1962 The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White (Atheneum)
1963 The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan)
1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (Random)
1965 O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking)
1966 Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (Dodd)
1967 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (Cornell Univ. Press)
1968 Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will And Ariel Durant (Simon & Schuster)
1969 The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer (World)
1969 So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos (Scribner)
1970 Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson (Norton)
1971 The Rising Sun by John Toland (Random)
1972 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan)
1973 Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles (Little)
1973 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald (Little)
1974 The Denial of Death by the late Ernest Becker (Free Press/Macmillan)
1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (Harper's Magazine Press)
1976 Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler (Harper)
1977 Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (Atlantic Little Brown)
1978 The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (Random House)
1979 On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ. Press)
1980 Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Basic Books)
1981 Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske (Knopf)
1982 The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder (Atlantic-Little, Brown)
1983 Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin)
1984 The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr (Basic Books)
1985 The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel (Pantheon)
1986 Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld (Times Books)
1986 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas (Alfred A. Knopf)
1987 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler (Times Books)
1988 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Simon and Schuster)
1989 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House)
1990 And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (Pantheon)
1991 The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
1992 The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin (Simon & Schuster)
1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster)
1994 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire by David Remnick (Random House)
1995 The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf)
1996 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg (Random House)
1997 Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf)
1998 Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
1999 Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2000 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press)
2001 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (HarperCollins)
2002 Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (Simon & Schuster)
