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 鈥撀燬tamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi)

2020 鈥撀燘iased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (Jennifer Eberhardt)

2019 鈥撀燜utureFace (Alex Wagner)

2018 鈥撀燬omething Must be Done about Prince Edward County (Kristen Green)

2017 鈥撀燤ake Your Home Among Strangers (Jennine Cap贸 Crucet)

2016 鈥撀燡ust Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)

2015 鈥撀燱hy We Can鈥檛 Wait (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

2014 鈥撀燭he Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer)

2013 鈥撀燣ittle Princes (Conor Grennan)

2012 鈥撀燴eitoun (Dave Eggers)

2011 鈥撀燙reating a World Without Poverty (Muhammad Yunus)

2010 鈥撀燙hina Road (Rob Gifford)

2009 鈥撀燗 Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)

2008 鈥撀燭he Shame of the Nation (Jonathan Kozol)

2007 鈥撀燗n Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)

2006 鈥撀燤ountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder)

2005 鈥撀燛scape From Slavery (Francis Bok)

2004 鈥撀燦ickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)

2003 鈥撀燜alling Leaves (Adeline Yen Mah)

2002 鈥撀燭he Color of Water (James McBride)

2001 鈥撀燴enzele聽J. (Maraire)

1999 鈥撀燤illennium (Stephen Jay Gould)

1998 鈥撀燬nakes and Ladders (Gita Mehta)

1997 鈥撀燗 Shaman鈥檚 Apprentice (Mark Plotkin)

1996 鈥撀燭hings Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)

1995 鈥撀營shmael (Daniel Quinn)

1994聽鈥撀燭he Measure of Our Success (Marion Wright Edelman)

1993聽鈥撀燭here Are No Children Here (Alex Kotlowitz)

1992聽鈥撀燭hief of Time (Tony Hillerman)