Niche Awards
Smaller-circulation, fan-voted, or sub-category awards. Real recognitions, but easier for a single book to accumulate several of via overlapping fan communities honoring the same underlying achievement.
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles · 2023
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink · 2013
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Beverly Gage · 2023
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne and Tamara Payne · 2020
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2011
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa · 2022
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon · 2012
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline Fraser · 2017
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss · 2012
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson · 2020
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2021
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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963
David Levering Lewis · 2000
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T. J. Stiles · 2015
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Diane McWhorter · 2001
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Jason Roberts · 2024
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs Of A Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston · 1976
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17
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Jane Mayer · 2009
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COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
Edda L. Fields-Black · 2024
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14
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer · 2019
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14
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Timothy Egan · 2012
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14
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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Evan Wright · 2004
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
Peter Silver · 2008
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · 2016
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Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
Amanda Vaill · 2025
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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
Amy Stanley · 2020
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris · 2017
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk · 2023
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