National Book Award for Nonfiction — Complete Winners List

16 years of winners · National Book Foundation · Since 1950 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This	Omar El Akkad	—
2024	Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling	Jason De León	—
2023	The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History	Ned Blackhawk	—
2022	South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation	Imani Perry	Ecco
2021	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake	Tiya Miles	—
2020	The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X	Les Payne	Liveright Publishing
2019	The Yellow House: A Memoir	Sarah M. Broom	Grove Press
2018	The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke	Jeffrey C. Stewart	Oxford University Press
2017	The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia	Masha Gessen	Riverhead Books
2016	Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America	Ibram X. Kendi	Nation Books
2015	Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	Spiegel & Grau
2014	Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China	Evan Osnos	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013	The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America	George Packer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012	Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity	Katherine Boo	Random House
2011	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern	Stephen Greenblatt	W. W. Norton & Company
2010	Just Kids	Patti Smith	Ecco