2012 - Zeitoun
           By: Dave Eggers

2011 - Creating a World Without Poverty
           By: Muhammad Yunus

2010- China Road
           By: Rob Gifford

2009- A Thousand Splendid Suns
           By: Khaled Hosseini

2008- The Shame of the Nation
           By: Jonathan Kozol

2007- An Inconvenient Truth
           By: Al Gore

2006- Mountains Beyond Mountains
           By: Tracy Kidder

2005- Escape From Slavery
           By: Francis Bok

2004- Nickel and Dimed
           By: Barbara Ehrenreich

2003- Falling Leaves
           By: Adeline Yen Mah

2002 - The Color of Water
           By: James McBride

2000-2001- Zenzele J.
           By: Nozipo Maraire

1999- Millennium
           By: Stephen Jay Gould

1998- Snakes and Ladders
           By: Gita Mehta

1997- A Shaman’s Apprentice
           By: Mark Plotkin

1996- Things Fall Apart
           By: Chinua Achebe

1995- Ishmael
           By: Daniel Quinn

1994 - The Measure of Our Success
           By: Marion Wright Edelman

1993 - There Are No Children Here
           By: Alex Kotlowitz

1992 - Thief of Time
           By: Tony Hillerman