“The Riddle of Alchemy” is the winner of the Montaigne Medal for 2025, an additional distinction beneath the Eric Hoffer Award umbrella. Each year, the Eric Hoffer Award presents the Montaigne Medal to the most thought-provoking books. These are books that either illuminate, progress, or redirect thought. The Montaigne Medal is given in honor of the great French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, who influenced people such as William Shakespeare, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Eric Hoffer. The book was also a finalist of the DaVinci Eye distinction which is awarded to books with superior cover artwork. For the full list of Montaigne Medal winners since 2008, please click on the link below:
