The shortlist for the Cundill History Prize has been announced.

The Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University, is awarded annually to a book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal. The finalists for the $75,000 (U.S.) prize will be announced on October 20, and the winner will be announced on December 1.

The shortlisted titles are:

• In the Forest of No Joy by J.P Daughton (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Cuba by Ada Ferrer (Scribner)
• The Perils of Interpreting by Henrietta Harrison (Princeton University Press)
• Aftermath by Harald Jahner (Ebury, PRH)
• All That She Carried by Tiya Miles (Random House)
• The Chinese Question by Mae Ngai (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Not One Inch by M.E. Sarotte (Yale University Press)
• Collapse by Vladislav Zubok (Yale University Press)

The titles on the shortlist were chosen by a jury comprised of chair historian J.R. McNeill, author Misha Glenny, historian Martha S. Jones, author and historian Yasmin Khan, and historian Kenda Mutongi.