The 14 titles on this year’s longlist are:
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo (Portobello Books)
- One on One, by Craig Brown (Fourth Estate)
- Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis (The Bodley Head)
- The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, by Masha Gessen (Granta Books)
- Feathers, by Thor Hansen (Basic Books)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (Allen Lane)
- The Old Ways, by Robert MacFarlane (Hamish Hamilton) Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Ray Monk (Jonathan Cape)
- Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genuis, by Sylvia Nasar (Fourth Estate)
- Winter King, by Thomas Penn (Allen Lane)
- The Better Angels of our Nature, by Steven Pinker (Allen Lane)
- The Spanish Holocaust, by Paul Preston (HarperPress)
- Strindberg A Life, by Sue Prideaux (Yale University Press)
- Joseph Anton, by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape)