| Év |
Könyv |
Szerző |
| 2012 |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
Stephen Greenblatt |
| One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing |
Diane Ackerman |
| Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men |
Mara Hvistendahl |
| 2011 |
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer |
Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains |
Nicholas Carr |
| Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History |
S. C. Gwynne |
| 2010 |
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy |
David E. Hoffman |
| How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities |
John Cassidy |
| Isten evolúciója: Vallások és kultúrák (The Evolution of God) |
Robert Wright |
| 2009 |
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II |
Douglas A. Blackmon |
| Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age |
Arthur Herman |
| The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe |
William I. Hitchcock |
| 2008 |
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 |
Saul Friedländer |
| The Cigarette Century |
Allan Brandt |
| The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century |
Alex Ross |
| 2007 |
Magasba nyúló tornyok: Az al-Kaida útja (The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11) |
Lawrence Wright |
| Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness |
Pete Earley |
| Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq |
Thomas E. Ricks |
| 2006 |
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya |
Caroline Elkins |
| A háború után: Európa története 1945 óta (Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945) |
Tony Judt |
| The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq |
George Packer |
| 2005 |
Ghost Wars |
Steve Coll |
| Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found |
Suketu Mehta |
| The Devil’s Highway: A True Story |
Luis Alberto Urrea |
| 2004 |
A Gulag története (Gulag: A History) |
Anne Applebaum |
| Rembrandt’s Jews |
Steven Nadler |
| The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military |
Dana Priest |
| 2003 |
”A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide |
Samantha Power |
| The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature |
Steven Pinker |
| The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit |
Ellen Meloy |
| 2002 |
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution |
Diane McWhorter |
| War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals |
David Halberstam |
| The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |
Andrew Solomon |
| 2001 |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
Herbert P. Bix |
| Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing |
Ted Conover |
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
Dave Eggers |
| 2000 |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
John W. Dower |
| Az elegáns univerzum: Szuperhúrok, rejtett dimenziók és a végső elmélet kihívása (The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest forthe Ultimate Theory) |
Brian Greene |
| Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds |
Scott Weidensaul |
| 1999 |
Annals of the Former World |
John McPhee |
| Crime and Punishment in America |
Elliott Currie |
| The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do |
Judith Rich Harris |
| 1998 |
Háborúk, járványok, technikák: A társadalmak fátumai (Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies) |
Jared Diamond |
| Ég és jég: Személyes beszámoló a Mount Everest-i hegymászó-tragédiáról (Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster) |
Jon Krakauer |
| Hogyan működik az elme (How the Mind Works) |
Steven Pinker |
| 1997 |
Ashes To Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris |
Richard Kluger |
| The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond |
Samuel G. Freedman |
| Fame and Folly |
Cynthia Ozick |
| 1996 |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism |
Tina Rosenberg |
| Darwin veszélyes ideája (Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life) |
Daniel Clement Dennett |
| Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder |
Lawrence Weschler |
| 1995 |
The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time |
Jonathan Weiner |
| Éjfél a jó és a rossz kertjében: Savannah-i történet (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story) |
John Berendt |
| Hogyan halunk meg? (How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter) |
Sherwin B. Nuland |
| 1994 |
Lenin sírja: A szovjet birodalom végnapjai (Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire) |
David Remnick |
| A XX. század és az újkor vége (The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age) |
John Lukacs |
| The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud |
Peter Gay |
| 1993 |
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America |
Garry Wills |
| A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War |
Susan Griffin |
| Where the Buffalo Roam |
Anne Matthews |
| Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father |
Richard Rodriguez |
| 1992 |
The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money and Power |
Daniel Yergin |
| Broken Vessels |
Andre Dubus |
| Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics |
Thomas Byrne Edsall és Mary D. Edsall |
| 1991 |
The Ants |
Bert Holldobler és Edward O. Wilson |
| River of Traps: A Village Life |
William duBuys és Alex Harris |
| Looking for a Ship |
John McPhee |
| 1990 |
And Their Children After Them |
Dale Maharidge és Michael Williamson |
| A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922 |
David Fromkin |
| Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History |
Stephen Jay Gould |
| 1989 |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Neil Sheehan |
| Danger and Survival |
McGeorge Bundy |
| Coming of Age in the Milky Way |
Timothy Ferris |
| The Last Farmer |
Howard Kohn |
| 1988 |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
Richard Rhodes |
| Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society |
Daniel Callahan |
| Káosz: Egy új tudomány születése (Chaos: Making a New Science) |
James Gleick |
| 1987 |
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land |
David K. Shipler |
| Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir |
Cyra McFadden |
| Rising from the Plains |
John McPhee |
| 1986 |
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
J. Anthony Lukas |
| Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White |
Joseph Lelyveld |
| Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life |
Robert N. Bellah |
| 1985 |
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two |
Studs Terkel |
| Dawn to the West |
Donald Keene |
| Endless Enemies |
Jonathan Kwitny |
| 1984 |
The Social Transformation Of American Medicine |
Paul Starr |
| Conversations With the Enemy |
Winston Groom és Duncan Spencer |
| Wild Justice |
Susan Jacoby |
| 1983 |
Is There No Place On Earth For Me? |
Susan Sheehan |
| Terrorists and Novelists |
Diane Johnson |
| The Fate of the Earth |
Jonathan Schell |
| 1982 |
The Soul of A New Machine |
Tracy Kidder |
| Basin and Range |
John McPhee |
| Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor |
Diana Trilling |
| 1981 |
Bécsi századvég: Politika és kultúra (Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture) |
Carl E. Schorske |
| Southerners: A Journalist’s Odyssey |
Marshall Frady |
| China Men |
Maxine Hong Kingston |
| Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War |
William Manchester |
| 1980 |
Gödel, Escher, Bach: Egybefont Gondolatok Birodalma (Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid) |
Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| The Madwoman in the Attic |
Sandra M. Gilbert és Susan Gubar |
| The Medusa and the Snail |
Lewis Thomas |
| 1979 |
On Human Nature |
Edward O. Wilson |
| 1978 |
Az éden sárkányai: Tűnődések az emberi intelligencia evolúciójáról (The Dragons of Eden) |
Carl Sagan |
| 1977 |
Beautiful Swimmers |
William W. Warner |
| 1976 |
Why Survive?: Being Old In America |
Robert N. Butler |
| 1975 |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
Annie Dillard |
| 1974 |
The Denial of Death |
Ernest Becker |
| 1973 |
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam |
Frances Fitzgerald |
| Children of Crisis |
Robert Coles |
| 1972 |
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 |
Barbara W. Tuchman |
| 1971 |
The Rising Sun |
John Toland |
| 1970 |
Gandhi’s Truth |
Erik H. Erikson |
| 1969 |
Az éjszaka hadai: A történelem mint regény, a regény mint történelem (The Armies Of The Night) |
Norman Mailer |
| So Human An Animal |
René Jules Dubos |
| 1968 |
Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization |
Will és Ariel Durant |
| 1967 |
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture |
David Brion Davis |
| 1966 |
Wandering Through Winter |
Edwin Way Teale |
| 1965 |
O Strange New World |
Howard Mumford Jones |
| 1964 |
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life |
Richard Hofstadter |
| 1963 |
The Guns of August |
Barbara W. Tuchman |
| 1962 |
The Making of the President 1960 |
Theodore H. White |
