2007 - An Inconvenient Truth
           By: Al Gore

2006 - Mountains Beyond Mountains
           By: Tracy Kidder

2005 - Escape From Slavery
           By: Francis Bok

2004 - Nickel and Dimed
           By: Barbara Ehrenreich

2003 - Falling Leaves
           By: Adeline Yen Mah

2002 - The Color of Water
           By: James McBride

2000-2001 - Zenzele J.
           By: Nozipo Maraire

1999 - Millennium
           By: Stephen Jay Gould

1998 - Snakes and Ladders
           By: Gita Mehta

1997 - A Shaman’s Apprentice
           By: Mark Plotkin

1996 - Things Fall Apart
           By: Chinua Achebe

1995 - Ishmael
           By: Daniel Quinn

1994 - The Measure of Our Success
           By: Marion Wright Edelman

1993 - There Are No Children Here
           By: Alex Kotlowitz

1992 - Thief of Time
           By: Tony Hillerman