2025 – First Gen: A Memoir (Alejandra Campoverdi)

2024 – The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Leah Thomas)

2023 – I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times (Monica Guzman)

2022 – Factfulness: 10 Reasons We’re Wrong about the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Ronnlund)

2021 – Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi)

2020 – Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (Jennifer Eberhardt)

2019 – FutureFace (Alex Wagner)

2018 – Something Must be Done about Prince Edward County (Kristen Green)

2017 – Make Your Home Among Strangers (Jennine Capó Crucet)

2016 – Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)

2015 – Why We Can’t Wait (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

2014 – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer)

2013 – Little Princes (Conor Grennan)

2012 – Zeitoun (Dave Eggers)

2011 – Creating a World Without Poverty (Muhammad Yunus)

2010 – China Road (Rob Gifford)

2009 – A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)

2008 – The Shame of the Nation (Jonathan Kozol)

2007 – An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)

2006 – Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder)

2005 – Escape From Slavery (Francis Bok)

2004 – Nickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)

2003 – Falling Leaves (Adeline Yen Mah)

2002 – The Color of Water (James McBride)

2001 – Zenzele J. (Maraire)

1999 – Millennium (Stephen Jay Gould)

1998 – Snakes and Ladders (Gita Mehta)

1997 – A Shaman’s Apprentice (Mark Plotkin)

1996 – Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)

1995 – Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

1994 – The Measure of Our Success (Marion Wright Edelman)

1993 – There Are No Children Here (Alex Kotlowitz)

1992 – Thief of Time (Tony Hillerman)