2018 

Amy Goldstein, Janesville: An American Story (2017)

Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (2017)

2017 

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012)

Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016)

J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (2016)

2016 

Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family (New York: Random House, 2015)

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015)