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H Is for HawkHelen Macdonald200628 pts2 wins6 listsJonathan CapeMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave TradeHannah Durkin202410 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsRace & EthnicityBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's WarLisa Brooks201910 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Death in Life: Survivors of HiroshimaRobert Jay Lifton196710 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseSociety & CultureMemoir & Personal History+2
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800Christopher Wickham200610 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
UnearthingKyo Maclear202310 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureGrief, Trauma & Recovery+2
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarSusan Southard20158 pts2 wins2 listsVikingHistoryGrief, Trauma & Recovery+3
Heart BerriesTerese Marie Mailhot20186 pts0 wins2 listsCounterpointMemoir & AutobiographyGender & Feminism+3
Looking at Women, Looking at WarVictoria Amelina20254 pts1 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressWar & MilitaryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and ResistanceWilliam D. Lopez20254 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressPolitics & GovernmentClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific JourneyFlorence Williams20224 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonMemoir & AutobiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton KingdomKathryn Olivarius20224 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime IraqJ. Martin Daughtry20154 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitaryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic WorldJens M. Daehner, Kenneth Lapatin20154 pts1 wins1 listsGetty PublicationsArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a DiseaseMarc Lewis, PhD20154 pts1 wins1 listsPublicAffairsScienceDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its MeaningPeter Trachtenberg20084 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal LifeEvan Stark20074 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressGender & SexualityGender & Feminism+3
Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied GermanyAtina Grossmann20074 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryInfrastructure, Engineering & Built Environment+3
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color LineGeorge Hutchinson20064 pts1 wins2 listsBelknap PressBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Touching the VoidJoe Simpson19884 pts1 wins1 listsJonathan CapeBiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the HolocaustMiriam Libicki, David Schaffer, Gilad Seliktar, Nico, Rolf Kamp, Barbara Yelin, Emmie Arbel, Charlotte Schallié (ed.)20234 pts1 wins1 listsNew Jewish PressBiographyGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in ChicagoEric Klinenberg20024 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressSociety & CultureGrief, Trauma & Recovery+3
The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic WorldElena A. Schneider20194 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural LifeBrian Brett20094 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureGrief, Trauma & Recovery+2
Wilfred OwenJon Stallworthy19744 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseBiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded CountryCristina Rivera Garza20204 pts0 wins1 listsFeminist PressPolitics & GovernmentMemoir & Personal History+2
When Death Takes Something from You Give It BackNaja Marie Aidt, trans. Denise Newman20194 pts0 wins1 listsCoffee House PressMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and HopeSharon Butala20174 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMemoir & AutobiographyGender & Feminism+3
Pieces of Light: The New Science of MemoryCharles Fernyhough20124 pts0 wins1 listsProfile BooksScienceDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed LoveDebra Gwartney20094 pts0 wins1 listsHoughton MifflinMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get OlderDouwe Draaisma20044 pts0 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
Reading Pictures: A History of Love and HateAlberto Manguel20004 pts0 wins1 listsVintage CanadaSociety & CultureEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Zero HourKristjana Gunnars19914 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
The Anatomy of Human DestructivenessErich Fromm19744 pts0 wins1 listsJonathan CapeScienceGrief, Trauma & Recovery+2
Coleridge, the Damaged ArchangelNorman Fruman19714 pts0 wins1 listsGeorge BrazillerBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
We Survived the NightJulian Brave NoiseCat20252 pts0 wins1 listsKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupRace & EthnicityGrief, Trauma & Recovery+2
Twelve Words for MossElizabeth-Jane Burnett20232 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseNature & EnvironmentDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Consumed: A Sister’s StoryArifa Akbar20212 pts0 wins1 listsHodder & StoughtonMemoir & AutobiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind What We Remember — A Medical MysteryLauren Aguirre20212 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterScienceDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Mind on Fire: A memoir of madness and recoveryArnold Thomas Fanning20192 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyGrief, Trauma & Recovery+2
Ghosts of HiroshimaCharles Pellegrino20252 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and NarrativeIsabella Hammad20242 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden VictimsJennifer Vanderbes20232 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseMedicine & Public HealthEmpire & Colonialism+3
Ducks: Two Years on the Oil SandsKate Beaton20222 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
Poet WarriorJoy Harjo20212 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
Smile: The Story of a FaceSarah Ruhl20212 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent BirdSean Flynn20212 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterNature & EnvironmentMedicine, Health & the Body+3
ParklandDave Cullen20192 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsJournalism & ReportageCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and FeelCarl Safina20152 pts0 wins1 listsHenry Holt and CompanyNature & EnvironmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BC-1492 ADSimon Schama20132 pts0 wins1 listsEccoHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Abundance: Nature in RecoveryKaren Lloyd20211 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in GuantanamoLakhdar Boumediene, Mustafa Ait Idir20170 pts0 wins1 listsRedwood PressMemoir & AutobiographyPrisons & Incarceration+3
Reluctant Witness: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust ConsciousnessArlene Stein20140 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressSociety & CultureGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Remembering TraumaRichard J. McNally20030 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressScienceGrief, Trauma & Recovery+1
| 2006 | H Is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald | Memoir & Autobiography | 28 | 2 | 6 | Jonathan Cape | Penguin Random House |
| 2024 | Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade | Hannah Durkin | Race & Ethnicity | 10 | 1 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 2019 | Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War | Lisa Brooks | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 1967 | Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima | Robert Jay Lifton | Society & Culture | 10 | 1 | 1 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2006 | Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 | Christopher Wickham | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2023 | Unearthing | Kyo Maclear | Society & Culture | 10 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2015 | Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War | Susan Southard | History | 8 | 2 | 2 | Viking | Penguin Random House |
| 2018 | Heart Berries | Terese Marie Mailhot | Memoir & Autobiography | 6 | 0 | 2 | Counterpoint | Counterpoint Press |
| 2025 | Looking at Women, Looking at War | Victoria Amelina | War & Military | 4 | 1 | 1 | St. Martin's Press | Macmillan |
| 2025 | Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance | William D. Lopez | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 2022 | Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey | Florence Williams | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 1 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2022 | Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom | Kathryn Olivarius | Race & Ethnicity | 4 | 1 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 2015 | Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq | J. Martin Daughtry | War & Military | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2015 | Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World | Jens M. Daehner, Kenneth Lapatin | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Getty Publications | Getty Publications |
| 2015 | The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease | Marc Lewis, PhD | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | PublicAffairs | Hachette Book Group |
| 2008 | The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning | Peter Trachtenberg | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | Little, Brown | Hachette Book Group |
| 2007 | Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life | Evan Stark | Gender & Sexuality | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2007 | Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany | Atina Grossmann | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2006 | In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line | George Hutchinson | Biography | 4 | 1 | 2 | Belknap Press | Harvard University Press |
| 1988 | Touching the Void | Joe Simpson | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Jonathan Cape | Penguin Random House |
| 2023 | But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust | Miriam Libicki, David Schaffer, Gilad Seliktar, Nico, Rolf Kamp, Barbara Yelin, Emmie Arbel, Charlotte Schallié (ed.) | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | New Jewish Press | New Jewish Press |
| 2002 | Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago | Eric Klinenberg | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2019 | The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World | Elena A. Schneider | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of North Carolina Press | University of North Carolina Press |
| 2009 | Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life | Brian Brett | Society & Culture | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1974 | Wilfred Owen | Jon Stallworthy | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2020 | Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country | Cristina Rivera Garza | Politics & Government | 4 | 0 | 1 | Feminist Press | Feminist Press |
| 2019 | When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back | Naja Marie Aidt, trans. Denise Newman | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Coffee House Press | Coffee House Press |
| 2017 | Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope | Sharon Butala | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2012 | Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory | Charles Fernyhough | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Profile Books | Profile Books |
| 2009 | Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love | Debra Gwartney | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Houghton Mifflin | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| 2004 | Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older | Douwe Draaisma | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 2000 | Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate | Alberto Manguel | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Vintage Canada | Penguin Random House Canada |
| 1991 | Zero Hour | Kristjana Gunnars | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1974 | The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness | Erich Fromm | Science | 4 | 0 | 1 | Jonathan Cape | Penguin Random House |
| 1971 | Coleridge, the Damaged Archangel | Norman Fruman | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | George Braziller | George Braziller |
| 2025 | We Survived the Night | Julian Brave NoiseCat | Race & Ethnicity | 2 | 0 | 1 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Penguin Random House |
| 2023 | Twelve Words for Moss | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett | Nature & Environment | 2 | 0 | 1 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2021 | Consumed: A Sister’s Story | Arifa Akbar | Memoir & Autobiography | 2 | 0 | 1 | Hodder & Stoughton | Hachette UK |
| 2021 | The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind What We Remember — A Medical Mystery | Lauren Aguirre | Science | 2 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2019 | Mind on Fire: A memoir of madness and recovery | Arnold Thomas Fanning | Memoir & Autobiography | 2 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2025 | Ghosts of Hiroshima | Charles Pellegrino | History | 2 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2024 | Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative | Isabella Hammad | Science | 2 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Black Cat |
| 2023 | Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims | Jennifer Vanderbes | Medicine & Public Health | 2 | 0 | 1 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2022 | Ducks: Two Years on the Oil Sands | Kate Beaton | Memoir & Autobiography | 2 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2021 | Poet Warrior | Joy Harjo | Memoir & Autobiography | 2 | 0 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2021 | Smile: The Story of a Face | Sarah Ruhl | Memoir & Autobiography | 2 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2021 | Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird | Sean Flynn | Nature & Environment | 2 | 0 | 1 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 2019 | Parkland | Dave Cullen | Journalism & Reportage | 2 | 0 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 2015 | Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel | Carl Safina | Nature & Environment | 2 | 0 | 1 | Henry Holt and Company | Macmillan |
| 2013 | The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BC-1492 AD | Simon Schama | History | 2 | 0 | 1 | Ecco | HarperCollins |
| 2021 | Abundance: Nature in Recovery | Karen Lloyd | Nature & Environment | 1 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Bloomsbury Wildlife |
| 2017 | Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo | Lakhdar Boumediene, Mustafa Ait Idir | Memoir & Autobiography | 0 | 0 | 1 | Redwood Press | Stanford University Press |
| 2014 | Reluctant Witness: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness | Arlene Stein | Society & Culture | 0 | 0 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2003 | Remembering Trauma | Richard J. McNally | Science | 0 | 0 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
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All awards · Topic: Grief, Trauma & Recovery · Sorted by score · 54 books · filtered