Year
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Author
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Title
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Result
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Ref.
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1999
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Kevin Coyne
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The Best Years of Their Lives: One Town’s Veterans and How They Changed the World
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Winner
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2000
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James Tobin
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Work of the Wind: A Remarkable Family, an Overlooked Genius, and the Race for Flight
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Winner
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Larry Tye
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Finalist
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Laura Bridgman
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2001
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Max Holland
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A Need to Know: Inside the Warren Commission
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Winner
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Elinor Langer
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Finalist
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2002
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Jacques Leslie
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On Dams
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Winner
|
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Harry Bruinius
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Finalist
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Richard Steven Street
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2003
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Suzannah Lessard
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Mapping the New World: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Sprawl
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Winner
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Orlando Figes
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Finalist
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Steven Stoll
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2004
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John Bowe
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Slavery Inc.
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Winner
|
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Eyal Press
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Finalist
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Beryl Satter
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2005
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Joan Quigley
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Home Fires
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Winner
|
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Amy Bach
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Finalist
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Steven Greenhouse
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2006
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Laura Claridge
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Emily Post and the Rise of Practical Feminism
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Winner
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[8]
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Bruce Barcott
|
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Finalist
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Dudley Clendinen
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2007
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Robert Whitaker
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Twelve Condemned to Die: Scipio Africanus Jones and The Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation
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Winner
|
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Michael Punke
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Finalist
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2008
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Michelle Goldberg
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The Means of Reproduction
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Winner
|
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Lyanda Lynn Haupt
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Finalist
|
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Cecilia Balli
|
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2009
|
Judy Pasternak
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Yellow Dirt: The Betrayal of the Navajos
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Winner
|
[9]
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2010
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Jonathan Schuppe
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Ghetto Ball: A Coach, His Team, and the Struggle of an American City
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Winner
|
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David Philipps
|
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Finalist
|
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2011
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Alex Tizon
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Big Little Man: The Asian Male at the Dawn of the Asian Century
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Winner
|
[4]
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Joe Mozingo
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The Fiddler on Pantico Run
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Finalist
|
[4]
|
Florence Williams
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
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2012
|
Jonathan M. Katz
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The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
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Winner
|
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Susan Southard
|
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Finalist
|
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2013
|
Beth Macy
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Factory Man
|
Winner
|
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Jim Robbins
|
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Finalist
|
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2014
|
Adrienne Berard
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When Yellow Was Black: The untold story of the first fight for desegregation in Southern schools
|
Winner
|
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Yochi J. Dreazen
|
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Finalist
|
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2015
|
Dan Egan
|
Liquid Desert: Life and Death of the Great Lakes
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Winner
|
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Heather Ann Thompson
|
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Finalist
|
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2016
|
Steve Luxenberg
|
Separate: A Story of Race, Ambition and the Battle That Brought Legal Segregation to America
|
Winner
|
[10]
|
Blaire Briody
|
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Finalist
|
[10]
|
Sasha Issenberg
|
|
Shortlist
|
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Steve Oney
|
|
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Meredith Wadman
|
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2017
|
Christopher Leonard
|
Kochland
|
Winner
|
[5][11]
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Helen Thorpe
|
The Newcomers
|
Finalist
|
[5][11]
|
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
|
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Shortlist
|
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Eyal Press
|
|
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Richard Steven Street
|
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2018
|
Chris Hamby
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of An Epic Battle for Justice
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Winner
|
[12][13]
|
Rachel Louise Snyder
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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Arthur Holland Michel
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Eyes in the Sky
|
Shortlist
|
[14][15]
|
Katherine E. Standefer
|
Lightning Flowers
|
Susan Vinocour
|
Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and the History of the Insanity Defense
|
2019
|
Maurice Chammah
|
Let the Lord Sort Them: Texas and the Death Penalty's Rise and Fall in America
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Winner
|
[16]
|
Steven Dudley
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Mara: The Making of the MS13
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Amelia Pang
|
Made in China: How an Engineer Ended Up in a Chinese Gulag Making Products for Kmart
|
Shortlist
|
[17]
|
Lauren Sandler
|
This Is All I Got: One Woman’s Desperate Year in the New Gilded Age
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Sarah Schulman
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Let the Record Show: ACT UP and the Enduring Relationship of AIDS
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2020
|
Bartow J. Elmore
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Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and the Future of Food
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Winner
|
[18]
|
Shahan Mufti
|
American Caliph: The True Story of the Hanafi Siege, America’s First Homegrown Islamic Terror Attack
|
Michelle Nijhuis
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Beloved Beasts: The Story of Conservation and the Fight to Protect Life on Earth
|
Shortlist
|
[19][20]
|
Sarah Schulman
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, ACT UP, NY 1987-1993
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Lawrence Tabak
|
Foxconned: How the Mindless Pursuit of Good Jobs Destroys Homes, Wastes Billions and Enriches the Few
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2021
|
Emily Dufton
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Addiction, Inc.: How the Corporate Takeover of America’s Treatment Industry Created a Profitable Epidemic
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Winner
|
[21][22]
|
Casey Parks
|
Diary of a Misfit
|
David Dennis Jr.
|
The Movement Made Us
|
Shortlist
|
[23][24]
|
Channing Gerard Joseph
|
House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens — and Changed the World
|
Elizabeth Rush
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The Mother of All Things: On Climate Change, the Stories We Tell, and a Journey to the Edge of Antarctica
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2022
|
Roxanna Asgarian
|
We Were Once a Family: The Hart Murder-Suicide and the System Failing Our Kids
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Winner
|
[25][26][27]
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May Jeong
|
The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America
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Robert Fieseler
|
American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine State
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Finalist
|
[28][29][30]
|
Benjamin Herold
|
Disillusioned: How the Suburbs and Their Schools Undermine The American Dream
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Suki Kim
|
The Prince and the Revolutionary: Children of War
|
2023
|
Jesselyn Cook
|
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
|
Winner
|
[31]
|
Mike Hixenbaugh
|
Uncivil: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New Battle for America's Schools
|
Rebecca Kelliher
|
|
Shortlist
|
[31]
|
Megan Kimble
|
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Jessica Pishko
|
|
2024
|
Lorraine Boissoneault
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Body Weather: Notes on Illness in the Anthropocene
|
Winner
|
[32]
|
Alice Driver
|
The Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company
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