Every Recorded Winner Since 2005
Scan the full archive of celebrated books, grouped by award year. Click through to an award for the full history, buy links, and regional details.
Yearly breakdown
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by Jason Roberts
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
by Benjamin Nathans
Award season highlights
14 winners recorded
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Bostonβs Black Workers in the Civil War Era
by Jacqueline Jones
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
by Nathan Thrall
Award season highlights
14 winners recorded
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
by Jefferson Cowie
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
by Toluse Olorunnipa
Award season highlights
14 winners recorded
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
by Nicole Eustace
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
by Andrea Elliott
Award season highlights
14 winners recorded
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by David Zucchino
Award season highlights
14 winners recorded
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
by W. Caleb McDaniel
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
by Anne Boyer
Award season highlights
14 winners recorded
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by Eliza Griswold
Award season highlights
14 winners recorded
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by Caroline Fraser
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by James Forman Jr.
Award season highlights
14 winners recorded
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by David France
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
by Heather Ann Thompson
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
Award season highlights
14 winners recorded
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
by Philippe Sands
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently
by Steve Silberman
Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969
by Frank Witzel
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
by David I. Kertzer
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
by Elizabeth A. Fenn
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
by Alan Taylor
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by Tom Reiss
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of Americaβs Vietnam
by Fredrik Logevall
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by Gilbert King
Award season highlights
12 winners recorded
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958β1962
by Frank DikΓΆtter
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by T. J. Stiles
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
by David E. Hoffman
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by John Matteson
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815β1848
by Daniel Walker Howe
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939β1945
by Saul FriedlΓ€nder
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by Debby Applegate
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
by Caroline Elkins
Award season highlights
13 winners recorded
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll