Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction — Complete Winners List

13 years of winners · Kirkus Reviews · Since 2014 · ← Back to award page


2026	Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast	Pamela Colloff	Knopf
2025	King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia	—	Random House
2024	Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space	Adam Higginbotham	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2023	Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino'	—	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2022	In Sensorium: Notes for My People	—	Harper
2021	Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir	Brian Broome	Mariner Books
2020	Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream	Mychal Denzel Smith	Bold Type Books
2019	How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir	Saeed Jones	Simon & Schuster
2018	Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)	Rebecca Solnit	Haymarket Books
2017	The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea	Jack E. Davis	Liveright Publishing
2016	In the Darkroom	Susan Faludi	Metropolitan Books
2015	Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	Spiegel & Grau
2014	Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir	Roz Chast	Bloomsbury USA