Year Author Title Result Ref. 2006 Stephen Walker Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima Winner [ 9] Adam Hochschild Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Runner-up [ 9] 2007 Mark Kurlansky Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea Winner [ 10] [ 11] Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Three Cups of Tea : One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time Runner-up [ 10] [ 11] 2008 Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying Winner [ 12] [ 45] Cullen Murphy Are We Rome Runner-up [ 12] 2009 Benjamin Skinner A Crime So Monstrous Winner [ 14] Thomas Friedman Hot, Flat, and Crowded Runner-up [ 14] Nicholson Baker Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization Finalist [ 15] Joan Baxter Dust from our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa Finalist [ 15] David Grossman Writing in the Dark Finalist [ 15] Ariel Sabar My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Father's Past Finalist [ 15] Strobe Talbott The Great Experiment Finalist [ 15] 2010 Dave Eggers Zeitoun Winner [ 16] [ 17] Justine Hardy In the Valley of Mist Runner-up [ 16] Roger Thurow Enough: Why the Worlds Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty Finalist [ 18] Greg Mortenson Stones into Schools Finalist [ 18] Michael Norman Elizabeth Norman Tears in the Darkness: the Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath Finalist [ 18] Chinua Achebe The Education of a British-Protected Child Finalist [ 18] 2011 Wilbert Rideau In The Place Of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance Winner [ 19] [ 17] Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns Runner-up [ 19] Kai Bird Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956–1978 Finalist [ 20] Conor Grennan Little Princes Finalist [ 20] Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken Finalist [ 20] Mac McClelland For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question Finalist [ 20] 2012 Adam Hochschild To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 Winner [ 22] [ 23] Annia Ciezadlo Day of Honey Runner-up [ 22] [ 23] Caroline Moorehead A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France Finalist [ 24] Leymah Gbowee Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex Changed a Nation at War: A Memoir Finalist [ 24] Karl Marlantes What It Is Like to Go to War Finalist [ 24] 2013 Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity Winner [ 25] Gilbert King Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Runner-up [ 25] Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Finalist [ 26] Carmen Bugan Burying the Typewriter Finalist [ 26] Blaine Harden Escape from Camp 14 Finalist [ 26] Karl Meyer Pax Ethnica Finalist [ 26] 2014 Karima Bennoune Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here Winner [ 28] Jo Roberts Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe Runner-up [ 28] Steve McQuiddy Here on the Edge: How a Small Group of World War II Conscientious Objectors Took Art and Peace from the Margins to the Mainstream Finalist [ 29] Katy Butler Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death Finalist [ 29] Jesmyn Ward Men We Reaped: A Memoir Finalist [ 29] David Finkel Thank You for Your Service Finalist [ 29] 2015 Bryan Stevenson Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Winner [ 30] Jeff Hobbs The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Runner-up [ 30] Elizabeth D. Samet No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America Finalist [ 31] Lacy Johnson The Other Side Finalist [ 31] Meline Toumani There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond Finalist [ 31] Jeff Chang Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America Finalist [ 31] 2016 Susan Southard Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War Winner [ 32] Kennedy Odede Find Me Unafraid Runner-up [ 32] Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me Finalist [ 35] Wil Haygood Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America Finalist [ 35] Wab Kinew The Reason You Walk Finalist [ 35] Jan Jarboe Russell The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II Finalist [ 35] 2017 David Wood What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars Winner [ 36] Ben Rawlence City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp Runner-up [ 36] 2018 Ta-Nehisi Coates We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Winner [ 39] [ 34] Michelle Kuo Reading with Patrick Runner-up [ 39] 2019 Eli Saslow Rising Out of Hatred Winner [ 41] Wil Haygood Tigerland Runner-up [ 41] Tara Westover Educated Finalist [ 42] David W. Blight Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Finalist [ 42] Khalida Brohi I Should Have Honor Finalist [ 42] Anthony Hinton Lara Love Hardin The Sun Does Shine Finalist [ 42] 2020 Chanel Miller Know My Name Winner [ 43] [ 44] [ 45] Jennifer Eberhardt The Beekeeper of Aleppo Runner-up [ 43] [ 44] 2021 Ariana Neumann When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains Winner [ 47] Jordan Ritter Conn The Road from Raqqa Runner-up [ 47] Toni Jenson Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land Finalist [ 44] Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Finalist [ 44] Valarie Kaur See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love Finalist [ 44] Michele Harper The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir Finalist [ 44] 2022 Clint Smith How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Winner [ 48] Andrea Elliott Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Runner-up [ 48] Amanda Ripley High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out Finalist [ 48] Shugri Said Salh The Last Nomad Finalist [ 48] Heather McGhee The Sum of Us Finalist [ 48] Evan Osnos Wildland: The Making of America's Fury Finalist [ 48] 2023 Robert Samuels Toluse Olorunnipa His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Winner [ 49] Adam Hochschild American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Runner-up [ 49] Catherine Ceniza Choy Asian American Histories of the United States Finalist [ 49] Putsata Reang Ma and Me: A Memoir Finalist [ 49] Ben Rawlence The Treeline Finalist [ 49] Ghafari Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World Finalist [ 49] 2024 Victor Luckerson Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street Winner [ 50] Tania Branigan Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution Runner-up [ 50] Edwin Raymond An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America Finalist [ 50] Dana Sachs All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis Finalist [ 50] Darrin Bell The Talk Finalist [ 50] Dina Nayeri Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough Finalist [ 50] 