Kirkus Prize Nonfiction Winners — Complete List (2014–2025)

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  King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson

  2025KirkusNonfiction

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• Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

  2024KirkusNonfiction

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• Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" by Héctor Tobar

  2023KirkusNonfiction
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  In Sensorium by Tanaïs

  2022KirkusNonfiction

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  Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome

  2021KirkusNonfiction

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  Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith

  2020KirkusNonfiction

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  How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones

  2019KirkusNonfiction

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• Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit

  2018KirkusNonfiction

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  The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis

  2017KirkusNonfiction

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  In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi

  2016KirkusNonfiction

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• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  2015KirkusNonfiction

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  Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

  2014KirkusNonfiction

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