Current Interest
- 2011: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 2010: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton & Company)
- 2009: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s Books)
- 2008: Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman (The Penguin Press)
- 2007: Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 2006: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma (Penguin Press)
- 2005: Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, by Anthony Shadid (Henry Holt)
- 2004: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- 2003: The New Chinese Empire -- And What It Means for the United States by Ross Terrill (Basic Books)
- 2002: Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine (University of Minnesota Press)
- 2001: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company)
- 2000: Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
- 1999: Sidewalk (with Photographs by Ovie Carter) by Mitchell Duneier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1998: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1997: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1996: Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1995: Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams (Dutton)
- 1994: Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (Simon & Schuster)
- 1993: Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry (The Free Press)
- 1992: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama (The Free Press)
- 1991: Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process by E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Simon & Schuster)
- 1990: Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century by O.B. Hardison, Jr. (Viking)
- 1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
- 1988: Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider (Simon & Schuster)
- 1987: The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins (W.W. Norton)
- 1986: Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld (Times Books)
- 1985: Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton (University of California Press)
- 1984: Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs (Random House)
- 1983: Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- 1982: The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1981: Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by Jacobo Timerman (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1980: Without Fear or Favor by Harrison Salisbury (New York Times Books)
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