1990s
- 1990: And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
- A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 by David Fromkin
- 1991: The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
- Looking for a Ship by John McPhee
- River of Traps: A Village Life by William duBuys and Alex Harris
- 1992: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
- Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall
- Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus
- 1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
- Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez
- Where the Buffalo Roam by Anne Matthews
- A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin
- 1994: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
- The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay
- The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age by John Lukacs
- 1995: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
- How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
- 1996: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
- Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
- 1997: Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
- Fame and Folly by Cynthia Ozick
- The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond by Samuel G. Freedman
- 1998: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- 1999: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
- The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
- Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie
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