2023-2024, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith
2022-2023, The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui
2021-2022, There There, by Tommy Orange
2020-2021, How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
2019-2020, In Search of the Canary Tree, by Lauren E. Oakes
2018-2019, All They Will Call You, by Tim Z. Hernandez
2017-2018, A Deadly Wandering, by Matt Richtel
2016-2017, My Life on the Road, by Gloria Steinem
2015-2016, Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
2014-2015, The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande
2013-2014, The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers
2012-2013, Unquenchable, by Robert Glennon
2011-2012, Zeitoun, by David Eggers
2010-2011, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba
2009-2010, The Soloist, by Steve Lopez
2008-2009, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2007-2008, Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
2006-2007, Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
2005-2006, True Notebooks, by Mark Salzman
2004-2005, Plan B, by Lester Brown
2003-2004, The American Soul, Joseph Needleman
2002-2003, Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
2001-2002, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman
2000-2001, The Moon by Whalelight, by Diane Ackerman