Every Recorded Winner Since 2005
Scan the full archive of celebrated books, grouped by award year.
Yearly breakdown
Award season highlights
12 winners recorded
Ash and the Faceless Man
by D. Michelle Gent
Published by Gingernut Books Ltd
A Groundhog Career
by Dr. Helmut Schuster & Dr. David Oxley
Published by Practical Inspiration Publishing

Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
by Amanda Vaill

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
by Brian Goldstone
Award season highlights
25 winners recorded

We Are Green and Trembling
by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Translated by Robin Myers
Published by New Directions Publishing

One Garden Against The World
by Kate Bradbury
Published by Bloomsbury Wildlife

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
23 winners recorded

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
by Jason De León

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's 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
26 winners recorded

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
by Ned Blackhawk
The Words That Remain
by Stênio Gardel
Translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato
Published by New Vessel Press

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
25 winners recorded

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
by Imani Perry

Seven Empty Houses
by Samanta Schweblin
Translated by Megan McDowell
Published by Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

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
25 winners recorded

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles

Winter in Sokcho
by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Published by Open Letter
The Smart Woman's Guide to Murder
by Victoria Dowd
Published by Joffe Books

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
25 winners recorded
Tokyo Ueno Station
by Yu Miri
Translated by Morgan Giles
Published by Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
The Weighing of the Heart
by Paul Tudor Owen
Published by Obliterati Press
A Girl Behind Dark Glasses
by Jessica Taylor-Bearman
Published by Hashtag Press

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
25 winners recorded

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold

Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
by László Krasznahorkai
Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
Published by New Directions |
Freddie Malone: The Treasure at the Top of the World
by Clive Mantle
Published by Award Publications

How to Remove a Brain
by David Haviland
Published by Thistle Publishing

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by Eliza Griswold
Award season highlights
22 winners recorded

The Emissary
by Yoko Tawada
Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
Published by New Directions Publishing

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
24 winners recorded

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by David France
The Wolf is Not Invited
by Avril McDonald
Published by Crown House Publishing Limited
A Life in Death
by Richard Venables, Kris Hollington
Published by Thistle Publishing

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
24 winners recorded

East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
by Philippe Sands

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by Ibram X. Kendi

The Road to Donetsk
by Diane Chandler
Published by Blackbird Digital Books
Finding The Rainbow
by Rachel McGrath
Published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Ltd
Award season highlights
23 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
23 winners recorded

I Think I Murdered Miss
by Billy Bob Buttons
Published by The Wishing Shelf Press

You’ve Gone Too Far This Time Sir
by Danny Bent
Published by Taylor Street Books

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
by Alan Taylor
Award season highlights
23 winners recorded

The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Ante’s Inferno
by Griselda Heppel
Published by Troubador Publishing Ltd

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 America's 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
22 winners recorded

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo

The Fearsome Beastie
by Giles Paley-Phillips
Published by Maverick Arts Publishing Ltd

Behind the Rainbow
by Johan Bakker
Published by Omnibus Press / Music Sales Ltd
Award season highlights
22 winners recorded

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
by Frank Dikötter

Eradicating Ecocide
by Polly Higgins
Published by Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Award season highlights
23 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
19 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
20 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, 1815–1848
by Daniel Walker Howe

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945
by Saul Friedländer
Award season highlights
20 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
20 winners recorded

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
by M. T. Anderson

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
20 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






































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