The General Nonfiction Award Index

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

Katherine Boo · 2012

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

Barry Lopez · 1987

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon · 2012

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado-Perez · 2019

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman · 1998

A Civil Action

Jonathan Harr · 1998

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America

Beth Macy · 2018

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib · 2021

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

Katherine Boo · 2012

Death at an Early Age

Jonathan Kozol · 2012

Deeper into Movies

Pauline Kael · 1975

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

Nicholson Baker · 2002

God: A Biography

Jack Miles · 1996

Julia Child and More Company

Julia Child · 1979

La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York

Oscar Lewis · 1966

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard · 2015

Selected Essays

William Troy · 2009

The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–present

Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh · 2003

The Country Kitchen

Della T. Lutes · 2013

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Christopher Lasch · 2018

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker, Ernest Becker · 1997

The Measure of Man

Joseph Wood Krutch · 2014

The Oysters of Locmariaquer

Eleanor Clark · 2006

United States: Essays 1952–1992

Gore Vidal · 2018

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright · 2016

No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Rachel Louise Snyder · 2019

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross · 2007

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

Edward Hoagland · 1995

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton · 1985

Lost in the Cosmos

Walker Percy · 2018

Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life

Sissela Bok · 2011

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Suketu Mehta · 2009

Sidewalk

Mitchell Duneier with Ovie Carter (photographer) · 2001

The Powers That Be

David Halberstam · 1979

The Transformation of the School

Lawrence A. Cremin · 1961

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

Héctor Tobar · 2014

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Kristen Radtke · 2021

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

Dashka Slater · 2023

Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins

Milton M. Gordon · 1964

Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum

Lee Rainwater · 2006

Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game

Dan Barry · 2012

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

Kevin Young · 2018

Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia

Peter Sutton · 1988

In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

Kwame Anthony Appiah · 1993

Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary

Barton Wright and Clifford Bahnimptewa · 1973

Play Their Hearts Out

George Dohrmann · 2010

Race Relations

Brewton Berry · 1951

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc · 2004

Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner

F. X. Toole · 2001

Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America

Jeff Hobbs · 2025