2023 Nonfiction Results
Finalists
Semifinalists
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us – Ed Yong
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them – Dan Saladino
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad – Matthew F. Delmont
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice – Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route – Sally Hayden
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe – Keith O’Brien
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth – Elizabeth Williamson
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us – Rachel Aviv
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World – Jonathan Freedland
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I – Lindsey Fitzharris
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human – Siddhartha Mukherjee
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation – Linda Villarosa
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them – Dan Saladino
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad – Matthew F. Delmont
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice – Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route – Sally Hayden
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe – Keith O’Brien
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth – Elizabeth Williamson
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us – Rachel Aviv
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World – Jonathan Freedland
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I – Lindsey Fitzharris
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human – Siddhartha Mukherjee
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation – Linda Villarosa
Quarterfinalists
Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 – Richard Overy
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus – David Quammen
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir – Séamas O’Reilly
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships – Nina Totenberg
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century – Beverly Gage
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future – Maria Ressa
I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss – Amy Bloom
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile – Candice Millard
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington – James Kirchick
Solito – Javier Zamora
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland – Fintan O’Toole
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus – David Quammen
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir – Séamas O’Reilly
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships – Nina Totenberg
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century – Beverly Gage
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future – Maria Ressa
I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss – Amy Bloom
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile – Candice Millard
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington – James Kirchick
Solito – Javier Zamora
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland – Fintan O’Toole
Octofinalists
A Heart That Works – Rob Delaney
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me – Ada Calhoun
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative – Melissa Febos
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life – James Curtis
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan – Darryl Pinckney
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir – Margo Jefferson
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness – Andrew Scull
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family – Rabia Chaudry
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History – Lea Ypi
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age – Dennis Duncan
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph – Lucasta Miller
Life Between the Tides – Adam Nicolson
Lost & Found: A Memoir – Kathryn Schulz
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of Self – Andrea Wulf
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up – Bernardine Evaristo
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths – Natalie Haynes
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times – Azar Nafisi
Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses – Jackie Higgins
Stay True: A Memoir – Hua Hsu
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne – Katherine Rundell
The Story of Russia – Orlando Figes
The Trayvon Generation – Elizabeth Alexander
Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home – Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
Translating Myself and Others – Jhumpa Lahiri
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me – Ada Calhoun
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative – Melissa Febos
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life – James Curtis
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan – Darryl Pinckney
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir – Margo Jefferson
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness – Andrew Scull
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family – Rabia Chaudry
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History – Lea Ypi
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age – Dennis Duncan
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph – Lucasta Miller
Life Between the Tides – Adam Nicolson
Lost & Found: A Memoir – Kathryn Schulz
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of Self – Andrea Wulf
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up – Bernardine Evaristo
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths – Natalie Haynes
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times – Azar Nafisi
Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses – Jackie Higgins
Stay True: A Memoir – Hua Hsu
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne – Katherine Rundell
The Story of Russia – Orlando Figes
The Trayvon Generation – Elizabeth Alexander
Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home – Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
Translating Myself and Others – Jhumpa Lahiri