Amerikan Kitap Ödülleri

Amerikan Kitap Ödülü birçok kitaba ve kişiye "olağanüstü edebi başarı"dan dolayı yıllık olarak verilen Amerikan edebiyat ödülüdür. Ödülün 2010 dağıtım bildirisine göre, "kategorisiz, adaysız, bu yüzden de kaybedeni olmayan" ve "yazarların diğer yazarlara verdiği" bir ödüldür."For Immediate Release:" (August 5, 2010). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012. 

Ödül, 1978'de kurulan ve 1980'de açılışını yapan birçok kültüre odaklı, kâr amacı gütmeyen Before Columbus Foundation tarafından yönetilmektedir.

Ödül aynı zamanda ırk, cinsiyet, etnik köken veya tür sınırlaması yapmadan Amerikan edebiyatına yapılan mükemmel katkıları onurlandırır. Toni Morrison, Edward Said, Isabel Allende, bell hooks, Don DeLillo, Derrick Bell, Robin D. G. Kelley, Joy Harjo ve Tommy J. Curry örneklerindeki yazar, kamu bilimcisi, şair ve tarihçi gibi çeşitliliğe sahip eski kazananları bulunmaktadır.

 Ulusal Kitap Ödülleri 
1980'de alakasız olarak Ulusal Kitap Ödülleri Amerikan Kitap ödülleri olarak adlandırıldı. Daha sonra 1987'de tekrar eski adına dönüp Ulusal Kitap Ödülleri oldu."History Of The National Book Awards" . National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012. Bu yedi yıl içinde iki ödülün birbiriyle hiçbir bağı olmadı.

 Kazananlar 

1980 - 1989

1980
 Douglas Woolf, Future preconditional: A collection
 Edward Dorn, Hello, La Jolla
 Jayne Cortez, Mouth on Paper
 Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
 Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Random Possession
 Milton Murayama, All I Asking for Is My Body
 Quincy Troupe, Snake Back Solos
 Rudolfo Anaya, Tortuga, roman

1981
 Alta, Shameless Hussy
 Alan Chong Lau, Songs for Jadina
 Bienvenido N. Santos, Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
 Helen Adam, Turn Again to Me & Other Poems
 Lionel Mitchell, Traveling Light
 Miguel Algarín, On Call
 Nicholasa Mohr, Felita
 Peter Blue Cloud, Back Then Tomorrow
 Robert Kelly, The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996
 Rose Drachler, The Choice
 Susan Howe, The Liberties
 Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

1982
 Al Young, Bodies and Soul
 Duane Niatum, Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems
 E. L. Mayo, Collected Poems E L Mayo
 Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman ve The Year of the Dragon
 Hilton Obenzinger, This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem
 Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940
 Jerome Rothenberg, Pre-Faces and Other Writings
 Joyce Carol Thomas, Marked by Fire
 Leroy Quintana, Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
 Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emplumada
 Ronald Phillip Tanaka, The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
 Russell Banks, Book of Jamaica
 Tato Laviera, Enclave

1983
 Barbara Christian, Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976
 Cecilia Liang, Chinese Folk Poetry
 Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, Thirty: An' Seen a Lot
 Harriet Rohmer, Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
 James D. Houston, Californians: Searching for the Golden State
 Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, Pet food & tropical apparitions
 John A. Williams, Click Song, roman
 Joy Kogawa, Obasan
 Judy Grahn, The Queen of Wands: Poetry
 Nash Candelaria, Not by the Sword
 Peter Guralnick, Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
 Seán Ó Tuama, An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed

1984
 Cecil Brown, Days Without Weather
 Gary Snyder, Axe Handles: Poems
 Howard Schwartz, Mark Podwal, The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
 Imamu Amiri Baraka, Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men
 Jesús Colón, A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
 Joseph Bruchac, Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets
 Maurice Kenny, The Mama Poems
 Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, The heat bird
 Miné Okubo, Citizen 13660
 Paule Marshall, Praisesong for the Widow
 Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung, Pie-Biter
 Thomas McGrath, Echoes inside the labyrinth
 Venkatesh Kulkarni, Naked in Deccan
 William J. Kennedy, O Albany!

1985
 Angela Jackson, Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
 Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
 Colleen J. McElroy, Queen of the Ebony Isles
 Gary Soto, Living Up The Street
 Peter Irons, Justice at War
 Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei, Muin Ozaki, Poets Behind Barbed Wire
 Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, roman
 Maureen Owen, Amelia Earhart
 May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal
 Robert Edward Duncan, Ground Work: Before the War
 Ron Jones, Say Ray
 Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
 Sonia Sanchez, Homegirls and Handgrenades
 Julia Vinograd for The Book of Jerusalem
 William Oandasan, Round Valley Songs

1986
 Anna Lee Walters, The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories
 Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
 Helen Barolini, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women
 Jeff Hannusch, I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
 Linda Hogan, Seeing Through the Sun
 Miguel Algarín, Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo
 Natasha Borovsky, A Daughter of the Nobility
 Raymond Federman, Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts
 Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson
 Terence Winch, Irish Musicians/American Friends
 Toshio Mori, Yokohama, California

1987
 Ai, SIN
 Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters
 Cyn Zarco, Circumnavigations
 Daniel McGuire, Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
 Dorothy Bryant, Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
 Etheridge Knight, The Essential Etheridge Knight
 Gary Giddins, Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
 Harvey Pekar, The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
 James Welch, Fools Crow
 John Wieners, Selected Poems: 1958–1984
 Juan Felipe Herrera, Face Games
 Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy
 Michael Mayo, Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry
 Septima Poinsette Clark, Cynthia Stokes Brown, Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
 Terry McMillan, Mama

1988
 Allison Blakely, Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
 Charles Olson, The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems
 Daisy Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
 David Halberstam, The Reckoning
 Edward Sanders, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985
 Gerald Vizenor, Griever: An American Monkey King in China
 Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
 Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High, Tight Spaces
 Marlon K. Hom, Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
 Benjamin Hoff, The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
 Ronald Sukenick, Down and in: Life in the Underground
 Salvatore La Puma, The Boys of Bensonhurst
 Toni Morrison, Beloved
 Wing Tek Lum, Tek Lum Lum, Expounding the Doubtful Points

1989
 Alma Luz Villanueva, The Ultraviolet Sky
 Askia M. Touré, From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
 Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light
 Carolyn Lau, Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
 Emory Elliott, Columbia Literary History of the United States
 Eduardo Galeano, Genesis
 Frank Chin, The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
 Henry Louis Gates, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
 Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
 J. California Cooper, Homemade Love
 Jennifer Stone, Stone's Throw
 Josephine Gattuso Hendin, The Right Thing to Do
 Leslie Scalapino, way
 Shuntaro Tanikawa, Floating the River in Melancholy
 Charles Fanning, The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
 William Minoru Hohri, Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress

1990 - 1999

1990
 Adrienne Kennedy, People Who Led to My Plays
 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Italian Days
 Daniela Gioseffi, Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age)
 Elizabeth Woody, Hand into Stone: Poems
 Hualing Nieh, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
 Itabari Njeri, Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
 James M. Freeman, Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
 John C. Walter, J. Raymond Jones, The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970
 John Norton, Light at the End of the Bog
 José Emilio González, Vivar a Hostos
 Sergei Kan, Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century
 Lloyd A. Thompson, Romans and Blacks
 Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
 Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster, Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry
 Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography
 Paula Gunn Allen, Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
 Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly, The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology

1991
 Alejandro Murguía, Southern Front
 Bell Hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
 Bruce Wright, Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn't Work for Blacks
 Charley Trujillo, Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
 D. H. Melhem, Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews
 Deborah Keenan, Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile
 Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters
 John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire, roman
 Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War
 Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
 Lucia Berlin, Homesick: New and Selected Stories
 Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman
 Meridel Le Sueur, Harvest Song: Collected Essays and Stories
 Mill Hunk Herald Collective, Overtime: Punchin' Out With the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine
 Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory
 R. Baxter Miller, The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
 Thomas Centolella, Terra Firma

1992
 A'Lelia Perry Bundles, Madam C.J. Walker
 Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
 Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Calendar of Dust
 Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
 Fritjof Capra, Belonging to the universe: Explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality
 José Antonio Burciaga, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry
 Keith Gilyard, Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
 Lucy Thompson, To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
 Norma Field, In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
 Peter Bacho, Cebu
 Peter Kalifornsky, Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky
 Raymond Andrews, Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire
 Sandra Scofield, Beyond Deserving
 Sheila Hamanaka, Journey
 Stephen R. Fox, The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
 Steven R. Carter, Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity,
 Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Last Fine Time
 William B. Branch, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama

1993
 Asake Bomani, Belvie Rooks, Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris
 Christopher Mogil, Peter Woodrow, We Gave Away a Fortune
 Cornel West, Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
 Denise Giardina, Unquiet Earth
 Diane Glancy, Claiming Breath
 Eugene B. Redmond, The Eye in the Ceiling
 Francisco X. Alarcón, Snake Poems
 Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
 Jack Beatty, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley
 Leroy V. Quintana, The History of Home
 Katherine Peter, Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country
 Nelson George, Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball
 Ninotchka Rosca, Twice Blessed, roman

1994
 Giose Rimanelli, Benedetta in Guysterland
 Eric Drooker, Flood!: A Novel in Pictures
 Graciela Limón, In Search of Bernabe
 Gregory J. Reed, Economic Empowerment Through the Church
 Janet Campbell Hale, Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter
 Jill Nelson, Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
 Lawson Fusao Inada, Legends from Camp
 Nicole Blackman, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
 Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
 Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
 Rose L. Glickman, Daughters of Feminists
 Tino Villanueva, Scene from the Movie GIANT
 Virginia L. Kroll, Wood-Hoopoe Willie

1995
 Abraham Rodriguez, Spidertown, roman
 Herb Boyd, Robert L. Allen, Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology
 Denise Chavez, Face of an Angel
 John Egerton, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
 John Ross, Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
 Thomas Avena, Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS
 Linda Raymond, Rocking the Babies, roman
 Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
 Marianna De Marco Torgovnick, Crossing Ocean Parkway
 Marnie Mueller, Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
 Peter Quinn, Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
 Sandra Martz, I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted
 Gordon Henry Jr., The Light People
 Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

1996
 Agate Nesaule, A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
 Arthur Sze, Archipelago
 Chang-Rae Lee, Native Speaker
 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Arranged Marriage
 E.J. Miller Laino, Girl Hurt
 Glenn C. Loury, One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America
 James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
 Joe Sacco, Edward Said, Palestine
 Kimiko Hahn, The Unbearable Heart
 Maria Espinosa, Longing
 Robert Viscusi, Astoria
 Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
 Ron Sakolsky, Fred Weihan Ho, Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution
 Stephanie Cowell, The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke
 William H. Gass, The Tunnel

1997
 Alurista, Et Tu ... Raza
 Derrick Bell, Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
 Dorothy Barresi, The Post-Rapture Diner
 Guillermo Gómez-Peña, The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
 Louis Owens, Nightland
 Martín Espada, Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
 Montserrat Fontes, Dreams of the Centaur, roman
 Noel Ignatiev, Race Traitor
 Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
 Sunaina Maira, Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America
 Thulani Davis, Maker of Saints
 Tom De Haven, Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies, roman
 William M. Banks, Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
 Brenda Knight, Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

1998
 Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Dog Road Woman
 Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
 Brenda Marie Osbey, All Saints: New and Selected Poems
 Don DeLillo, Underworld
 Jim Barnes, On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions
 John A. Williams, Safari West: Poems
 Nancy Rawles, Love Like Gumbo
 Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman
 Sandra Benitez, Bitter Grounds, roman
 Scott DeVeaux, The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
 Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

1999
 Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
 Anna Linzer, Ghost Dancing
 Brian Ward, Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
 Chiori Santiago, Home to Medicine Mountain
 E. Donald Two-Rivers, Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories
 Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones
 Judith Roche, Meg McHutchison, First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
 Gioia Timpanelli, Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
 Gloria Naylor, The Men of Brewster Place, roman
 James D. Houston, The Last Paradise
 Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt, Ciulistet Group, Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples
 Trey Ellis, Right Here, Right Now
 Josip Novakovich, Salvation and Other Disasters
 Lauro Flores, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature
 Luís Alberto Urrea, Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
 Nelson George, Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X
 Speer Morgan, The Freshour Cylinders
 Gary Gach, What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
 Chiori Santiago, author, Judith Lowry, illustrator, Home to Medicine MountainThe Booksellers presentation begins with unattributed quotation from the Awards press release, a primary source used here.

2000 - 2009

2000
 Esther G. Belin, From the Belly of My Beauty
 Allan J. Ryan, The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art
 Andrés Montoya, The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems
 Camille Peri, Kate Moses, Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
 David A. J. Richards, Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
 David Toop, Exotica
 Elva Trevino Hart, Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
 Emil Guillermo, Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed
 Frank Chin, The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
 Helen Thomas, Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times
 Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
 John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford, Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
 Leroy TeCube, Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story
 Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Heads By Harry
 Michael Lally, It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose
 Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
 Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Why She Left Us, roman
 Robert Creeley, The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
 Editor/Publisher: Ronald Sukenick
 Jack E. White, Journalism
 Frank Chin, Ömür Boyu Başarı
 Robert Creeley, Ömür Boyu Başarı

2001
 Amanda J. Cobb, Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949
 Andrea Dworkin, Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
 Carolyne Wright, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
 Chalmers Johnson, Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
 Cheri Register, Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
 Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
 Diana Garcia, When Living Was a Labor Camp
 Elizabeth Nunez, Bruised Hibiscus
 Janet McAdams, Island of Lost Luggage
 Philip Whalen, Overtime: Selected Poems
 Russell Leong, Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
 Sandra M. Gilbert, Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1999
 Ted Joans, Teducation
 Tillie Olsen, Silences
 William S. Penn, Killing Time With Strangers
 Malcolm Margolin, Editor
 Ted Joans, Ömür Boyu Başarı
 Tillie Olsen, Ömür Boyu Başarı
 Philip Whalen Ömür Boyu Başarı

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
 Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards
 Lerone Bennett, Ömür Boyu Başarı
 Jack Hirschman, Ömür Boyu Başarı

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 ve 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, roman
 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
 Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review

2004 
 Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent, roman
 David Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
 Charisse Jones and 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 and 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, roman
 Lamont B. Steptoe, A Long Movie of Shadows
 Don West, No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems, eds Jeff Biggers and George Brosi
 Journalism: Bill Berkowitz

2006
 MacKenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright, roman
 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 and Beverly Slapin, eds., A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
 Matthew Shenoda, Somewhere Else
 Carlton T. Spiller, Scalding Heart
 Chris Hamilton-Emery, Editor 
 Jay Wright, Ömür Boyu Başarı

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 González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
 Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains, roman
 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, and Lydia T. Black. 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
 J. J. Phillips, Ömür Boyu Başarı

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 and 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 ve Kevin Killian
 Miguel Algarín, Ömür Boyu Başarı

2010 - 2019

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, çeviri Ron Scollon, Chipewyan
 Bich Minh Nguyen, Short Girls
 Franklin Rosemont ve Robin D. G. Kelley, eds., Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
 Jerome Rothenberg ve 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
 Katha Politt, Ömür Boyu Başarı 
 Quincy Troupe, Ömür Boyu Başarı 

2011Winners of the 2011 American Book Awards . Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
 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 ve 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, çeviri
 Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country 
 Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed 
 Miriam Jiménez Román ve Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States 
 Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds
 Luis Valdez, Ömür Boyu Başarı
 John A. Williams, Ömür Boyu Başarı

2012
 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, çevirmen; 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, The Submission 
 Mary Winegarden, The Translator's Sister
 Kevin Young, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
 Eugene B. Redmond, Ömür Boyu Başarı

 2013The Before Columbus Foundation announces the ... {2013 winners}. Before Columbus Foundation. Press release September 19, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013. 
 Will Alexander, Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture, Essay Press
 Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, Cargo
 Philip P. Choy, San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide To Its History & Architecture, City Lights
 Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist, Harper Collins
 Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was An Aztec, Copper Canyon Press
 Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Harper Collins
 Alan Gilbert, Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, Chicago Üniversitesi
 Judy Grahn, A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet, Aunt Lute Books
 Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave: A Memoir, W.W. Norton & Co.
 Demetria Martinez, The Block Captain's Daughter, University of Oklahoma Press
 Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Blood Songs, The Ecstatic Exchange
 D. G. Nanouk Okpik, Corpse Whale, University of Arizona Press
 Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War On Student Radical and Reagan's Rise to Power, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
 Christopher B. Teuton, Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club, University of North Carolina
 Lew Welch, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, City Lights
 Ivan Argüelles, Ömür Boyu Başarı
 Greil Marcus, Ömür Boyu Başarı
 Floyd Salas, Ömür Boyu Başarı

 2014
 Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, Metropolitan Books
  Joshua Bloom  ve Waldo E. Martin, Jr. , Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, University of California Press
 Juan Delgado  (şiir) ve Thomas McGovern  (fotoğraf), Vital Signs, Heyday Books
 Alex Espinoza, The Five Acts of Diego León, Random House
 Jonathan Scott Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940, University of North Carolina Press
 Joan Naviyuk Kane, Hyperboreal, University of Pittsburgh Press
 Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 Tanya Olson , Boyishly, YesYes Books
 Sterling D. Plumpp, Home/Bass, Third World Press
 Emily Raboteau, Searching For Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, Atlantic Monthly Press
 Jerome Rothenberg with Heriberto Yepez , Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, Commonwealth Books
 Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Metropolitan Books
 Margaret Wrinkle , Wash, Atlantic Monthly Press
 Koon Woon , Water Chasing Water, Kaya Press
 Armond White, Sansür Karşıtlığı Ödülü
 Michael Parenti, Ömür Boyu Başarı

 2015
 Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Vintage)
 Arlene Biala, her beckoning hands (Word Poetry)
 Arthur Dong, Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970 (DeepFocus Productions)
 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Beacon Press)
 Peter J. Harris, The Black Man of Happiness (Black Man of Happiness Project)
 Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books)
 Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon & Schuster)
 Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account (Pantheon)
 Manuel Luis Martinez, Los Duros (Floricanto Press)
 Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [guma’] (Omnidawn)
 Carlos Santana, Ashley Kahn ve Hal Miller, The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light (Little, Brown and Company)
 Ira Sukrungruang, Southside Buddhist (University of Tampa Press)
 Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age (Henry Holt)
 Anne Waldman, Ömür Boyu Başarı
2016

 Laura Da', Tributaries (University of Arizona)
 Susan Muaddi Darraj, Curious Land: Stories from Home (University of Massachusetts)
 Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multicultural Future (The New Press)
 Mat Johnson, Loving Day (Spiegel & Grau)
 John Keene, Counternarratives (New Directions)
 William J. Maxwell, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature (Princeton University)
 Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (Counterpoint)
 Ned Sublette ve Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Lawrence Hill Books)
 Jesús Salvador Treviño, Return to Arroyo Grande (Arte Público)
 Nick Turse, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books)
 Ray Young Bear, Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media)
 Louise Meriwether, Ömür Boyu Başarı
 Lyra Monteiro ve Nancy Isenberg, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
 Chiitaanibah Johnson, Andrew Hope Ödülü
2017

 Rabia Chaudry Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial (St. Martin's Press)
 Flores A. Forbes Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Skyhorse Publishing)
 Yaa Gyasi Homegoing (Knopf)
 Holly Hughes Passings (Expedition Press)
 Randa Jarrar Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (Sarabande Books)
 Bernice L. McFadden The Book of Harlan (Akashic Books)
 Brian D. McInnes Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow (Michigan State University Press)
 Patrick Phillips Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (W. W. Norton & Company)
 Vaughn Rasberry Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Harvard University Press)
 Marc Anthony Richardson Year of the Rat (Fiction Collective Two)
 Shawna Yang Ryan Green Island (Knopf)
 Ruth Sergel See You in the Streets: Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (University of Iowa Press)
 Solmaz Sharif Look (Graywolf Press)
 Adam Soldofsky Memory Foam (Disorder Press)
 Alfredo Véa The Mexican Flyboy (University of Oklahoma Press)
 Dean Wong Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown (Chin Music Press)
 Nancy Mercado  Ömür Boyu Başarı
 Ammiel Alcalay Editör/Yayıncı Ödülü: Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative
2018 

 Thi Bui The Best That We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (Harry N. Abrams)
 Rachelle Cruz God's Will for Monsters (Inlandia Books)
 Tommy Curry The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press)
 Tongo Eisen-Martin Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights)
 Dana Naone Hall Life of the Land: Articulations of a Native Writer (University of Hawaii)
 Kelly Lytle Hernández City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (University of North Carolina)
 Victor Lavalle The Changeling: A Novel (Spiegel & Grau)
 Bojan Louis Currents (BkMk Press)
 Valeria Luiselli Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Coffee House Press)
 Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson ve B. V. Olguín Altermundos Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press)
 Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (The New Press)
 Tommy Pico Nature Poem (Tin House Books)
 Rena Priest Patriarchy Blues (MoonPath Press)
 Joseph Rios Shadowboxing: poems & impersonations (Omnidawn)
 Sunaura Taylor Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press)
 Sequoyah Guess Ömür Boyu Başarı
 Kellie Jones South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Duke University Press): Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Eleştirmen Ödülü
 Charles F. Harris Editör/Yayıncı Ödülü
 Rob Rogers Sansür Karşıtlığı Ödülü
 Heroes Are Gang Leaders Konuşma Edebiyatı Ödülü
2019 

 Frank Abe, Greg Robinson ve Floyd Cheung John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy (University of Washington Press)
 May-lee Chai Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories (Blair)
 Louise DeSalvo The House of Early Sorrows: A Memoir in Essays (Fordham University Press)
 Heid E. Erdrich New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press)
 Ángel García Teeth Never Sleep: Poems (University of Arkansas Press)
 Tommy Orange There There (Knopf)
 Halifu Osumare Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir (University Press of Florida)
 Christopher Patton Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book (Gaspereau Press)
 Mark Sarvas Memento Park: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
 Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press)
 William T. Vollmann Carbon Ideologies: Volume I, No Immediate Danger, Volume II, No Good Alternative (Viking Press|Viking)
 G. Willow Wilson ve Nico Leon Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland (Marvel Comics)
 Nathan Hare Ömür Boyu Başarı
 UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Editör/Yayıncı Ödülü
 Moor Mother Konuşma Edebiyatı Ödülü

2020 - günümüz

2020

 Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems (W.W. Norton) 
 Sara Borjas, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (Noemi Press)
 Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, Tate Swindell, editörler, Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (City Lights) 
 Staceyann Chin, Crossfire: A Litany for Survival (Haymarket) 
 Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina: Stories (One World) 
 Tara Fickle, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (New York University Press) 
 Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (Basic Books) 
 Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (Pantheon) 
 Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (Milkweed Editions) 
 George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker, They Called Us Enemy (Top Shelf Productions) 
 Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin) 
 De'Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills (Bloomsbury Publishing) 
 Albert Woodfox with Leslie George, Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope (Grove Press) 
 Ömür Boyu Başarı: Eleanor W. Traylor 
 Editör Ödülü: The Panopticon Review, Kofi Natambu, editör
 Yayıncı Ödülü: Commune Editions, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover ve Juliana Spahr, editörler
 Konuşma Edebiyatı Ödülü: Amalia Leticia Ortiz
 Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Eleştirmen Ödülü: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, Anthony Harkins ve Meredith McCarroll

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