2021 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
by Cal Flyn

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
by Harald Jähner, translated by Shaun Whiteside

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe

Things I Have Withheld
by Kei Miller

Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
by John Preston