Kirkus Prize: nonfiction

Kirkus Reviews, an American book-review magazine founded in 1933, created the Kirkus Prize in 2014. It is one of the richest literary awards in the world, bestowing $50,000 annually upon the winning authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature.

2024: Challenger, by Adam Higginbothem

2023: Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meaning and Myth of "Latino", by Héctor Tobar

2022: In Sensorium, by Tanaïs

2021: Punch Me Up to the Gods, by Brian Broome

2020: Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream, by Mychal Denzel Smith

2019: How We Fight for Our Lives, by Saeed Jones

2018: Call Them by Their True Names, by Rebecca Solnit,

2017: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E. Davis

2016: In the Darkroom, by Susan Faludi

2015: Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

2014: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, by Roz Chast