PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winners

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Winners

	Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams 3.97 avg rating — 2,117 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fox & I by Catherine Raven 3.68 avg rating — 5,528 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 6,144 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal 4.21 avg rating — 5,570 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 5,163 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 22,043 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich 3.85 avg rating — 5,732 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss 4.22 avg rating — 795 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War of the Whales: A True Story by Joshua Horwitz (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 1,671 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl L. Hart 4.13 avg rating — 3,023 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow 4.05 avg rating — 13,942 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 16,971 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.34 avg rating — 112,547 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong 4.47 avg rating — 33,873 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math by Manil Suri 3.87 avg rating — 296 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction by David George Haskell (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 393 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross 4.40 avg rating — 4,272 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters by Marlene Zuk 3.82 avg rating — 204 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race by Shanna H. Swan 4.05 avg rating — 1,547 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Longlist (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways by Tyler J. Kelley 3.98 avg rating — 126 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Longlist (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is the Voice by John Colapinto 4.09 avg rating — 543 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Longlist (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 2,257 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World by Lisa Wells (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 278 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 4.10 avg rating — 4,061 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery by Lauren Aguirre (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 401 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 1,661 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily M. Levesque (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 1,409 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs 3.88 avg rating — 1,983 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman 4.22 avg rating — 4,049 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 29,580 ratings PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Longlist (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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