| 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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2012
|
Andrew Krivak
|
The Sojourn
|
Winner
|
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Geraldine Brooks
|
Caleb's Crossing
|
Shortlist
|
|
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Erik Larson
|
In the Garden of Beasts
|
Shortlist
|
|
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Nathaniel Philbrick
|
Why Read Moby-Dick?
|
Shortlist
|
|
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Stephanie H. Powell Watts
|
We Are Taking Only What We Need
|
Shortlist
|
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Leonard Rosen
|
All Cry Chaos
|
Shortlist
|
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2013
|
Timothy Egan
|
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
|
Winner
|
|
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Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
|
The Presidents Club
|
Shortlist
|
|
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Ben Fountain
|
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
|
Winner
|
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Gilbert King
|
Devil in the Grove
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Madeline Miller
|
The Song of Achilles
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
John Colman Wood
|
The Names of Things
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
2014
|
Elizabeth Scarboro
|
My Foreign Cities
|
Winner
|
|
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Louise Aronson
|
A History of the Present Illness: Stories
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Lindsay Hill
|
Sea of Hooks
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Roger Rosenblatt
|
The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
James Tobin
|
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Margaret Wrinkle
|
Wash
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
2015
|
Phil Klay
|
Redeployment
|
Winner
|
|
|
Michael Blanding
|
The Map Thief
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Kim Church
|
Byrd
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Brian Hart
|
The Bully of Order
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Lily King
|
Euphoria
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Jason Sokol
|
All Eyes Are Upon Us
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Bilal Tanweer
|
The Scatter Here Is Too Great
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Jean Thompson
|
The Witch
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
2016
|
Cyrus Copeland
|
Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest
|
Winner
|
|
|
Lynsey Addario
|
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Lenore Myka
|
King of the Gypsies: Stories
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Steven Niteingale
|
Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Susan Southard
|
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
2017
|
Peter Ho Davies
|
The Fortunes
|
Winner
|
|
|
H. W. Brands
|
The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Victoria Pope Hubbell
|
Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Ben Winters
|
Underground Airlines
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Colin Woodard
|
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Kao Kalia Yang
|
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
2018
|
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
|
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
|
Winner
|
|
|
Hala Alyan
|
Salt Houses
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Glenn Frankel
|
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Anne Gisleson
|
The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Meg Howrey
|
The Wanderers
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Andrew Krivák
|
The Signal Flame
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Dalia Rosenfeld
|
The Worlds We Think We Know
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
2019
|
Anjali Sachdeva
|
All the Names They Used For God
|
Winner
|
|
|
Edward Carey
|
Little
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Ken Krimstein
|
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Kiese Laymon
|
Heavy: An American Memoir
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Richard Powers
|
The Overstory
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Elizabeth Rush
|
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Elizabeth H. Winthrop
|
The Mercy Seat
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
2020
|
Petina Gappah
|
Out of Darkness, Shining Light
|
Winner
|
|
|
Mikhal Dekel
|
Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Carolyn Forché
|
What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Myla Goldberg
|
Feast Your Eyes
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Isabella Hammad
|
The Parisian
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Imani Perry
|
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Pitchaya Sudbanthad
|
Bangkok Wakes to Rain
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
2021
|
Eula Biss
|
Having and Being Had
|
Winner
|
|
|
Louise Erdrich
|
The Night Watchman
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Danielle Evans
|
The Office of Historical Corrections
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Yaa Gyasi
|
Transcendent Kingdom
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Andrew Krivak
|
The Bear
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Natasha Trethewey
|
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Matthew Van Meter
|
Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen: His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
C Pam Zhang
|
How Much of These Hills is Gold
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
2022
|
Rebecca Donner
|
All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
|
Winner
|
|
|
Daniel James Brown
|
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Victoria Chang
|
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Ash Davidson
|
Damnation Spring
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Robert Jones, Jr.
|
The Prophets
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Tiya Miles
|
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Jason Mott
|
Hell of a Book
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Samantha Silva
|
Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Dorothy Wickenden
|
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
|
Shortlist
|
|
|
Hilma Wolitzer
|
Today a Women Went Mad at the Supermarket: Stories
|
Shortlist
|
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