National Book Award for Nonfiction
National Book Foundation
One of the major annual American literary awards, honoring an outstanding work of nonfiction by a U.S. author, spanning history, science, biography, memoir, and current affairs.
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2025
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisWon
Omar El Akkad
- Shortlisted
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Julia Ioffe
- Things in Nature Merely GrowShortlisted
Yiyun Li
- Shortlisted
Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
Claudia Rowe
- Shortlisted
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
Jordan Thomas
2024
- Won
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie
- Shortlisted
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Kate Manne
- Shortlisted
Whiskey Tender
Deborah Jackson Taffa
2023
- Won
- Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter WorldShortlisted
John Vaillant
- Shortlisted
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza
- Ordinary NotesShortlisted
Christina Sharpe
- Shortlisted
2022
- Won
- Shortlisted
- His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial JusticeShortlisted
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
- Shortlisted
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O'Rourke
- Shortlisted
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
2021
- Won
- A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black PerformanceShortlisted
Hanif Abdurraqib
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Lucas Bessire
- Shortlisted
Tastes Like War: A Memoir
Grace M. Cho
2020
- The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XWon
Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- Shortlisted
How To Make a Slave and Other Essays
Jerald Walker
- Shortlisted
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
Jenn Shapland
- The Undocumented AmericansShortlisted
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian TerritoryShortlisted
Claudio Saunt
2019
- The Yellow HouseWon
Sarah M. Broom
- SolitaryShortlisted
Albert Woodfox with Leslie George
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Shortlisted
What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Carolyn Forché
2018
- The New Negro: The Life of Alain LockeWon
Jeffrey C. Stewart
- American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early RepublicShortlisted
Victoria Johnson
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Colin G. Calloway
- Shortlisted
2017
- Won
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape AmericaShortlisted
Frances FitzGerald
2016
- Won
- Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyShortlisted
Heather Ann. Thompson
- Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of WarShortlisted
Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning On the American RightShortlisted
Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Shortlisted
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Andres Resendez
2015
- Between the World and MeWon
Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Hold Still: A Memoir with PhotographsShortlisted
Sally Mann
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Ordinary Light: A Memoir
Tracy K. Smith
- Shortlisted
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Sy Montgomery
2014
- Won
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
No Good Men Among The Living
Anand Gopal
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
The Meaning of Human Existence
E.O. Wilson
2013
- The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New AmericaWon
George Packer
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Wendy Lower
- Shortlisted
2012
- Won
- Shortlisted
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Anthony Shadid
- Shortlisted
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945–1956
Anne Applebaum
- Shortlisted
The Boy Kings of Texas
Domingo Martinez
- The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonShortlisted
Robert A. Caro
2011
- The Swerve: How the World Became ModernWon
Stephen Greenblatt
- Shortlisted
- Malcolm X: A Life of ReinventionShortlisted
Manning Marable
- Shortlisted
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love & Fallout
Lauren Redniss
- Shortlisted
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
Deborah Baker
2010
- Just KidsWon
Patti Smith
- Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/IraqShortlisted
John W. Dower
- Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in WarShortlisted
Megan K. Stack
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaShortlisted
Barbara Demick
- Shortlisted
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Justin Spring
2009
- Won
- Following the Water: A Hydromancer's NotebookShortlisted
David M. Carroll
- Shortlisted
Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Greg Grandin
- Shortlisted
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Sean B. Carroll
- Shortlisted
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Adrienne Mayor
2008
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyWon
Annette Gordon-Reed
- Shortlisted
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Jim Sheeler
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American IdealsShortlisted
Jane Mayer
- Shortlisted
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
Joan Wickersham
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil WarShortlisted
Drew Gilpin Faust
2007
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIAWon
Tim Weiner
- Brother, I'm DyingShortlisted
Edwidge Danticat
- Shortlisted
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
- Shortlisted
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Arnold Rampersad
- Shortlisted
2006
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlWon
Timothy Egan
- At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68Shortlisted
Taylor Branch
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green ZoneShortlisted
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Shortlisted
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Shortlisted
Lawrence Wright
2005
- The Year of Magical ThinkingWon
Joan Didion
- 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin TowersShortlisted
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
Leo Damrosch
- Shortlisted
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
Alan Burdick
2004
- Won
- 9/11 Commission ReportShortlisted
9/11 Commission
- Shortlisted
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Jennifer Gonnerman
- Washington's CrossingShortlisted
David Hackett Fischer
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became ShakespeareShortlisted
Stephen Greenblatt
2003
- Won
- Gulag: A HistoryShortlisted
Anne Applebaum
- Shortlisted
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
John D'Emilio
- Shortlisted
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
George Howe Colt
- Shortlisted
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson
2002
- Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonWon
Robert A. Caro
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past through Our Genes
Steve Olson
- Shortlisted
The Last American Man
Elizabeth Gilbert
- Shortlisted
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
Devra Davis
2001
- The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of DepressionWon
Andrew Solomon
- American Chica: Two Worlds, One ChildhoodShortlisted
Marie Arana
- Shortlisted
My Story as Told by Water
David James Duncan
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
2000
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship EssexWon
Nathaniel Philbrick
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
Jacques Barzun
- Shortlisted
- W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963Shortlisted
David Levering Lewis
1999
- Won
- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern WarShortlisted
Mark Bowden
- Shortlisted
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos
- Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of ColetteShortlisted
Judith Thurman
- Shortlisted
Woman: An Intimate Geography
Natalie Angier
1998
- Slaves in the FamilyWon
Edward Ball
- A Slant of Sun: One Child's CourageShortlisted
Beth Kephart
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom
- Shortlisted
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
Yaffa Eliach
1997
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas JeffersonWon
Joseph J. Ellis
- Shortlisted
My Brother
Jamaica Kincaid
- Shortlisted
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
David I. Kertzer
- Shortlisted
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Thomas Lynch
- Whittaker Chambers: A BiographyShortlisted
Sam Tanenhaus
1996
- Won
- Shortlisted
Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
Anne Roiphe
- Shortlisted
The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908–1958
Cary Reich
- Shortlisted
The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
Paul Hendrickson
- Shortlisted
The Temple Bombing
Melissa Fay Greene
1995
- The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismWon
Tina Rosenberg
- A Civil ActionShortlisted
Jonathan Harr
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of LifeShortlisted
Daniel C. Dennett
- Shortlisted
Ghosts of Mississippi
Maryanne Vollers
- Shortlisted
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
Dennis Covington
1994
- How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final ChapterWon
Sherwin B. Nuland
- Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers, Sons, Race and SocietyShortlisted
John Edgar Wideman
- Shortlisted
In Pharoah's Army: Memories of the Lost War
Tobias Wolff
- Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence ThomasShortlisted
Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson
- The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early AmericaShortlisted
John Putnam Demos
1993
- United States: Essays 1952–1992Won
Gore Vidal
- Battlefield: Farming a Civil War BattlegroundShortlisted
Peter Svenson
- Shortlisted
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
Richard Slotkin
- Shortlisted
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
William Leach
- W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919Shortlisted
David Levering Lewis
1992
- Becoming a Man: Half a Life StoryWon
Paul Monette
- Genius: The Life and Science of Richard FeynmanShortlisted
James Gleick
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
The Promise of the New South
Edward L. Ayers
- TrumanShortlisted
David McCullough
1991
- Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western CultureWon
Orlando Patterson
- Anne Sexton: A BiographyShortlisted
Diane Wood Middlebrook
- Praying for SheetrockShortlisted
Melissa Fay Greene
- Shortlisted
The Jameses: A Family Narrative
R.W.B. Lewis
- Shortlisted
Why Americans Hate Politics
E.J. Dionne, Jr.
1990
- Won
- Jackson Pollock: An American SagaShortlisted
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
- Shortlisted
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
Roger Morris
- Shortlisted
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1847–1952
T.H. Watkins
- Shortlisted
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School
Samuel G. Freedman
1989
- From Beirut to JerusalemWon
Thomas L. Friedman
- Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century EndsShortlisted
William Pfaff
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution
Marilynne Robinson
- Shortlisted
1988
- Won
- Freud: A Life for Our TimeShortlisted
Peter Gay
- Shortlisted
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder
Jack McLaughlin
- Nora: The Real Life of Molly BloomShortlisted
Brenda Maddox
- Shortlisted
1987
- The Making of the Atomic BombWon
Richard Rhodes
- Chaos: Making a New ScienceShortlisted
James Gleick
- Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas WolfeShortlisted
David Herbert Donald
- Shortlisted
Mothers in the Fatherland
Claudia Koonz
- Shortlisted
New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
Robert A.M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin, and Thomas Mellins
1986
- Won
- Shortlisted
The Paper: The Life and Times of the New York Herald Tribune
Richard Kluger
- Shortlisted
The Young Hemingway
Michael S. Reynolds
- Shortlisted
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
Theodore Rosengarten
- War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific WarShortlisted
John W. Dower
1985
- Won
- ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space AgeShortlisted
Walter A. McDougall
- Shortlisted
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Use of Human Heredity
Daniel J. Kevles
1984
- Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845Won
Robert V. Remini
- Becoming William JamesShortlisted
Howard M. Feinstein
- Shortlisted
One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Thomas More: A Biography
Richard Marius
1983
- Won
- Won
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
Fox Butterfield
- Isak Dinesen: The Life of a StorytellerWon
Judith Thurman
- Nathaniel Hawthorne in His TimesWon
James R. Mellow
- National DefenseWon
James Fallows
- Utopian Thought in the Western WorldWon
Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
- Won
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
- Alice James: A BiographyShortlisted
Jean Strouse
- Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of NatureShortlisted
Heinz R. Pagels
- Shortlisted
Darwin to DNA: Molecules to Humanity (new)
G. Ledyard Stebbins
- Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New EnglandShortlisted
John Putnam Demos
- Shortlisted
- Grant: A BiographyShortlisted
William S. McFeely
- Growing UpShortlisted
Russell Baker
- Shortlisted
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
David McClintock
- Is There No Place on Earth for Me?Shortlisted
Susan Sheehan
- Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of MonticelloShortlisted
Dumas Malone
- Shortlisted
Joe McCarthy and the Press
Edwin R. Bayley
- Shortlisted
Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
Morris Kline
- Shortlisted
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
Joanna Stratton
- Shortlisted
Portrait in the Wild: Animal Behavior in the Western World
Cynthia Moss
- Shortlisted
Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives in Contemporary Science
Philip J. Hilts
- Shortlisted
Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford: The Early Years
Lewis Mumford
- Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old SouthShortlisted
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- The Fate of the EarthShortlisted
Jonathan Schell
- Shortlisted
The Germans
Gordon A. Craig
- Shortlisted
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance
Ernst Mayr
- Shortlisted
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Robert Darnton
- Shortlisted
The Mapmakers
John Noble Wilford
- Shortlisted
The Mathematical Experience
Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
- Shortlisted
The Medical Detectives
Berton Roueché
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000
William H. McNeill
- Shortlisted
The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
Melvin Konner
- Shortlisted
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
Robert A. Caro
- Shortlisted
Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949–1953
Robert J. Donovan
- White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African HistoryShortlisted
George M. Fredrickson
- Shortlisted
William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked
Paul Mariani
1982
- Lucy: The Beginnings of HumankindWon
Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey
- Mornings on HorsebackWon
David McCullough
- Naming NamesWon
Victor S. Navasky
- People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879Won
Peter J. Powell
- Won
- The Generation of 1914Won
Robert Wohl
- The Soul of a New MachineWon
Tracy Kidder
- Walter Lippmann and the American CenturyWon
Ronald Steel
- Shortlisted
- African Calliope: A Journey to the SudanShortlisted
Edward Hoagland
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
- Bernard Berenson: The Making of a ConnoisseurShortlisted
Ernest Samuels
- Bumblebee EconomicsShortlisted
Bernd Heinrich
- Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and LifeShortlisted
Eric Chaisson
- Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific CreativityShortlisted
Howard E. Gruber and Paul H. Barrett
- Disturbing the UniverseShortlisted
Freeman Dyson
- Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944–1945Shortlisted
Russell F. Weigley
- Shortlisted
- Grant: A BiographyShortlisted
William S. McFeely
- Shortlisted
Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation
Landon Jones
- Shortlisted
Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
Joseph P. Lash
- Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of MonticelloShortlisted
Dumas Malone
- Shortlisted
Life in Darwin's Universe: Evolution and the Cosmos
Gene Bylinsky
- Shortlisted
Mary Chestnut's Civil War
C. Vann Woodward (editor)
- Shortlisted
Maugham
Ted Morgan
- National DefenseShortlisted
James Fallows
- Shortlisted
Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875
Barbara Novak
- Peter the Great: His Life and WorldShortlisted
Robert K. Massie
- Shortlisted
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
Janet Malcolm
- Shortlisted
Russian Journal
Andrea Lee
- Shortlisted
The Beechers
Milton Rugoff
- Shortlisted
The Dream of the Golden Mountains
Malcolm Cowley
- Shortlisted
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
Guy Davenport
- Shortlisted
The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System
Charles Rembar
- The Mismeasure of ManShortlisted
Steven J. Gould
- Shortlisted
The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Species
Steven M. Stanley
- Shortlisted
The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophy
Guy Murchie
- Waldo Emerson: A BiographyShortlisted
Gay Wilson Allen
- Shortlisted
Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East
Donald Neff
1981
- Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of SlaveryWon
Leon F. Litwack
- China MenWon
Maxine Hong Kingston
- Christianity, Social Tolerance and HomosexualityWon
John Boswell
- Samuel Beckett: A BiographyWon
Deirdre Bair
- Won
- Won
- The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural HistoryWon
Stephen Jay Gould
- Walt Whitman: A LifeWon
Justin Kaplan
- A People's History of the United StatesShortlisted
Howard Zinn
- American Dreams: Lost and FoundShortlisted
Studs Terkel
- Shortlisted
Being Bernard Berenson
Meryle Secrest
- Black Holes: the Edge of the Space, the End of TimeShortlisted
Walter Sullivan
- Bloomsbury: A House of LionsShortlisted
Leon Edel
- Shortlisted
- CosmosShortlisted
Carl Sagan
- Facts of LifeShortlisted
Maureen Howard
- Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and CultureShortlisted
Carl E. Schorske
- Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary FaithShortlisted
James H. Billington
- Shortlisted
From a Limestone Ledge
John Graves
- Shortlisted
Galaxies
Timothy Ferris
- Shortlisted
In the Matter of Color: The Colonial Period
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
- Shortlisted
Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply
Dan Morgan
- Munich: The Price of PeaceShortlisted
Telford Taylor
- Naming NamesShortlisted
Victor S. Navasky
- Nathaniel Hawthorne in His TimesShortlisted
James R. Mellow
- Shortlisted
Orwell: The Transformation
Peter Štanský and William Abrahams
- Peter the Great: His Life and WorldShortlisted
Robert K. Massie
- Shortlisted
The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity after the Sixteenth Century
Claude C. Albritton
- Shortlisted
The Age of Reform, 1250–1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
Steven Ozment
- Shortlisted
The Big Bang: The Creation and Evolution of the Universe
Joseph Silk
- Shortlisted
The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s
Malcolm Cowley
- Shortlisted
The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
Richard Drinnon
- Shortlisted
The Old Patagonian Express
Paul Theroux
- The Powers That BeShortlisted
David Halberstam
- Shortlisted
The Shaping of America: A People's History of the Young Republic
Page Smith
- The White AlbumShortlisted
Joan Didion
- Shortlisted
The Wooing of Earth
René Dubos
- Shortlisted
Willa Cather: A Critical Biography
E. K. Brown
1980
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th CenturyWon
Barbara W. Tuchman
- A Severe MercyWon
Sheldon Vanauken
- Won
- Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme CourtWon
Elder Witt (editor)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidWon
Douglas Hofstadter
- Julia Child and More CompanyWon
Julia Child
- Lauren Bacall by MyselfWon
Lauren Bacall
- Max Perkins: Editor of GeniusWon
A. Scott Berg
- The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–presentWon
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh
- Won
- Won
- The Gnostic GospelsWon
Elaine Pagels
- The Right StuffWon
Tom Wolfe
- The Rise of Theodore RooseveltWon
Edmund Morris
- The Snow LeopardWon
Peter Matthiessen
- The White House YearsWon
Henry A. Kissinger
- A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888–1889Shortlisted
Frederic Morton
- Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy EaterShortlisted
Calvin Trillin
- America RevisedShortlisted
Frances FitzGerald
- American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964Shortlisted
William Manchester
- Arts in America: A BibliographyShortlisted
Bernard Karpel
- Babysense: A Practical and Supportive Guide to Baby CareShortlisted
Frances Wells Burck
- Bernard Berenson: The Making of a ConnoisseurShortlisted
Ernest Samuels
- Black Holes and Warped SpacetimeShortlisted
William J. Kaufmann
- Bloomsbury: A House of LionsShortlisted
Leon Edel
- Bumblebee EconomicsShortlisted
Bernd Heinrich
- Shortlisted
- Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled PeopleShortlisted
Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow
- Disturbing the UniverseShortlisted
Freeman Dyson
- Encyclopedia of American ReligionsShortlisted
J. Gordon Melton
- Shortlisted
Encyclopedia of China Today
Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sopin, and Stephen Andors (eds.)
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Front and Center
John Houseman
- Shortlisted
I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases
Stuart Berg Flexner
- Shortlisted
I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can
Barbara Gordon
- Shortlisted
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
- In Search of History: A Personal AdventureShortlisted
Theodore H. White
- Shortlisted
Index to Children's Songs
Carolyn Sue Peterson and Ann D. Fenton (eds.)
- Shortlisted
Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture
Brevard S. Childs
- Shortlisted
Kids: Day In and Day Out: a parents' manual
Elisabeth L. Scharlatt (editor)
- Shortlisted
Living Corals
Douglas Faulkner and Richard Chesher
- Shortlisted
Love Is Stronger Than Death
Peter Kreeft
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Marquand: An American Life
Millicent Bell
- Munich: The Price of PeaceShortlisted
Telford Taylor
- Shortlisted
Obituaries
William Saroyan
- Shortlisted
Of Wolves and Men
Barry Lopez
- Shortlisted
Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case
Allen Weinstein
- Shortlisted
Pregnancy and Childbirth: The Complete Guide for a New Life
Tracy Hotchner
- Shortlisted
Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It
Robert Ellis Smith
- Robert Kennedy and His TimesShortlisted
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- Samuel JohnsonShortlisted
W. Jackson Bate
- Shortlisted
The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach
Jack B. Rogers and Donald K. McKim
- Shortlisted
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
Horace Freeland Judson
- Shortlisted
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
Thomas S. Kuhn
- Shortlisted
The Helper
Catherine Marshall
- Shortlisted
The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
Peter L. Berger
- Shortlisted
The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
Farallones Institute
- Shortlisted
The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History
James Lincoln Collier
- Shortlisted
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA
Thomas Powers
- Shortlisted
The Ms. Guide to a Woman's Health
Cynthia W. Cooke, M.D., and Susan Dworkin
- Shortlisted
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America
Daniel J. Kevles
- The Powers That BeShortlisted
David Halberstam
- Shortlisted
The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise
Nathan Pritikin with Patrick M. McGrady
- Shortlisted
The Solar Age Resource Book
Solar Age magazine editors
- Shortlisted
The Thin Edge: Coast and Man in Crisis
Anne W. Simon
- Utopian Thought in the Western WorldShortlisted
Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
- Shortlisted
Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years from the Experiences of the Sage Program
Gay Gaer Luce
1979
- Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763Won
Richard Beale Davis
- Robert Kennedy and His TimesWon
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- The Snow LeopardWon
Peter Matthiessen
- American Caesar: Douglas MacArthurShortlisted
William Manchester
- Shortlisted
Germany, 1866–1945
Gordon A. Craig
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule
Reinhard Bendix
- Shortlisted
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries
Meyer Schapiro
- New York JewShortlisted
Alfred Kazin
- Shortlisted
Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats
William M. Murphy
- Shortlisted
Remembering Poets
Donald Hall
- Shortlisted
Stable Peace
Kenneth E. Boulding
- Shortlisted
The American Railroad Passenger Car
John H. White, Jr.
- Shortlisted
This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Wind
Ivan Doig
- Shortlisted
Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf
Phyllis Rose
1978
- Samuel JohnsonWon
W. Jackson Bate
- Won
- Won
Winners and Losers
Gloria Emerson
- A Dual AutobiographyShortlisted
Will Durant and Ariel Durant
- A Species of EternityShortlisted
Joseph Kastner
- Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. PershingShortlisted
Frank Vandiver
- Brother to a DragonflyShortlisted
Will D. Campbell
- Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–48Shortlisted
Robert J. Donovan
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Gold and Iron
Fritz Stern
- Shortlisted
Pink Collar Workers
Louise Kapp Howe
- Shortlisted
The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized
Henry Steele Commager
- Shortlisted
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
- Shortlisted
The Vast Majority
Michael Harrington
1977
- Norman Thomas: The Last IdealistWon
W. A. Swanberg
- Won
- Won
- America as ArtShortlisted
Joshua C. Taylor
- Awakening from the American DreamShortlisted
Rufus E. Miles, Jr.
- Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in AmericaShortlisted
Lawrence Goodwyn
- Dostoyevsky: A Writer in His TimeShortlisted
Joseph Frank
- Shortlisted
Kicked a Building Lately?
Ada Louise Huxtable
- Shortlisted
Letters of E. B. White
E. B. White
- Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for EqualityShortlisted
Richard Kluger
- Shortlisted
The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume VI 1955–1966
Anaïs Nin
- Shortlisted
The Lives of Roger Casement
B. L. Reid
- Shortlisted
The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise
Dorothy Dinnerstein
- Shortlisted
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
Peter Collier and David Horowitz
- Shortlisted
Woman's Body, Woman's Right: The History of Birth Control in America
Linda Gordon
1976
- Passage to AraratWon
Michael J. Arlen
- The Great War and Modern MemoryWon
Paul Fussell
- The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823Won
David Brion Davis
- A Time to DieShortlisted
Tim Wicker
- A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and its LegaciesShortlisted
Martin J. Sherwin
- American Slavery, American FreedomShortlisted
Edmund S. Morgan
- Shortlisted
Charles Ives and His America
Frank R. Rossiter
- Edith WhartonShortlisted
R. W. B. Lewis
- Shortlisted
Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations
Richard Barnet and Ronald E. Muller
- Lamy of Santa FeShortlisted
Paul Horgan
- Shortlisted
Michelangelo's Last Paintings
Leo Steinberg
- Shortlisted
Minamata
W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith
- Shortlisted
Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko
Robert Rosenblum
- Shortlisted
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
John Kenneth Galbraith
- Shortlisted
Njinsky Dancing
Lincoln Kirstein
- Shortlisted
Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change
Peter L. Berger
- Shortlisted
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade after World War
Charles S. Maier
- Shortlisted
Russia Under the Old Regime
Richard Pipes
- Shortlisted
The Female Imagination
Patricia Meyer Spacks
- Shortlisted
The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination
Lawrence L. Langer
1975
- All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate ShawWon
Theodore Rosengarten
- Anarchy, State, and UtopiaWon
Robert Nozick
- Interpretation of SchizophreniaWon
Silvano Arieti
- Marcel ProustWon
Roger Shattuck
- The Life of Emily DickinsonWon
Richard B. Sewall
- The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology WatcherWon
Lewis Thomas
- The Ordeal of Thomas HutchinsonWon
Bernard Bailyn
- Shortlisted
"Your Isadora": The Love Story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig
Francis Steegmuller
- Shortlisted
16 Studies
H. W. Janson
- All the President's MenShortlisted
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
- Shortlisted
Bix: Man and Legend
Richard M. Sudhalter and Philip R. Evans
- Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono RebellionShortlisted
Peter H. Wood
- Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's JourneysShortlisted
Michael Collins
- Shortlisted
Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse
Joe Eszterhas
- Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and CompanyShortlisted
James R. Mellow
- Shortlisted
Continents in Motion: The New Earth Debate
Walter S. Sullivan
- Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific CreativityShortlisted
Howard E. Gruber and Paul H. Barrett
- Shortlisted
- Egon Schiele's PortraitsShortlisted
Alessandra Comini
- Shortlisted
- Einstein and the Generation of ScienceShortlisted
Lewis Feuer
- Essays on Music in the Western WorldShortlisted
Oliver Strunk
- Executive Privilege: A Constitutional MythShortlisted
Raoul Berger
- Shortlisted
Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism
Rosemary Radford Ruether
- Shortlisted
Friar Thomas D'Aquino: his life, thought, and work
James A. Weisheipl
- Shortlisted
Gesualdo: The Man and His Music
Glenn Watkins
- Shortlisted
H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887–1915
J. L. Heilbron
- Shortlisted
Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins
Dorothy B. Vitaliano
- Shortlisted
Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero
Eleanor Perényi
- Shortlisted
Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater
Marjorie L. Hoover
- Shortlisted
Muscle and Blood
Rachel Scott
- Shortlisted
Myths, Models and Paradigms
Ian Barbour
- Shortlisted
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
Stanley Milgram
- Shortlisted
Patrick Henry: A Biography
Richard Beeman
- Shortlisted
Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians
Barbara Myerhoff
- Shortlisted
Religion and Revolution
Guenter Lewy
- Shortlisted
Religious America
Philip Garvin and Julia Welch
- Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves MadeShortlisted
Eugene D. Genovese
- Shortlisted
Rome Before Avignon
Robert Brentano
- Shortlisted
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
- Shortlisted
Seduction and Betrayal
Elizabeth Hardwick
- Shortlisted
Soul-Force: African Heritage in Afro-American Religion
Leonard E. Barrett
- Shortlisted
Strikes in France, 1830–1968
Edward Shorter and Charles Tilly
- Shortlisted
Style in History
Peter Gay
- Shortlisted
The Black Book
Middleton A. Harris with others (uncredited editor Toni Morrison)
- Shortlisted
The Chasm: The Life and Death of a Great Experiment in Ghetto Education
Robert Jean Campbell, M.D.
- Shortlisted
The Civil War: A Narrative
Shelby Foote
- Shortlisted
The Curve of Binding Energy
John McPhee
- Shortlisted
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
Erich S. Gruen
- Shortlisted
The Logic of World Power: An Inquiry into the Origins, Currents, and Contradictions of World Politics
Franz Schurmann
- Shortlisted
The Making of Modern Drama: A Study of Büchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Handke
Richard Gilman
- Shortlisted
The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise
Mira Wilkins
- Shortlisted
The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity
John Murray Cuddihy
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
The Revolutionary Left in Spain
Gerald H. Meaker
- Shortlisted
The Spirit of Eastern Christendom 600–1700
Jaroslav Pelikan
- Shortlisted
The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto
Wallace Stegner
- Shortlisted
The Voyages of Apollo: The Exploration of the Moon
Richard S. Lewis
- Shortlisted
The Working Class Majority
Andrew Levinson
- Shortlisted
Utopian Communism in France
Christopher H. Johnson
- Shortlisted
Working
Studs Terkel
- Shortlisted
Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations, 1750–Present
John R. Gillis
- Shortlisted
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
1974
- Deeper into MoviesWon
Pauline Kael
- Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite TasksWon
Maurice Natanson
- Won
Life: The Unfinished Experiment
S. E. Luria
- Won
- Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the HistorianWon
John Leonard Clive
- Shortlisted
A Decade of Music
B. H. Haggin
- A History of American LawShortlisted
Lawrence M. Friedman
- Shortlisted
- Are Quanta Real?: A Galilean DialogueShortlisted
J. M. Jauch
- Autumn of the EagleShortlisted
George Laycock
- Behavior: The Control of PerceptionShortlisted
William T. Powers
- Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of SolitudeShortlisted
Robert V. Bruce
- Shortlisted
- Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis JoplinShortlisted
Myra Friedman
- Shortlisted
Catherine Beecher
Kathryn Kish Sklar
- Deaths of ManShortlisted
Edwin S. Shneidman
- Desert: The American SouthwestShortlisted
Ruth Kirk and Louis Kirk
- Economics and the Public PurposeShortlisted
John Kenneth Galbraith
- EinsteinShortlisted
Jeremy Bernstein
- Shortlisted
Elie Nadelman
Lincoln Kirstein
- Explaining Music: Essays and ExplorationsShortlisted
Leonard B. Meyer
- Forewords and AfterwordsShortlisted
W. H. Auden
- Shortlisted
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frank Freidel
- Shortlisted
Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Teacher, Scholar
Ray Allen Billington
- Shortlisted
Generative Man: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Don Browning
- Shortlisted
Genetic Diversity and Human Equality
Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Shortlisted
Genetic Fix: The Next Technological Revolution
Amitai Etzioni
- Shortlisted
Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations
Richard Ellmann
- Shortlisted
History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought
Frederic Wakeman
- Shortlisted
Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor Executioners
Robert Jay Lifton
- Shortlisted
In Search of Ali Mahmoud: An American Woman in Egypt
Vivian Gornick
- Shortlisted
Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in America
Walter Karp
- Shortlisted
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Prophetic Voice, Vol. II
Lester G. Crocker
- Shortlisted
Jean-Paul Sartre
Marjorie Grene
- Shortlisted
Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business
Jessica Mitford
- Shortlisted
Lawyer's Lawyer: The Life of John W. Davis
William H. Harbaugh
- Shortlisted
Malcolm Lowry: A Biography
Douglas Day
- Shortlisted
Mandelstam
Clarence Brown
- Shortlisted
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Vol. II
Suzanne K. Langer
- Shortlisted
O'Neill Volume II: Son and Artist
Louis Sheaffer
- Shortlisted
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits
Lillian Hellman
- Shortlisted
Puritanism in America: New Culture in a New World
Larzer Ziff
- Shortlisted
Regeneration Through Violence: the Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
Richard Slotkin
- Shortlisted
Riches, Class and Power Before the Civil War
Edward Pessen
- Shortlisted
Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times (1613–1662)
J. H. Adamson and H. F. Folland
- Shortlisted
Sixties Going on Seventies (Perspectives on the Sixties)
Nora Sayre
- Shortlisted
Stalin
Adam Ulam
- Shortlisted
Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879–1929: A Study in History and Personality
Robert C. Tucker
- Shortlisted
Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 1
Harry Austryn Wolfson
- Shortlisted
Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands
Robert I. Levy
- Shortlisted
The Americans
Daniel J. Boorstin
- Shortlisted
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Erich Fromm
- Shortlisted
The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-Cultures in America
Laurence Veysey
- Shortlisted
The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory
Trent Schroyer
- The Devil and John Foster DullesShortlisted
Townsend Hoopes
- Shortlisted
The Imperial Presidency
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Shortlisted
The Inspector
Saul Steinberg
- Shortlisted
The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970
Stephan Thernstrom
- Shortlisted
The Saturday Night Special and Other Guns
Robert Sherrill
- Shortlisted
The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's Religion
Harvey Cox
- Shortlisted
The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience
Peter Davies
- Shortlisted
The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War
Daniel Aaron
- Shortlisted
Venice: Maritime Republic
Frederic C. Lane
- Shortlisted
Walking the Dead Diamond River
Edward Hoagland
1973
- Won
A Religious History of the American People
S. E. Ahlstrom
- DiderotWon
Arthur M. Wilson
- George Washington: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799Won
James Thomas Flexner
- Won
- The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil WarWon
Robert Manson Myers
- The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey RelationsWon
George B. Schaller
- Shortlisted
- Aquaculture: the farming and husbandry of freshwater and marine organismsShortlisted
John E. Bardach, John H. Ryther and William O. McLarney
- Shortlisted
Attica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on Attica
Garry Wills
- Shortlisted
- Blackberry Winter: My Earlier YearsShortlisted
Margaret Mead
- Shortlisted
Camus and Sartre
Germaine Brée
- Cancer: The Wayward Cell; its origins, nature, and treatmentShortlisted
Victor Richards, M.D.,
- Shortlisted
Combat in the Erogenous Zone: Writings on Love, Hate, and Sex
Ingrid Bengis
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
- Eleanor: The Years AloneShortlisted
Joseph P. Lash
- Shortlisted
- FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882–1928Shortlisted
Kenneth S. Davis
- Fictional Transfigurations of JesusShortlisted
Theodore Ziolkowski
- Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in VietnamShortlisted
Frances FitzGerald
- Shortlisted
Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being A Black Poet
Nikki Giovanni
- Shortlisted
Henry James: The Master, 1901–1916
Leon Edel
- Shortlisted
Herblock's State of the Union
Herbert Block
- Shortlisted
Herself
Hortense Calisher
- Shortlisted
Jean Renoir: The World of His Films
Leo Braudy
- Shortlisted
Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra
Ann Zwinger and Beatrice Willard
- Shortlisted
Lesser Lives
Diane Johnson
- Shortlisted
Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolution
Stanley Karnow
- Shortlisted
Mao's Way
Edward E. Rice
- Shortlisted
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography
Eleanor Flexner
- Shortlisted
Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times
Morris Kline
- Shortlisted
Memoirs, 1950–1963
George F. Kennan
- Shortlisted
Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America
John Diggins
- Shortlisted
Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and Moral Philosophy
Arthur Danto
- Shortlisted
On Film: Unpopular Essays on a Popular Art
Vernon Young
- Shortlisted
Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
Leo Steinberg
- Shortlisted
Person and God in a Spanish Valley
William A. Christian
- Shortlisted
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
Daniel Hoffman
- Shortlisted
Realism
Linda Nochlin
- Shortlisted
Run-Through
John Houseman
- Shortlisted
Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union
Loren Graham
- Shortlisted
Science and Sentiment in America
Morton White
- Shortlisted
Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature
Stanley Fish
- Shortlisted
Shakespeare and the Energies of Drama
Michael Goldman
- Shortlisted
Sincerity and Authenticity
Lionel Trilling
- Shortlisted
South to a Very Old Place
Albert Murray
- Shortlisted
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713
Richard Dunn
- Shortlisted
The Almanac of American Politics
Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa and Douglas Matthews
- Shortlisted
The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam
- Shortlisted
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann
Herman H. Goldstine
- Shortlisted
The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks
Harold Rosenberg
- Shortlisted
The Domination of Nature
William Leiss
- Shortlisted
The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers Project, 1935–43
Jerre Mangione
- Shortlisted
The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book
Arlene Croce
- Shortlisted
The Glorious Revolution in America
David Lovejoy
- Shortlisted
The Hidden Injuries of Class
Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
- Shortlisted
The Mountain People
Colin M. Turnbull
- Shortlisted
The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House
James David Barber
- Shortlisted
The Senses of Walden
Stanley Cavell
- Shortlisted
The Tree Where Man Was Born
Peter Matthiessen
- Shortlisted
The Unknown Orwell
Peter Štanský and William Abrahams
- Shortlisted
The Will to be Human
Silvano Arieti, M.D.
- Shortlisted
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944
Robert O. Paxton
- Shortlisted
Wallace and Natural Selection
H. Lewis McKinney
- Shortlisted
Where the Wasteland Ends
Theodore Roszak
1972
- Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private PapersWon
Joseph P. Lash
- Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in AmericaWon
Martin E. Marty
- The Blue WhaleWon
George L. Small
- The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, BeethovenWon
Charles Rosen
- The Last Whole Earth CatalogueWon
Stewart Brand (editor)
- Won
- Shortlisted
After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson
John Cody
- Shortlisted
Ballet Chronicle
B. H. Haggin
- Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary GadflyShortlisted
David Freeman Hawke
- Shortlisted
Charles Demuth: Behind A Laughing Mask
Emily Farnham
- Coleridge, the Damaged ArchangelShortlisted
Norman Fruman
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Harlem Renaissance
Nathan Huggins
- Shortlisted
Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty
Lacey Baldwin Smith
- Shortlisted
Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times
Ronald Paulson
- Shortlisted
Images and Shadows
Iris Origo
- Shortlisted
Imagination and Power: A Study of Poetry on Public Themes
Thomas R. Edwards
- Shortlisted
Indian Man: A Life of Oliver La Farge
D'Arcy McNickle
- Shortlisted
Inside, Looking Out: A Personal Memoir
Harding Lemay
- Shortlisted
James Madison: A Biography
Ralph Ketcham
- Shortlisted
Movies into Films: Film Criticism, 1967–1970
John Simon
- Shortlisted
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
M. H. Abrams
- Shortlisted
Sorties
James Dickey
- Shortlisted
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Barbara Tuchman
1971
- Cocteau: A BiographyWon
Francis Steegmuller
- Roosevelt: The Soldier of FreedomWon
James MacGregor Burns
- Science in the British Colonies of AmericaWon
Raymond Phineas Stearns
- Shortlisted
Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair
Andy Logan
- Charles Sumner and the Rights of ManShortlisted
David Herbert Donald
- Design with NatureShortlisted
Ian L. McHarg
- Erik H. Erikson: the Growth of His WorkShortlisted
Robert Coles
- Shortlisted
Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805
Dumas Malone
- Shortlisted
Life on Man
Theodor Rosebury
- Shortlisted
Technological Man
Victor C. Ferkiss
- Shortlisted
The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World
Kenneth Rexroth
- Shortlisted
The Body Has a Head
Gustav Eckstein
- Shortlisted
The Last of the Giants
C. L. Sulzberger
- Shortlisted
The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power
Lewis Mumford
- Shortlisted
Yeats
Harold Bloom
- Shortlisted
Zelda
Nancy Milford
1970
- An Unfinished Woman: A MemoirWon
Lillian Hellman
- Won
- Huey LongWon
T. Harry William
- Shortlisted
- Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and EthicsShortlisted
Kenneth E. Boulding
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Love and Will
Rollo May
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship
Gore Vidal
- Shortlisted
The Creation of the American Republic
Gordon S. Wood
- Shortlisted
The Limits of Intervention
Townsend Hoopes
- Shortlisted
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
Theodore Roszak
- Shortlisted
The Unexpected Universe
Loren Eiseley
- Shortlisted
Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane
John Unterecker
- Shortlisted
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
John Womack
1969
- Death in Life: Survivors of HiroshimaWon
Robert Jay Lifton
- Won
- White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812Won
Winthrop D. Jordan
- A Portrait of Isaac NewtonShortlisted
Frank E. Manuel
- Shortlisted
George Eliot: A Biography
Gordon S. Haight
- Shortlisted
Lawrence and Oppenheimer
Nuel Pharr Davis
- Shortlisted
Men in Dark Times
Hannah Arendt
- Shortlisted
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republic and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Norman Mailer
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
The Crime of Punishment
Karl Menninger, M.D.
- Shortlisted
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson
- Shortlisted
The Indian Heritage of America
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
- Shortlisted
The South and the Sectional Conflict
David M. Potter
- Shortlisted
Victorian Minds
Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Shortlisted
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
Peter Gay
1968
- Death at an Early AgeWon
Jonathan Kozol
- Memoirs: 1925–1950Won
George F. Kennan
- Selected EssaysWon
William Troy
- Shortlisted
A Primer of Ignorance
R. P. Blackmur
- Beardsley: A BiographyShortlisted
Stanley Weintraub
- Shortlisted
Lost New York
Nathan Silver
- Shortlisted
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling
Suzanne K. Langer
- Shortlisted
Music, the Arts and Ideas
Leonard B. Meyer
- Shortlisted
Stop-Time
Frank Conroy
- Shortlisted
The Biology of Ultimate Concern
Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Shortlisted
The Cold War as History
Louis J. Halle
- Shortlisted
The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development
Lewis Mumford
- Shortlisted
The New Industrial State
John Kenneth Galbraith
- Shortlisted
The New Poets
M. L. Rosenthal
- Shortlisted
To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy
Roger Hilsman
- Shortlisted
Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Years
Henry Bragdon
1967
- Won
- Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A BiographyWon
Justin Kaplan
- Won
- Against Interpretation and Other EssaysShortlisted
Susan Sontag
- Shortlisted
Daumier: Man of His Time
Oliver Larkin
- Essays in EconomicsShortlisted
Wassily W. Leontief
- Shortlisted
In My Father's Court
Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Shortlisted
James Boswell: The Earlier Years
Frederick A. Pottle
- Shortlisted
James Russell Lowell
Martin Duberman
- Shortlisted
Journey to the Frontier: Two roads to the Spanish Civil War
Peter Štanský and William Abrahams
- Shortlisted
Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology
Howard B. Adelmann
- Shortlisted
Phenomenological Psychology: The Selected Papers of Erwin W. Straus
Erwin Straus
- Shortlisted
Robert Frost: The Early Years
Lawrance Thompson
- Shortlisted
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Barrington Moore, Jr.
- Shortlisted
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture
James H. Billington
- Shortlisted
The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics
George Beadle and Muriel Beadle,
- The Problem of Slavery in Western CultureShortlisted
David Brion Davis
- Shortlisted
The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud
Philip Rieff
1966
- A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White HouseWon
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Paris Journal, 1944–1965Won
Janet Flanner
- "The Love of Anxiety" and Other EssaysShortlisted
Charles Frankel
- Shortlisted
A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America, 1945–47
Alice Kimball Smith
- Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and LearningShortlisted
Lionel Trilling
- Shortlisted
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 1835–1915: Patrician at Bay
Edward Chase Kirkland
- Shortlisted
Coming of Age in America
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
- Shortlisted
History of Modern Criticism: 1750–1950
René Wellek
- Shortlisted
Science and Ethical Values
Bentley Glass
- Shortlisted
Starting Out in the Thirties
Alfred Kazin
- Shortlisted
The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning
Irving Brant
- Shortlisted
The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966
Robert Shaplen
- Shortlisted
The Making of the President, 1964
Theodore H. White
- Shortlisted
The Myth and the Powerhouse
Philip Rahv
- The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American IndependenceShortlisted
Richard B. Morris
- Shortlisted
Trials of the Word: Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition
R. W. B. Lewis
1965
- Won
- The Life of LeninWon
Louis Fischer
- The Oysters of LocmariaquerWon
Eleanor Clark
- Shortlisted
- Shortlisted
Because I Was Flesh
Edward Dahlberg
- Shortlisted
Henry Adams: The Major Phase
Ernest Samuels
- Shortlisted
Heredity and the Nature of Man
Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Shortlisted
O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years
Howard Mumford Jones
- Shortlisted
Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family
Oscar Lewis
- Shortlisted
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment
Willie Lee Nichols Rose
- Shortlisted
Shadow and Act
Ralph Ellison
- Shortlisted
The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy
Richard J. Whalen
- Shortlisted
The Language of Nature: An Essay on the Philosophy of Science
David Hawkins
- Shortlisted
The Life of the Drama
Eric Bentley
- Shortlisted
The Problem of God, Yesterday and Today
John Courtney Murray
- Shortlisted
The Theater of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama
Robert Brustein
- Shortlisted
We Are Not Alone: The Search for Intelligent Life on Other Worlds
Walter S. Sullivan
- Shortlisted
With God in Russia
Walter Ciszek
1964
- Won
John Keats: The Making of a Poet
Aileen Ward
- Won
Man-made America: Chaos or Control?
Christopher Tunnard and Boris Pushkarev
- The Rise of the West: A History of the Human CommunityWon
William H. McNeill
- Anti-intellectualism in American LifeShortlisted
Richard Hofstadter
- Shortlisted
Apollinaire: Poet among the Painters
Francis Steegmuller
- Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York CityShortlisted
Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan
- John KeatsShortlisted
Walter Jackson Bate
- Shortlisted
Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure
Peter Lyon
- Shortlisted
The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. II, Fredericksburg to Meridian
Shelby Foote
- Shortlisted
The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera
Bertram D. Wolfe
- Shortlisted
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
- Shortlisted
The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Seymour Martin Lipset
- Shortlisted
The Last Horizon
Raymond Fredric Dasmann
- Shortlisted
The Quiet Crisis
Stewart Udall
- Shortlisted
Wasp Farm
Howard Ensign Evans
1963
- Henry JamesWon
Leon Edel
1962
- Won
1961
- The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichWon
William L. Shirer
1960
- James JoyceWon
Richard Ellmann
1959
- Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de StaëlWon
J. Christopher Herold
1958
- The Lion and the ThroneWon
Catherine Drinker Bowen
1957
- Russia Leaves the WarWon
George F. Kennan
1956
- An American in ItalyWon
Herbert Kubly
1955
- The Measure of ManWon
Joseph Wood Krutch
1954
- A Stillness at AppomattoxWon
Bruce Catton
1953
- The Course of EmpireWon
Bernard De Voto,
1952
- The Sea Around UsWon
Rachel Carson
1951
- Herman MelvilleWon
Newton Arvin
1950
- The Life of Ralph Waldo EmersonWon
Ralph L. Rusk
- Shortlisted
Killers of the Dream
Lillian Smith
- Shortlisted
Lincoln Finds a General
Kenneth P. Williams
- Shortlisted
The Mature Mind
Harry Allen Overstreet
- Shortlisted
The Universe and Dr. Einstein
Lincoln Barnett
- Shortlisted
This I Remember
Eleanor Roosevelt
1940
- As I Remember Him: The Biography of R.S.Won
Hans Zinsser
- Who Walk AloneWon
Perry Burgess
1939
- Wind, Sand and StarsWon
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Days of Our YearsShortlisted
Pierre van Paassen
1938
- Won
Listen! The Wind
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant ExplorerWon
David Fairchild
- Won
With Malice Toward Some
Margaret Halsey
1937
- Won
- Madame CurieWon
Ève Curie
- Shortlisted
The Importance of Living
Lin Yutang
1936
- The Country KitchenWon
Della T. Lutes
- The Flowering of New England: 1815–1865Won
Van Wyck Brooks
1935
- North to the OrientWon
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Shortlisted
Personal History
Vincent Sheean