Year Author Title Result Ref. 2012 Andrew Krivak The Sojourn Winner [ 2] Geraldine Brooks Caleb's Crossing Shortlist [ 5] Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts Shortlist [ 5] Nathaniel Philbrick Why Read Moby-Dick? Shortlist [ 5] Stephanie Powell Watts We Are Taking Only What We Need Shortlist [ 5] Leonard Rosen All Cry Chaos Shortlist [ 5] 2013 Timothy Egan Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher Winner [ 6] [ 7] Nancy Gibbs Michael Duffy The Presidents Club Shortlist [ 8] Ben Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Winner [ 8] Gilbert King Devil in the Grove Shortlist [ 8] Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles Shortlist [ 8] John Colman Wood The Names of Things Shortlist [ 8] 2014 Elizabeth Scarboro My Foreign Cities Winner [ 9] [ 10] Louise Aronson A History of the Present Illness: Stories Shortlist [ 11] Lindsay Hill Sea of Hooks Shortlist [ 11] Roger Rosenblatt The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood Shortlist [ 11] James Tobin The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency Shortlist [ 11] Margaret Wrinkle Wash Shortlist [ 11] 2015 Phil Klay Redeployment Winner [ 12] [ 13] Michael Blanding The Map Thief Shortlist [ 14] Kim Church Byrd Shortlist [ 14] Brian Hart The Bully of Order Shortlist [ 14] Lily King Euphoria Shortlist [ 14] Jason Sokol All Eyes Are Upon Us Shortlist [ 14] Bilal Tanweer The Scatter Here Is Too Great Shortlist [ 14] Jean Thompson The Witch Shortlist [ 14] 2016 Cyrus Copeland Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest Winner [ 15] Lynsey Addario It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War Shortlist [ 16] Lenore Myka King of the Gypsies: Stories Shortlist [ 16] Steven Niteingale Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God Shortlist [ 16] Susan Southard Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War Shortlist [ 16] 2017 Peter Ho Davies The Fortunes Winner [ 17] [ 18] H. W. Brands The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War Shortlist [ 19] Victoria Pope Hubbell Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s Shortlist [ 19] Ben Winters Underground Airlines Shortlist [ 19] Colin Woodard American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good Shortlist [ 19] Kao Kalia Yang The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father Shortlist [ 19] 2018 Alex Marzano-Lesnevich The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir Winner [ 20] Hala Alyan Salt Houses Shortlist [ 21] Glenn Frankel High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Shortlist [ 21] Anne Gisleson The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading Shortlist [ 21] Meg Howrey The Wanderers Shortlist [ 21] Andrew Krivák The Signal Flame Shortlist [ 21] Dalia Rosenfeld The Worlds We Think We Know Shortlist [ 21] 2019 Anjali Sachdeva All the Names They Used For God Winner [ 22] Edward Carey Little Shortlist [ 23] [ 24] Ken Krimstein The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth Shortlist [ 23] [ 24] Kiese Laymon Heavy: An American Memoir Shortlist [ 23] [ 24] Richard Powers The Overstory Shortlist [ 23] [ 24] [ 25] Elizabeth Rush Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore Shortlist [ 23] [ 24] Elizabeth H. Winthrop The Mercy Seat Shortlist [ 23] [ 24] 2020 Petina Gappah Out of Darkness, Shining Light Winner [ 26] Mikhal Dekel Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey Shortlist [ 27] Carolyn Forché What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance Shortlist Myla Goldberg Feast Your Eyes Shortlist Isabella Hammad The Parisian Shortlist Imani Perry Breathe: A Letter to My Sons Shortlist Pitchaya Sudbanthad Bangkok Wakes to Rain Shortlist 2021 Eula Biss Having and Being Had Winner Louise Erdrich The Night Watchman Shortlist Danielle Evans The Office of Historical Corrections Shortlist Yaa Gyasi Transcendent Kingdom Shortlist Andrew Krivak The Bear Shortlist Natasha Trethewey Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Shortlist Matthew Van Meter Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen: His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South Shortlist C Pam Zhang How Much of These Hills is Gold Shortlist 2022 Rebecca Donner All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler Winner [ 28] Daniel James Brown Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II Shortlist [ 29] Victoria Chang Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief Shortlist [ 29] Ash Davidson Damnation Spring Shortlist [ 29] Robert Jones, Jr. The Prophets Shortlist [ 29] Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Shortlist [ 29] Jason Mott Hell of a Book Shortlist [ 29] Samantha Silva Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft Shortlist [ 29] Dorothy Wickenden The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights Shortlist [ 29] Hilma Wolitzer Today a Woman Went Mad at the Supermarket: Stories Shortlist [ 29] 2023 Siddhartha Mukherjee The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Winner Hafizah Augustus Geter The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin Shortlist Levi Vonk Axel Kirschner Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run Shortlist Meron Hadero A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories Shortlist Jenny Tinghui Zhang Four Treasures of the Sky Shortlist Geraldine Brooks Horse Shortlist Jean Hanff Korelitz The Latecomer Shortlist Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry The Orchard Shortlist Javier Zamora Solito: A Memoir Shortlist Sidik Fofana Stories from the Tenants Downstairs Shortlist 2024 Tananarive Due The Reformatory Winner Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Chain-Gang All-Stars Shortlist Isabella Hammad Enter Ghost Shortlist Paul Harding This Other Eden Shortlist Kelly Link White Cat, Black Dog: Stories Shortlist Emily Strasser Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History Shortlist