A searchable index of nonfiction book prizes.

A searchable index of nonfiction book prizes.

A free resource for browsing major nonfiction prizes and the books they recognize.

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History1554 booksBiography1114 booksArts & Criticism681 booksScience614 booksMemoir & Autobiography510 booksPolitics & Government386 booksTrue Crime & Justice384 booksNature & Environment341 books

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National Book Awards838 recordsNational Book Critics Circle Awards776 recordsPROSE Awards765 recordsLos Angeles Times Book Prize759 recordsPulitzer Prize594 recordsEdgar Awards: Best Fact Crime332 recordsAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction331 recordsGovernor General's Literary Awards: English-language Non-fiction269 records

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| | | | | | | | | | -- | ---- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | - | - | ---------------- | -------------------- | | 54 | 2016 | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond | 7 | 9 | Crown | Penguin Random House | | 46 | 2022 | G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century | Beverly Gage | 5 | 6 | Viking | Penguin Random House | | 46 | 2018 | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | David W. Blight | 5 | 8 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster | | 44 | 2012 | Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Katherine Boo | 4 | 9 | Random House | Penguin Random House | | 42 | 1999 | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | John W. Dower | 5 | 6 | The New Press | The New Press | | 42 | 2021 | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake | Tiya Miles | 6 | 8 | Random House | Penguin Random House | | 40 | 1988 | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Neil Sheehan | 4 | 7 | Random House | Penguin Random House | | 38 | 1988 | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 | Taylor Branch | 4 | 5 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster | | 38 | 1980 | Walter Lippmann and the American Century | Ronald Steel | 4 | 5 | Taylor & Francis | Taylor & Francis | | 38 | 2012 | The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Robert A. Caro | 5 | 7 | Knopf | Penguin Random House | | 36 | 2013 | Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital | Sheri Fink | 5 | 6 | Crown | Penguin Random House | | 36 | 2006 | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Lawrence Wright | 5 | 6 | Knopf | Penguin Random House |

Books

7,066

Award appearances

8,818

Award programs

55

Prize categories

121

Imprints

319