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Év Könyv Szerző
2022 Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Andrea Elliott
Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism Carla Power
The Family Roe: An American Story Joshua Prager
2021 Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy David Zucchino
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Cathy Park Hong
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country Sierra Crane Murdoch
2020 The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Greg Grandin
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care Anne Boyer
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimaging Life Louise Aronson
Solitary Albert Woodfox és Leslie George
2019 Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America Eliza Griswold
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers Bernice Yeung
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore Elizabeth Rush
2018 Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America James Forman Jr.
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us Richard O. Prum
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World Suzy Hansen
2017 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism John Donvan és Caren Zucker
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery Micki McElya
2016 Fekete lobogók: az Iszlám Állam felemelkedése (Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS) Joby Warrick
Between the World and Me Ta-Neshi Coates
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of Quran Carla Power
2015 A hatodik kihalás (The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History) Elizabeth Kolbert
No Good Men Among the Living Anand Gopal
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China Evan Osnos
2014 Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Dan Fagin
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide Gary J. Bass
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan
2013 Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys Gilbert King
Az örök szépségen túl (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity) Katherine Boo
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature David George Haskell
2012 Egy reneszánsz könyvvadász: hogyan vált modernné a világunk? (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 Betegségek betegsége: mindent a rákról (The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer) Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hogyan változtatja meg agyunkat az internet? : a sekélyesek kora (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 Osborne 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 Az atombomba története (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 Osborne 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

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