The National Book Award, given since 1950, honors the year’s best work in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Read past nonfiction winners:
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (2008)
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday) by Tim Weiner (2007)
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (2006)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
