2020
Fiction
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Nonfiction
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
War by Margaret MacMillan
2019
Fiction
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
Nonfiction
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Club by Leo Damrosch
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
2018
Fiction
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
There There by Tommy Orange
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Nonfiction
American Prison by Shane Bauer
Educated by Tara Westover
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
2017
Fiction
Autumn by Ali Smith
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction
The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum
Grant by Ron Chernow
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
2016
Fiction
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The North Water by Ian McGuire
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans
Nonfiction
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
Dark Money by Jane Mayer
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
The Return by Hisham Matar