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The list of winners of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016 has been announced by the society’s president Venki Ramakrishnan. We’ve already reviewed many of them, so here’s what we thought about the ones we looked at.

The winner

The winner is Andrea Wulf for The Invention of Nature: The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science (also subtitled Alexander von Humboldt’s New World), John Murray, £25. She wins £25,000.

Read our review: The Invention of NatureÌýfinds science’s lost hero

Shortlisted books

And here are the five other books that made the shortlist. Each one wins £2500

1. Cure: A journey into the science of mind over body by Jo Marchant, Crown, $26; Read our review: Cure: Can the power of our minds help us heal ourselves?
2. The Planet Remade: How geoengineering could change the world by Oliver Morton, Granta, £20;Ìý Read our review: Geoengineering our way out of the climate mess
3. Ìý by Tim Birkhead, Bloomsbury Publishing, £16.99
4. Ìý by Thomas Levenson, Penguin Random House, $26
5. Ìý by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Simon & Schuster, $32