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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City — Matthew Desmond (2016) · Nonfiction · winner · Source
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Lab Girl — Hope Jahren (2016) · Autobiography · winner · Source
House of Lords and Commons — Ishion Hutchinson (2016) · Poetry · winner · Source
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Improvement — Joan Silber (2017) · Fiction · winner · Source
The Evangelicals The Struggle to Shape America — Frances FitzGerald (2017) · Nonfiction · winner · Source
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WHEREAS — Layli Long Soldier (2017) · Poetry · winner · Source
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Milkman — Anna Burns (2018) · Fiction · winner · Source
Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan — Steve Coll (2018) · Nonfiction · winner · Source
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Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home — Nora Krug (2018) · Autobiography · winner · Source
The Carrying — Ada Limón (2018) · Poetry · winner · Source
Feel Free: Essays — Zadie Smith (2018) · Criticism · winner · Source
Everything Inside — Edwidge Danticat (2019) · Fiction · winner · Source
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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth — Josh Levin (2019) · Biography · winner · Source
Know My Name: A Memoir — Chanel Miller (2019) · Autobiography · winner · Source
Magical Negro — Morgan Parker (2019) · Poetry · winner · Source
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval — Saidiya Hartman (2019) · Criticism · winner · Source
Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell (2020) · Fiction · winner · Source
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire — Tom Zoellner (2020) · Nonfiction · winner · Source
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Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration — Nicole R. Fleetwood (2020) · Criticism · winner · Source
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How the Word Is Passed — Clint Smith (2021) · Nonfiction · winner · Source
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out — Jeremy Atherton Lin (2021) · Autobiography · winner · Source
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Girlhood — Melissa Febos (2021) · Criticism · winner · Source
Bliss Montage: Stories — Ling Ma (2022) · Fiction · winner · Source
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Stay True: A Memoir — Hua Hsu (2022) · Autobiography · winner · Source
Hotel Oblivion — Cynthia Cruz (2022) · Poetry · winner · Source
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age — Timothy Bewes (2022) · Criticism · winner · Source
I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home — Lorrie Moore (2023) · Fiction · winner · Source
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America — Roxanna Asgarian (2023) · Nonfiction · winner · Source
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage — Jonny Steinberg (2023) · Biography · winner · Source
How to Say Babylon A Memoir — Safiya Sinclair (2023) · Autobiography · winner · Source
Phantom Pain Wings — Kim Hyesoon (2023) · Poetry · winner · Source
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression — Tina Post (2023) · Criticism · winner · Source
My Friends — Hisham Matar (2024) · Fiction · winner · Source
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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar — Cynthia Carr (2024) · Biography · winner · Source
Patriot: A Memoir — Alexei Navalny (2024) · Autobiography · winner · Source
Wrong Norma — Anne Carson (2024) · Poetry · winner · Source
There's Always This Year On Basketball and Ascension — Hanif Abdurraqib (2024) · Criticism · winner · Source
We Do Not Part — Han Kang (2025) · Fiction · winner · Source
Empire of AI Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI — Karen Hao (2025) · Nonfiction · winner · Source
A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled — Alex Green (2025) · Biography · winner · Source
Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy (2025) · Autobiography · winner · Source
Night Watch — Kevin Young (2025) · Poetry · winner · Source
Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right — Quinn Slobodian (2025) · Criticism · winner · Source