Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley has 3 books on the award lists tracked here, recognised between 2000 and 2011. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2011), the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (2000), and the Royal Society Science Book Prize for Nature Via Nurture (2004).
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Award-Listed Books by Matt Ridley
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- ShortlistedBaillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2000)Major
- ShortlistedLos Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2000)
- ShortlistedRoyal Society Science Book Prize (2000)
- ShortlistedBaillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2011)Major
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- ShortlistedRoyal Society Science Book Prize (2004)
Nominated Alongside Matt Ridley
- 1Jonathan Weiner38 score
- 2Brenda Maddox31 score
- 3Maya Jasanoff27 score
- 4Brian Greene20 score
- 5Bill Bryson15 score
- 6David Cairns12 score
- 7Frank Dikötter12 score
- 8David Bodanis11 score
- 9Dennis Overbye10 score
- 10James Le Fanu, M.D.8 score
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