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Nonfiction Awards & Books

Nonfiction awards honor excellence in biography, memoir, history, science writing, and reportage.

Awards for Nonfiction

National Book Award for NonfictionView all years →
Nero Book AwardsView all years →
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

2026 Winner

Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

2026 Winner

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
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Pulitzer Prize for History

2026 Winner

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

2024 Winner

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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Baillie Gifford PrizeView all years →
Coretta Scott King Book Awards

2026 Winner

Will's Race for Home
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Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Nonfiction

2026 Winner

Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
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Goodreads Choice Awards – Nonfiction

2025 Winner

Everything Is Tuberculosis
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography

2024 Winner

My Great Arab Melancholy
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Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction

2026 Winner

Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
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National Book Award for Translated LiteratureView all years →
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyView all years →
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionView all years →
Orwell Prize for Political Writing

2025 Winner

Looking at Women, Looking at War
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RSL Ondaatje Prize

2025 Winner

Clear
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Rathbones Folio Prize

2024 Winner

The Wren, The Wren
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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

2026 Winner

Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa
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Stonewall Book Award

2026 Winner

Halfway to Somewhere
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Whiting Award

2025 Winner

Fiction — Elwin Cotman (Whiting Award 2025)
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