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2021
Winner
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
2020
Winner
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
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