- The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque (Oneworld)
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor (Penguin Life)
- The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds by Jessica Nordell (Granta Books)
- The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O’Sullivan (Picador)
- Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie (Bodley Head)
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake (Bodley Head)
