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31 years tracked (1980–2025), 50 entries total.
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2025
We Walked On
Thérèse Soukar Chehade
Winner
2024
Shubeik Lubeik
Deena Mohamed
Winner
Dearborn
Ghassan Zeineddine
Nominee
2023
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Noor Naga
Winner
The Stardust Thief
Chelsea Abdullah
Winner
2022
Bride of the Sea
Eman Quotah
Winner
2021
Against the Loveless World
Susan Abulhawa
Winner
Alligator And Other Stories
Dima Alzayat
Nominee
2020
The Other Americans
Laila Lalami
Winner
A Woman is No Man
Etaf Rum
Nominee
2017
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi · Literary Fiction
Winner
2016
Counternarratives
John Keene · Literary Fiction
Winner
2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James · Literary Fiction
Winner
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz · Literary Fiction
Winner
The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Carlos Santana · Literary Fiction
Winner
2013
The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin · Literary Fiction
Winner
The Round House
Louise Erdrich · Literary Fiction
Winner
2012
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Rob Nixon · Literary Fiction
Winner
2011
I Hotel
Karen Tei Yamashita · Literary Fiction
Winner
2010
Big Machine
Victor D. LaValle · Literary Fiction
Winner
Zeitoun
Dave Eggers · Literary Fiction
Winner
2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes · Literary Fiction
Winner
2004
Crescent
Diana Abu-Jaber · Literary Fiction
Winner
2002
The Living Blood
Tananarive Due · Literary Fiction
Winner
2000
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Janisse Ray · Literary Fiction
Winner
1999
Charming Billy
Alice McDermott · Literary Fiction
Winner
The Farming of Bones
Edwidge Danticat · Literary Fiction
Winner
1998
Underworld
Don DeLillo · Literary Fiction
Winner
1996
Palestine
Joe Sacco · Literary Fiction
Winner
Reservation Blues
Sherman Alexie · Literary Fiction
Winner
The Tunnel
William H. Gass · Literary Fiction
Winner
1992
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman · Literary Fiction
Winner
1991
Dogeaters
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn · Literary Fiction
Winner
In Mad Love and War
Joy Harjo · Literary Fiction
Winner
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Karen Tei Yamashita · Literary Fiction
Winner
1990
Miles: The Autobiography
Miles Davis · Literary Fiction
Winner
1989
Eva Luna
Isabel Allende · Literary Fiction
Winner
Genesis
Eduardo Galeano · Literary Fiction
Winner
1988
Beloved
Toni Morrison · Literary Fiction
Winner
The Reckoning
David Halberstam · Literary Fiction
Winner
The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow
Opal Stanley Whiteley · Literary Fiction
Winner
Tight Spaces
Kesho Scott · Literary Fiction
Winner
1985
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich · Literary Fiction
Winner
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros · Literary Fiction
Winner
1984
Ironweed
William Kennedy
Winner
1983
Obasan
Joy Kogawa · Literary Fiction
Winner
1982
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike
Winner
1981
Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up
Leo Damore
Winner
1980
Ceremony
Leslie Silko · Literary Fiction
Winner
Tortuga
Rudolfo A. Anaya · Literary Fiction
Winner
