Awards & prizes
Recognized books,
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Explore 52 award collections representing 1,922 book recognitions. Select any award to open its complete collection.
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
by Joseph Ellis
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
by Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
by Nathaniel Philbrick
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
by Abraham Lincoln & Jon Meacham
Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
by Antony Beevor
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
by Abraham Lincoln & Jon Meacham
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
by Andrew Roberts
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
by Steven Pinker
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
by Kathryn Paige Harden
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by Joseph Henrich
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
by Simon Baron-Cohen
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
by Walter Scheidel
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
by Martha S. Jones
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
by Anne Applebaum
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
by Walter Scheidel
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by Peter Robison
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by Stuart Russell
The Great Demographic Reversal
by Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
by Martha S. Jones
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by Michael Lewis
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
by Thant Myint-U
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
by Kellie Carter Jackson
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
by Tiya Miles
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
by Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
by Maxwell King
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by Michael Lewis
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
by Abraham Lincoln & Jon Meacham
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
The Lost City of the Monkey God
by Douglas Preston
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
by James Clear
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
by Imani Perry
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
by Caitlin Doughty
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
by Patrik Svensson
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
by Jennifer Ackerman
Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City
by Andrew Konove
News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
by Heidi Tworek
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
by Marcia Chatelain
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe
by Suzanne Marchand
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
by Matthew Karp
African Europeans: An Untold History
by Olivette Otele
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
by Tiya Miles
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
by Larissa MacFarquhar
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty – First Century
by Jessica Bruder
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by Masha Gessen
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
by Boston Athenaeum & Commonwealth Club of California & Library Talks & NYT’s Book Review & The Argument
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938 – 1941
by Alan Allport
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
by Toby Green
Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
by Amy Stanley
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
by Tiya Miles
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
by Kali Nicole Gross
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
by Natasha Trethewey
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
by Marcia Chatelain
Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick”
by Richard J. King
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
by Michael Palin
Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy
by Benjamin Armstrong
The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War
by Nicholas Lambert
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
by Beth Macy
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
by Katherine Standefer
H Is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
by Imani Perry
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
by Keeanga – Yamahtta Taylor
Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
by Michelle Bowdler
African Europeans: An Untold History
by Olivette Otele
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline & Criado Perez
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
by Anne Applebaum
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
by Manil Suri
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
by Jennifer Ackerman
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace- Wells
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
by Keeanga – Yamahtta Taylor
Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
by Larrie D. Ferreiro
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
by Sven Beckert
The Perfectionist: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature’s Secrets to Longevity
by Nicklas Brendborg
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by Caroline & Criado Perez
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
by Jessica Nordell
Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
by Rebecca Frankel
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
by Elizabeth Hinton
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
by Abbot Kahler
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
by Mary Roach
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
by Ross D E Macphee
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
by Patrik Svensson
