National Book Awards
In 1980, the unrelated National Book Awards was renamed American Book Awards. In 1987 it was renamed back to National Book Awards."History Of The National Book Awards"Recipients
1980s
1980
* Douglas Woolf for ''Future Preconditional: A Collection'' * Edward Dorn for ''Hello, La Jolla'' * Jayne Cortez for ''Mouth on Paper'' * Leslie Marmon Silko for ''1981
* Alta for ''Shameless Hussy'' * Alan Chong Lau for ''Songs for Jadina'' * Bienvenido N. Santos for ''Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories'' * Helen Adam for ''Turn Again to Me & Other Poems'' * Lionel Mitchell for ''Traveling Light'' * Miguel Algarín for ''On Call'' * Nicholasa Mohr for ''Felita'' * Peter Blue Cloud for ''Back Then Tomorrow'' * Robert Kelly for ''The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996'' * Rose Drachler for ''The Choice'' * Susan Howe for ''The Liberties'' * Toni Cade Bambara for '' The Salt Eaters''1982
* Al Young for ''Bodies and Soul'' * Duane Niatum for ''Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems'' * E. L. Mayo for ''Collected Poems E L Mayo'' * Frank Chin for '' The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon'' * Hilton Obenzinger for ''This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem'' * Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung for ''Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940'' * Jerome Rothenberg for ''Pre-Faces and Other Writings'' * Joyce Carol Thomas for '' Marked by Fire'' * Leroy Quintana for ''Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets'' *1983
* Barbara Christian for ''Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976'' * Cecilia Liang for ''Chinese Folk Poetry'' * Evangelina Vigil-Piñón for ''Thirty: An' Seen a Lot'' * Harriet Rohmer for ''Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento'' * James D. Houston for ''Californians: Searching for the Golden State'' * Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn for ''Pet food & tropical apparitions'' * John A. Williams for ''Click Song'', a novel * Joy Kogawa for '' Obasan'' * Judy Grahn for ''The Queen of Wands: Poetry'' * Nash Candelaria for ''Not by the Sword'' * Peter Guralnick for ''Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians'' * Seán Ó Tuama for ''An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed''1984
* Cecil Brown for ''Days Without Weather'' *1985
* Angela Jackson for ''Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E'' * Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen for ''Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown'' * Colleen J. McElroy for ''Queen of the Ebony Isles'' * Gary Soto for '' Living Up The Street'' * Peter Irons for ''Justice at War'' * Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei, Muin Ozaki for ''Poets Behind Barbed Wire'' * Louise Erdrich for '' Love Medicine'', a novel *1986
* Anna Lee Walters for ''The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories'' * Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa for '' This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color'' * Helen Barolini for ''The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women'' * Jeff Hannusch for ''I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues'' * Linda Hogan for ''Seeing Through the Sun'' * Miguel Algarín for ''Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo'' * Natasha Borovsky for ''A Daughter of the Nobility'' * Raymond Federman for ''Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts'' * Susan Howe for ''My Emily Dickinson'' * Terence Winch for ''Irish Musicians/American Friends'' * Toshio Mori for ''Yokohama, California''1987
* Ai for ''SIN'' * Ana Castillo for ''The Mixquiahuala Letters'' * Cyn Zarco for ''Cir'cum.nav'i.ga'tion'' * Daniel McGuire for ''Portrait of Little Boy in darkness'' * Dorothy Bryant for ''Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow'' * Etheridge Knight for ''The Essential Etheridge Knight'' * Gary Giddins for ''Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker'' * Harvey Pekar for ''The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland'' * James Welch for '' Fools Crow'' * John Wieners for ''Selected Poems: 1958–1984'' * Juan Felipe Herrera for ''Face Games'' * Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum for ''liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy'' * Michael Mayo for ''Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry'' * Septima Poinsette Clark, Cynthia Stokes Brown for ''Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative'' * Terry McMillan for ''Mama''1988
* Allison Blakely for ''Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought'' * Charles Olson for ''The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems'' * Daisy Bates for ''The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir'' * David Halberstam for '' The Reckoning'' * Edward Sanders for ''Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985'' * Gerald Vizenor for '' Griever: An American Monkey King in China'' * Jimmy Santiago Baca for ''Martin & Meditations on the South Valley'' * Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High for ''Tight Spaces'' * Marlon K. Hom for ''Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown'' * Benjamin Hoff for ''The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley'' * Ronald Sukenick for ''Down and in: Life in the Underground'' * Salvatore La Puma for ''The Boys of Bensonhurst'' * Toni Morrison for '' Beloved'' * Wing Tek Lum, Tek Lum Lum for ''Expounding the Doubtful Points''1989
* Alma Luz Villanueva for ''The Ultraviolet Sky'' * Askia M. Touré for ''From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!'' * Audre Lorde for ''A Burst of Light'' * Carolyn Lau for ''Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking'' * Emory Elliott for ''Columbia Literary History of the United States'' * Eduardo Galeano for ''Genesis'' * Frank Chin for '' The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co.'' * Henry Louis Gates for '' The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism'' * Isabel Allende for '' Eva Luna'' * J. California Cooper for ''Homemade Love'' * Jennifer Stone for ''Stone's Throw'' * Josephine Gattuso Hendin for ''The Right Thing to Do'' * Leslie Scalapino for ''way'' * Shuntaro Tanikawa for ''Floating the River in Melancholy'' * Charles Fanning for ''The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction'' * William Minoru Hohri for ''Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress''1990s
1990
* Adrienne Kennedy for ''People Who Led to My Plays'' * Barbara Grizzuti Harrison for ''Italian Days'' * Daniela Gioseffi for ''Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age)'' * Elizabeth Woody for ''Hand into Stone: Poems'' * Hualing Nieh for ''Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China'' * Itabari Njeri for ''Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone'' * James M. Freeman for ''Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives'' * John C. Walter, J. Raymond Jones for ''The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970'' * John Norton for ''Light at the End of the Bog'' * José Emilio González for ''Vivar a Hostos'' * Sergei Kan for ''Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century'' * Lloyd A. Thompson for ''Romans and Blacks'' * Martin Bernal for '' Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization'' * Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster for ''Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry'' *1991
* Alejandro Murguía for ''Southern Front'' *1992
* A'Lelia Perry Bundles for ''Madam C.J. Walker'' * Art Spiegelman for '' The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale'' * Benjamin Alire Sáenz for ''Calendar of Dust'' * Donna J. Haraway for ''Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature'' * Fritjof Capra for ''Belonging to the universe: Explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality'' * José Antonio Burciaga for ''Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry'' * Keith Gilyard for '' Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence'' * Lucy Thompson for '' To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman'' * Norma Field for ''In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End'' * Peter Bacho for '' Cebu'' * Peter Kalifornsky for ''Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky'' * Raymond Andrews for ''Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire'' * Sandra Scofield for ''Beyond Deserving'' * Sheila Hamanaka for ''Journey'' * Stephen R. Fox for ''The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II'' * Steven R. Carter for ''Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity,'' * Verlyn Klinkenborg for '' The Last Fine Time'' * William B. Branch, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson for ''Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama''1993
* Asake Bomani, Belvie Rooks for ''Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris'' * Christopher Mogil, Peter Woodrow for ''We Gave Away a Fortune'' *1994
* Giose Rimanelli for ''Benedetta in Guysterland'' * Eric Drooker for ''Flood!: A Novel in Pictures'' * Graciela Limón for ''In Search of Bernabe'' * Gregory J. Reed for ''Economic Empowerment Through the Church'' * Janet Campbell Hale for ''Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter'' * Jill Nelson for ''Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience'' * Lawson Fusao Inada for ''Legends from Camp'' * Nicole Blackman for ''Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe'' * Paul Gilroy for '' The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness'' * Ronald Takaki for '' A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America'' * Rose L. Glickman for ''Daughters of Feminists'' * Tino Villanueva for ''Scene from the Movie GIANT'' * Virginia L. Kroll for ''Wood-Hoopoe Willie''1995
* Abraham Rodriguez for ''Spidertown'', a novel * Herb Boyd, Robert L. Allen for ''Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology'' * Denise Chávez for ''Face of an Angel'' * John Egerton for ''Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South'' * John Ross for ''Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas'' * Thomas Avena for ''Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS'' * Linda Raymond for ''Rocking the Babies'', a novel * Li-Young Lee for ''The Winged Seed: A Remembrance'' * Marianna De Marco Torgovnick for ''Crossing Ocean Parkway'' * Marnie Mueller for ''Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest'' * Peter Quinn for ''Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York'' * Sandra Martz for ''I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted'' * Gordon Henry Jr. for '' The Light People'' * Tricia Rose for '' Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America''1996
* Agate Nesaule for '' A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile'' * Arthur Sze for ''Archipelago'' * Chang-Rae Lee for '' Native Speaker'' * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni for ''Arranged Marriage'' * E. J. Miller Laino for ''Girl Hurt'' * Glenn C. Loury for ''One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America'' * James W. Loewen for ''Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'' * Joe Sacco,1997
* Alurista for ''Et Tu ... Raza'' * Derrick Bell for ''Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home'' * Dorothy Barresi for ''The Post-Rapture Diner'' * Guillermo Gómez-Peña for ''The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century'' * Louis Owens for ''Nightland'' * Martín Espada for ''Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems'' * Montserrat Fontes for ''Dreams of the Centaur'', a novel * Noel Ignatiev for ''Race Traitor'' * Shirley Geok-lin Lim for ''Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands'' * Sunaina Maira for ''Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America'' * Thulani Davis for ''Maker of Saints'' * Tom De Haven for ''Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies'', a novel * William M. Banks for ''Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life'' * Brenda Knight for ''Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution''1998
* Allison Adelle Hedge Coke for ''Dog Road Woman'' * Angela Y. Davis for '' Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday'' *1999
* Alice McDermott for ''Charming Billy'' *2000s
2000
* Esther G. Belin for ''From the Belly of My Beauty'' * Allan J. Ryan for ''The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art'' * Andrés Montoya for ''The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems'' * Camille Peri, Kate Moses for ''Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood'' * David A. J. Richards for ''Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity'' * David Toop for '' Exotica'' * Elva Trevino Hart for ''Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child'' * Emil Guillermo for ''Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed'' * Frank Chin for '' The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.'' * Helen Thomas for ''Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times'' * Janisse Ray for ''Ecology of a Cracker Childhood'' * John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford for ''Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English'' * Leroy TeCube for ''Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story'' * Lois-Ann Yamanaka for ''Heads By Harry'' * Michael Lally for ''It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose'' * Michael Patrick MacDonald for ''All Souls: A Family Story from Southie'' * Rahna Reiko Rizzuto for ''Why She Left Us'', a novel * Robert Creeley for ''The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005'' * Editor/Publisher: Ronald Sukenick * Jack E. White, Journalism * Frank Chin, Lifetime Achievement * Robert Creeley, Lifetime Achievement2001
* Amanda J. Cobb for ''Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949'' *2002
Source: * Aaron A. Abeyta, ''Colcha'' * Susanne Antonetta, ''The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir'' * Rilla Askew, ''Fire in Beulah'' * Tananarive Due, '' The Living Blood'' * Gloria Frym, ''Homeless at Home'' * Dana Gioia, ''Interrogations at Noon'' * LeAnne Howe, '' Shell Shaker'' * Alex Kuo, ''Lipstick and Other Stories'' * Michael N. Nagler, ''Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future'' * Donald Phelps, ''Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century'' * Al Young, ''The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990–2000'' * Jessel Miller, ''Angels in the Vineyards'' * Lerone Bennett, Lifetime Achievement * Jack Hirschman, Lifetime Achievement2003
Source: * Kevin Baker, ''Paradise Alley'' * Debra Magpie Earling, ''Perma Red'' *2004
Source: * Diana Abu-Jaber, ''Crescent'', a novel * David Cole, ''Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism'' * Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, ''Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America'' * Kristin Hunter Lattany, ''Breaking Away'' * A. Robert Lee, ''Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions'' * Diane Sher Lutovich, ''What I Stole'' * Ruth Ozeki, '' All Over Creation'' * Renato Rosaldo, ''Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Arana'' * Scott Saul, ''Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties'' * Michael Walsh, ''And All the Saints''2005
Source: * Bernard W. Bell, ''The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches'' * Cecelie Berry, ''Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood'' * Jeff Chang, '' Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation'' * Julie Chibbaro, ''Redemption'' * Richard A. Clarke, '' Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror'' * Alisha S. Drabek and Karen R. Adams, ''The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey'' * Ralph M. Flores, ''The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family'' * Hiroshi Kashiwagi, ''Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings'' * Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., ''Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy'' * Don Lee, ''Country of Origin'', a novel * Lamont B. Steptoe, ''A Long Movie of Shadows'' * Don West, ''No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems'', eds Jeff Biggers and George Brosi * Journalism: Bill Berkowitz2006
Source: * MacKenzie Bezos, '' The Testing of Luther Albright'', a novel * Matt Briggs, ''Shoot the Buffalo'' * David P. Diaz, ''The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexican-American'' * Darryl Dickson-Carr, ''The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction'' * Thomas Ferraro, ''Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America'' * Tim Z. Hernandez, ''Skin Tax'' * Josh Kun, ''Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America'' * P. Lewis, ''Nate'' * Peter Metcalfe, ''Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium'' * Kevin J. Mullen, ''The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco'' * Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin, eds., ''A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children'' * Matthew Shenoda, ''Somewhere Else'' * Carlton T. Spiller, ''Scalding Heart'' * Chris Hamilton-Emery, Editor * Jay Wright, Lifetime Achievement2007
* Daniel Cassidy, ''How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads'' *2008
Source: * Moustafa Bayoumi, ''How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America'' * Douglas A. Blackmon, '' Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II'' * Jonathan Curiel, ''Al’ America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots'' * Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black. ''Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká''. ''Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804'' * Maria Mazziotti Gillan, ''All That Lies Between Us'' * Nikki Giovanni, ''The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998'' * C. S. Giscombe, ''Prairie Style'' * Angela Jackson, ''Where I Must Go'', a novel * L. Luis Lopez, ''Each Month I Sing'' * Tom Lutz, ''Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America'' * Fae Myenne Ng, ''Steer Toward Rock'' * Yuko Taniguchi, ''The Ocean in the Closet'' * Lorenzo Thomas, ''Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition'', ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen * Frank B. Wilderson III, ''Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid'' * J. J. Phillips, Lifetime Achievement2009
* Houston A. Baker, Jr., ''Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era'' * Danit Brown, ''Ask for a Convertible'' * Jericho Brown, ''Please'' * José Antonio Burciaga, ''The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga'', eds Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón * Claire Hope Cummings, ''Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds'' * Stella Pope Duarte, ''If I Die in Juarez'' * Linda Gregg, ''All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems'' * Suheir Hammad, ''Breaking Poems'' * Richard Holmes, ''The Age of Wonder'' * George E. Lewis, ''A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music'' * Patricia Santana, ''Ghosts of El Grullo'' * Jack Spicer, ''My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer'', ed. Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian * Miguel Algarín, Lifetime Achievement2010s
2010
Source: * Amiri Baraka, ''Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music'' * Sherwin Bitsui, ''Flood Song'' * Nancy Carnevale, ''A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890–1945'' * Dave Eggers, '' Zeitoun'' * Sesshu Foster, ''World Ball Notebook'' * Stephen D. Gutierrez, ''Live from Fresno y Los'' * Victor LaValle, ''The Big Machine'' * François Mandeville, ''This Is What They Say'', translated by Ron Scollon from Chipewyan * Bich Minh Nguyen, ''Short Girls'' * Franklin Rosemont and Robin D. G. Kelley, eds., ''Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora'' * Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson, eds., ''Poems for the Millennium: Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry'' * Kathryn Waddell Takara, ''Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems'' * Pamela Uschuk, ''Crazy Love: New Poems'' * Katha Politt, Lifetime Achievement * Quincy Troupe, Lifetime Achievement2011
Source: * Keith Gilyard, ''John Oliver Killens'' * Akbar Ahmed, ''Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam'' * Camille Dungy, ''Suck on the Marrow'' * Karen Tei Yamashita, '' I Hotel'' * William W. Cook and James Tatum, ''African American Writers and Classical Tradition'' * Gerald Vizenor, ''Shrouds of White Earth'' * Eric Gansworth, ''Extra Indians'' * Ivan Argüelles, ''The Death of Stalin'' * Geoffrey Alan Argent, ed., ''The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides'', translated by Argent from French * Neela Vaswani, ''You Have Given Me a Country'' * Sasha Pimentel Chacón, ''Insides She Swallowed'' * Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., ''The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States'' * Carmen Giménez Smith, ''Bring Down the Little Birds'' * Luis Valdez, Lifetime Achievement * John A. Williams, Lifetime Achievement2012
Source: * Annia Ciezadlo, ''Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War'' * Arlene Kim, ''What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?'' * Ed Bok Lee, ''Whorled'' * Adilifu Nama, ''Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes'' * Rob Nixon, '' Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor'' * Shann Ray, ''American Masculine'' * Alice Rearden, translator; Ann Fienup-Riordan, ed., ''Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput: Our Nelson Island Stories'' *2013
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Source: * Andrew Bacevich, ''Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country'', Metropolitan Books * Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., ''Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party'', University of California Press * Juan Delgado (poetry) and Thomas McGovern (photography), ''Vital Signs'', Heyday Books * Alex Espinoza, ''The Five Acts of Diego León'', Random House * Jonathan Scott Holloway, ''Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940'', University of North Carolina Press * Joan Naviyuk Kane, ''Hyperboreal'', University of Pittsburgh Press * Jamaica Kincaid, ''See Now Then'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux * Tanya Olson, ''Boyishly'', YesYes Books * Sterling D. Plumpp, ''Home/Bass'', Third World Press * Emily Raboteau, ''Searching For Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora'', Atlantic Monthly Press * Jerome Rothenberg with Heriberto Yepez, ''Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader'', Commonwealth Books * Nick Turse, ''Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam'', Metropolitan Books * Margaret Wrinkle, ''Wash'', Atlantic Monthly Press * Koon Woon, ''Water Chasing Water'', Kaya Press * Armond White, Anti-Censorship Award * Michael Parenti, Lifetime Achievement2015
Source: * Hisham Aidi, ''Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture'' (Vintage) * Arlene Biala, ''her beckoning hands'' (Word Poetry) * Arthur Dong, ''Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970'' (DeepFocus Productions) * Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, '' An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States'' (Beacon Press) * Peter J. Harris, ''The Black Man of Happiness'' (Black Man of Happiness Project) * Marlon James, '' A Brief History of Seven Killings'' (Riverhead Books) * Naomi Klein, '' This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate'' (Simon & Schuster) * Laila Lalami, '' The Moor's Account'' (Pantheon) * Manuel Luis Martinez, ''Los Duros'' (Floricanto Press) * Craig Santos Perez, ''from unincorporated territory uma’' (Omnidawn) * Carlos Santana with Ashley Kahn and Hal Miller, ''The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light'' (Little, Brown and Company) * Ira Sukrungruang, ''Southside Buddhist'' (University of Tampa Press) * Astra Taylor, '' The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age'' (Henry Holt) * Anne Waldman, Lifetime Achievement2016
Source: * Laura Da', ''Tributaries'' (University of Arizona) * Susan Muaddi Darraj, ''Curious Land: Stories from Home'' (University of Massachusetts) * Deepa Iyer, ''We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multicultural Future'' (The New Press) * Mat Johnson, '' Loving Day'' (Spiegel & Grau) * John Keene, ''Counternarratives'' (New Directions) * William J. Maxwell, ''F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature'' (Princeton University) * Lauret Savoy, ''Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape'' (Counterpoint) * Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette, ''The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry'' (Lawrence Hill Books) * Jesús Salvador Treviño, ''Return to Arroyo Grande'' (Arte Público) * Nick Turse, ''Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa'' (Haymarket Books) * Ray Young Bear, ''Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear'' (Open Road Integrated Media) * Louise Meriwether, Lifetime Achievement * Lyra Monteiro and Nancy Isenberg, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award * Chiitaanibah Johnson, Andrew Hope Award2017
Source: * Rabia Chaudry ''Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial'' (St. Martin's Press) * Flores A. Forbes ''Invisible Men:'' ''A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration'' (Skyhorse Publishing) * Yaa Gyasi ''Homegoing'' (Knopf) * Holly Hughes ''Passings'' (Expedition Press) * Randa Jarrar ''Him, Me, Muhammad Ali'' (Sarabande Books) * Bernice L. McFadden ''The Book of Harlan'' (Akashic Books) * Brian D. McInnes ''Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow'' (Michigan State University Press) * Patrick Phillips '' Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America'' (W. W. Norton & Company) * Vaughn Rasberry ''Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination'' (Harvard University Press) * Marc Anthony Richardson ''Year of the Rat'' (Fiction Collective Two) * Shawna Yang Ryan ''Green Island'' (Knopf) * Ruth Sergel ''See You in the Streets: Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire'' (University of Iowa Press) * Solmaz Sharif ''Look'' (Graywolf Press) * Adam Soldofsky ''Memory Foam'' (Disorder Press) * Alfredo Véa ''The Mexican Flyboy'' (University of Oklahoma Press) * Dean Wong ''Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown'' (Chin Music Press) * Nancy Mercado ''Lifetime Achievement'' * Ammiel Alcalay ''Editor/Publisher Award'': Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative2018
Source: * Thi Bui '' The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir'' ( Harry N. Abrams) * Rachelle Cruz ''God's Will for Monsters'' (Inlandia Books) * Tommy Curry ''The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood'' (2019
Source: * Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung ''John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy'' (2020s
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