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All, 2024 (1), 2023 (5), 2022 (19), 2021 (8), 2020 (20), 2019 (8), 2018 (8), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2015 (7), 2014 (6), 2013 (7), 2012 (5), 2011 (2), 2010 (1), 2009 (1)

Winner 16

WorkYear
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt2024
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond2023
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown2022
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green2021
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds2020
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals by Rachel Hollis2019
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara2018
How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life by Lilly Singh2017
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda2016
Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari2015
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan2014
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain2012
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School by Alexandra Robbins2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot2010
Columbine by Dave Cullen2009

Nominee 110

WorkYear
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond2023
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer2023
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay2023
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein2023
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love2023
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown2022
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander2022
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Substances and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury Ph.D.2022
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain2022
All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work by Hayley Campbell2022
Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte2022
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin2022
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari2022
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes2022
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe2022
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee2022
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe2022
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett2022
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry2022
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink2022
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur2022
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr Julie Smith2022
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong2022
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green2021
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green2021
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson2021
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell2021
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo2021
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan2021
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein2021
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders2021
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds2020
Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts by Jennie Allen2020
Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life by Anne Bogel2020
Trust: America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg2020
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun2020
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper2020
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan2020
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong2020
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall2020
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker2020
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof2020
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley2020
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy2020
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation by Candace Owens2020
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad2020
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There by Tara Schuster2020
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow2020
Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays by R. Eric Thomas2020
Beyond the Gender Binary (Pocket Change Collective) by Alok Vaid-Menon2020
Rage by Bob Woodward2020
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals by Rachel Hollis2019
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan2019
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep2019
Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen2019
Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes2019
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow2019
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino2019
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West2019
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara2018
Fascism : a warning by Madeleine K. Albright2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou2018
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay2018
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy2018
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo2018
The Library Book by Susan Orlean2018
How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana2017
How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life by Lilly Singh2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates2017
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix2017
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse2017
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein2017
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper2017
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond2016
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing2016
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer2016
Don't Be a Jerk by Brad Warner2016
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge2016
Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari2015
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates2015
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari2015
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy2015
When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants by Steven D. Levitt2015
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad2015
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan2014
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A True Story by Dan Harris2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein2014
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe2014
Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit2014
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi2014
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin2013
Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink2013
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre2013
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber2013
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker2013
Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo2012
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt2012
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy by Christopher Hayes2012
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis2012
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School by Alexandra Robbins2011
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot2010
Columbine by Dave Cullen2009

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