One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
Selector archive · 2006—2025
National Book Award for Nonfiction
National Book Award for Nonfiction selections, presented by recognition year. Each entry links to the selector’s first-party record.
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
National Book Award for Nonfiction
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
The Yellow House
On 3 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, The New York Times — 10 Best Books, NPR Books We Love
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Between the World and Me
On 3 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love, The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, NPR Books We Love
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Nonfiction, The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Just Kids
National Book Award for Nonfiction
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
National Book Award for Nonfiction