The shortlisted titles for the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, honoring the best history writing in English and sponsored by McGill University, are:
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsar by Daniel Beer (Allen Lane)
Vietnam: A New History by Christopher Goscha (Basic)
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel (Princeton University Press)
The winner will be announced November 16.
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Seven finalists were announced for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year (the "Bookie"), which awards a £29,000 (US$38,335) cash prize, a free £2,500 ($3,304) William Hill bet and a day at the races. The winner will be named November 28. This year's shortlisted titles are:
The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory by David Bolchover
Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Quiet Genius: Bob Paisley, British Football's Greatest Manager by Ian Herbert
Swell: A Waterbiography by Jenny Landreth
Tom Simpson: Bird on the Wire by Andy McGrath
Centaur by Declan Murphy and Ami Rao
Breaking Ground: Art, Archaeology and Mythology, edited by Neville Gabie, Alan Ward and Jason Wood