2011  Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner)

2012  James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Pantheon)

2013  Leonard Mlodinow, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (Pantheon)

2014  Dr. Carl Hart, High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society (Harper)

2015  Joshua Horwitz, War of the Whales: A True Story (Simon & Schuster)

2016  Lauren Redniss, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, and Future (Random House)

2017 Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets (Random House)