Finalists have been named for the £20,000 (US$32,383) Samuel Johnson prize for nonfiction. The winner will be announced on November 12. This year's shortlisted titles are:
* Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo
* Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
* The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
* The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
* The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston
* Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux
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