger

    Year: 2001
    Rank: Shortlist
  46. Berlioz
    Berlioz: Book 2

    Berlioz

    Vol. II: Servitude and Greatness, 1832-1869

    by David Cairns

    Year: 2000
  47. Playing the Moldovans at Tennis

    Playing the Moldovans at Tennis

    by Tony Hawks

    Year: 2000
    Rank: Shortlist
  48. Yeats's Ghosts

    Yeats's Ghosts

    The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats

    by Brenda Maddox

    Year: 2000
    Rank: Shortlist
  49. Genome

    Genome

    The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

    by Matt Ridley

    Year: 2000
    Rank: Shortlist
  50. Deliver Us from Evil

    Deliver Us from Evil

    by William Shawcross

    Year: 2000
    Rank: Shortlist

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