2017: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City von Matthew Desmond
2018: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America von James Forman, Jr.
2019: Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America von Eliza Griswold
2020–2029
2020: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America von Greg Grandin; The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care von Anne Boyer
2021: Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy von David Zucchino
2022: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City von Andrea Elliott
2023: His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice von Robert Samuels und Toluse Olorunnipa