Kirkus Prize — Nonfiction

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson
2025 Kirkus Nonfiction
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
2024 Kirkus Nonfiction
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" by Héctor Tobar
2023 Kirkus Nonfiction
In Sensorium by Tanaïs
2022 Kirkus Nonfiction
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome
2021 Kirkus Nonfiction
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith
2020 Kirkus Nonfiction
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
2019 Kirkus Nonfiction
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
2018 Kirkus Nonfiction
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
2017 Kirkus Nonfiction
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
2016 Kirkus Nonfiction
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015 Kirkus Nonfiction
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
2014 Kirkus Nonfiction