2024: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall
2023: His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
2022: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
2021: Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
2020: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
2020: The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer
2019: Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
2018: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
2017: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
2016: Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
2015: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
2014: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
2013: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
2012: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
2011: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
2010: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
2009: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer
2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
2005: Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
2003: "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
1999: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
1998: Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
1997: Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
1996: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
1995: The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
1994: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire by David Remnick
1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
1992: The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
1991: The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
1990: And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
1989: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
1987: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler
1986: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
1986: Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
1985: The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
1984: The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr
1983: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan
1982: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
1981: Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske
1980: Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
1979: On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
1978: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
1977: Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner
1976: Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler
1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
1974: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
1973: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
1973: Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles
1972: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
1971: The Rising Sun by John Toland
1970: Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
1969: The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer
1969: So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos
1968: The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution by Will and Ariel Durant
1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
1966: Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale
1965: O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones
1964: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
1963: The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
1962: The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White