Notable Awards
The single leading award within a specific nonfiction subject, such as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or the Pulitzer Prize for History. The top honor subject insiders would recognize, but scoped to one subject rather than nonfiction as a whole.
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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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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Roxanna Asgarian · 2023
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Edith Wharton: A Biography
R. W. B. Lewis · 1975
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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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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo · 2012
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann. Thompson · 2016
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
Eric Foner · 2011
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong · 2022
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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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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham · 2024
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Frances FitzGerald · 2014
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W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919
David Levering Lewis · 1994
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust · 2008
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William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
Alan Taylor · 2018
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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Richard Kluger · 1997
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Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado-Perez · 2019
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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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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2021
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
Steven Hahn · 2005
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Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915
Louis R. Harlan · 1986
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Notable Awards
- Bancroft Prize1948–2026
- Cundill History Prize2008–2026
- Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award2005–2025
- Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction2014–2026
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography1981–2023
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest1980–2023
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History1980–2023
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology1989–2023
- PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction2007–2026
- Royal Society Science Book Prize1988–2026
- The Orwell Prize for Political Writing2019–2026
- Wolfson History Prize1972–2025