Chalkdust Book of the Year 2023

Chalkdust

27 February 2024

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It’s time to anounce the shortlist for the Chalkdust Magazine Book of the Year award. One maths book that was published in 2023 will be joining Kit Yates’s The Maths of Life and Death, Eugenia Cheng & Aleksandra Artymowska’s Molly and the Mathematical Mystery, Lara Alcock’s How to Think about Abstract Algebra, and Coralie Colmez’s The Irrational Diary of Clara Valentine and Ben Orlin’s Math Games with Bad Drawings by receiving this prestigious award.

Additionally, you—our readers—can vote for your favourite book on the shortlist, by completing the poll at the bottom of this page.

We have picked nine maths-themed books released in 2023 to be on our shortlist for the prize. These are (in alphabetical order):

The 2023 shortlist

• The Spirit of Mathematics by David Acheson
• Headscratchers by Rob Eastaway
• A Year in Numbers by Kyle D Evans
• The Truth Detective by Tim Harford
• Once Upon a Prime by Sarah Hart
• The Secret Lives of Numbers by Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell
• That’s Mathematics by Chris Smith & Elīna Brasliņa
• Short Cuts: Maths by Katie Steckles
• How to Expect the Unexpected by Kit Yates

These books are all very good, but we can only pick one winner of the prize. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be posting reviews of each of these books, including notes relating to our four judging criteria—style, control, damage, and aggression.

Lines are now open for you to vote for your favourite book on the shortlist (see below). Voting closes on Saturday 30 March 2024.

The winner of the Chalkdust Magazine Book of the Year 2023, plus the winner of our readers’ vote, will be announced in issue 19.

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