📚royal society science book prize, last 10 winners

2016 through 2025, straight off the winners list, newest first. as of sep 2026

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Our Brains, Our Selves - Masud Husain

2025 winner. a neurologist writing about what his own patients' rewired brains taught him. still in my to-read pile

A City on Mars - Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith

An Immense World - Ed Yong

how animals sense the world in ways we don't have words for. the echolocation chapter alone is worth the whole book

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth - Henry Gee

4.6 billion years in twelve short chapters. finished this one in a weekend, the ending is what stuck, not the dinosaurs

Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake

Explaining Humans - Camilla Pang

she's a biochemist with autism, using the periodic table and cell biology as a lens on social behavior. not what i expected going in

Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez

the data-gap book. the crash-test-dummy statistic from this one gets quoted so often it's basically a meme now

Inventing Ourselves - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Testosterone Rex - Cordelia Fine

goes after 'boys are just wired that way' claims with real citations. made me rethink a couple things i'd absorbed without noticing

The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulf

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