1962–1975
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White (1962)
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1963)
Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (1964)
O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (1965)
Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (1966)
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (1967)
Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, by Will and Ariel Durant (1968)
So Human an Animal by René Dubos / The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (1969)
Gandhi's Truth by Erik Erikson (1970)
The Rising Sun by John Toland (1971)
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 by Barbara W. Tuchman (1972)
Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald / Children of Crisis vols. 2 and 3 by Robert Coles (1973)
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (1974)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1975)
1976–2000
Why Survive? by Robert N. Butler (1976)
Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1977)
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1978)
On Human Nature by E. O. Wilson (1979)
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (1980)
Fin-de-siècle Vienna by Carl Emil Schorske (1981)
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1982)
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan (1983)
The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (1984)
The Good War by Studs Terkel (1985)
Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas / Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld (1986)
Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler (1987)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1988)
A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1989)
And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990)
The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson (1991)
The Prize by Daniel Yergin (1992)
Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills (1993)
Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick (1994)
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (1995)
The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg (1996)
Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger (1997)
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (1998)
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999)
Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)
2001–2025
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001)
Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter (2002)
"A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power (2003)
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004)
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (2005)
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins (2006)
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (2007)
The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedländer (2008)
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon (2009)
The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman (2010)
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011)
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt (2012)
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King (2013)
Toms River by Dan Fagin (2014)
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2015)
Black Flags by Joby Warrick (2016)
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2017)
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. (2018)
Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold (2019)
The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin / The Undying by Anne Boyer (2020)
Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino (2021)
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott (2022)
His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (2023)
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