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The Achilles Trap

by Steve Coll

Publication: First published 2024
ISBN: 9780525562269, 9780241686652

Orwell Prize 2024 · Shortlist

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Prize history

Orwell Prize for Political Writing
2024

Shortlist
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
2024 · awarded 2025

Finalist
Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
2024

Finalist

Year-end lists

The New Yorker, best books of 2024 No. 1

Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2024 shortlist

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Revolutionary Acts

Jason Okundaye

National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction 2024 finalists

Challenger

Adam Higginbotham

Winner
Relinquished

Gretchen Sisson
The Freaks Came Out to Write

Tricia Romano
We’re Alone

Edwidge Danticat

Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction 2024 finalists

Challenger

Adam Higginbotham

Winner
Another Word for Love

Carvell Wallace
Feeding Ghosts

Tessa Hulls
The Garden Against Time

Olivia Laing
Undue Burden

Shefali Luthra

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