| Key: | Owned | Read | Available |
| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | Julia Ward Howe
Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall
Houghton |
With Americans of Past and Present Days
His Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States
Scribner |
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| 1918 | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
William Cabell Bruce
Putnam |
A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
James Ford Rhodes
Macmillan |
Why Marry?
Jesse Lynch Williams
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His Family
Ernest Poole
Macmillan |
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| 1919 | The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Houghton |
The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington
Doubleday |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 1920 | The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols.
Albert J. Beveridge
Houghton |
The War with Mexico, 2 vols.
Justin H. Smith
Macmillan |
Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill
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| 1921 | The Americanization of Edward Bok
Edward Bok
Scribner |
The Victory at Sea
William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick
Doubleday |
Miss Lulu Bett
Zona Gale
|
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Appleton |
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| 1922 | A Daughter of the Middle Border
Hamlin Garland
Macmillan |
The Founding of New England
James Truslow Adams
Little |
Anna Christie
Eugene O'Neill
|
Alice Adams
Booth Tarkington
Doubleday |
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| 1923 | The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
Burton J. Hendrick
Houghton |
The Supreme Court in United States History
Charles Warren
Little |
Icebound
Owen Davis
|
One of Ours
Willa Cather
Knopf |
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| 1924 | From Immigrant to Inventor
Michael Idvorsky Pupin
Scribner |
The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation
Charles Howard McIlwain
Macmillan |
Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
Hatcher Hughes
|
The Able McLaughlins
Margaret Wilson
Harper |
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| 1925 | Barrett Wendell and His Letters
M. A. Dewolfe Howe
Little |
History of the American Frontier
Frederic L. Paxson
Houghton |
They Knew What They Wanted
Sidney Howard
|
So Big
Edna Ferber
Doubleday |
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| 1926 | The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.
Harvey Cushing
Oxford Univ. Press |
A History of the United States
Edward Channing
Macmillan |
Craig's Wife
George Kelly
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Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
Harcourt |
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| 1927 | Whitman
Emory Holloway
Knopf |
Pinckney's Treaty
Samuel Flagg Bemis
Johns Hopkins |
In Abraham's Bosom
Paul Green
|
Early Autumn
Louis Bromfield
Stokes |
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| 1928 | The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
Charles Edward Russell
Doubleday |
Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols.
Vernon Louis Parrington
Harcourt |
Strange Interlude
Eugene O'Neill
|
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Boni |
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| 1929 | The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
Burton J. Hendrick
Houghton |
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865
Fred Albert Shannon
A.H. Clark |
Street Scene
Elmer L. Rice
|
Scarlet Sister Mary
Julia Peterkin
Bobbs |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 1930 | The Raven
Marquis James
Bobbs |
The War of Independence
Claude H. Van Tyne
Houghton |
The Green Pastures
Marc Connelly
|
Laughing Boy
Oliver Lafarge
Houghton |
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| 1931 | Charles W. Eliot
Henry James
Houghton |
The Coming of the War 1914
Bernadotte E. Schmitt
Scribner |
Alison's House
Susan Glaspell
|
Years of Grace
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Houghton |
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| 1932 | Theodore Roosevelt
Henry F. Pringle
Harcourt |
My Experiences in the World War
John J. Pershing
Stokes |
Of Thee I Sing
George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin
|
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
John Day |
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| 1933 | Grover Cleveland
Allan Nevins
Dodd |
The Significance of Sections in American History
Frederick J. Turner
Holt |
Both Your Houses
Maxwell Anderson
|
The Store
T. S. Stribling
Doubleday |
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| 1934 | John Hay
Tyler Dennett
Dodd |
The People's Choice
Herbert Agar
Houghton |
Men in White
Sidney Kingsley
|
Lamb in His Bosom
Caroline Miller
Harper |
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| 1935 | R. E. Lee
Douglas S. Freeman
Scribner |
The Colonial Period of American History
Charles McLean Andrews
Yale Univ. Press |
The Old Maid
Zoe Akins
|
Now in November
Josephine Winslow Johnson
Simon & Schuster |
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| 1936 | The Thought and Character of William James
Ralph Barton Perry
Little |
A Constitutional History of the United States
Andrew C. McLaughlin
Appleton |
Idiots Delight
Robert E. Sherwood
|
Honey in the Horn
Harold L. Davis
Harper |
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| 1937 | Hamilton Fish
Allan Nevins
Dodd |
The Flowering of New England 1815-1865
Van Wyck Brooks
Dutton |
You Can't Take It With You
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
|
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Macmillan |
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| 1938 |
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The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
Paul Herman Buck
Little |
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
|
The Late George Apley
John Phillips Marquand
Little |
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| 1939 | Benjamin Franklin
Carl Van Doren
Viking |
A History of American Magazines
Frank Luther Mott
Harvard Univ. Press |
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Robert E. Sherwood
|
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Scribner |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 1940 | Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII
Ray Stannard Baker
Doubleday |
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
Carl Sandburg
Harcourt |
The Time of Your Life
William Saroyan
|
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Viking |
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| 1941 | Jonathan Edward
Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Macmillan |
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
Marcus Lee Hansen
Harvard Univ. Press |
There Shall Be No Night
Robert E. Sherwood
|
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| 1942 | Crusader in Crinoline
Forrest Wilson
Lippincott |
Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865
Margaret Leech
Harper |
In This Our Life
Ellen Glasgow
Harcourt |
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| 1943 | Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Samuel Eliot Morison
Little |
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
Esther Forbes
Houghton |
The Skin of Our Teeth
Thornton Wilder
|
Dragon's Teeth
Upton Sinclair
Viking |
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| 1944 | The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse
Carleton Mabee
Knopf |
The Growth of American Thought
Merle Curti
Harper |
Journey in the Dark
Martin Flavin
Harper |
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| 1945 | George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
Russell Blaine Nye
Knopf |
Unfinished Business
Stephen Bonsal
Doubleday |
Harvey
Mary Chase
|
A Bell for Adano
John Hersey
Knopf |
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| 1946 | Son of the Wilderness
Linnie Marsh Wolfe
Knopf |
The Age of Jackson
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
Little |
State of the Union
Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay
|
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| 1947 | The Autobiography of William Allen White
William Allen White
Macmillan |
Scientists Against Time
James Phinney Baxter, 3rd (Sort as: James Phinney Baxter)
Little |
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Harcourt |
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| 1948 | Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
Margaret Clapp
Little |
Across the Wide Missouri
Bernard Devoto
Houghton |
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
|
Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener
Macmillan |
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| 1949 | Roosevelt and Hopkins
Robert E. Sherwood
Harper |
The Disruption of American Democracy
Roy Franklin Nichols
Macmillan |
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
|
Guard of Honor
James Gould Cozzens
Harcourt |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 1950 | John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
Samuel Flagg Bemis
Knopf |
Art and Life in America
Oliver W. Larkin
Rinehart |
South Pacific
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd and Joshua Logan
|
The Way West
A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Sloane |
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| 1951 | John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
Margaret Louise Coit
Houghton |
The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840
R. Carlyle Buley
Towers, Inc. |
The Town
Conrad Richter
Knopf |
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| 1952 | Charles Evans Hughes
Merlo J. Pusey
Macmillan |
The Uprooted
Oscar Handlin
Little |
The Shrike
Joseph Kramm
|
The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk
Doubleday |
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| 1953 | Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803
David J. Mays
Harvard Univ. Press |
The Era of Good Feelings
George Dangerfield
Harcourt |
Picnic
William Inge
|
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner |
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| 1954 | The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh
Scribner |
A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton
Doubleday |
The Teahouse of the August Moon
John Patrick
|
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| 1955 | The Taft Story
William S. White
Harper |
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
Paul Horgan
Rinehart |
Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
|
A Fable
William Faulkner
Random |
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| 1956 | Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
Oxford Univ. Press |
The Age of Reform
Richard Hofstadter
Knopf |
Diary of Anne Frank
Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
|
Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor
World |
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| 1957 | Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy
Harper |
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O
George F. Kennan
Princeton Univ. Press |
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill
|
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| 1958 | George Washington, Volumes I-VII
Douglas Southall Freeman (I-VI), and John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (VII after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953) (Sort as: Douglas Southall Freeman)
Scribner |
Banks and Politics in America
Bray Hammond
Princeton Univ. Press |
Look Homeward, Angel
Ketti Frings
|
A Death In The Family
James Agee
McDowell, Obolensky |
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| 1959 | Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet
Arthur Walworth
Longmans |
The Republican Era: 1869-1901
Leonard D. White, with the assistance of Miss Jean Schneider
Macmillan |
J. B.
Archibald Macleish
|
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Robert Lewis Taylor
Doubleday |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 1960 | John Paul Jones
Samuel Eliot Morison
Little |
In the Days of McKinley
Margaret Leech
Harper |
Fiorello!
Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, Music by Jerry Bock and Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
|
Advise and Consent
Allen Drury
Doubleday |
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| 1961 | Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
David Donald
Knopf |
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
Herbert Feis
Princeton Univ. Press |
All The Way Home
Tad Mosel
|
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Lippincott |
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| 1962 | The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766
Lawrence H. Gipson
Knopf |
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
|
The Edge of Sadness
Edwin O'Connor
Little |
The Making of the President 1960
Theodore H. White
Atheneum |
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| 1963 | Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London and Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years
Leon Edel
Lippincott |
Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
Constance McLaughlin Green
Princeton Univ. Press |
The Reivers
William Faulkner
Random |
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
Macmillan |
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| 1964 | John Keats
Walter Jackson Bate
Harvard Univ. Press |
Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
Sumner Chilton Powell
Wesleyan Univ. Press |
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter
Random |
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| 1965 | Henry Adams, three volumes
Ernest Samuels
Harvard Univ. Press |
The Greenback Era
Irwin Unger
Princeton Univ. Press |
The Subject Was Roses
Frank D. Gilroy
|
The Keepers Of The House
Shirley Ann Grau
Random |
O Strange New World
Howard Mumford Jones
Viking |
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| 1966 | A Thousand Days
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Houghton |
The Life of the Mind in America
Perry Miller
Harcourt |
Collected Stories (1966)
Katherine Anne Porter
Harcourt |
Wandering Through Winter
Edwin Way Teale
Dodd |
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| 1967 | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
Justin Kaplan
Simon & Schuster |
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
William H. Goetzmann
Knopf |
A Delicate Balance
Edward Albee
|
The Fixer
Bernard Malamud
Farrar |
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
David Brion Davis
Cornell Univ. Press |
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| 1968 |
|
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Bernard Bailyn
Harvard Univ. Press |
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
Random |
Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization
Will And Ariel Durant
Simon & Schuster |
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| 1969 | The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends
Benjamin Lawrence Reid
Oxford Univ. Press |
Origins of the Fifth Amendment
Leonard W. Levy
Oxford Univ. Press |
The Great White Hope
Howard Sackler
|
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
Harper |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 1970 | Huey Long
T. Harry Williams
Knopf |
Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department
Dean Acheson
Norton |
No Place To Be Somebody
Charles Gordone
|
Collected Stories (1970)
Jean Stafford
Farrar |
Gandhi's Truth
Erik H. Erikson
Norton |
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| 1971 | Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938
Lawrance Thompson
Holt |
Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
James MacGregor Burns
Harcourt |
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
Paul Zindel
|
The Rising Sun
John Toland
Random |
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| 1972 | Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
Joseph P. Lash
Norton |
Neither Black Nor White
Carl N. Degler
Macmillan |
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
Doubleday |
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
Barbara W. Tuchman
Macmillan |
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| 1973 | Luce and His Empire
W. A. Swanberg
Scribner |
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
Michael Kammen
Knopf |
That Championship Season
Jason Miller
|
The Optimists Daughter
Eudora Welty
Random |
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| 1974 | O'Neill, Son and Artist
Louis Sheaffer
Little |
The Americans: The Democratic Experience
Daniel J. Boorstin
Random |
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Free Press/Macmillan |
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| 1975 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert Caro
Knopf |
Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V
Dumas Malone
Little |
Seascape
Edward Albee
|
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
McKay |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
Harper's Magazine Press |
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| 1976 | Edith Wharton: A Biography
R. W. B. Lewis
Harper & Row |
Lamy of Santa Fe
Paul Horgan
Farrar |
A Chorus Line
Conceived, choreographed and directed by Michael Bennett, with book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Edward Kleban
|
Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
Viking |
Why Survive? Being Old In America
Robert N. Butler
Harper |
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| 1977 | A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence
John E. Mack
Harvard Univ. Press |
The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867
David M. Potter (Manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbache, Sort as Potter)
Harper |
The Shadow Box
Michael Cristofer
|
Beautiful Swimmers
William W. Warner
Atlantic Little Brown |
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| 1978 | Samuel Johnson
Walter Jackson Bate
Harcourt |
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Harvard Univ. Press |
The Gin Game
Donald L. Coburn
|
Elbow Room
James Alan McPherson
Atlantic Monthly Press |
The Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan
Random House |
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| 1979 | Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
Leonard Baker
Macmillan |
The Dred Scott Case
Don E. Fehrenbacher
Oxford Univ. Press |
Buried Child
Sam Shepard
|
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
Knopf |
On Human Nature
Edward O. Wilson
Harvard Univ. Press |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 1980 | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
Coward, McCann |
Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Leon F. Litwack
Knopf |
Talley's Folly
Lanford Wilson
|
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Little, Brown |
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Basic Books |
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| 1981 | Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
Knopf |
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
Lawrence A. Cremin
Harper & Row |
Crimes of the Heart
Beth Henley
|
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Louisiana State U. Press |
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics And Culture
Carl E. Schorske
Knopf |
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| 1982 | Grant: A Biography
William McFeely
Norton |
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Mary Chesnut (edited by C. Vann Woodward)
Yale U. Press |
A Soldier's Play
Charles Fuller
|
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike
Knopf |
The Soul of A New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Atlantic-Little, Brown |
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| 1983 | Growing Up
Russell Baker
Congdon & Weed |
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Rhys L. Isaac
U. North Carolina Press |
'Night, Mother
Marsha Norman
|
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Harcourt Brace |
Is There No Place On Earth For Me?
Susan Sheehan
Houghton Mifflin |
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| 1984 | Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
Louis R. Harlan
Oxford U. Press |
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet
|
Ironweed
William Kennedy
Viking |
The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
Paul Starr
Basic Books |
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| 1985 | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
Kenneth Silverman
Harper & Row |
Prophets of Regulation
Thomas K. McCraw
Belknap/Harvard |
Sunday in the Park With George
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine
|
Foreign Affairs
Alison Lurie
Random House |
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
Studs Terkel
Pantheon |
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| 1986 | Louise Bogan: A Portrait
Elizabeth Frank
Alfred A. Knopf |
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
Walter A. McDougall
Basic Books |
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster |
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| 1987 | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
David J. Garrow
William Morrow |
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Bernard Bailyn
Alfred A. Knopf |
Fences
August Wilson
|
A Summons to Memphis
Peter Taylor
Alfred A. Knopf |
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
David K. Shipler
Times Books |
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| 1988 | Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
David Herbert Donald
Little, Brown and Company |
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876
Robert V. Bruce
Alfred A. Knopf |
Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry
|
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Simon and Schuster |
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| 1989 | Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
The Heidi Chronicles
Wendy Wasserstein
|
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
Alfred A. Knopf |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan
Random House |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 1990 | Machiavelli in Hell
Sebastian de Grazia
Princeton University Press |
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
Stanley Karnow
Random House |
The Piano Lesson
August Wilson
|
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Oscar Hijuelos
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
And Their Children After Them
Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
Pantheon |
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| 1991 | Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Clarkson N. Potter |
A Midwife's Tale
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Alfred A. Knopf |
Lost in Yonkers
Neil Simon
|
Rabbit At Rest
John Updike
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Ants
Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
Belknap/Harvard University Press |
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| 1992 | Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
Grove Weidenfeld |
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Oxford University Press |
The Kentucky Cycle
Robert Schenkkan
|
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power
Daniel Yergin
Simon & Schuster |
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| 1993 | Truman
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster |
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood
Alfred A. Knopf |
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Tony Kushner
|
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler
Henry Holt |
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Garry Wills
Simon & Schuster |
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| 1994 | W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919
David Levering Lewis
Henry Holt |
Three Tall Women
Edward Albee
|
The Shipping News
E. Annie Proulx
Charles Scribner's Sons |
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire
David Remnick
Random House |
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| 1995 | Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
Joan D. Hedrick
Oxford University Press |
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster |
The Young Man From Atlanta
Horton Foote
|
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Viking |
The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time
Jonathan Weiner
Alfred A. Knopf |
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| 1996 | God: A Biography
Jack Miles
Alfred A. Knopf |
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
Alan Taylor
Alfred A. Knopf |
Rent
Jonathan Larson
|
Independence Day
Richard Ford
Alfred A. Knopf |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Tina Rosenberg
Random House |
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| 1997 | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
Scribner |
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Jack N. Rakove
Alfred A. Knopf |
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser
Crown |
Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris
Richard Kluger
Alfred A. Knopf |
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| 1998 | Personal History
Katharine Graham
Alfred A. Knopf |
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
Edward J. Larson
BasicBooks |
How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel
|
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin |
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
W.W. Norton |
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| 1999 | Lindbergh
A. Scott Berg
G.P. Putnam's Sons |
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
Oxford University Press |
Wit
Margaret Edson
|
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 2000 | Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Stacy Schiff
Random House |
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
David M. Kennedy
Oxford University Pres |
Dinner With Friends
Donald Margulies
|
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower
W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press |
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| 2001 | W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
David Levering Lewis
Henry Holt and Compan |
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
Alfred A. Knopf |
Proof
David Auburn
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Random House |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix
HarperCollins |
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| 2002 | John Adams
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster |
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Louis Menand
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks
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Empire Falls
Richard Russo
Alfred A. Knopf |
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Diane McWhorter
Simon & Schuster |
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| 2003 | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
Alfred A. Knopf |
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Rick Atkinson
Henry Holt and Company |
Anna in the Tropics
Nilo Cruz
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Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Power
Basic Books |
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| 2004 | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
William Taubman
W.W. Norton |
A Nation Under Our Feet
Steven Hahn
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
I Am My Own Wife
Doug Wright
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Amistad/HarperCollins |
Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum
Doubleday/Random House, Inc. |
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| 2005 | De Kooning: An American Master
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Alfred A. Knopf |
Washington's Crossing
David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press |
Doubt, a parable
John Patrick Shanley
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll
The Penguin Press |
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| 2006 | American Prometheus
Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
Alfred A. Knopf |
Polio: An American Story
David M. Oshinsky
Oxford University Press |
March
Geraldine Brooks
Viking |
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins
Henry Holt |
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| 2007 | The Most Famous Man in Amerca: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Debby Applegate
Doubleday |
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Alfred A. Knopf |
Rabbit Hole
David Lindsay-Abaire
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Knopf |
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Alfred A. Knopf |
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| 2008 | Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
John Matteson
W.W. Norton |
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848
Daniel Walker Howe
Oxford University Press |
August: Osage County
Tracy Letts
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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
Riverhead |
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
Saul Friedlander
HarperCollins |
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| 2009 | American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham
Random House |
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed
W.W. Norton & Company |
Ruined
Lynn Nottage
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Olive Kittredge
Elizabeth Strout
Random |
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
Doubleday |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 2010 | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
T. J. Stiles
Alfred A. Knopf |
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed
The Penguin Press |
Next to Normal
music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
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Tinkers
Paul Harding
Bellevue Literary Press |
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
David E. Hoffman
Doubleday |
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| 2011 | Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow
The Penguin Press |
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric Foner
W. W. Norton & Company |
Clybourne Park
Bruce Norris
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A Visit From The Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
Knopf |
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Scribner |
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| 2012 | George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis
Penguin Press |
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
Viking Press |
Water by the Spoonful
Quiara Alegría Hudes
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
W. W. Norton & Company |
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| 2013 | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss
Crown Publishers |
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Fredrik Logevall
Random House |
Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar
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The Orphan Master’s Son
Adam Johnson
Random House |
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King
Harper |
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| 2014 | Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Alan Taylor
W.W. Norton & Company |
The Flick
Annie Baker
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Little, Brown |
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Dan Fagin
Bantam Books |
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| 2015 | The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
David I. Kertzer
Random House |
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Elizabeth A. Fenn
Hill and Wang |
Between Riverside and Crazy
Stephen Adly Guirgis
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr,
Scribner/ Simon & Schuster |
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Henry Holt & Co. |
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| 2016 | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
Penguin Press |
Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Grove Press |
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick
Doubleday |
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| 2017 | The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar
Random House |
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House) |
Sweat
Lynn Nottage
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday/Penguin Random House |
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Crown |
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| 2018 | Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline Fraser
Metropolitan Books |
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
Jack E. Davis
Liveright |
Cost of Living
Martyna Majok
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Less
Andrew Sean Greer
Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company |
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman, Jr.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers |
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| 2019 | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart
Oxford University Press |
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
Simon & Schuster |
Fairview
Jackie Sibbles Drury
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The Overstory
Richard Powers
Willian Heinemann |
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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| Year | Biography | History | Drama | Fiction | General Non-Fiction | Memoir | ||
| 2020 | Sontag: Her Life and Work
Benjamin Moser
Ecco |
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
W. Caleb McDaniel
Oxford University Press |
A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson
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The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
Doubleday / Penguin Random House |
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| 2021 | The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company |
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain
Liveright/Norton |
The Hot Wing King
Katori Hall
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The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich
Harper |
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
David Zucchino
Atlantic Monthly Press |
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| 2022 | Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly
Bloomsbury |
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Fat Ham
James Ijames
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The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen
NYRB |
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott
Random House |
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| 2023 | G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Beverly Gage
Viking |
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Jefferson Cowie
Basic Books |
English
Sanaz Toosi
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Viking Books / Penguin Random House |
Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu
Doubleday |
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| 2024 |
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No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Jacqueline Jones
Basic Books |
Primary Trust
Eboni Booth
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Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips
Knopf / Penguin Random House |
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan Thrall
Metropolitan Books |
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza
Hogarth / Penguin Random House |
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| 2025 | Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Jason Roberts
Random House |
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Purpose
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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James
Percival Everett
Doubleday / Penguin Random House |
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Benjamin Nathans
Princeton University Press |
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Tessa Hulls
MCD |
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| 2026 | Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
Amanda Vaill
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore
Liveright |
Liberation
Bess Wohl
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Angel Down
Daniel Kraus
Atria Books |
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone
Crown |
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers |