2013
Devil in the grove : Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America /
King, Gilbert.

2012
The swerve : how the world became modern /
Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-

2011
The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer /
Mukherjee, Siddhartha.

2010
The dead hand : the untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy /
Hoffman, David E.

2009
Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War I
Blackmon, Douglas A.

2008
The years of extermination : Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 /
Friedländer, Saul, 1932-

2007
The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 /
Wright, Lawrence, 1947-

2006
Imperial reckoning : the untold story Britain's gulag in Kenya /
Elkins, Caroline.

2005
Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to
Coll, Steve.

2004
Gulag : a history /
Applebaum, Anne, 1964-

2003
"A problem from hell" : America and the age of genocide /
Power, Samantha.

2002
Carry me home : Birmingham, Alabama : the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution /
McWhorter, Diane.

2001
Hirohito and the making of modern Japan /
Bix, Herbert P.

2000
Embracing defeat : Japan in the wake of World War II /
Dower, John W.

1999
Annals of the former world /
McPhee, John, 1931-

1998
Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies /
Diamond, Jared M.

1997
Ashes to ashes : America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph
Kluger, Richard.

1996
The haunted land : facing Europe's ghosts after communism /
Rosenberg, Tina.

1995
The beak of the finch : a story of evolution in real time /
Weiner, Jonathan.

1994
Lenin's tomb : the last days of the soviet empire /
Remnick, David.

1993
Lincoln at Gettysburg : the words that remade America /
Wills, Garry, 1934-

1992
The prize : the epic quest for oil, money, and power /
Yergin, Daniel.

1991
The ants /
Hölldobler, Bert, 1936-

1990
And their children after them : the legacy of Let us now praise famous men, James Agee, Walker Evans
Maharidge, Dale.

1989
A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam /
Sheehan, Neil.

1988
The making of the atomic bomb /
Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

1987
Arab and Jew : wounded spirits in a promised land /
Shipler, David K., 1942-

1986
Common ground : a turbulent decade in the lives of three American families /
Lukas, J. Anthony, 1933-1997.

1986
Move your shadow : South Africa Black and White /
Lelyveld, Joseph.

1985
"The good war" : an oral history of World War Two /
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.

1984
The social transformation of American medicine /
Starr, Paul, 1949-

1983
Is there no place on Earth for me? /
Sheehan, Susan.

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

1981
Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture /
Schorske, Carl E.

1980
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid /
Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-

1979
On human nature /
Wilson, Edward O.

1978
The dragons of Eden : speculations on the evolution of human intelligence /
Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996.

1977
Beautiful swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay /
Warner, William W.

1976
Why survive? : Being old in America /
Butler, Robert N., 1927-2010.

1975
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek /
Dillard, Annie.

1974
The denial of death /
Becker, Ernest.

1973
Fire in the lake : the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam /
FitzGerald, Frances, 1940-

1973
Children of crisis.
Coles, Robert.

1972
Sand against the wind : Stilwell and the American experience in China, 1911-45 / Barbara W. Tuchman.
Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim.

1971
The rising sun; the decline and fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945.
Toland, John.

1970
Gandhi's truth : on the origins of militant nonviolence /
Erikson, Erik H. 1902-1994.

1969
So human an animal
Dubos, René J. 1901-1982.

1969
The armies of the night : history as a novel, the novel as history /
Mailer, Norman.

1968
Rousseau and revolution : a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and i
Durant, Will, 1885-1981.

1967
The problem of slavery in Western culture /
Davis, David Brion.

1966
Wandering through winter : a naturalist's record of a 20,000-mile journey through the North American
Teale, Edwin Way, 1899-1980.

1965
O strange new world; American culture: the formative years.
Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980.

1964
Anti-intellectualism in American life /
Hofstadter, Richard.

1963
The guns of August /
Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim.

1962
The making of the President, 1960 /
White, Theodore H. 1915-1986.