Enlightener Prize

Books

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Winners

2024

«Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth»
Stuart Ritchie

Short-list

2024

Humanities

«Balance of Power. History, Rhetoric, and Proof»
Carlo Ginzburg

«Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland»
Juliane Fürst

Natural and Exact Sciences

«Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth»
Stuart Ritchie

«Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began»
Guido Tonelli

«Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else»
Jordan Ellenberg

Long-list

2024

«Theatre of the World. The Maps that Made History»
Thomas Reinertsen Berg

«The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization»
Michael Brooks

«Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture»
Benjamin Wurgaft, Merry White

«Balance of Power. History, Rhetoric, and Proof»
Carlo Ginzburg

«The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve»
Stephen Greenblatt

«Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives»
Eva Illouz, Edgar Cabanas

«Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases»
Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

«Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind»
Kevin Laland

«So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World»
Raghuveer Parthasarathy

«Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth»
Stuart Ritchie

«Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution»
Carlo Rovelli

«The Amur River: Between Russia and China»
Colin Thubron

«The Heroine with 1001 Faces»
Maria Tatar

«Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began»
Guido Tonelli

«Сentral and Eastern European Art Since 1950 (World of Art)»
Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes

«Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland»
Juliane Fürst

«When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics»
Frank Holt

«Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else»
Jordan Ellenberg