2019

The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

2018

Callings by Dave Isay

2016

Dimestore by Lee Smith

2015

A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School by Carlotta Walls LaNier

2014

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

2013

Finding the Game by Gwendolyn Oxenham

2012

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

2011

Enrique’s Journey by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sonia Nazario

2010

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Pulitzer Prize-winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

2009

Unbowed by Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai

2008

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore

2007

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

2006

No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin

2005

Telling Tales by Nadine Gordimer

2004

Naked in Baghdad by Anne Garrels

2003

Night by Elie Wiesel

2002

Ice Bound by Jerri Nielson

2001

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

2000

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

1999

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth