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
2019 Winner 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
2018 Winner 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
2017 Winner 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
2016 Winner 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
2015 Winner 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
2014 Winner 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
2013 Winner 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
2012 Winner 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
2011 Winner 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
2010 Winner 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
2009 Winner 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
2008 Winner 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
2007 Winner 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
2006 Winner 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