Year
|
Winners and finalists
|
Book
|
Ref.
|
2014
|
Roz Chast
|
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
|
[5]
|
Leo Damrosch
|
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
|
Elizabeth Kolbert
|
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
|
Armand Marie Leroi
|
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
|
Thomas Piketty Arthur Goldhammer (tr.)
|
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
|
Bryan Stevenson
|
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
|
2015
|
Ta-Nehisi Coates
|
Between the World and Me
|
[6]
|
John Ferling
|
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It
|
Helen Macdonald
|
H is for Hawk
|
Adam Tooze
|
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931
|
Simon Winchester
|
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
|
Andrea Wulf
|
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
|
2016
|
Susan Faludi
|
In the Darkroom
|
[7]
|
Sarah Bakewell
|
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
|
Matthew Desmond
|
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
|
Michael Eric Dyson
|
The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
|
Beth Macy
|
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
|
J. D. Vance
|
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
|
2017
|
Jack E. Davis
|
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
|
[8]
|
Edward Dolnick
|
The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come
|
Patricia Lockwood
|
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
|
Valeria Luiselli Lizzie Davis (tr.)
|
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
|
Michael W. Twitty
|
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
|
Laura Walls
|
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
|
2018
|
Rebecca Solnit
|
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
|
[9]
|
Shane Bauer
|
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
|
Kiese Laymon
|
Heavy: An American Memoir
|
Beth Macy
|
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
|
Sarah Smarsh
|
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
|
Timothy Snyder
|
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
|
2019
|
Saeed Jones
|
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
|
[10]
|
Hanif Abdurraqib
|
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
|
Naja Marie Aidt Denise Newman (tr.)
|
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
|
Patrick Radden Keefe
|
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
|
Dina Nayeri
|
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
|
Rachel Louise Snyder
|
No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
|
2020
|
Mychal Denzel Smith
|
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
|
[12]
|
Eric Jay Dolin
|
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
|
Rebecca Giggs
|
Fathoms: The World in the Whale
|
Deirdre Mask
|
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
|
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Fumi Nakamura (ill.)
|
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
|
Isabel Wilkerson
|
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
|
2021
|
Brian Broome
|
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
|
[13]
|
Kristen Radtke
|
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
|
Tiya Miles
|
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
|
Dara Horn
|
People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present
|
Juan Villoro Alfred MacAdam (tr.)
|
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
|
Katherine E. Standefer
|
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
|
2022
|
Tanaïs
|
In Sensorium
|
[18][15]
|
Margaret A. Burnham
|
By Hands Now Known
|
Lindsey Fitzharris
|
The Facemaker
|
Nikole Hannah-Jones Caitlin Roper (ed.) Ilena Silverman (ed.) Jake Silverstein (ed.)
|
The 1619 Project
|
Ann Patchett
|
These Precious Days
|
Ed Yong
|
An Immense World
|
2023
|
Héctor Tobar
|
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"
|
[16][17]
|
Tania Branigan
|
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
|
Jennifer Homans
|
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
|
Clancy Martin
|
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
|
Safiya Sinclair
|
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
|
Ilyon Woo
|
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom
|