2000s[edit]

2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ulti
mate Theory by Brian Greene
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensa
ul
2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Righ
ts Revolution by Diane McWhorter
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam
2003: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit by Elle
n Meloy
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by Dana Priest
Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler
2005: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, fro
m the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroli
ne Elkins
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul F
riedlander
The Cigarette Century by Allan M. Brandt
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
2009: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Ci
vil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William
I. Hitchcock
Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our A
ge by Arthur L. Herman
2010s[edit]
2010: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerou
s Legacy by David E. Hoffman
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
2011: Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches,
the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
2012: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by
Diane Ackerman
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World F
ull of Men by Mara Hvistendahl
2013: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of
a New America by Gilbert King
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Kat
herine Boo
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell

2014: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by
Fred Kaplan
2015: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert[2]
No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osno
s
Repeat winners[edit]
cinin, asagidaki sablbol ered. Mg ha szz szzalkig biztos is vagy benne, hogy valaki e
gy rtktelen, semmirekghvst : Szerkessz btran! Szmos szablyunk, normnk s tradc
abad ezeket azoknak az kezdoknek a krra alkalmaznunk, akik megszvleltk ezt a hvst. Eg
es jonnan jttek olyan tapasztalatokat, tleteket vagy kreatv energit hozhatnak magukka
l, ami, br nehezen fr bele az aktulis szablyok korltaiba, tovbb fejlesztdo mais bem t
atado do que foi pelos mais experientes.