National Book Award Winners - Nonfiction

The Hemingses of Monticello
by Annette Gordon-Reed
• 2012 - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
  2011 - The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
  2010 - Just Kids by Patti Smith
  2009 - The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles
• 2008 - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
• 2007 - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
• 2006 - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
• 2005 - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• 2004 - Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
• 2003 - Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
• 2002 - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
• 2001 - The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
• 2000 - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
• 1999 - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
• 1998 - Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
• 1997 - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
• 1996 - An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us by James P. Carroll
• 1995 - The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
• 1994 - How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
• 1993 - United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal
• 1992 - Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
• 1991 - Freedom by Orlando Patterson
• 1990 - The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow
• 1989 - From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
• 1988 - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
• 1987 - The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• 1986 - Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
• 1985 - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
• 1984 - Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 by Robert V. Remini

This list can be viewed at the National Book Awards website.