The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books celebrates the best science writing that is "accessible, interesting and compelling accounts of the world around us or inside us". This year's finalists are:

The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker

The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene

The Information by James Gleick

Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

My Beautiful Genome by Lone Frank

The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe

The winner will be announced November 26.