2012
Behind the beautiful forevers : [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity] /
Boo, Katherine.

2011
The swerve : how the world became modern /
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-

2010
Just kids /
Smith, Patti.

2009
The first tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt /
Stiles, T. J.

2008
The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family /
Gordon-Reed, Annette.

2007
Legacy of ashes : the history of the Central Intelligence Agency /
Weiner, Tim.

2006
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl /
Egan, Timothy.

2005
The year of magical thinking /
Didion, Joan.

2004
Arc of justice : a saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age /
Boyle, Kevin, 1960-

2003
Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy /
Eire, Carlos M. N.

2002
The years of Lyndon Johnson /
Caro, Robert A.

2001
The noonday demon : an atlas of depression /
Solomon, Andrew, 1963-

2000
In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex /
Philbrick, Nathaniel.

1999
Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II /
Dower, John W.

1998
Slaves in the family /
Ball, Edward, 1959-

1997
American sphinx : the character of Thomas Jefferson /
Ellis, Joseph J.

1996
An American requiem : God, my father, and the war that came between us /
Carroll, James, 1943-

1995
The haunted land : facing Europe's ghosts after communism /
Rosenberg, Tina.

1994
How we die : reflections on life's final chapter /
Nuland, Sherwin B.

1993
United States : essays : 1952-1992 /
Vidal, Gore, 1925-

1992
Becoming a man : half a life story /
Monette, Paul.

1991
Freedom in the making of western culture /
Patterson, Orlando, 1940-

1990
The house of Morgan : an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance /
Chernow, Ron.

1989
From Beirut to Jerusalem /
Friedman, Thomas L.

1988
A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam /
Sheehan, Neil.

1987
The making of the atomic bomb /
Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

1986
Arctic dreams : imagination and desire in a northern landscape /
Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-

1985
Common ground : a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families /
Lukas, J. Anthony, 1933-1997.

1984
Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845 /
Remini, Robert Vincent, 1921-

1983
National defense /
Fallows, James M.

1982
The soul of a new machine /
Kidder, Tracy.

1981
The last cowboy /
Kramer, Jane.

1980
The right stuff /
Wolfe, Tom.