| 2026 | Winner | Earth History: Stories of Our Geological Past | Peter Copeland, Janok P. Bhattacharya | Cambridge University Press |
| 2026 | Winner | Introduction to Catastrophe Risk Modelling: A Physics-based Approach | Arnaud Mignan | Cambridge University Press |
| 2025 | Winner | Data Science for the Geosciences | Lijing Wang, David Zhen Yin,, Jef Caers | Cambridge University Press |
| 2025 | Winner | The Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to Bush | Jay Hakes | LSU Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain | Sonja K. Pieck | MIT Press |
| 2024 | Winner | The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica | David J. Drewry | Princeton University Press |
| 2023 | Winner | Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils | Dale Greenwalt | Princeton University Press |
| 2023 | Winner | The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth's Forest Ecosystems | Herman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi,, Jérôme Chave | Princeton University Press |
| 2022 | Winner | One Earth | Lewis Collins, Shanshan Zhang, | Cell Press |
| 2022 | Winner | When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be | Martin Williams | Princeton University Press |
| 2021 | Winner | Deep Carbon: Past to Present | Beth N. Orcutt, Isabelle Daniel,, Rajdeep Dasgupta | Cambridge University Press |
| 2021 | Winner | River Networks as Ecological Corridors: Species, Populations, Pathogens | Andrea Rinaldo, Marino Gatto,, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe | Cambridge University Press |
| 2020 | Winner | Chemostratigraphy Across Major Chronological Boundaries | Alcides N. Sial, Claudio Gaucher, Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, Valderez Pinto Ferreira | Wiley |
| 2020 | Winner | Global Environmental Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People | UN Environment | Cambridge University Press |
| 2019 | Winner | Global Flood Hazard: Applications in Modeling, Mapping and Forecasting | Guy J-P. Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, Giuseppe T. Aronica | Wiley |
| 2019 | Winner | Statistical Downscaling and Bias Correction for Climate Research | Douglas Maraun, Martin Widmann | Cambridge University Press |
| 2018 | Winner | A Meeting of Land and Sea: Nature and the Future of Martha’s Vineyard | David R. Foster | Yale University Press |
| 2018 | Winner | Earth History and Palaeogeography | Trond H. Torsvik, L. Robin M. Cocks | Cambridge University Press |
| 2018 | Honorable mention | Climate Extremes: Patterns and Mechanisms | S-Y Simon Wang, Jin-Ho Yoon, Christopher C. Funk, Robert R. Gillies | Wiley |
| 2018 | Honorable mention | Photo Atlas of Mineral Pseudomorphism | J. Theo Kloprogge, Rob Lavinsky, Stretch Young | Elsevier |
| 2018 | Honorable mention | Salt Tectonics: Principles and Practice | Martin P. A. Jackson, Michael R. Hudec | Cambridge University Press |
| 2017 | Winner | A Concise Geologic Time Scale: 2016 | James G. Ogg, Gabi Ogg, Felix M. Gradstein | Elsevier |
| 2017 | Winner | Ecosystems of California | Harold Mooney annd Erika Zaveleta | University of California Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China | Matthew E. Kahn, Siqi Zheng | Princeton University Press |
| 2016 | Winner | Discovering the Deep: A Photographic Atlas of the Seafloor and Ocean Crust | Jeffrey A. Karson, Deborah S. Kelley, Daniel J. Fornari, Michael R. Perfit, Timothy M. Shank | Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Atlas of Structural Geology | Soumyajit Mukherjee | Elsevier |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes | Haraldur Sigurdsson | Elsevier |
| 2015 | Winner | Atlas of Meteorites | Monica Grady, Giovanni Pratesi, Vanni Moggi Cecchi | Cambridge University Press |
| 2015 | Winner | Bioprocessing of Renewable Resources to Commodity Bioproducts | Virendra S. Bisaria, Akihiko Kondo | Wiley |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography | Dr. D.R. Fraser Taylor, Tracey Lauriault | Elsevier |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance | Craig E. Colten | LSU Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons from China | Kelly Sims Gallagher | MIT Press |
| 2013 | Winner | Fukushima Accident: Radioactivity Impact on the Environment | Pavel P. Povinec, Katsumi Hirose,, Michio Aoyama | Elsevier |
| 2013 | Winner | The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time | Lance Grande | University of Chicago Press |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | Climatic Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters: Impacts and Mitigation for Ecosystems and Societies | Charles R. Goldman, Michio Kumagai,, Richard D. Robarts | Wiley |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | Decision Making in Natural Resource Management: A Structured, Adaptive Approach | Michael J. Conroy, James T. Peterson | Wiley |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century | Paddy Woodworth | University of Chicago Press |
| 2012 | Winner | Atlas of Yellowstone | W. Andrew Marcus, James E. Meacham, Ann W. Rodman,, Alethea Y. Steingisser | University of California Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis | Cheryl Colopy | Oxford University Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | Fundamentals of Geobiology | Andrew H. Knoll, Donald E. Canfield,, Kurt O. Konhauser Simon, Schuster/Scribner | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind | Charles H. Langmuir, Wally Broecker | Princeton University Press |
| 2008 | Winner | Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform | Martin J. S. Rudwick | University of Chicago Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives & Evolutionary History | Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford | Columbia University Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to Oceanography | Mark Denny | Princeton University Press |
| 2007 | Winner | Evolution | Donald R. Prothero | Columbia University Press |
| 2007 | Honorable mention | Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail | Keith Heyer Meldahl | University of Chicago Press |
| 2006 | Winner | Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth | Alessandro Scafi | University of Chicago Press |
| 2006 | Honorable mention | Atmospheric Halos and the Search for Angle X | Walter Tape, Jarmo Moilanen | American Geophysical Union |
| 2005 | Winner | Rivers of North America | Arthur C. Benke, Colbert E. Cushing | Elsevier |
| 2005 | Winner | The Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health | Editor-in-Chief: Olle Selinus, Associate Editors: Brian Alloway, José Centeno, Robert Finkelman, Ron Fuge, Ulf Lindh,, Pauline Smedley | Elsevier |
| 2004 | Winner | Nature: An Economic History | Geerat J. Vermeij | Princeton University Press |
| 2004 | Honorable mention | Beyond the Stony Mountains: Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today | Daniel B. Botkin | Oxford University Press |
| 2003 | Winner | Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water | Thomas D. Potter, Bradley R. Colman | Wiley |
| 2003 | Honorable mention | Ancient Wine | Patrick E. McGovern | Princeton University Press |
| 2003 | Honorable mention | Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis | Michael Williams | University of Chicago Press |
| 2002 | Winner | Hawaiian Volcanoes: Deep Underwater Perspectives | Eiichi Takahashi, Peter Lipman, Michael Garcia, Jiro Naka, Shigeo Aramaki | American Geophysical Union |
| 2002 | Honorable mention | The Earth’s Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics and Change | Vaclav Smil | MIT Press |
| 1998 | Winner | The Columbia Gazetteer of the World | Saul B. Cohen, Editor | Columbia University Press |
| 1997 | Winner | An Introduction to Satellite Image Interpretation | Eric D. Conway, the Maryland Space Grant Consortium | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 1996 | Winner | Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather | Editor-in-Chief: Stephen H. Schneider | Oxford University Press |
| 1995 | Winner | From Cap Cod to the Bay of Fundy: An Environmental Atlas of the Gulf of Maine | Philip W. Conkling | MIT Press |
| 1995 | Honorable mention | Outdoor Recreation: United States National Parks, Forests & Public Lands | Charles Zinser | Wiley |
| 1994 | Winner | Rivers of the United States, Volume I, ESTUARIES | Ruth Patrick | Wiley |
| 1994 | Honorable mention | HYPERSEA: Life on Land | Mark A. S. McMenamin, Dianna L. S. McMenamin | Columbia University Press |
| 1994 | Honorable mention | Rivers of Eden: The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East | Daniel Hillel | Oxford University Press |
| 1993 | Winner | The Tornado: It’s Structure, Dynamics, Prediction, and Hazards | Edited By: C. Church, D. Burgess, C. Doswell, R. Davies-Jones | American Geophysical Union |
| 1992 | Winner | The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study | J. William Schopf, Cornelius Klein | Cambridge University Press |
| 1991 | Winner | Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil | Daniel J. Hillel | Simon & Schuster |