American Book Awards

Dal 1980 al 1989

1980

• Douglas Woolf, Future preconditional: A collection
• Ed Dorn, Hello, La Jolla
• Jayne Cortez, Mouth on Paper
• Leslie Marmon Silko, Cerimonia (Ceremony)
• Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Random Possession
• Milton Murayama, All I Asking for Is My Body
• Quincy Troupe, Snake Back Solos
• Rudolfo Anaya, Tortuga

1981

• Alta, Shameless Hussy
• Alan Chong Lau, Songs for Jadina
• Bienvenido N. Santos, Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
• Helen Adam, Turn Again to Me & Other Poems
• Lionel Mitchell, Traveling Light
• Miguel Algarín, On Call
• Nicholasa Mohr, Felita
• Peter Blue Cloud, Back Then Tomorrow
• Robert Kelly, The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996
• Rose Drachler, The Choice
• Susan Howe, The Liberties
• Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

1982

• Al Young, Bodies and Soul
• Duane Niatum, Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems
• E. L. Mayo, Collected Poems E L Mayo
• Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman e The Year of the Dragon
• Hilton Obenzinger, This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem
• Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim e Judy Yung, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940
• Jerome Rothenberg, Pre-Faces and Other Writings
• Joyce Carol Thomas, Marked by Fire
• Leroy Quintana, Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
• Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emplumada
• Ronald Phillip Tanaka, The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
• Russell Banks, Book of Jamaica
• Tato Laviera, Enclave

1983

• Barbara Christian, Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976
• Cecilia Liang, Chinese Folk Poetry
• Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, Thirty: An' Seen a Lot
• Harriet Rohmer, Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
• James D. Houston, Californians: Searching for the Golden State
• Jessica Hagedorn, Pet food & tropical apparitions
• John A. Williams, Click Song
• Joy Kogawa, Obasan
• Judy Grahn, The Queen of Wands: Poetry
• Nash Candelaria, Not by the Sword
• Peter Guralnick, Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
• Seán Ó Tuama, An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed

1984

• Cecil Brown, Days Without Weather
• Gary Snyder, Axe Handles: Poems
• Howard Schwartz e Mark Podwal, The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
• Amiri Baraka, Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men
• Jesús Colón, A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
• Joseph Bruchac, Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets
• Maurice Kenny, The Mama Poems
• Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, The heat bird
• Miné Okubo, Citizen 13660
• Paule Marshall, Danza per una vedova (Praisesong for the Widow)
• Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang e Ellen Lai-shan Yeung, Pie-Biter
• Thomas McGrath, Echoes inside the labyrinth
• Venkatesh Kulkarni, Naked in Deccan
• William Kennedy, O Albany!

1985

• Angela Jackson, Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
• Arnold Genthe e John Kuo Wei Tchen, Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
• Colleen J. McElroy, Queen of the Ebony Isles
• Gary Soto, Living Up The Street
• Peter H. Irons, Justice at War
• Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei e Muin Ozaki, Poets Behind Barbed Wire
• Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
• Maureen Owen, Amelia Earhart
• May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal
• Robert Duncan, Ground Work: Before the War
• Ron Jones, Say Ray
• Sandra Cisneros, La casa in Mango Street (The House on Mango Street)
• Sonia Sanchez, Homegirls and Handgrenades
• Julia Vinograd, The Book of Jerusalem
• William Oandasan, Round Valley Songs

1986

• Anna Lee Walters, The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories
• Cherríe Moraga e Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
• Helen Barolini, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women
• Jeff Hannusch, I Hear You Knockin: The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
• Linda Hogan, Seeing Through the Sun
• Miguel Algarín, Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo
• Natasha Borovsky, A Daughter of the Nobility
• Raymond Federman, Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts
• Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson
• Terence Winch, Irish Musicians/American Friends
• Toshio Mori, Yokohama, California

1987

• Ai, SIN
• Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters
• Cyn Zarco, Circumnavigations
• Daniel McGuire, Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
• Dorothy Bryant, Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
• Etheridge Knight, The Essential Etheridge Knight
• Gary Giddins, Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
• Harvey Pekar, The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
• James Welch, La luna delle foglie cadenti (Fools Crow)
• John Wieners, Selected Poems: 1958–1984
• Juan Felipe Herrera, Face Games
• Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy
• Michael Mayo, Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry
• Septima Poinsette Clark e Cynthia Stokes Brown, Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
• Terry McMillan, Mama

1988

• Allison Blakely, Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
• Charles Olson, The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems
• Daisy Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
• David Halberstam, The Reckoning
• Edward Sanders, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985
• Gerald Vizenor, Griever: An American Monkey King in China
• Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
• Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji e Egyirba High, Tight Spaces
• Marlon K. Hom, Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
• Benjamin Hoff, The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
• Ronald Sukenick, Down and in: Life in the Underground
• Salvatore La Puma, The Boys of Bensonhurst
• Toni Morrison, Amatissima (Beloved)
• Wing Tek Lum e Tek Lum Lum, Expounding the Doubtful Points

1989

• Alma Luz Villanueva, The Ultraviolet Sky
• Askia M. Touré, From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
• Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light
• Carolyn Lei-Lanilau, Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
• Emory Elliott, Columbia Literary History of the United States
• Eduardo Galeano, Le origini (Genesis)
• Frank Chin, The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
• Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
• Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
• J. California Cooper, Homemade Love
• Jennifer Stone, Stone's Throw
• Josephine Gattuso Hendin, The Right Thing to Do
• Leslie Scalapino, Way
• Shuntarō Tanikawa, Floating the River in Melancholy
• Charles Fanning, The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
• William Hohri, Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress

Dal 1990 al 1999

1990

• Adrienne Kennedy, People Who Led to My Plays
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Italian Days
• Daniela Gioseffi, Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age)
• Elizabeth Woody, Hand into Stone: Poems
• Hualing Nieh Engle, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
• Itabari Njeri, Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
• James M. Freeman, Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
• John C. Walter e J. Raymond Jones, The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970
• John Norton, Light at the End of the Bog
• José Emilio González, Vivar a Hostos
• Sergei Kan, Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century
• Lloyd A. Thompson, Romans and Blacks
• Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
• Michelle T. Clinton e Sesshu Foster, Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry
• Miles Davis e Quincy Troupe, Miles: l'autobiografia di un mito del jazz (Miles: The Autobiography)
• Paula Gunn Allen, Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
• Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa e Margarita Donnelly, The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology

1991

• Alejandro Murguía, Southern Front
• bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
• Bruce M. Wright, Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn't Work for Blacks
• Charley Trujillo, Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
• D. H. Melhem, Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews
• Deborah Keenan, Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile
• Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters
• John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
• Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War
• Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
• Lucia Berlin, Homesick: New and Selected Stories
• Mary Brave Bird, Lakota Woman
• Meridel Le Sueur, Harvest Song: Collected Essays and Stories
• Mill Hunk Herald Collective, Overtime: Punchin' Out With the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine
• Nora Marks Dauenhauer e Richard Dauenhauer, Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory
• R. Baxter Miller, The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
• Thomas Centolella, Terra Firma

1992

• A'Lelia Bundles, Madam C.J. Walker
• Art Spiegelman, Maus (The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale)
• Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Calendar of Dust
• Donna Haraway, Manifesto cyborg: donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo (Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature)
• Fritjof Capra, L'universo come dimora: conversazioni tra scienza e spiritualità (Belonging to the universe: Explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality)
• José Antonio Burciaga, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry
• Keith Gilyard, Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
• Lucy Thompson, To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
• Norma Field, In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
• Peter Bacho, Cebu
• Peter Kalifornsky, Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky
• Raymond Andrews, Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire
• Sandra Scofield, Beyond Deserving
• Sheila Hamanaka, Journey
• Stephen Fox, The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
• Steven R. Carter, Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity
• Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Last Fine Time
• William B. Branch, Amiri Baraka e August Wilson, Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama

1993

• Asake Bomani e Belvie Rooks, Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris
• Christopher Mogil e Peter Woodrow, We Gave Away a Fortune
• Cornel West, Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
• Denise Giardina, Unquiet Earth
• Diane Glancy, Claiming Breath
• Eugene B. Redmond, The Eye in the Ceiling
• Francisco X. Alarcón, Snake Poems
• Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
• Jack Beatty, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley
• Leroy V. Quintana, The History of Home
• Katherine Peter, Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country
• Nelson George, Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball
• Ninotchka Rosca, Twice Blessed

1994

• Giose Rimanelli, Benedetta in Guysterland
• Eric Drooker, Flood!: una storia di immagini (Flood!: A Novel in Pictures)
• Graciela Limón, In Search of Bernabe
• Gregory J. Reed, Economic Empowerment Through the Church
• Janet Campbell Hale, Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter
• Jill Nelson, Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
• Lawson Fusao Inada, Legends from Camp
• Nicole Blackman, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
• Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
• Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
• Rose L. Glickman, Daughters of Feminists
• Tino Villanueva, Scene from the Movie GIANT
• Virginia L. Kroll, Wood-Hoopoe Willie

1995

• Abraham Rodriguez, Spidertown
• Herb Boyd e Robert L. Allen, Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America-An Anthology
• Denise Chávez, Face of an Angel
• John Egerton, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
• John Ross, Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
• Thomas Avena, Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS
• Linda Raymond, Rocking the Babies
• Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
• Marianna De Marco Torgovnick, Crossing Ocean Parkway
• Marnie Mueller, Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
• Peter Quinn, Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
• Sandra Martz, I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted
• Gordon Henry Jr., The Light People
• Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

1996

• Agate Nesaule, A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
• Arthur Sze, Archipelago
• Chang-rae Lee, Infiltrato (Native Speaker)
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Matrimonio combinato (Arranged Marriage)
• E.J. Miller Laino, Girl Hurt
• Glenn Loury, One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America
• James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
• Joe Sacco e Edward Said, Palestina. Una nazione occupata (Palestine)
• Kimiko Hahn, The Unbearable Heart
• Maria Espinosa, Longing
• Robert Viscusi, Astoria
• Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
• Ron Sakolsky e Fred Ho, Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance/Rebellion/Revolution
• Stephanie Cowell, The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke
• William H. Gass, The Tunnel

1997

• Alurista, Et Tu...Raza
• Derrick Bell, Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
• Dorothy Barresi, The Post-Rapture Diner
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña, The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
• Louis Owens, Nightland
• Martín Espada, Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
• Montserrat Fontes, Dreams of the Centaur
• Noel Ignatiev, Race Traitor
• Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
• Sunaina Maira, Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America
• Thulani Davis, Maker of Saints
• Tom De Haven, Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies
• William M. Banks, Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
• Brenda Knight, Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

1998

• Allison Hedge Coke, Dog Road Woman
• Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
• Brenda Marie Osbey, All Saints: New and Selected Poems
• Don DeLillo, Underworld
• Jim Barnes, On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions
• John A. Williams, Safari West: Poems
• Nancy Rawles, Love Like Gumbo
• Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman
• Sandra Benitez, Bitter Grounds
• Scott DeVeaux, The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
• Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

1999

• Alice McDermott, Il nostro caro Billy (Charming Billy)
• Anna Linzer, Ghost Dancing
• Brian Ward, Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
• Chiori Santiago, Home to Medicine Mountain
• E. Donald Two-Rivers, Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories
• Edwidge Danticat, La fattoria delle ossa (The Farming of Bones)
• Judith Roche e Meg McHutchison, First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
• Gioia Timpanelli, Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
• Gloria Naylor, The Men of Brewster Place
• James D. Houston, The Last Paradise
• Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt e Ciulistet Group, Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples
• Trey Ellis, Right Here, Right Now
• Josip Novakovich, Salvation and Other Disasters
• Lauro Flores, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature
• Luis Alberto Urrea, Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
• Nelson George, Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X
• Speer Morgan, The Freshour Cylinders
• Gary Gach, What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
• Chiori Santiago e Judith Lowry, Home to Medicine Mountain

Dal 2000 al 2009

2000

• Esther G. Belin, From the Belly of My Beauty
• Allan J. Ryan, The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art
• Andrés Montoya, The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems
• Camille Peri e Kate Moses, Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
• David A. J. Richards, Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
• David Toop, Exotica
• Elva Trevino Hart, Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
• Emil Guillermo, Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective
• Frank Chin, The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
• Helen Thomas, Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times
• Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
• John R. Rickford e Russell J. Rickford, Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
• Leroy TeCube, Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story
• Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Heads By Harry
• Michael Lally, It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose
• Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
• Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Why She Left Us
• Robert Creeley, The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
• Ronald Sukenick: editoria
• Jack E. White: giornalismo
• Frank Chin e Robert Creeley: alla carriera

2001

• Amanda J. Cobb, Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949
• Andrea Dworkin, Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
• Carolyne Wright, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
• Chalmers Johnson, Gli ultimi giorni dell'impero americano (Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire)
• Cheri Register, Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
• Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
• Diana Garcia, When Living Was a Labor Camp
• Elizabeth Nunez, Bruised Hibiscus
• Janet McAdams, Island of Lost Luggage
• Philip Whalen, Overtime: Selected Poems
• Russell Leong, Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
• Sandra Gilbert, Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1999
• Ted Joans, Teducation
• Tillie Olsen, Silences
• William S. Penn, Killing Time With Strangers
• Malcolm Margolin: editoria
• Ted Joans, Tillie Olsen e Philip Whalen: alla carriera

2002

• Aaron A. Abeyta, Colcha
• Susanne Antonetta, The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
• Rilla Askew, Fire in Beulah
• Tananarive Due, The Living Blood
• Gloria Frym, Homeless at Home
• Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon
• LeAnne Howe, Shell Shaker
• Alexander Kuo, Lipstick and Other Stories
• Michael N. Nagler, Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future
• Donald Phelps, Reading the Funnies: Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century
• Al Young, The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990–2000
• Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards
• Lerone Bennett Jr. e Jack Hirschman: alla carriera

2003

• Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley
• Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red
• Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
• Rick Heide, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
• Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, Vera Metcalf e Lars Krutak, Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, Our Words Put to Paper: Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History
• Alejandro Murguía, This War Called Love: Nine Stories
• Jack Newfield, The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania
• Joseph Papaleo, Italian Stories
• Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
• Jewell Parker Rhodes, Douglass' Women
• Rachel Simon, Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
• Velma Wallis, Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
• Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review

2004

• Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent
• David D. Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
• Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
• Kristin Hunter, Breaking Away
• A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions
• Diane Sher Lutovich, What I Stole
• Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
• Renato Rosaldo, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la Mujer Arana
• Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
• Michael Walsh, And All the Saints

2005

• Bernard W. Bell, The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches
• Cecelie Berry, Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
• Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
• Julie Chibbaro, Redemption
• Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
• Alisha S. Drabek e Karen R. Adams, The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey
• Ralph M. Flores, The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family
• Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
• Don Lee, La luna lontana e il profumo del te (Country of Origin)
• Lamont B. Steptoe, A Long Movie of Shadows
• Don West, No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems
• Bill Berkowitz: giornalismo

2006

• MacKenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright
• Matt Briggs, Shoot the Buffalo
• David P. Diaz, The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexican-American
• Darryl Dickson-Carr, The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
• Thomas Ferraro, Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America
• Tim Z. Hernandez, Skin Tax
• Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
• Phil Henderson, Nate
• Peter Metcalfe, Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
• Kevin J. Mullen, The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco
• Doris Seale e Beverly Slapin A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
• Matthew Shenoda, Somewhere Else
• Carlton T. Spiller, Scalding Heart
• Chris Emery: editoria
• Jay Wright: alla carriera

2007

• Daniel Cassidy, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
• Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
• Rigoberto González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
• Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains
• Ernestine Hayes, Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
• Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
• Gary Panter, Jimbo's Inferno
• Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown
• Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body
• Kali VanBaale, The Space Between

2008

• Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America
• Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
• Jonathan Curiel, Al’ America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots
• Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Lydia T. Black e Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká, Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804
• Maria Mazziotti Gillan, All That Lies Between Us
• Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998
• C. S. Giscombe, Prairie Style
• Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go
• L. Luis Lopez, Each Month I Sing
• Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
• Fae Myenne Ng, Steer Toward Rock
• Yuko Taniguchi, The Ocean in the Closet
• Lorenzo Thomas, Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
• Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
• J. J. Phillips: alla carriera

2009

• Houston A. Baker Jr., Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era
• Danit Brown, Ask for a Convertible
• Jericho Brown, Please
• José Antonio Burciaga, The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga
• Claire Hope Cummings, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
• Stella Pope Duarte, If I Die in Juarez
• Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems
• Suheir Hammad, Breaking Poems
• Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder
• George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music
• Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo
• Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
• Miguel Algarín: alla carriera

Dal 2010 al 2019

2010

• Amiri Baraka, Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
• Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song
• Nancy Carnevale, A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890–1945
• Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
• Sesshu Foster, World Ball Notebook
• Stephen D. Gutierrez, Live from Fresno y Los
• Victor LaValle, The Big Machine
• François Mandeville, This Is What They Say
• Bich Minh Nguyen, Short Girls
• Franklin Rosemont e Robin Kelley, Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
• Jerome Rothenberg e Jeffrey C. Robinson, Poems for the Millennium: Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry
• Kathryn Waddell Takara, Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems
• Pamela Uschuk, Crazy Love: New Poems
• Katha Politt e Quincy Troupe: alla carriera

2011

• Keith Gilyard, John Oliver Killens
• Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam
• Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow
• Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
• William W. Cook e James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition
• Gerald Vizenor, Shrouds of White Earth
• Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
• Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin
• Geoffrey Alan Argent, The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides
• Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
• Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed
• Miriam Jiménez Román e Juan Flores, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
• Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds
• Luis Valdez e John A. Williams: alla carriera

2012

• Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
• Arlene Kim, What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?
• Ed Bok Lee, Whorled
• Adilifu Nama, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
• Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
• Shann Ray, American Masculine
• Alice Rearden e Ann Fienup-Riordan, Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput: Our Nelson Island Stories
• Touré, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
• Amy Waldman, The Submission
• Mary Winegarden, The Translator's Sister
• Kevin Young, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
• Eugene B. Redmond: alla carriera

2013

• Will Alexander, Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture
• Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
• Philip Choy, San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide To Its History & Architecture
• Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
• Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was An Aztec
• Louise Erdrich, La casa tonda (The Round House)
• Alan Gilbert, Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
• Judy Grahn, A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet
• Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave: A Memoir
• Demetria Martinez, The Block Captain's Daughter
• Daniel Moore, Blood Songs
• D. G. Nanouk Okpik, Corpse Whale
• Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War On Student Radical and Reagan's Rise to Power
• Christopher B. Teuton, Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club
• Lew Welch, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems
• Ivan Argüelles, Greil Marcus e Floyd Salas: alla carriera

2014

• Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
• Joshua Bloom e Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
• Juan Delgado e Thomas McGovern, Vital Signs
• Alex Espinoza, The Five Acts of Diego León
• Jonathan Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940
• Joan Kane, Hyperboreal
• Jamaica Kincaid, Vieni adesso allora (See Now Then)
• Tanya Olson, Boyishly
• Sterling D. Plumpp, Home/Bass
• Emily Raboteau, Searching For Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
• Jerome Rothenberg e Heriberto Yepez, Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader
• Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
• Margaret Wrinkle, Wash
• Koon Woon, Water Chasing Water
• Armond White: Anti-Censorship Award
• Michael Parenti: alla carriera

2015

• Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
• Arlene Biala, Her beckoning hands
• Arthur Dong, Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People's History of the United States
• Peter J. Harris, The Black Man of Happiness
• Marlon James, Breve storia di sette omicidi (A Brief History of Seven Killings)
• Naomi Klein, Una rivoluzione ci salverà. Perché il capitalismo non è sostenibile (This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate)
• Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account
• Manuel Luis Martinez, Los Duros
• Craig Santos Perez, From unincorporated territory [guma’]
• Carlos Santana, Ashley Kahn e Hal Miller, Suono universale: la mia vita (The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light)
• Ira Sukrungruang, Southside Buddhist
• Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
• Anne Waldman: alla carriera

2016

• Laura Da', Tributaries
• Susan Muaddi Darraj, Curious Land: Stories from Home
• Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multicultural Future
• Mat Johnson, Loving Day
• John Keene, Counternarratives
• William J. Maxwell, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
• Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
• Ned Sublette e Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
• Jesús Salvador Treviño, Return to Arroyo Grande
• Nick Turse, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
• Ray Young Bear, Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear
• Louise Meriwether: alla carriera
• Lyra Monteiro e Nancy Isenberg: Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
• Chiitaanibah Johnson: Andrew Hope Award

2017

• Rabia Chaudry, Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
• Flores A. Forbes, Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration
• Yaa Gyasi, Non dimenticare chi sei (Homegoing)
• Holly Hughes, Passings
• Randa Jarrar, Io, lui e Muhammad Ali (Him, Me, Muhammad Ali)
• Bernice L. McFadden, The Book of Harlan
• Brian D. McInnes, Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow
• Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
• Vaughn Rasberry, Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
• Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat
• Shawna Yang Ryan, Green Island
• Ruth Sergel, See You in the Streets: Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
• Solmaz Sharif, Look
• Adam Soldofsky, Memory Foam
• Alfredo Véa Jr., The Mexican Flyboy
• Dean Wong, Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown
• Nancy Mercado: alla carriera
• Ammiel Alcalay: Editor/Publisher Award

2018

• Thi Bui, The Best That We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
• Rachelle Cruz, God's Will for Monsters
• Tommy Curry, The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
• Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven Is All Goodbyes
• Dana Naone Hall, Life of the Land: Articulations of a Native Writer
• Kelly Lytle Hernández, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
• Victor LaValle, Favola di New York (The Changeling: A Novel)
• Bojan Louis, Currents
• Valeria Luiselli, Dimmi come va a finire (Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions)
• Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson e B. V. Olguín, Altermundos Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
• Tiya Alicia Miles, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
• Tommy Pico, Nature Poem
• Rena Priest, Patriarchy Blues
• Joseph Rios, Shadowboxing: poems & impersonations
• Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
• Sequoyah Guess: alla carriera
• Kellie Jones, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s: Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
• Charles F. Harris: Editor/Publisher Award
• Rob Rogers: Anti-Censorship Award
• Heroes Are Gang Leaders: Oral Literature Award

2019

• Frank Abe, Greg Robinson e Floyd Cheung, John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
• May-lee Chai, Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories
• Louise DeSalvo, The House of Early Sorrows: A Memoir in Essays
• Heid E. Erdrich, New Poets of Native Nations
• Ángel García, Teeth Never Sleep: Poems
• Tommy Orange, Non qui, non altrove (There There: A Novel)
• Halifu Osumare, Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir
• Christopher Patton, Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book
• Mark Sarvas, Memento Park: A Novel
• Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
• William T. Vollmann, Carbon Ideologies: Volume I, No Immediate Danger, Volume II, No Good Alternative
• G. Willow Wilson e Nico Leon, Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland
• Nathan Hare: alla carriera
• UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center: Editor/Publisher Award
• Moor Mother: Oral Literature Award

Dal 2020 al 2029

2020

• Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
• Sara Borjas, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff
• Neeli Cherkovski, Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
• Staceyann Chin, Crossfire: A Litany for Survival
• Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina (Sabrina & Corina: Stories)
• Tara Fickle, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
• Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
• Yōko Ogawa, L'isola dei senza memoria (The Memory Police)
• Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
• George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott e Harmony Becker, They Called Us Enemy
• Ocean Vuong, Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
• De'Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills
• Albert Woodfox con Leslie George, Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope
• Eleanor W. Traylor: alla carriera
• Editor Award: The Panopticon Review, Kofi Natambu, editor
• Publisher Award: Commune Editions, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover e Juliana Spahr
• Oral Literature Award: Amalia Leticia Ortiz
• Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy di Anthony Harkins e Meredith McCarroll

2021

• Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies: A Novel
• Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
• Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha
• Ben Ehrenreich, Taccuini del deserto: istruzioni per la fine dei tempi (Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time)
• Johanna Fernández, The Young Lords: A Radical History
• Carolyn Forché, In the Lateness of the World: Poems
• John Giorno, Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment
• Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
• Randall Horton, {#289-128}: Poems
• Gerald Horne, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
• Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
• Judy Juanita, Manhattan my ass, you’re in Oakland
• William Melvin Kelley con Aiki Kelley, Dunfords Travels Everywheres
• Maryemma Graham: alla carriera
• Anti-Censorship Award: Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, di Jacob Soboroff
• Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson di Shana Redmond

2022

• Spencer Ackerman, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
• Esther G. Belin, Jeff Burgland, Connie A. Jacobs, Anthony K. Webster, The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
• Emma Brodie, Songs in Ursa Major
• Daphne Brooks, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
• Myriam J. A. Chancy, What Storm, What Thunder
• Francisco Goldman, Monkey Boy
• Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl: A Novel
• Fatima Shaik, Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
• Edwin Torres, Quanundrum: [i will be your many angled thing]
• Truong Tran, Book of the Other: Small in Comparison
• Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain
• Phillip B. Williams, Mutiny
• Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
• Lifetime Achievement: Gayl Jones
• Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Sound Recording Technology and American Literature di Jessica E. Teague
• Anti-Censorship Award: Jeffrey St. Clair
• Editor/Publisher Award: Wave Books, Charlie Wright e Joshua Beckman