2024 – The Intersectional Environmentalist
By: Leah Thomas

2023 – I Never Thought of It That Way
By: Monica Guzman

2022 – Factfulness
By: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Ronnlund

2021 鈥撀燬tamped
By: Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

2020 鈥撀燘iased
By: Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt

2019 鈥撀燜utureFace
By: Alex Wagner

2018 鈥撀燬omething Must be Done about Prince Edward County
By: Kristen Green

2017 鈥撀燤ake Your Home Among Strangers
By: Jennine Cap贸 Crucet

2016 鈥撀燡ust Mercy
By: Bryan Stevenson

2015 鈥撀燱hy We Can鈥檛 Wait
By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

2014 鈥撀燭he Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
By: William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

2013 鈥撀燣ittle Princes
By: Conor Grennan

2012 鈥撀燴eitoun
By: Dave Eggers

2011 鈥撀燙reating a World Without Poverty
By: Muhammad Yunus

2010 鈥撀燙hina Road
By: Rob Gifford

2009 鈥撀燗 Thousand Splendid Suns
By: Khaled Hosseini

2008 鈥撀燭he Shame of the Nation
By: Jonathan Kozol

2007 鈥撀燗n Inconvenient Truth
By: Al Gore
2006 鈥撀燤ountains Beyond Mountains
By: Tracy Kidder

2005 鈥撀燛scape From Slavery
By: Francis Bok

2004 鈥撀燦ickel and Dimed
By: Barbara Ehrenreich

2003 鈥撀燜alling Leaves
By: Adeline Yen Mah

2002 鈥撀燭he Color of Water
By: James McBride

2000-2001 鈥撀燴enzele聽J.
By: Nozipo Maraire

1999 鈥撀燤illennium
By: Stephen Jay Gould

1998 鈥撀燬nakes and Ladders
By: Gita Mehta

1997 鈥撀燗 Shaman鈥檚 Apprentice
By: Mark Plotkin

1996 鈥撀燭hings Fall Apart
By: Chinua Achebe

1995 鈥撀營shmael
By: Daniel Quinn

1994聽鈥撀燭he Measure of Our Success
By: Marion Wright Edelman

1993聽鈥撀燭here Are No Children Here
By: Alex Kotlowitz

1992聽鈥撀燭hief of Time
By: Tony Hillerman