Royal Society Announces Long List for Consideration for its 2009 Scientific Book Prize.

Of the books submitted to the Royal Society for Judging, thirteen have been placed on its "Long list". On June 25 six of the books will be short listed and the winner will be announced on September 15^th.

Professor Tim Hunt FRS, Chair of the judges, on announcing the long list said: "We found it impossible to whittle [the list] down to the traditional long-list of twelve, going instead for a baker's dozen of fascinating and diverse potential winners."

• Bad science by Ben Goldacre, published by Fourth Estate ISBN: 9780007240197

• Decoding the heavens: Solving the mystery of the world's first computer by Jo Marchant, published by William Heinemann ISBN: 9780099519768

• Ice, mud and blood: Lessons from climates past by Chris Turney, published by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780230553828

• Living with Enza: The forgotten story of Britain and the great flu pandemic of 1918 by Mark Honigsbaum, published by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780230217744

• Microcosm: E. coli and the new science of life by Carl Zimmer, published by William Heinemann ISBN: 9780434016242

• Physics for future presidents: The science behind the headlines by Richard A Muller, published by WW Norton ISBN: 9780393066272

• Quantum: Einstein. Bohr and the great debate about the nature of reality by Manjit Kumar, published by Icon Books ISBN: 9781848310353

• Strange fruit: Why both sides are wrong in the race debate by Kenan Malik, published by Oneworld Publications ISBN: 978 185168 665 0

• The age of wonder: How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science by Richard Holmes, published by HARPERPRESS ISBN: 9780007149520

• The drunkard's walk: How randomness rules our lives by Leonard Mlodinow, published by Allen Lane, Penguin Press ISBN: 9780141026473

• The universe in a mirror : The saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the visionaries who built it by Robert Zimmerman, published by Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691132976

• What the nose knows: The science of scent in everyday life by Avery Gilbert, published by Crown Publishers ISBN: 9781400082346

• Your inner fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin, published by Allen Lane, Penguin Press ISBN: 9780141027586