# American Book Awards

L'American Book Award a été fondé en 1978 par la Before Columbus Foundation (en). Il cherche à distinguer des auteurs américains contemporains tous genres confondus. Il a été lancé pour concurrencer des prix plus restrictifs comme le National Book Award. Son objectif est de promouvoir la qualité et la diversité de la littérature américaine.

## Liste des lauréats
### 1980 à 1989
#### 1980

* Douglas Woolf pour Future preconditional: A collection
* Edward Dorn pour Hello, La Jolla
* Jayne Cortez pour Mouth on Paper
* Leslie Marmon Silko pour Ceremony
* Mei-mei Berssenbrugge pour Random Possession
* Milton Murayama pour All I Asking for Is My Body
* Quincy Troupe pour Snake Back Solos
* Rudolfo Anaya pour Tortuga, a novel

#### 1981

* Alta pour Shameless Hussy
* Alan Chong Lau pour Songs for Jadina
* Bienvenido N. Santos pour Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
* Helen Adam pour Turn Again to Me & Other Poems
* Lionel Mitchell pour Traveling Light
* Miguel Algarín pour On Call
* Nicholasa Mohr pour Felita
* Peter Blue Cloud pour Back Then Tomorrow
* Robert Kelly pour The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996
* Rose Drachler pour The Choice
* Susan Howe pour The Liberties
* Toni Cade Bambara pour The Salt Eaters

#### 1982

* Al Young pour Bodies and Soul
* Duane Niatum pour Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems
* E. L. Mayo pour Collected Poems E L Mayo
* Frank Chin pour The Chickencoop Chinaman et The Year of the Dragon
* Hilton Obenzinger pour This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem
* Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung pour Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940
* Jerome Rothenberg pour Pre-Faces and Other Writings
* Joyce Carol Thomas pour Marked by Fire
* Leroy Quintana pour Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
* Lorna Dee Cervantes pour Emplumada
* Ronald Phillip Tanaka pour The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
* Russell Banks pour Le Livre de la Jamaïque (Book of Jamaica)
* Tato Laviera pour Enclave

#### 1983

* Barbara Christian pour Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976
* Cecilia Liang pour Chinese Folk Poetry
* David Lance Goines pour A Constructed Roman Alphabet
* Evangelina Vigil-Piñón pour Thirty: An' Seen a Lot
* Harriet Rohmer pour Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
* James D. Houston pour Californians: Searching for the Golden State
* Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn pour Pet food & tropical apparitions
* John A. Williams pour Click Song, a novel
* Joy Kogawa pour Obasan
* Judy Grahn pour The Queen of Wands: Poetry
* Nash Candelaria pour Not by the Sword
* Peter Guralnick pour Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
* Seán Ó Tuama pour An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed

#### 1984

* Cecil Brown pour Days Without Weather
* Gary Snyder pour Axe Handles: Poems
* Howard Schwartz, Mark Podwal pour The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
* Imamu Amiri Baraka pour Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men
* Jesús Colón pour A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
* Joseph Bruchac pour Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets
* Maurice Kenny pour The Mama Poems
* Mei-mei Berssenbrugge pour The heat bird
* Miné Okubo pour Citizen 13660
* Paule Marshall pour Praisesong for the Widow
* Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung pour Pie-Biter
* Thomas McGrath pour Echoes inside the labyrinth
* Venkatesh Kulkarni pour Naked in Deccan
* William J. Kennedy pour O Albany!

#### 1985

* Angela Jackson pour Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
* Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen pour Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
* Colleen J. McElroy pour Queen of the Ebony Isles
* Gary Soto pour Living Up The Street
* Peter Irons pour Justice at War
* Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei, Muin Ozaki pour Poets Behind Barbed Wire
* Louise Erdrich pour Love Medicine, a novel
* Maureen Owen pour Amelia Earhart
* May Sarton pour At Seventy: A Journal
* Robert Edward Duncan pour Ground Work: Before the War
* Ron Jones pour Say Ray
* Sandra Cisneros pour The House on Mango Street
* Sonia Sanchez pour Homegirls and Handgrenades
* William Oandasan pour Round Valley Songs

#### 1986

* Anna Lee Walters pour The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories
* Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa pour This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
* Helen Barolini pour The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women
* Jeff Hannusch pour I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
* Linda Hogan pour Seeing Through the Sun
* Miguel Algarín pour Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo
* Natasha Borovsky pour A Daughter of the Nobility
* Raymond Federman pour Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts
* Susan Howe pour My Emily Dickinson
* Terence Winch pour Irish Musicians/American Friends
* Toshio Mori pour Yokohama, California

#### 1987

* Ai pour SIN
* Ana Castillo pour The Mixquiahuala Letters
* Cyn Zarco pour Circumnavigations
* Daniel McGuire pour Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
* Dorothy Bryant pour Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
* Etheridge Knight pour The Essential Etheridge Knight
* Gary Giddins pour Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
* Harvey Pekar pour The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
* James Welch pour Comme des ombres sur la terre (Fools Crow)
* John Wieners pour Selected Poems: 1958–1984
* Juan Felipe Herrera pour Face Games
* Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum pour liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy
* Michael Mayo pour Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry
* Septima Poinsette Clark, Cynthia Stokes Brown pour Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
* Terry McMillan pour Mama

#### 1988

* Allison Blakely pour Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
* Charles Olson pour The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems
* Daisy Bates pour The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
* David Halberstam pour The Reckoning
* Edward Sanders pour Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985
* Gerald Vizenor pour Griever: An American Monkey King in China
* Jimmy Santiago Baca Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
* Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High pour Tight Spaces
* Marlon K. Hom pour Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
* Benjamin Hoff pour The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
* Ronald Sukenick pour Down and in: Life in the Underground
* Salvatore La Puma pour The Boys of Bensonhurst
* Toni Morrison pour Beloved
* Wing Tek Lum, Tek Lum Lum pour Expounding the Doubtful Points

#### 1989

* Alma Luz Villanueva pour The Ultraviolet Sky
* Askia M. Touré pour From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
* Audre Lorde pour A Burst of Light
* Carolyn Lau pour Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
* Emory Elliott pour Columbia Literary History of the United States
* Eduardo Galeano pour Genesis
* Frank Chin pour The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
* Henry Louis Gates pour The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
* Isabel Allende pour Eva Luna
* J. California Cooper pour Homemade Love
* Jennifer Stone pour Stone's Throw
* Josephine Gattuso Hendin pour The Right Thing to Do
* Leslie Scalapino pour way
* Shuntarō Tanikawa pour Floating the River in Melancholy
* Charles Fanning (en) pour The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
* William Minoru Hohri pour Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress

### 1990 à 1999
#### 1990

* Adrienne Kennedy pour People Who Led to My Plays
* Barbara Grizzuti Harrison pour Italian Days
* Elizabeth Woody pour Hand into Stone: Poems
* Hualing Nieh pour Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
* Itabari Njeri pour Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
* James M. Freeman pour Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
* John C. Walter, J. Raymond Jones pour The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970
* John Norton pour Light at the End of the Bog
* José Emilio González pour Vivar a Hostos
* Sergei Kan pour Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century
* Lloyd A. Thompson pour Romans and Blacks
* Martin Bernal pour Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
* Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster pour Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry
* Miles Davis pour Miles
* Paula Gunn Allen pour Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
* Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly pour The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology
* Daniela Gioseffi pour Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age)

#### 1991

* Alejandro Murguía pour Southern Front
* Bell hooks pour Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
* Bruce Wright pour Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn't Work for Blacks
* Charley Trujillo pour Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
* D. H. Melhem pour Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews
* Deborah Keenan pour Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile
* Jessica Hagedorn pour Dogeaters
* John Edgar Wideman pour L'Incendie de Philadelphie
* Joy Harjo pour In Mad Love and War
* Karen Tei Yamashita pour Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
* Lucia Berlin pour Homesick: New and Selected Stories
* Mary Crow Dog pour Lakota Woman
* Meridel Le Sueur pour Harvest Song: Collected Essays and Stories
* Mill Hunk Herald Collective pour Overtime: Punchin' Out With the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine
* Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer pour Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory
* R. Baxter Miller pour The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
* Thomas Centolella pour Terra Firma

#### 1992

* A'Lelia Perry Bundles pour Madam C.J. Walker
* Art Spiegelman pour The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
* Benjamin Alire Sáenz pour Calendar of Dust
* Donna Haraway pour Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
* Fritjof Capra pour Belonging to the universe: Explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality
* Jose Antonio Burciaga pour Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry
* Keith Gilyard pour Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
* Lucy Thompson pour To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
* Norma Field pour In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
* Peter Bacho pour Cebu
* Peter Kalifornsky pour Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky
* Raymond Andrews pour Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire
* Sandra Scofield pour Beyond Deserving
* Sheila Hamanaka pour Journey
* Stephen R. Fox pour The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
* Steven R. Carter pour Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity,
* Verlyn Klinkenborg pour The Last Fine Time
* William B. Branch, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson pour Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama

#### 1993

* Asake Bomani, Belvie Rooks pour Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris
* Christopher Mogil, Peter Woodrow pour We Gave Away a Fortune
* Cornel West pour Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
* Denise Giardina pour Unquiet Earth
* Diane Glancy pour Claiming Breath
* Eugene B. Redmond pour The Eye in the Ceiling
* Francisco X. Alarcón pour Snake Poems
* Gerald Graff pour Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
* Jack Beatty pour The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley
* Leroy V. Quintana pour The History of Home
* Katherine Peter pour Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country
* Nelson George pour Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball
* Ninotchka Rosca pour Twice Blessed, a novel

#### 1994

* Giose Rimanelli pour Benedetta in Guysterland
* Eric Drooker pour Flood!: A Novel in Pictures
* Graciela Limón pour In Search of Bernabe
* Gregory J. Reed pour Economic Empowerment Through the Church
* Janet Campbell Hale pour Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter
* Jill Nelson pour Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
* Lawson Fusao Inada pour Legends from Camp
* Nicole Blackman pour Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
* Paul Gilroy pour The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
* Ronald Takaki pour A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
* Rose L. Glickman pour Daughters of Feminists
* Tino Villanueva pour Scene from the Movie GIANT
* Virginia L. Kroll pour Wood-Hoopoe Willie

#### 1995

* Abraham Rodriguez pour Spidertown, a novel
* Herb Boyd, Robert L. Allen pour Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology
* Denise Chavez pour Face of an Angel
* John Egerton pour Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
* John Ross pour Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
* Thomas Avena pour Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS
* Linda Raymond pour Rocking the Babies, a novel
* Li-Young Lee pour The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
* Marianna De Marco Torgovnick pour Crossing Ocean Parkway
* Marnie Mueller pour Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
* Peter Quinn pour Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
* Sandra Martz pour I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted
* Gordon Henry Jr. pour The Light People
* Tricia Rose pour Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

#### 1996

* Agate Nesaule pour A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
* Arthur Sze pour Archipelago
* Chang-Rae Lee pour Langue natale (Native Speaker)
* Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni pour Arranged Marriage
* E.J. Miller Laino pour Girl Hurt
* Glenn C. Loury pour One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America
* James W. Loewen pour Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
* Joe Sacco, Edward Saïd pour Palestine
* Kimiko Hahn pour The Unbearable Heart
* Maria Espinosa pour Longing
* Robert Viscusi pour Astoria
* Sherman Alexie pour Indian blues
* Ron Sakolsky, Fred Weihan Ho pour Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution
* Stephanie Cowell pour The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke
* William H. Gass pour The Tunnel

#### 1997

* Alurista pour Et Tu ... Raza
* Derrick Bell pour Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
* Dorothy Barresi pour The Post-Rapture Diner
* Guillermo Gomez-Pena pour The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
* Louis Owens pour Nightland
* Martin Espada pour Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
* Montserrat Fontes pour Dreams of the Centaur, a novel
* Noel Ignatiev pour Race Traitor
* Shirley Geok-lin Lim pour Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
* Sunaina Maira pour Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America
* Thulani Davis pour Maker of Saints
* Tom De Haven pour Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies, a novel
* William M. Banks pour Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
* Brenda Knight pour Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

#### 1998

* Allison Adelle Hedge Coke pour Dog Road Woman
* Angela Y. Davis pour Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
* Brenda Marie Osbey pour All Saints: New and Selected Poems
* Don DeLillo pour Outremonde
* Jim Barnes pour On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions
* John A. Williams pour Safari West: Poems
* Nancy Rawles pour Love Like Gumbo
* Nora Okja Keller pour Compourt Woman
* Sandra Benitez pour Bitter Grounds, a novel
* Scott DeVeaux pour The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
* Thomas Lynch pour The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

#### 1999

* Alice McDermott pour Charming Billy
* Anna Linzer pour Ghost Dancing
* Brian Ward pour Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
* Chiori Santiago pour Home to Medicine Mountain
* E. Donald Two-Rivers pour Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories
* Edwidge Danticat pour The Farming of Bones
* Judith Roche, Meg McHutchison pour First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
* Gioia Timpanelli pour Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
* Gloria Naylor pour The Men of Brewster Place, a novel
* James D. Houston pour The Last Paradise
* Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt, Ciulistet Group for Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples
* Trey Ellis pour Right Here, Right Now
* Josip Novakovich pour Salvation and Other Disasters
* Lauro Flores pour The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature
* Luís Alberto Urrea pour Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
* Nelson George pour Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X
* Speer Morgan pour The Freshour Cylinders
* Gary Gach pour What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
Prix du livre pour enfants : Chiori Santiago, auteur, et Judith Lowry, illustrateur, Home to Medicine Mountain

### 2000 à 2009
#### 2000

* Allan J. Ryan pour The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art
* Andrés Montoya pour The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems
* Camille Peri, Kate Moses pour Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
* David A. J. Richards pour Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
* David Toop pour Exotica
* Elva Trevino Hart pour Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
* Emil Guillermo pour Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed
* Frank Chin pour The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
* Helen Thomas pour Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times
* Janisse Ray pour Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
* John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford pour Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
* Leroy TeCube pour Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story
* Lois-Ann Yamanaka pour Heads By Harry
* Michael Lally pour It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose
* Michael Patrick MacDonald pour All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
* Rahna Reiko Rizzuto pour Why She Left Us, a novel
* Robert Creeley pour The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
Prix du rédacteur en chef/éditeur : Ronald Sukenick
Journalisme : Jack E. White
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Frank Chin
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Robert Creeley

#### 2001

* Amanda J. Cobb pour Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949
* Andrea Dworkin pour Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
* Carolyne Wright pour Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
* Chalmers Johnson pour Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
* Cheri Register pour Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
* Chris Ware pour Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
* Diana García pour When Living Was a Labor Camp
* Elizabeth Nunez pour Bruised Hibiscus
* Janet McAdams pour Island of Lost Luggage
* Philip Whalen pour Overtime: Selected Poems
* Russell Leong pour Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
* Sandra M. Gilbert pour Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1999
* Ted Joans pour Teducation
* Tillie Olsen pour Silences
* William S. Penn pour Killing Time With Strangers
Prix du rédacteur en chef/éditeur : Malcolm Margolin
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Ted Joans
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Tillie Olsen
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Philip Whalen

#### 2002

* Aaron A. Abeyta, Colcha
* Susanne Antonetta, The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
* Rilla Askew, Fire in Beulah
* Tananarive Due, The Living Blood
* Gloria Frym, Homeless at Home
* Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon
* LeAnne Howe, Shell Shaker
* Alex Kuo, Lipstick and Other Stories
* Michael N. Nagler, Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future
* Donald Phelps, Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century
* Al Young, The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990–2000
Livre pour enfants : Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Lerone Bennett
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Jack Hirschman

#### 2003

* Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley
* Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red
* Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
* Rick Heide, ed., Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
* Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, Vera Metcalf, and Lars Krutak, eds., Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, Our Words Put to Paper: Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History
* Alejandro Murguía, This War Called Love: Nine Stories
* Jack Newfield, The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania
* Joseph Papaleo, Italian Stories
* Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
* Jewell Parker Rhodes, Douglass' Women, a novel
* Rachel Simon, Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
* Velma Wallis, Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
Editor: Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review (www.qbr.com)

#### 2004

* Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent, a novel
* David Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
* Charisse Jones et Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
* Kristin Hunter Lattany, Breaking Away
* A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions
* Diane Sher Lutovich, What I Stole
* Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
* Renato Rosaldo, Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Arana
* Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
* Michael Walsh, And All the Saints

#### 2005

* Bernard W. Bell, The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches
* Cecelie Berry, Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
* Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
* Julie Chibbaro, Redemption
* Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
* Alisha S. Drabek et Karen R. Adams, The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey
* Ralph M. Flores, The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family
* Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings
* Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
* Don Lee, Country of Origin, a novel
* Lamont B. Steptoe, A Long Movie of Shadows
* Don West, No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems, eds. Jeff Biggers et George Brosi
Journalism: Bill Berkowitz

#### 2006

* MacKenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright, a novel
* Matt Briggs, Shoot the Buffalo
* David P. Diaz, The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexican-American
* Darryl Dickson-Carr, The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
* Thomas Ferraro, Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America
* Tim Z. Hernandez, Skin Tax
* Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
* P. Lewis, Nate
* Peter Metcalfe, Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
* Kevin J. Mullen, The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco
* Doris Seale et Beverly Slapin, eds., A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
* Matthew Shenoda, Somewhere Else
* Carlton T. Spiller, Scalding Heart
Editor: Chris Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing Ltd.
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Jay Wright

#### 2007

* Daniel Cassidy, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
* Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
* Rigoberto Gonzalez, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
* Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains, a novel
* Ernestine Hayes, Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
* Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
* Gary Panter, Jimbo's Inferno
* Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown
* Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body
* Kali Vanbaale, The Space Between

#### 2008

* Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America
* Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
* Jonathan Curiel, Al’ America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots
* Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Lydia T. Black, et Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká, Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804
* Maria Mazziotti Gillan, All That Lies Between Us
* Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998
* C. S. Giscombe, Prairie Style
* Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go, a novel
* L. Luis Lopez, Each Month I Sing
* Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
* Fae Myenne Ng, Steer Toward Rock
* Yuko Taniguchi, The Ocean in the Closet
* Lorenzo Thomas, Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition, ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen
* Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : J. J. Phillips, Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale

#### 2009

* Houston A. Baker Jr., Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era
* Danit Brown, Ask for a Convertible
* Jericho Brown, Please
* José Antonio Burciaga, The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga, eds. Mimi R. Gladstein et Daniel Chacón
* Claire Hope Cummings, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
* Stella Pope Duarte, If I Die in Juarez
* Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems
* Suheir Hammad, Breaking Poems
* Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder
* George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music
* Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo
* Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, ed. Peter Gizzi et Kevin Killian
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Miguel Algarín

### 2010 à aujourd'hui
#### 2010

* Amiri Baraka, Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
* Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song
* Nancy Carnevale, A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890–1945
* Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
* Sesshu Foster, World Ball Notebook
* Stephen D. Gutierrez, Live from Fresno y Los
* Victor LaValle, The Big Machine
* François Mandeville, This Is What They Say, traduit par Ron Scollon du Chipewyan
* Bich Minh Nguyen, Short Girls
* Franklin Rosemont et Robin D. G. Kelley, eds., Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
* Jerome Rothenberg et Jeffrey C. Robinson, eds., Poems for the Millennium: Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry
* Kathryn Waddell Takara, Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems
* Pamela Uschuk, Crazy Love: New Poems
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Katha Pollitt
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Quincy Troupe

#### 2011

* Keith Gilyard, John Oliver Killens
* Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam
* Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow
* Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
* William W. Cook et James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition
* Gerald Vizenor, Shrouds of White Earth
* Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
* Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin
* Geoffrey Alan Argent, ed., The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides, traduit du français par Argent
* Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
* Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed
* Miriam Jiménez Román et Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
* Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Luis Valdez
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : John A. Williams

#### 2012

Les 32e American Book Awards sont officiellement annoncés le 16 octobre 2012 à l'université de Californie à Berkeley.
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Eugene B. Redmond
* Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
* Arlene Kim, What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?
* Ed Bok Lee, Whorled
* Adilifu Nama, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
* Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
* Shann Ray, American Masculine
* Alice Rearden, translator; Ann Fienup-Riordan, ed., Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput: Our Nelson Island Stories
* Touré, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
* Amy Waldman, Un concours de circonstances (The Submission)
* Mary Winegarden, The Translator’s Sister
* Kevin Young, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels

#### 2019

* Tommy Orange, There There