The Nonfiction Books Award Index

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond · 2016

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John Dower · 2012

Samuel Johnson

W. Jackson Bate · 2009

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles · 2023

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight · 2018

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power · 2013

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink · 2013

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Neil Sheehan · 2010

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

J. Anthony Lukas · 2012

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes · 1986

Walter Lippmann and the American Century

Ronald Steel · 2017

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian · 2023

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal · 2024

Edith Wharton: A Biography

R. W. B. Lewis · 1975

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage · 2023

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C. Stewart · 2018

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable · 2011

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne and Tamara Payne · 2020

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed · 2009

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright · 2006

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

Katherine Boo · 2012

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann. Thompson · 2016

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877

Eric Foner · 2011

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen · 1996

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong · 2022

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2011

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa · 2022

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt · 2012

A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton · 1990

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. · 2002

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

Barry Lopez · 1987

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

Leon F. Litwack · 2010

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham · 2024

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Frances FitzGerald · 2014

Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

Erik Erikson · 1993

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter · 1979

Henry James

Leon Edel · 1977

Huey Long

T. Harry William · 1971

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamed · 2009

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert A. Caro · 1982

Mornings on Horseback

David McCullough · 1982

Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom

James MacGregor Burns · 2012

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History

Norman Mailer · 2013

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

T. J. Stiles · 2009

The Flowering of New England: 1815–1865

Van Wyck Brooks · 2017

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

Tina Rosenberg · 2010

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris · 2010

The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder · 2011