Shortlisted titles for the 2024 Cundill History Prize.

Eight books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize.

The $75,000 (U.S.) prize is administered by McGill University and awarded annually each year to a book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal.

The jury for this year’s prize is comprised of chair Rana Mitter, Canadian journalist Stephanie Nolen, Nicole Eustace, Moses Ochonu, and Rebecca L. Spang. The jury made the selections for the shortlist from a 13-title longlist announced last month.

The shortlisted books are:

• Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass (Picador/Pan Macmillan)
• They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton (Princeton University Press)
• Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji (The Bodley Head/ Vintage/Yale University Press)
• Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (Penguin Random House)
• Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America by Andrew C. McKevitt (University of North Carolina Press)
• Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C. Penningroth (Liveright Publishing)
• The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart A. Reid (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck, translated byDavid Colmer and David McKay (The Bodley Head/Vintage/W. W. Norton)

The finalists for this year’s prize will be announced on Oct. 3, with the winner to be named during the Cundill History Prize Festival in Montreal on Oct. 30.

Tania Branigan, an editorial writer at the Guardian, won last year’s prize for her book Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution.