Shortlist for 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize
- Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg, translated by Elizabeth de Noma (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian (Elliott & Thompson)
- Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen (VINTAGE – The Bodley Head)
- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (VINTAGE – The Bodley Head)
- The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike (Simon & Schuster
