| 2025 | Winner | The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years | Sunil Amrith | W. W. Norton |
| 2025 | Shortlist | Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance | Bronwen Everill | HarperCollins |
| 2025 | Shortlist | Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's Health | Sophie Harman | Unknown |
| 2025 | Shortlist | Sound Tracks: A Musical Detective Story | Graeme Lawson | Unknown |
| 2025 | Shortlist | The Baton and The Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin | Lucy Ash | Icon Books |
| 2025 | Shortlist | The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World | William Dalrymple | Bloomsbury |
| 2024 | Winner | Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York | Ross Perlin | Grove Atlantic |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare | Annabel Sowemimo | Profile Books |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future | Ed Conway | Ebury Publishing |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories | Amitav Ghosh | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2024 | Shortlist | The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers | Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell | Viking |
| 2024 | Shortlist | The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 | Marcy Norton | Unknown |
| 2023 | Winner | Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire | Nandini Das | Bloomsbury |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation | Kris Manjapra | Scribner |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World | Irene Vallejo | Knopf |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution, | Tania Branigan | W. W. Norton |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living | Dimitris Xygalatas | Unknown |
| 2023 | Shortlist | The Violence of Colonial Photography | Daniel Foliard | Unknown |
| 2022 | Winner | When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold | Alia Trabucco Zerán | Coffee House Press |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 | Harald Jähner | Knopf |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Horizons: A Global History of Science | James Poskett | Viking |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Jing Tsu | Riverhead Books |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village | Marit Kapla | Unknown |
| 2022 | Shortlist | The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness | Katie Booth | Avid Reader Press |
| 2021 | Winner | Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire | Sujit Sivasundaram | University of Chicago Press |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today | Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr | Unknown |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape | Cal Flyn | HarperCollins |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities | Professor Mahmood Mamdani FBA | Unknown |
| 2020 | Winner | Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands | Hazel V. Carby | Verso Books |
| 2020 | Shortlist | All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma in the Shadow of Colonialism | Tanya Talaga | Scribe Publications |
| 2020 | Shortlist | Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent | Priyamvada Gopal | Verso Books |
| 2020 | Shortlist | Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power | Pekka Hämäläinen | Yale University Press |
| 2020 | Shortlist | The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture | Charles King | Unknown |
| 2019 | Winner | The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity | Kwame Anthony Appiah | Liveright |
| 2019 | Shortlist | How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy | Julian Baggini | Granta Books |
| 2019 | Shortlist | Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture | Ed Morales | Verso Books |
| 2019 | Shortlist | Maoism: A Global History | Julia Lovell | Knopf |
| 2019 | Shortlist | Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided | Aanchal Malhotra | Unknown |
| 2018 | Winner | Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe | Kapka Kassabova | Graywolf Press |
| 2018 | Shortlist | Al-Britannia: A Journey Through Muslim Britain | James Fergusson | Transworld |
| 2018 | Shortlist | Black Tudors: The Untold Story | Miranda Kaufmann | Oneworld |
| 2018 | Shortlist | I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad | Souad Mekhennet | Unknown |
| 2018 | Shortlist | Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds | Anne Salmond | Unknown |
| 2018 | Shortlist | The Islamic Enlightenment The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason | Christopher de Bellaigue | Liveright |