The Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026
Founded in 1988 – and described as the “Booker Prize of Science Writing” – the award celebrates outstanding popular science books. Covering a breadth of subjects from memory manipulation to the birth story of chemistry as a scientific field, this year’s shortlist features six titles that aim to challenge accepted norms about the way we think, act, and investigate our world.
The winner will be revealed on Tuesday 29 September.
Bad Influence
Despite It All
Every Last Fish
Hidden Guests
How to Change a Memory
The Age of Alchemy
Our Brains, Our Selves
Music as Medicine
Your Life Is Manufactured
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad
Ends of the Earth
Invisible Women
Entangled Life
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Our Brains, Our Selves
A City on Mars
Guns, Germs and Steel
An Immense World
The Invention of Nature
Explaining Humans
The Elegant Universe
Stuff Matters
The Age of Wonder
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth
The Emperor's New Mind
Inventing Ourselves
Testosterone Rex
The Information
The Particle at the End of the Universe
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