Year	Title	Author	Wins	Lists	Imprint
1988	Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963	Taylor Branch	4	5	Simon & Schuster
1985	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families	J. Anthony Lukas	4	4	Knopf
1968	White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812	Winthrop D. Jordan	4	4	University of North Carolina Press
2020	Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents	Isabel Wilkerson	1	7	Random House
2004	Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age	Kevin Boyle	2	4	Henry Holt and Company
2005	A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration	Steven Hahn	2	3	Belknap Press
1991	Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-Fiction	Melissa Fay Greene	3	5	Secker & Warburg
2022	How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America	Clint Smith	3	4	Little, Brown
1998	Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry	Philip D. Morgan	3	4	University of North Carolina Press
2001	Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution	Diane McWhorter	3	3	Simon & Schuster
1971	Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States	Carl N. Degler	2	3	Macmillan
1977	China Men	Maxine Hong Kingston	1	3	Knopf
2019	Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century	Charles King	2	5	Doubleday
2021	The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together	Heather McGhee	2	5	Profile Books
1975	Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality	Richard Kluger	2	4	Knopf
2022	Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance	Mia Bay	2	3	Harvard University Press
2023	Ordinary Notes	Christina Sharpe	1	4	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2017	Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America	James Forman Jr.	1	3	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2023	Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom	Ilyon Woo	1	3	Simon & Schuster
2022	By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners	Margaret A. Burnham	2	4	W. W. Norton
2003	Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy	Paul Hendrickson	2	2	Vintage Books
2019	Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals	Saidiya Hartman	2	2	W. W. Norton
2012	Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America	Gilbert King	1	3	Harper
1985	Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present	Jacqueline Jones	1	2	Basic Books
2016	Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America	Ibram X. Kendi	1	2	Nation Books
1990	The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America	Shelby Steele	1	2	St. Martin's Press
1984	The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation	Joel Williamson	2	3	Oxford University Press
1995	All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence	Fox Butterfield	1	3	Knopf
1981	White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History	George M. Fredrickson	1	3	Oxford University Press
2024	Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York	Ross Perlin	1	2	Grove Atlantic
2023	Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino.”	Héctor Tobar	1	2	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2008	The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation	Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff	1	2	Knopf
2023	The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family	Kerri K. Greenidge	0	5	Liveright
2019	Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America	Jacquelyn Dowd Hall	2	3	W. W. Norton
2024	Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights	Dylan C. Penningroth	1	3	Liveright
2018	The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants And the Making of an American Life	Lauren Markham	1	3	Crown
2022	Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation	Linda Villarosa	1	3	Doubleday
2017	We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy	Ta-Nehisi Coates	1	3	One World
1987	Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land	David K. Shipler	1	1	Times Books
2012	Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement	Tomiko Brown-Nagin	1	1	Oxford University Press
1967	Death at an Early Age	Jonathan Kozol	1	1	Plume
2004	From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality	Michael J. Klarman	1	1	Oxford University Press
2025	Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right	Quinn Slobodian	1	1	Princeton University Press
1994	Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi	John Dittmer	1	1	University of Illinois Press
1997	Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa In the Apartheid Years	Robert Kinloch Massie	1	1	Nan A. Talese
2006	Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present	Harriet A. Washington	1	1	Doubleday
1990	Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority	Peter Skerry	1	1	Harvard University Press
2009	Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays	Eula Biss	1	1	Graywolf Press
	Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past	Robert Hunter, Robert Calihoo	1	1	Not yet sourced
2008	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II	Douglas A. Blackmon	1	1	Doubleday

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