Award
Helen Bernstein Book Award
16 years tracked (1990–2026), 40 entries total.
2026
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
2025
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future
On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future
Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick
2024
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of our Planet
How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death, and Dollars in American Medicine
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
2023
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of our Nation
2022
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything and Endangered the World
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
2020
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
The Outlaw Ocean: Journey’s Across the Last Untamed Frontier
