2026 Nonfiction Results
Finalists
Semifinalists
Quarterfinalists
Octofinalists
38 Londres Street – Philippe Sands
A Flower Traveled in My Blood – Haley Cohen Gilliland
A Marriage at Sea – Sophie Elmhirst
A Truce That Is Not Peace – Miriam Toews
America, América – Greg Grandin
Baldwin – Nicholas Boggs
Black in Blues – Imani Perry
Book of Lives – Margaret Atwood
Bread of Angels – Patti Smith
Crumb – Dan Nadel
Dark Renaissance – Stephen Greenblatt
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove – Barbara Demick
Dead and Alive – Zadie Smith
Desi Arnaz – Todd S. Purdum
Gertrude Stein – Francesca Wade
Girl on Girl – Sophie Gilbert
How to End a Story – Helen Garner
Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane
Jane Austen's Bookshelf – Rebecca Romney
Jesus Wept – Philip Shenon
Joyride – Susan Orlean
King of Kings – Scott Anderson
Lin-Manuel Miranda – Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Lower Than the Angels – Diarmaid MacCulloch
Mark Twain – Ron Chernow
Memorial Days – Geraldine Brooks
Misbehaving at the Crossroads – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Mother Mary Comes to Me – Arundhati Roy
Motherland – Julia Ioffe
Nobody's Girl – Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Not My Type – E. Jean Carroll
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This – Omar El Akkad
Paper Girl – Beth Macy
Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton
Story of a Murder – Hallie Rubenhold
The Afterlife of Malcolm X – Mark Whitaker
The Fate of the Day – Rick Atkinson
The Golden Road – William Dalrymple
The Insider – Gerald Howard
The Martians – David Baron
The Place of Tides – James Rebanks
The Uncool – Cameron Crowe
There Is No Place for Us – Brian Goldstone
Things in Nature Merely Grow – Yiyun Li
Tigers Between Empires – Jonathan C. Slaght
True Nature – Lance Richardson
We the People – Jill Lepore
Wild Thing – Sue Prideaux
A Flower Traveled in My Blood – Haley Cohen Gilliland
A Marriage at Sea – Sophie Elmhirst
A Truce That Is Not Peace – Miriam Toews
America, América – Greg Grandin
Baldwin – Nicholas Boggs
Black in Blues – Imani Perry
Book of Lives – Margaret Atwood
Bread of Angels – Patti Smith
Crumb – Dan Nadel
Dark Renaissance – Stephen Greenblatt
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove – Barbara Demick
Dead and Alive – Zadie Smith
Desi Arnaz – Todd S. Purdum
Gertrude Stein – Francesca Wade
Girl on Girl – Sophie Gilbert
How to End a Story – Helen Garner
Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane
Jane Austen's Bookshelf – Rebecca Romney
Jesus Wept – Philip Shenon
Joyride – Susan Orlean
King of Kings – Scott Anderson
Lin-Manuel Miranda – Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Lower Than the Angels – Diarmaid MacCulloch
Mark Twain – Ron Chernow
Memorial Days – Geraldine Brooks
Misbehaving at the Crossroads – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Mother Mary Comes to Me – Arundhati Roy
Motherland – Julia Ioffe
Nobody's Girl – Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Not My Type – E. Jean Carroll
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This – Omar El Akkad
Paper Girl – Beth Macy
Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton
Story of a Murder – Hallie Rubenhold
The Afterlife of Malcolm X – Mark Whitaker
The Fate of the Day – Rick Atkinson
The Golden Road – William Dalrymple
The Insider – Gerald Howard
The Martians – David Baron
The Place of Tides – James Rebanks
The Uncool – Cameron Crowe
There Is No Place for Us – Brian Goldstone
Things in Nature Merely Grow – Yiyun Li
Tigers Between Empires – Jonathan C. Slaght
True Nature – Lance Richardson
We the People – Jill Lepore
Wild Thing – Sue Prideaux