In observance of Memorial Day, all Phoenix Public Library locations except Cholla, Harmon and Yucca Libraries will be closed Monday, May 26, 2025.
For a distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.
By: Olorunnipa, Toluse
2023
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
By: Andrea Elliott
2022
The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
By: David Zucchino
2021
By: Greg Grandin
2020
one family and the fracturing of America
By: Griswold, Eliza, 1973- author.
2019
crime and punishment in black america
By: Forman, James, 1967- author.
2018
poverty and profit in the American city
By: Desmond, Matthew.
2017
the rise of ISIS
By: Warrick, Joby, author.
2016
an unnatural history
By: Kolbert, Elizabeth.
2015
a story of science and salvation
By: Fagin, Dan.
2014
Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America
By: King, Gilbert.
2013
how the world became modern
By: Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-
2012
a biography of cancer
By: Mukherjee, Siddhartha.
2011
the untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy
By: Hoffman, David E. (David Emanuel)
2010
the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon.
By: Blackmon, Douglas A.
2009
Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
By: Friedländer, Saul, 1932-
2008
Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11
By: Wright, Lawrence, 1947-
2007
the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
By: Elkins, Caroline.
2006
the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001
By: Coll, Steve.
2005
By: Applebaum, Anne, 1964-
2004
America and the age of genocide
By: Power, Samantha.
2003
By: Bix, Herbert P., author.
2001
Japan in the wake of World War II
By: Dower, John W.
2000
1999
the fates of human societies
By: Diamond, Jared M.
1998
the words that remade America
1993
the epic quest for oil, money, & power
By: Yergin, Daniel.
1992
the legacy of Let us now praise famous men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the rise and fall of cotton in the South
By: Maharidge, Dale, author.
1990
