mini|hochkant|Preisträgerin 2022: Imani Perry (South to America) Der National Book Award für Sachbücher (englisch National Book Award for Nonfiction) wird seit 1950 vergeben.
Mit zwei Siegen am häufigsten ausgezeichnet wurden Justin Kaplan (1967, 1981), George F. Kennan (1957, 1968), Peter Matthiessen (1979, 1980), David McCullough (1978, 1982), Arthur M. Schlesinger (1966, 1979) und Lewis Thomas (1975, 1981).
Zwischen 1964 und 1983 wurden Preise für Bücher nach Fachgebiet bzw. nach dem Format Hardcover und Paperback separat vergeben.
Preisträger Jahr Preisträger Titel Deutscher Titel 1950 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1951 Herman Melville 1952 The Sea Around Us Geheimnisse des Meeres 1953 The Course of Empire 1954 A Stillness at Appomattox 1955 The Measure of Man 1956 An American in Italy 1957 Russia Leaves the War 1958 The Lion and the Throne 1959 Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael Madame de Stae͏̈l 1960 James Joyce James Joyce 1961 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Aufstieg und Fall des Dritten Reiches 1962 The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects Die Stadt 1963 Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years 1964 (Arts and Letters) John Keats: The Making of a Poet (History and Biography) The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Science, Philosophy and Religion) Man-made America (Science, Philosophy and Religion) 1965 (Arts and Letters) The Oysters of Locmariaquer (History and Biography) The Life of Lenin Das Leben Lenins (Science, Philosophy and Religion) God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion Gott & Golem, Inc. 1966 (Arts and Letters) Paris Journal, 1944–1965 Pariser Tagebuch: 1945–1965 (History and Biography) A Thousand Days Die tausend Tage Kennedys 1967 (Arts and Letters) Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography (History and Biography) The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism (Science, Philosophy and Religion) La Vida La vida 1968 (Arts and Letters) Selected Essays (History and Biography) Memoirs: 1925–1950 Memoiren eines Diplomaten (Science, Philosophy and Religion) Death at an Early Age 1969 (Arts and Letters) The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History Heere aus der Nacht (History and Biography) White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812 (The Sciences) Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima 1970 (Arts and Letters) An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir Eine unfertige Frau (History and Biography) Huey Long (Philosophy and Religion) Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence Gandhis Wahrheit 1971 (Arts and Letters) Cocteau: A Biography (History and Biography) Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (The Sciences) Science in the British Colonies of America 1972 (Arts and Letters) The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven Der klassische Stil (Biography) Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers (Contemporary Affairs) The Last Whole Earth Catalogue (History) Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863–1864 and The Organized War to Victory (Philosophy and Religion) Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (The Sciences) The Blue Whale 1973 (Arts and Letters) Diderot (Biography) George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799 (Contemporary Affairs) Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (History) The Children of Pride (History) Judenrat (Philosophy and Religion) A Religious History of the American People (The Sciences) The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations 1974 (Arts and Letters) Deeper into the Movies (Biography/History) Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (Biography) Malcolm Lowry: A Biography (Contemporary Affairs) The Briar Patch (Philosophy and Religion) Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks (The Sciences) The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations Leben, das unvollendete Experiment 1975 (Arts and Letters) Marcel Proust Marcel Proust (Arts and Letters/The Sciences) The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher Das Leben überlebt (Contemporary Affairs) All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (History) The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (Philosophy and Religion) Anarchy, State and Utopia Anarchie, Staat, Utopia (The Sciences) Interpretation of Schizophrenia 1976 (Arts and Letters) The Great War and Modern Memory (Contemporary Affairs) Passage to Ararat (History and Biography) The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 1977 (Biography and Autobiography) The Last Idealist (Contemporary Thought) The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Kinder brauchen Märchen (History) World of Our Fathers 1978 (Biography and Autobiography) Samuel Johnson (Contemporary Thought) Winners & Losers (History) The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914 Sie teilten die Erde 1979 (Biography and Autobiography) Robert Kennedy and His Times (Contemporary Thought) The Snow Leopard Auf der Spur des Schneeleoparden (History) Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763 1980 (Autobiography, Hardcover) Lauren Bacall by Myself Mein Leben (Autobiography, Paperback) And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978 (Biography, Hardcover) The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Biography, Paperback) Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (Current Interest, Hardcover) Julia Child and More Company (Current Interest, Paperback) The Culture of Narcissism Das Zeitalter des Narzissmus (General Nonfiction, Hardcover) The Right Stuff Die Helden der Nation (General Nonfiction, Paperback) The Snow Leopard Auf der Spur des Schneeleoparden (General Reference Books, Hardcover) The Complete Directory (General Reference Books, Paperback) The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present (General Reference Books, Paperback) (History, Hardcover) The White House Years Memoiren (History, Paperback) A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Der ferne Spiegel (Religion/Inspiration, Hardcover) The Gnostic Gospels Versuchung durch Erkenntnis (Religion/Inspiration, Paperback) A Severe Mercy Eine harte Gnade / Und wenn es doch wahr wäre? (Science, Hardcover) Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Gödel, Escher, Bach – ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band (Science, Paperback) The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics Die tanzenden Wu-li-Meister 1981 (Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover) Walt Whitman (Autobiography/Biography, Paperback) Samuel Beckett (General Nonfiction, Hardcover) China Men Die Söhne des Himmels (General Nonfiction, Paperback) The Last Cowboy (History, Hardcover) Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality (History, Paperback) Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (Science, Hardcover) The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History Der Daumen des Panda (Science, Paperback) The Medusa and the Snail Die Meduse und die Schnecke 1982 (Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover) Mornings on Horseback (Autobiography/Biography, Paperback) Walter Lippmann and the American Century (General Nonfiction, Hardcover) The Soul of a New Machine Die Seele einer neuen Maschine (General Nonfiction, Paperback) Naming Names (History, Hardcover) People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879 (History, Paperback) The Generation of 1914 (Science, Hardcover) The Beginnings of Humankind (Science, Hardcover) (Science, Paperback) Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists Der Quantensprung ist keine Hexerei 1983 (Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover) Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller Tania Blixen. Ihr Leben und Werk (Autobiography/Biography, Paperback) Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times (General Nonfiction, Hardcover) China: Alive in the Bitter Sea (General Nonfiction, Paperback) National Defense (History, Hardcover) Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression (History, Paperback) Utopian Thought in the Western World (History, Paperback) (Original Paperback) The Red Magician Der Rabbi und der Magier (Science, Hardcover) “Subtle is the Lord…”: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein „Raffiniert ist der Herrgott …“ (Science, Paperback) The Mathematical Experience Erfahrung Mathematik (Science, Paperback) 1984 Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 1985 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families 1986 Arctic Dreams Arktische Träume 1987 The Making of the Atom Bomb 1988 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Die große Lüge: John Paul Vann und Amerika in Vietnam 1989 From Beirut to Jerusalem Von Beirut nach Jerusalem 1990 The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance 1991 Freedom 1992 Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story Coming Out 1993 United States: Essays 1952–1992 1994 How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter Wie wir sterben 1995 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism Die Rache der Geschichte 1996 An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us 1997 American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson 1998 Slaves in the Family Die Plantagen am Cooper River 1999 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II 2000 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Im Herzen der See 2001 The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Saturns Schatten 2002 Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson 2003 Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy 2004 Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age 2005 The Year of Magical Thinking Das Jahr magischen Denkens 2006 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl 2007 Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA CIA: Die ganze Geschichte 2008 The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family 2009 The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt 2010 Just Kids Just Kids 2011 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Die Wende 2012 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Annawadi oder Der Traum von einem anderen Leben / Slum 2013 The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America Die Abwicklung 2014 Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China Große Ambitionen 2015 Between the World and Me Zwischen mir und der Welt 2016 Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Gebrandmarkt 2017 The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Die Zukunft ist Geschichte 2018 The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke 2019 The Yellow House Das gelbe Haus: Leben und Überleben einer Familie in New Orleans 2020 ,Tamara Payne The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X 2021 All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 2022 South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon To Understand the Soul of a Nation 2023 The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History 2024 Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling 2025 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Eines Tages werden alle immer schon dagegen gewesen sein
Weblinks National Book Award Winners: 1950–2025 (englisch)
Nonfiction Kategorie:Liste (Preisträger) Kategorie:Erstverleihung 1950