Nominations 2014 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dan Fagin |
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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| Gary J. Bass |
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide
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| Fred Kaplan |
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
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Nominations 2013 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Katherine Boo |
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
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| Gilbert King |
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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| David G. Haskell |
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature
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Nominations 2012 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stephen Greenblatt |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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| Diane Ackerman |
One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
A resilient author\u2019s account of caring for a stricken husband, sharing fears and insights as she explores neurology and ponders the gift of words. |
| Mara Hvistendahl |
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
An evocative, deeply researched book probing the causes and effects of a global imbalance in the gender ratio. |
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Nominations 2011 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Siddhartha Mukherjee |
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science. |
| Nicholas G. Carr |
The Shallows
A thought provoking exploration of the Internet\u2019s physical and cultural consequences, rendering highly technical material intelligible to the general reader. |
| S. C. Gwynne |
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
A memorable examination of the longest and most brutal of all the wars between European settlers and a single Indian tribe. |
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Nominations 2010 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Wright |
The Evolution of God
A sweeping look at the origins and development of religious belief throughout human history. |
| David E. Hoffman |
The Dead Hand
A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind. |
| John Cassidy |
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
A work that probes the complexity of the Great Recession, using solid research and precise documentation to reveal not only a gripping human drama but also a tense clash of ideas. |
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Nominations 2009 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Arthur Herman |
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
An authoritative, deeply researched book that achieves an extraordinary balance in weighing two mighty protagonists against each other. |
| Douglas A. Blackmon |
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
A precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity. |
| William I. Hitchcock |
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
A heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar. |
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Nominations 2008 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alex Ross |
The Rest Is Noise
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| Allan M. Brandt |
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America
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| Saul Friedländer |
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
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Nominations 2007 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lawrence Wright |
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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| Pete Earley |
Crazy
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| Thomas E. Ricks |
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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Nominations 2006 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Caroline Elkins |
Imperial Reckoning
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| Tony Judt |
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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| George Packer |
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
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Nominations 2005 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Luis Alberto Urrea |
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
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| Steve Coll |
Ghost Wars
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| Suketu Mehta |
Maximum City
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Nominations 2004 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Anne Applebaum |
Gulag: A History
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| Dana Priest |
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military
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| Steven Nadler |
Rembrandt's Jews
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Nominations 2003 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ellen Meloy |
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit
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| Samantha Power |
\"A Problem from Hell\": America and the Age of Genocide
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| Steven Pinker |
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Nominations 2002 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Andrew Solomon |
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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| David Halberstam |
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
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| Diane McWhorter |
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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Nominations 2001 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dave Eggers |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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| Herbert P. Bix |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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| Ted Conover |
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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Nominations 2000 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Brian Greene |
The Elegant Universe
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| John W. Dower |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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| Scott Weidensaul |
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds
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Nominations 1999 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Elliott Currie |
Crime and Punishment in America
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| John McPhee |
Annals of the Former World
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| Judith Rich Harris |
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
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Nominations 1998 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jared Diamond |
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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| Jon Krakauer |
Into Thin Air
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| Steven Pinker |
How the Mind Works
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Nominations 1997 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Cynthia Ozick |
Fame & Folly
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| Richard Kluger |
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
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| Samuel G. Freedman |
The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond
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Nominations 1996 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Daniel Dennett |
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
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| Lawrence Weschler |
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
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| Tina Rosenberg |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
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Nominations 1995 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Berendt |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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| Jonathan Weiner |
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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| Sherwin B. Nuland |
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
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Nominations 1994 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David Remnick |
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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| John Lukacs |
The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age
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| Peter Gay |
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud
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Nominations 1993 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Anne Matthews |
Where the Buffalo Roam
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| Garry Wills |
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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| Richard Rodriguez |
Days of Obligation
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| Susan Griffin |
A chorus of stones
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Nominations 1992 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Andre Dubus |
Broken Vessels
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| Daniel Yergin |
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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| Thomas Byrne Edsall |
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
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| Mary D. Edsall |
Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics
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Nominations 1991 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bert Hölldobler |
The Ants
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| E. O. Wilson |
The Ants
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| John McPhee |
Looking for a Ship
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| William duBuys |
River of Traps
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| Alex Harris |
River of Traps
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Nominations 1990 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Dale Maharidge |
And Their Children After Them
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| Michael Williamson |
And Their Children After Them
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| David Fromkin |
A Peace to End All Peace
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| Stephen Jay Gould |
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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Nominations 1989 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Howard Kohn |
The Last Farmer
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| McGeorge Bundy |
Danger and Survival
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| Neil Sheehan |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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| Timothy Ferris |
Coming of age in the Milky Way
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Nominations 1988 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Daniel Callahan |
Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society
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| James Gleick |
Chaos: Making a New Science
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| Richard Rhodes |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Nominations 1987 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Cyra McFadden |
Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir
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| David K. Shipler |
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
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| John McPhee |
Rising from the Plains
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Nominations 1986 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| J. Anthony Lukas |
Common Ground
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| Joseph Lelyveld |
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
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| Robert N. Bellah |
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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Nominations 1986 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| J. Anthony Lukas |
Common Ground
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| Joseph Lelyveld |
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
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| Robert N. Bellah |
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
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Nominations 1985 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Donald Keene |
Dawn to the west
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| Jonathan Kwitny |
Endless enemies
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| Studs Terkel |
The Good War
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Nominations 1984 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paul Starr |
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
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| Susan Jacoby |
Wild Justice
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| Winston Groom |
Conversations with the enemy
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| Duncan Spencer |
Conversations with the enemy
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Nominations 1983 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Diane Johnson |
Terrorists and Novelists
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| Jonathan Schell |
The Fate of the Earth
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| Susan Sheehan |
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
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Nominations 1982 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Diana Trilling |
Mrs Harris
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| John McPhee |
Basin and Range
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| Tracy Kidder |
The Soul of a New Machine
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Nominations 1981 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Carl Emil Schorske |
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
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| Marshall Frady |
Southerners, a journalist's odyssey
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| Maxine Hong Kingston |
China Men
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| William Manchester |
Good-Bye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
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Nominations 1980 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Douglas Hofstadter |
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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| Lewis Thomas |
The Medusa and the Snail
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| Sandra Gilbert |
The Madwoman in the Attic
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| Susan Gubar |
The Madwoman in the Attic
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