2024
Finalists
The Talk by Darrin Bell
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
Built From the Fire by Victor Luckerson
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri
An Inconvenient Cop by Edwin Raymond & Jon Sternfeld
All Else Failed by Dana Sachs
The Talk by Darrin Bell
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
Built From the Fire by Victor Luckerson
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri
An Inconvenient Cop by Edwin Raymond & Jon Sternfeld
All Else Failed by Dana Sachs
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2023Winner
His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa Runner-Up American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild Finalists Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy Zarifa by Zarifa Ghafari & Hannah Lucinda Smith The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence Ma and Me by Putsata Reang |
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2022Winner
How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith Runner-Up Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott Finalists The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee Wildland by Evan Osnos High Conflict by Amanda Ripley The Last Nomad by Shugri Said Salh |
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2021Winner
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann Runner-Up The Road from Raqqa: A Story of Brotherhood, Borders, and Belonging by Jordan Ritter Finalists The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jenson See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson |
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2020Winner
Know My Name by Chanel Miller Runner-Up Biased by Jennifer L Eberhardt Finalists Grace Will Lead Us Home by Jennifer Berry Hawes What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forche Our Man by George Packer Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe |
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2019Winner
Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow Runner-Up Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing by Wil Haygood Finalists Frederick Douglass: American Prophet by David Blight I Should Have Honor by Khalida Brohi The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton Educated by Tara Westover |
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2018Winner
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates Runner-Up Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo Finalists Lola’s House by M Evelina Galang Ghost of the Innocent Man by Benjamin Rachlin The Newcomer by Helen Thorpe Enduring Vietnam by James Wright |
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2017Winner
What Have We Done by David Wood Runner-Up City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence Finalists The Song Poet by Kuo Kalia The Hundred Year Walk by Dawn Mackeen While the City Slept by Eli Sanders Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance |
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2016Winner
Nagasaki by Susan Southard Runner-Up Find Me Unafraid by Kennedy Odede & Jessica Posner Finalists Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Showdown by Wil Haygood The Train to Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell The Newcomer by Wab Kinew |
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2015Winner
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson Runner-Up The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs Finalists Who We Be by Jeff Chang The Other Side by Lacy Johnson No Man’s Land by Elizabeth D Samet There Was and There Was Not by Meline Toumani |
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2014Winner
Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here by Karima Bennoune Runner-Up Contested Land, Contested Memory by Jo Roberts Finalists Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death by Katy Butler Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel Here on the Edge by Steve McQuiddy Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward |
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2013Winner
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon Runner-Up Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King Finalists Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden Pax Ethnica by Karl Meyer & Shareen Brysac |
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2012Winner
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild Runner-Up Day of Honey by Annia Ciezadlo Finalists Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee What Is It Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival by Caroline Moorehead |
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2011Winner
In the Place of Justice by Wilbert Rideau Runner-Up The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Finalists Little Princes by Conor Grennan Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand For Us Surrender is Out of the Question by Mac McClelland |
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2010Winner
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Runner-Up In the Valley of Mist by Justine Hardy Finalists The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortensen Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman & Elizabeth Norman Enough: Why the Worlds Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow & Scott Kilman |
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2009Winner
A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery by Benjamin Skinner Runner-Up Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman Finalists Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker Dust from our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa by Joan Baxter Writing in the Dark by David Grossman My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Father’s Past by Ariel Sabar The Great Experiment by Strobe Talbott |
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2008Winner
Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat Runner-Up Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy Finalists Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel Break Through by Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus Fragile Edge by Julia Whitty |
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2007Winner
Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky Runner-Up Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by David Relin & Greg Mortenson Finalists Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Continental Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner Unbowed by Wangari Maathi Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart |
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2006Winner
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker Runner-Up Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves by Adam Hochschild Finalists Lighting the Way by Karena Gore Shiff Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid In My Brother’s Shadow by Uwe Timm Lucky Child by Loung Ung |
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