2026 Finalist: Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming

2026 Finalist: Soundtrack by Jason Reynolds

2025 Finalist: When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow

2023 Finalist: The Sex Lives of African Women: Self Discovery, Freedom and Healing by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

2022 Finalist: Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain, editors

Death in the Jungle by Candace Fleming

How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander & Charly Palmer

Memphis by Tara Stringfellow

Rikers by Graham Rayman &. Reuven Blau