Non-fiction – History
- Bill Bryson – One Summer: America 1927
- Mike Dash – Tulipomania
- Norman Davies – Vanished Kingdoms
- Peter Frankopan – The Silk Roads
- Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind
- Yuval Noah Harari – Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Ian Mortimer – Human Race
Non-fiction – Biology
- Tim Birkhead – Bird Sense
- Steve Brusatte – The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- Steve Brusatte – The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- Daniel C. Dennett – From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- Charles Foster – Being a Beast
- Russell Powell – Contingency and Convergence
Non-fiction – Other
- Ross Coulthart – In Plain Sight
- Stephen Fry – Mythos
- Eric Harvey – The Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus
- Benjamin Hoff – The Tao of Pooh
- Henry Kissinger – World Order
- Arthur Koestler – The Act of Creation
- Mark Manson – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Michael Palin – New Europe
- Steven Pinker – Enlightenment Now
- Oliver Sacks – The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
- Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell – The Disaster Artist
- Max Tegmark – Life 3.0
- Alan W. Watts – The Wisdom of Insecurity