title: American Book Awards
text: # American Book Awards
  
  L'American Book Award a été fondé en 1978 par la Before Columbus Foundation (en). Il cherche à distinguer des auteurs américains contemporains tous genres confondus. Il a été lancé pour concurrencer des prix plus restrictifs comme le National Book Award. Son objectif est de promouvoir la qualité et la diversité de la littérature américaine.
  
  ## Liste des lauréats
  
  ### 1980 à 1989
  
  **1980**
  
  * Douglas Woolf pour Future preconditional: A collection
  * Edward Dorn pour Hello, La Jolla
  * Jayne Cortez pour Mouth on Paper
  * Leslie Marmon Silko pour Ceremony
  * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge pour Random Possession
  * Milton Murayama pour All I Asking for Is My Body
  * Quincy Troupe pour Snake Back Solos
  * Rudolfo Anaya pour Tortuga, a novel
  
  **1981**
  
  * Alta pour Shameless Hussy
  * Alan Chong Lau pour Songs for Jadina
  * Bienvenido N. Santos pour Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
  * Helen Adam pour Turn Again to Me & Other Poems
  * Lionel Mitchell pour Traveling Light
  * Miguel Algarín pour On Call
  * Nicholasa Mohr pour Felita
  * Peter Blue Cloud pour Back Then Tomorrow
  * Robert Kelly pour The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996
  * Rose Drachler pour The Choice
  * Susan Howe pour The Liberties
  * Toni Cade Bambara pour The Salt Eaters
  
  **1982**
  
  * Al Young pour Bodies and Soul
  * Duane Niatum pour Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems
  * E. L. Mayo pour Collected Poems E L Mayo
  * Frank Chin pour The Chickencoop Chinaman et The Year of the Dragon
  * Hilton Obenzinger pour This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem
  * Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung pour Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940
  * Jerome Rothenberg pour Pre-Faces and Other Writings
  * Joyce Carol Thomas pour Marked by Fire
  * Leroy Quintana pour Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
  * Lorna Dee Cervantes pour Emplumada
  * Ronald Phillip Tanaka pour The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
  * Russell Banks pour Le Livre de la Jamaïque (Book of Jamaica)
  * Tato Laviera pour Enclave
  
  **1983**
  
  * Barbara Christian pour Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976
  * Cecilia Liang pour Chinese Folk Poetry
  * David Lance Goines pour A Constructed Roman Alphabet
  * Evangelina Vigil-Piñón pour Thirty: An' Seen a Lot
  * Harriet Rohmer pour Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
  * James D. Houston pour Californians: Searching for the Golden State
  * Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn pour Pet food & tropical apparitions
  * John A. Williams pour Click Song, a novel
  * Joy Kogawa pour Obasan
  * Judy Grahn pour The Queen of Wands: Poetry
  * Nash Candelaria pour Not by the Sword
  * Peter Guralnick pour Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
  * Seán Ó Tuama pour An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed
  
  **1984**
  
  * Cecil Brown pour Days Without Weather
  * Gary Snyder pour Axe Handles: Poems
  * Howard Schwartz, Mark Podwal pour The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
  * Imamu Amiri Baraka pour Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men
  * Jesús Colón pour A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
  * Joseph Bruchac pour Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets
  * Maurice Kenny pour The Mama Poems
  * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge pour The heat bird
  * Miné Okubo pour Citizen 13660
  * Paule Marshall pour Praisesong for the Widow
  * Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung pour Pie-Biter
  * Thomas McGrath pour Echoes inside the labyrinth
  * Venkatesh Kulkarni pour Naked in Deccan
  * William J. Kennedy pour O Albany!
  
  **1985**
  
  * Angela Jackson pour Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
  * Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen pour Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
  * Colleen J. McElroy pour Queen of the Ebony Isles
  * Gary Soto pour Living Up The Street
  * Peter Irons pour Justice at War
  * Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei, Muin Ozaki pour Poets Behind Barbed Wire
  * Louise Erdrich pour Love Medicine, a novel
  * Maureen Owen pour Amelia Earhart
  * May Sarton pour At Seventy: A Journal
  * Robert Edward Duncan pour Ground Work: Before the War
  * Ron Jones pour Say Ray
  * Sandra Cisneros pour The House on Mango Street
  * Sonia Sanchez pour Homegirls and Handgrenades
  * William Oandasan pour Round Valley Songs
  
  **1986**
  
  * Anna Lee Walters pour The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories
  * Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa pour This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
  * Helen Barolini pour The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women
  * Jeff Hannusch pour I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
  * Linda Hogan pour Seeing Through the Sun
  * Miguel Algarín pour Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo
  * Natasha Borovsky pour A Daughter of the Nobility
  * Raymond Federman pour Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts
  * Susan Howe pour My Emily Dickinson
  * Terence Winch pour Irish Musicians/American Friends
  * Toshio Mori pour Yokohama, California
  
  **1987**
  
  * Ai pour SIN
  * Ana Castillo pour The Mixquiahuala Letters
  * Cyn Zarco pour Circumnavigations
  * Daniel McGuire pour Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
  * Dorothy Bryant pour Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
  * Etheridge Knight pour The Essential Etheridge Knight
  * Gary Giddins pour Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
  * Harvey Pekar pour The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
  * James Welch pour Comme des ombres sur la terre (Fools Crow)
  * John Wieners pour Selected Poems: 1958–1984
  * Juan Felipe Herrera pour Face Games
  * Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum pour liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy
  * Michael Mayo pour Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry
  * Septima Poinsette Clark, Cynthia Stokes Brown pour Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
  * Terry McMillan pour Mama
  
  **1988**
  
  * Allison Blakely pour Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
  * Charles Olson pour The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems
  * Daisy Bates pour The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
  * David Halberstam pour The Reckoning
  * Edward Sanders pour Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985
  * Gerald Vizenor pour Griever: An American Monkey King in China
  * Jimmy Santiago Baca Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
  * Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High pour Tight Spaces
  * Marlon K. Hom pour Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
  * Benjamin Hoff pour The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
  * Ronald Sukenick pour Down and in: Life in the Underground
  * Salvatore La Puma pour The Boys of Bensonhurst
  * Toni Morrison pour Beloved
  * Wing Tek Lum, Tek Lum Lum pour Expounding the Doubtful Points
  
  **1989**
  
  * Alma Luz Villanueva pour The Ultraviolet Sky
  * Askia M. Touré pour From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
  * Audre Lorde pour A Burst of Light
  * Carolyn Lau pour Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
  * Emory Elliott pour Columbia Literary History of the United States
  * Eduardo Galeano pour Genesis
  * Frank Chin pour The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
  * Henry Louis Gates pour The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
  * Isabel Allende pour Eva Luna
  * J. California Cooper pour Homemade Love
  * Jennifer Stone pour Stone's Throw
  * Josephine Gattuso Hendin pour The Right Thing to Do
  * Leslie Scalapino pour way
  * Shuntarō Tanikawa pour Floating the River in Melancholy
  * Charles Fanning (en) pour The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
  * William Minoru Hohri pour Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress
  
  ### 1990 à 1999
  
  **1990**
  
  * Adrienne Kennedy pour People Who Led to My Plays
  * Barbara Grizzuti Harrison pour Italian Days
  * Elizabeth Woody pour Hand into Stone: Poems
  * Hualing Nieh pour Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
  * Itabari Njeri pour Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
  * James M. Freeman pour Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
  * John C. Walter, J. Raymond Jones pour The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970
  * John Norton pour Light at the End of the Bog
  * José Emilio González pour Vivar a Hostos
  * Sergei Kan pour Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century
  * Lloyd A. Thompson pour Romans and Blacks
  * Martin Bernal pour Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
  * Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster pour Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry
  * Miles Davis pour Miles
  * Paula Gunn Allen pour Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
  * Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly pour The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology
  * Daniela Gioseffi pour Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age)
  
  **1991**
  
  * Alejandro Murguía pour Southern Front
  * Bell hooks pour Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
  * Bruce Wright pour Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn't Work for Blacks
  * Charley Trujillo pour Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
  * D. H. Melhem pour Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews
  * Deborah Keenan pour Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile
  * Jessica Hagedorn pour Dogeaters
  * John Edgar Wideman pour L'Incendie de Philadelphie
  * Joy Harjo pour In Mad Love and War
  * Karen Tei Yamashita pour Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
  * Lucia Berlin pour Homesick: New and Selected Stories
  * Mary Crow Dog pour Lakota Woman
  * Meridel Le Sueur pour Harvest Song: Collected Essays and Stories
  * Mill Hunk Herald Collective pour Overtime: Punchin' Out With the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine
  * Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer pour Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory
  * R. Baxter Miller pour The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
  * Thomas Centolella pour Terra Firma
  
  **1992**
  
  * A'Lelia Perry Bundles pour Madam C.J. Walker
  * Art Spiegelman pour The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
  * Benjamin Alire Sáenz pour Calendar of Dust
  * Donna Haraway pour Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
  * Fritjof Capra pour Belonging to the universe: Explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality
  * Jose Antonio Burciaga pour Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry
  * Keith Gilyard pour Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
  * Lucy Thompson pour To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
  * Norma Field pour In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
  * Peter Bacho pour Cebu
  * Peter Kalifornsky pour Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky
  * Raymond Andrews pour Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire
  * Sandra Scofield pour Beyond Deserving
  * Sheila Hamanaka pour Journey
  * Stephen R. Fox pour The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
  * Steven R. Carter pour Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity,
  * Verlyn Klinkenborg pour The Last Fine Time
  * William B. Branch, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson pour Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama
  
  **1993**
  
  * Asake Bomani, Belvie Rooks pour Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris
  * Christopher Mogil, Peter Woodrow pour We Gave Away a Fortune
  * Cornel West pour Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
  * Denise Giardina pour Unquiet Earth
  * Diane Glancy pour Claiming Breath
  * Eugene B. Redmond pour The Eye in the Ceiling
  * Francisco X. Alarcón pour Snake Poems
  * Gerald Graff pour Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
  * Jack Beatty pour The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley
  * Leroy V. Quintana pour The History of Home
  * Katherine Peter pour Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country
  * Nelson George pour Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball
  * Ninotchka Rosca pour Twice Blessed, a novel
  
  **1994**
  
  * Giose Rimanelli pour Benedetta in Guysterland
  * Eric Drooker pour Flood!: A Novel in Pictures
  * Graciela Limón pour In Search of Bernabe
  * Gregory J. Reed pour Economic Empowerment Through the Church
  * Janet Campbell Hale pour Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter
  * Jill Nelson pour Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
  * Lawson Fusao Inada pour Legends from Camp
  * Nicole Blackman pour Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
  * Paul Gilroy pour The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
  * Ronald Takaki pour A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
  * Rose L. Glickman pour Daughters of Feminists
  * Tino Villanueva pour Scene from the Movie GIANT
  * Virginia L. Kroll pour Wood-Hoopoe Willie
  
  **1995**
  
  * Abraham Rodriguez pour Spidertown, a novel
  * Herb Boyd, Robert L. Allen pour Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology
  * Denise Chavez pour Face of an Angel
  * John Egerton pour Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
  * John Ross pour Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
  * Thomas Avena pour Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS
  * Linda Raymond pour Rocking the Babies, a novel
  * Li-Young Lee pour The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
  * Marianna De Marco Torgovnick pour Crossing Ocean Parkway
  * Marnie Mueller pour Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
  * Peter Quinn pour Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
  * Sandra Martz pour I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted
  * Gordon Henry Jr. pour The Light People
  * Tricia Rose pour Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
  
  **1996**
  
  * Agate Nesaule pour A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
  * Arthur Sze pour Archipelago
  * Chang-Rae Lee pour Langue natale (Native Speaker)
  * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni pour Arranged Marriage
  * E.J. Miller Laino pour Girl Hurt
  * Glenn C. Loury pour One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America
  * James W. Loewen pour Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
  * Joe Sacco, Edward Saïd pour Palestine
  * Kimiko Hahn pour The Unbearable Heart
  * Maria Espinosa pour Longing
  * Robert Viscusi pour Astoria
  * Sherman Alexie pour Indian blues
  * Ron Sakolsky, Fred Weihan Ho pour Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution
  * Stephanie Cowell pour The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke
  * William H. Gass pour The Tunnel
  
  **1997**
  
  * Alurista pour Et Tu ... Raza
  * Derrick Bell pour Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
  * Dorothy Barresi pour The Post-Rapture Diner
  * Guillermo Gomez-Pena pour The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
  * Louis Owens pour Nightland
  * Martin Espada pour Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
  * Montserrat Fontes pour Dreams of the Centaur, a novel
  * Noel Ignatiev pour Race Traitor
  * Shirley Geok-lin Lim pour Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
  * Sunaina Maira pour Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America
  * Thulani Davis pour Maker of Saints
  * Tom De Haven pour Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies, a novel
  * William M. Banks pour Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
  * Brenda Knight pour Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
  
  **1998**
  
  * Allison Adelle Hedge Coke pour Dog Road Woman
  * Angela Y. Davis pour Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
  * Brenda Marie Osbey pour All Saints: New and Selected Poems
  * Don DeLillo pour Outremonde
  * Jim Barnes pour On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions
  * John A. Williams pour Safari West: Poems
  * Nancy Rawles pour Love Like Gumbo
  * Nora Okja Keller pour Compourt Woman
  * Sandra Benitez pour Bitter Grounds, a novel
  * Scott DeVeaux pour The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
  * Thomas Lynch pour The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
  
  **1999**
  
  * Alice McDermott pour Charming Billy
  * Anna Linzer pour Ghost Dancing
  * Brian Ward pour Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
  * Chiori Santiago pour Home to Medicine Mountain
  * E. Donald Two-Rivers pour Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories
  * Edwidge Danticat pour The Farming of Bones
  * Judith Roche, Meg McHutchison pour First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
  * Gioia Timpanelli pour Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
  * Gloria Naylor pour The Men of Brewster Place, a novel
  * James D. Houston pour The Last Paradise
  * Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt, Ciulistet Group for Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples
  * Trey Ellis pour Right Here, Right Now
  * Josip Novakovich pour Salvation and Other Disasters
  * Lauro Flores pour The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature
  * Luís Alberto Urrea pour Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
  * Nelson George pour Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X
  * Speer Morgan pour The Freshour Cylinders
  * Gary Gach pour What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
  
  Prix du livre pour enfants : Chiori Santiago, auteur, et Judith Lowry, illustrateur, Home to Medicine Mountain
  
  ### 2000 à 2009
  
  **2000**
  
  * Allan J. Ryan pour The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art
  * Andrés Montoya pour The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems
  * Camille Peri, Kate Moses pour Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
  * David A. J. Richards pour Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
  * David Toop pour Exotica
  * Elva Trevino Hart pour Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
  * Emil Guillermo pour Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed
  * Frank Chin pour The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
  * Helen Thomas pour Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times
  * Janisse Ray pour Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
  * John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford pour Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
  * Leroy TeCube pour Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story
  * Lois-Ann Yamanaka pour Heads By Harry
  * Michael Lally pour It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose
  * Michael Patrick MacDonald pour All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
  * Rahna Reiko Rizzuto pour Why She Left Us, a novel
  * Robert Creeley pour The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
  
  Prix du rédacteur en chef/éditeur : Ronald Sukenick
  
  Journalisme : Jack E. White
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Frank Chin
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Robert Creeley
  
  **2001**
  
  * Amanda J. Cobb pour Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949
  * Andrea Dworkin pour Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
  * Carolyne Wright pour Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
  * Chalmers Johnson pour Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
  * Cheri Register pour Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
  * Chris Ware pour Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
  * Diana García pour When Living Was a Labor Camp
  * Elizabeth Nunez pour Bruised Hibiscus
  * Janet McAdams pour Island of Lost Luggage
  * Philip Whalen pour Overtime: Selected Poems
  * Russell Leong pour Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
  * Sandra M. Gilbert pour Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1999
  * Ted Joans pour Teducation
  * Tillie Olsen pour Silences
  * William S. Penn pour Killing Time With Strangers
  
  Prix du rédacteur en chef/éditeur : Malcolm Margolin
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Ted Joans
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Tillie Olsen
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Philip Whalen
  
  **2002**
  
  * Aaron A. Abeyta, Colcha
  * Susanne Antonetta, The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
  * Rilla Askew, Fire in Beulah
  * Tananarive Due, The Living Blood
  * Gloria Frym, Homeless at Home
  * Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon
  * LeAnne Howe, Shell Shaker
  * Alex Kuo, Lipstick and Other Stories
  * Michael N. Nagler, Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future
  * Donald Phelps, Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century
  * Al Young, The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990–2000
  
  Livre pour enfants : Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Lerone Bennett
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Jack Hirschman
  
  **2003**
  
  * Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley
  * Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red
  * Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
  * Rick Heide, ed., Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
  * Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, Vera Metcalf, and Lars Krutak, eds., Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, Our Words Put to Paper: Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History
  * Alejandro Murguía, This War Called Love: Nine Stories
  * Jack Newfield, The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania
  * Joseph Papaleo, Italian Stories
  * Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
  * Jewell Parker Rhodes, Douglass' Women, a novel
  * Rachel Simon, Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
  * Velma Wallis, Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
  
  Editor: Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review (www.qbr.com)
  
  **2004**
  
  * Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent, a novel
  * David Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
  * Charisse Jones et Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
  * Kristin Hunter Lattany, Breaking Away
  * A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions
  * Diane Sher Lutovich, What I Stole
  * Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
  * Renato Rosaldo, Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Arana
  * Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
  * Michael Walsh, And All the Saints
  
  **2005**
  
  * Bernard W. Bell, The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches
  * Cecelie Berry, Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
  * Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
  * Julie Chibbaro, Redemption
  * Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
  * Alisha S. Drabek et Karen R. Adams, The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey
  * Ralph M. Flores, The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family
  * Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings
  * Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
  * Don Lee, Country of Origin, a novel
  * Lamont B. Steptoe, A Long Movie of Shadows
  * Don West, No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems, eds. Jeff Biggers et George Brosi
  
  Journalism: Bill Berkowitz
  
  **2006**
  
  * MacKenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright, a novel
  * Matt Briggs, Shoot the Buffalo
  * David P. Diaz, The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexican-American
  * Darryl Dickson-Carr, The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
  * Thomas Ferraro, Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America
  * Tim Z. Hernandez, Skin Tax
  * Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
  * P. Lewis, Nate
  * Peter Metcalfe, Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
  * Kevin J. Mullen, The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco
  * Doris Seale et Beverly Slapin, eds., A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
  * Matthew Shenoda, Somewhere Else
  * Carlton T. Spiller, Scalding Heart
  
  Editor: Chris Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing Ltd.
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Jay Wright
  
  **2007**
  
  * Daniel Cassidy, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
  * Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
  * Rigoberto Gonzalez, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
  * Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains, a novel
  * Ernestine Hayes, Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
  * Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
  * Gary Panter, Jimbo's Inferno
  * Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown
  * Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body
  * Kali Vanbaale, The Space Between
  
  **2008**
  
  * Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America
  * Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
  * Jonathan Curiel, Al’ America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots
  * Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Lydia T. Black, et Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká, Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804
  * Maria Mazziotti Gillan, All That Lies Between Us
  * Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998
  * C. S. Giscombe, Prairie Style
  * Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go, a novel
  * L. Luis Lopez, Each Month I Sing
  * Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
  * Fae Myenne Ng, Steer Toward Rock
  * Yuko Taniguchi, The Ocean in the Closet
  * Lorenzo Thomas, Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition, ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen
  * Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : J. J. Phillips, Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale
  
  **2009**
  
  * Houston A. Baker Jr., Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era
  * Danit Brown, Ask for a Convertible
  * Jericho Brown, Please
  * José Antonio Burciaga, The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga, eds. Mimi R. Gladstein et Daniel Chacón
  * Claire Hope Cummings, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
  * Stella Pope Duarte, If I Die in Juarez
  * Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems
  * Suheir Hammad, Breaking Poems
  * Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder
  * George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music
  * Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo
  * Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, ed. Peter Gizzi et Kevin Killian
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Miguel Algarín
  
  ### 2010 à aujourd'hui
  
  **2010**
  
  * Amiri Baraka, Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
  * Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song
  * Nancy Carnevale, A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890–1945
  * Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
  * Sesshu Foster, World Ball Notebook
  * Stephen D. Gutierrez, Live from Fresno y Los
  * Victor LaValle, The Big Machine
  * François Mandeville, This Is What They Say, traduit par Ron Scollon du Chipewyan
  * Bich Minh Nguyen, Short Girls
  * Franklin Rosemont et Robin D. G. Kelley, eds., Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
  * Jerome Rothenberg et Jeffrey C. Robinson, eds., Poems for the Millennium: Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry
  * Kathryn Waddell Takara, Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems
  * Pamela Uschuk, Crazy Love: New Poems
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Katha Pollitt
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Quincy Troupe
  
  **2011**
  
  * Keith Gilyard, John Oliver Killens
  * Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam
  * Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow
  * Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
  * William W. Cook et James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition
  * Gerald Vizenor, Shrouds of White Earth
  * Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
  * Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin
  * Geoffrey Alan Argent, ed., The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides, traduit du français par Argent
  * Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
  * Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed
  * Miriam Jiménez Román et Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
  * Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Luis Valdez
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : John A. Williams
  
  **2012**
  
  Les 32e American Book Awards sont officiellement annoncés le 16 octobre 2012 à l'université de Californie à Berkeley.
  
  Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Eugene B. Redmond
  
  * Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
  * Arlene Kim, What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?
  * Ed Bok Lee, Whorled
  * Adilifu Nama, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
  * Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
  * Shann Ray, American Masculine
  * Alice Rearden, translator; Ann Fienup-Riordan, ed., Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput: Our Nelson Island Stories
  * Touré, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
  * Amy Waldman, Un concours de circonstances (The Submission)
  * Mary Winegarden, The Translator’s Sister
  * Kevin Young, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
  
  **2019**
  
  * Tommy Orange, There There
  