Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024

Chalkdust

13 February 2025

• Click to share on X (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window)

It’s time to announce the shortlist for the Chalkdust Magazine Book of the Year award. One maths book that was published in 2024 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, Ben Orlin’s Math Games with Bad Drawings, and Sarah Hart’s Once Upon a Prime 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 seven maths-themed books released in 2024 to be on our shortlist for the prize. These are (in alphabetical order):

The 2024 shortlist

• Think Twice by Alex Bellos
• Everything Is Predictable by Tom Chivers
• Much Ado About Numbers by Rob Eastaway
• Maths 100 Ideas in 100 Words by Sam Hartburn, Ben Sparks & Katie Steckles
• Love Triangle by Matt Parker
• Mapmatics by Paulina Rowinska
• The Art of Uncertainty by David Spiegelhalter

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 at midday (GMT) on Wednesday 26 February 2024.

The winner of the Chalkdust Magazine Book of the Year 2024, plus the winner of our readers’ vote, will be announced in issue 21.

 Loading ...