The full Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026 shortlist is (alphabetical by title):
- The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry by Kit Chapman.
- Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health by Deborah Cohen.
- Despite it All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls by Fred Pearce.
- Every Last Fish: What Fish Do For Us and We Do To Them by Rose George.
- Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism is Redefining Human Identity by Lise Barnéoud.
- How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past by Steve Ramirez.
