2021
Fiction – Amy Engel, The Familiar Dark
Nonfiction – Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness; How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
2020
Fiction – Sofia Grant, Lies in White Dresses
Nonfiction – (tie) C.J. Janovy, No Place Like Home and Karen Piper, A Girl’s Guide to Missiles
2019
Fiction – Ann Leckie, Provenance
Nonfiction – Michael Wallis, The Best Land Under Heaven
2018
Fiction – Alex George, Setting Free the Kites
Nonfiction – Nicholas J.C. Pistor, Shooting Lincoln
2017
Fiction – Craig Albin, Hard Toward Home
Nonfiction – Angela Dietz and Joseph Heathcott, Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900-1930
2016
Fiction – Laura McHugh, Weight of Blood
Nonfiction – Gayle Harper, Roadtrip With a Raindrop