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National Book Award Winners - Non-Fiction

Description: The National Book Awards are presented annually "to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America." Here we present the Non-Fiction medal winners. #award #adults

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Year	Title	Author	Date Added
2022	South to America	Imani Perry	11/21/2022
2021	All That She Carried	Tiya Miles	11/19/2021
2020	The Dead Are Arising	Les Payne and Tamara Payne	11/19/2020
2019	The Yellow House	Sarah Broom	11/21/2019
2018	The New Negro	Jeffrey C. Stewart	01/22/2019
2017	The Future Is History	Masha Gessen	11/21/2017
2016	Stamped From the Beginning	Ibram X. Kendi	05/25/2017
2015	Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	05/25/2017
2014	Age of Ambition	Evan Osnos	05/25/2017
2013	The Unwinding	George Packer	05/25/2017
2012	Behind the Beautiful Forevers	Katherine Boo	03/15/2019
2011	The Swerve	Stephen Greenblatt	05/25/2017
2010	Just Kids	Patti Smith	05/25/2017
2009	The First Tycoon	T. J. Stiles	05/25/2017
2008	The Hemingses of Monticello	Annette Gordon-Reed	05/25/2017
2007	Legacy of Ashes	Tim Weiner	05/25/2017
2006	The Worst Hard Time	Timothy Egan	05/25/2017
2005	The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion	05/25/2017
2004	Arc of Justice	Kevin Boyle	05/25/2017
2003	Waiting for Snow in Havana	Carlos Eire	05/25/2017
2002	Master of the Senate	Robert A. Caro	05/25/2017
2001	The Noonday Demon	Andrew Solomon	05/25/2017
2000	In the Heart of the Sea	Nathaniel Philbrick	05/25/2017
1999	Embracing Defeat	John W. Dower	05/25/2017
1998	Slaves in the Family	Edward Ball	05/25/2017
1997	American Sphinx	Joseph J. Ellis	05/25/2017
1996	An American Requiem	James Carroll	05/25/2017
1995	The Haunted Land	Tina Rosenberg	05/25/2017
1994	How We Die	Sherwin B. Nuland	05/25/2017
1992	Becoming a Man	Paul Monette	05/25/2017
1991	Freedom in the Making of Western Culture	Orlando Patterson	05/25/2017
1989	From Beirut to Jerusalem	Thomas L. Friedman	05/25/2017
1988	A Bright Shining Lie	Neil Sheehan	05/25/2017
1987	Making of the Atomic Bomb	Richard Rhodes	05/25/2017
1986	Arctic Dreams	Barry Holstun Lopez	05/25/2017
1985	Common Ground	J. Anthony Lukas	05/25/2017
1984	Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy 1833-1845	Robert V. Remini	05/25/2017
1983	Voices of Protest	Alan Brinkley	05/25/2017
1983	National Defense	James Fallows	05/25/2017
1983	China	Fox Butterfield	05/25/2017
1982	The Soul of a New Machine	Tracy Kidder	05/25/2017
1982	Lucy	Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johansen	05/25/2017
1982	Mornings on Horseback	David Mccullough	05/25/2017
1982	Naming Names	Victor S. Navasky	05/25/2017
1981	Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality	John Boswell	05/25/2017
1981	The Last Cowboy	Jane Kramer	05/25/2017
1981	Walt Whitman	Justin Kaplan	05/25/2017
1981	The Panda's Thumb	Stephen Jay Gould	05/25/2017
1981	China Men	Maxine Hong Kingston	05/25/2017
1980	Gödel, Escher, Bach	Douglas R. Hofstadter	05/25/2017
1980	White House Years	Henry Kissinger	05/25/2017
1980	The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe	05/25/2017
1980	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt	Edmund Morris	05/25/2017
1980	The Gnostic Gospels	Elaine Pagels	05/25/2017
1978	Winners & Losers	Frances Fitzgerald and Gloria Emerson	05/25/2017
1978	Samuel Johnson	Walter Jackson Bate	05/25/2017
1978	The Path Between the Seas	David Mccullough	05/25/2017
1977	World of Our Fathers	Irving Howe	05/25/2017
1977	The Uses of Enchantment	Bruno Bettelheim	05/25/2017
1976	Passage to Ararat	Michael J. Arlen	05/25/2017
1976	The Great War and Modern Memory	Paul Fussell	05/25/2017
1975	Lives of a Cell	Lewis Thomas	05/25/2017
1975	All God's Dangers	Theodore Rosengarten	05/25/2017
1975	Anarchy, State, and Utopia	Robert Nozick	05/25/2017
1974	The Briar Patch	Murray Kempton	05/25/2017
1973	Fire in the Lake	Frances Fitzgerald	05/25/2017
1972	Eleanor and Franklin	Joseph P. Lash	05/25/2017
1972	The Classical Style	Charles Rosen	05/25/2017
1971	Roosevelt	James MacGregor Burns	05/25/2017
1970	Gandhi's Truth	Erik H. Erikson	05/25/2017
1969	The Armies of the Night	Norman Mailer	05/25/2017
1969	White Over Black	Winthrop D. Jordan and Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood	05/25/2017
1968	Memoirs (1925-1950)	George F. Kennan	05/25/2017
1967	Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain	Justin Kaplan	05/25/2017
1967	The Enlightenment	Peter Gay	05/25/2017
1966	A Thousand Days	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	05/25/2017
1965	The Oysters of Locmariaquer	Eleanor Clark	05/25/2017
1963	Henry James	Leon Edel	05/25/2017
1962	The City in History	Lewis Mumford	05/25/2017
1961	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich	William L. Shirer	05/25/2017
1960	James Joyce	Richard Ellmann	05/25/2017
1959	Mistress To An Age	J. Christopher Herold	05/25/2017
1954	Bruce Catton's Civil War	Bruce Catton	05/25/2017
1952	The Sea Around Us	Rachel Carson	05/25/2017
1951	Herman Melville	Newton Arvin	05/25/2017

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