| Titles | Order |
| Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards | Biography or Autobiography, 1917 |
| With Americans of past and present days by J. J. Jusserand | History, 1917 |
| Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed V1: A Biographical And Critical Study (1917) by William Cabell Bruce | Biography or Autobiography, 1918 |
| His Family by Ernest Poole | Novel, 1918 |
| History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes | History, 1918 |
| Love Songs by Sara Teasdale | Special Citation - Poetry, 1918 |
| Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg | Special Citation - Poetry, 1919 |
| The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams | Biography or Autobiography, 1919 |
| The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington | Novel, 1919 |
| The old road to paradise, poems by Widdemer Margaret | Special Citation - Poetry, 1919 |
| Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill | Drama, 1920 |
| The Life of John Marshall ** 4 Volumes ** Frontiersman, Soldier Lawmaker 1755-1788 by Albert J. Beveridge | Biography or Autobiography, 1920 |
| The War With Mexico V1 by Justin H. Smith | History, 1920 |
| The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | Novel, 1921 |
| The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok | Biography or Autobiography, 1921 |
| The Victory at Sea by William Snowden Sims | History, 1921 |
| Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington | Novel, 1922 |
| Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill | Drama, 1922 |
| Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson | Poetry, 1922 |
| A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland | Biography or Autobiography, 1922 |
| The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams | History, 1922 |
| Ballad of Harp-Weaver by Edna St. Vincent Millay | Poetry, 1923 |
| A Few Figs From Thistles by Edna St. Vincent Millay | Poetry, 1923 |
| The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay | Poetry, 1923 |
| Icebound - A Play by Owen Davis | Drama, 1923 |
| The life and letters of Walter H. Page by Burton Jesse Hendrick | Biography or Autobiography, 1923 |
| One of Ours by Willa Cather | Novel, 1923 |
| The Supreme court in United States history by Charles Warren | History, 1923 |
| The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson | Novel, 1924 |
| The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain | History, 1924 |
| From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Pupin | Biography or Autobiography, 1924 |
| Hell-bent fer heaven, a play in three acts by Hatcher Hughes | Drama, 1924 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost. With Woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. by Robert Frost | Poetry, 1924 |
| Barrett Wendell and His Letters by Mark Antony de Wolfe Howe | Biography or Autobiography, 1925 |
| History of the American frontier, 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson | History, 1925 |
| The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson | Poetry, 1925 |
| So Big (Perennial Classics) by Edna Ferber | Novel, 1925 |
| They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard | Drama, 1925 |
| Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis | Novel, 1926 |
| Craig's Wife: A Drama by George Kelly | Drama, 1926 |
| A history of the United States by Edward Channing | History, 1926 |
| The life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing | Biography or Autobiography, 1926 |
| What's o'clock by Amy Lowell | Poetry, 1926 |
| Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Louis Bromfield | Novel, 1927 |
| Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer | Poetry, 1927 |
| Pinckney's Treaty;: A study of America's advantage from Europe's distress, 1783-1800, (The Albert Shaw lectures on diplo by Samuel Flagg Bemis | History, 1927 |
| Whitman; an interpretation in narrative by Emory Holloway | Biography or Autobiography, 1927 |
| The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell | Biography or Autobiography, 1928 |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder | Novel, 1928 |
| Main currents in American thought; an interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920 by Vernon Louis Parrington | History, 1928 |
| Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill | Drama, 1928 |
| Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson | Poetry, 1928 |
| John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét | Poetry, 1929 |
| The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon | History, 1929 |
| Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Mood Peterkin | Novel, 1929 |
| Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice | Drama, 1929 |
| Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick | Biography or Autobiography, 1929 |
| The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly | Drama, 1930 |
| Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge | Novel, 1930 |
| The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James | Biography or Autobiography, 1930 |
| Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken | Poetry, 1930 |
| The War of Independence; American phase, being the second volume of a history of the founding of the American Republic by claudehalsteadvantyn | History, 1930 |
| Alison's House A Play in Three Acts by Susan Glaspell | Drama, 1931 |
| Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869-1909 by Henry James | Biography or Autobiography, 1931 |
| The Coming of the War 1914. 2 volume set by Bernadotte Schmitt | History, 1931 |
| The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost | Poetry, 1931 |
| Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes | Novel, 1931 |
| The flowering stone by georgedillon | Poetry, 1932 |
| The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck | Novel, 1932 |
| My Experiences In The First World War by John J. Pershing | History, 1932 |
| Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman | Drama, 1932 |
| Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography by Henry F. Pringle | Biography or Autobiography, 1932 |
| Both Your Houses: A Play in Three Acts by Maxwell Anderson | Drama, 1933 |
| Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish | Poetry, 1933 |
| Grover Cleveland a Study in Courage by Allan Nevins | Biography or Autobiography, 1933 |
| The significance of sections in American history. With an introduction by Max Farrand. by Frederick Jackson Turner | History, 1933 |
| The Store by T. S. Stribling | Novel, 1933 |
| The Collected Verse of Robert Hillyer by Robert Hillyer | Poetry, 1934 |
| John Hay: From Poetry to Politics by Tyler Dennett | Biography or Autobiography, 1934 |
| Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller | Novel, 1934 |
| Men in white, a play in three acts by Sidney Kingsley | Drama, 1934 |
| the people's choice: from washington to harding: a study in democracy by Herbert Agar | History, 1934 |
| Bright ambush by Audrey Wurdemann | Poetry, 1935 |
| The colonial period of American history by Charles McLean Andrews | History, 1935 |
| Now in November by Josephine W. Johnson | Novel, 1935 |
| The old maid, by Zoe Akins | Drama, 1935 |
| R.E. Lee : a biography by Douglas Southall Freeman | Biography or Autobiography, 1935 |
| A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin | History, 1936 |
| Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis | Novel, 1936 |
| Idiot's Delight by Robert E. Sherwood | Drama, 1936 |
| Strange holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin | Poetry, 1936 |
| The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry | Biography or Autobiography, 1936 |
| The Flowering of New England by Van Wyck Brooks | History, 1937 |
| A Further Range by Robert Frost | Poetry, 1937 |
| Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | Novel, 1937 |
| Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration by Allan Nevins | Biography or Autobiography, 1937 |
| You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart | Drama, 1937 |
| Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska | Poetry, 1938 |
| The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand | Novel, 1938 |
| The life of Andrew Jackson, complete in one volume by Marquis James | Biography or Autobiography, 1938 |
| Our Town by Thornton Wilder | Drama, 1938 |
| Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott by Odell Shepard | Biography or Autobiography, 1938 |
| The Road to Reunion 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck | History, 1938 |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood | Drama, 1939 |
| Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren | Biography or Autobiography, 1939 |
| A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott | History, 1939 |
| Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher (John Gould Fletcher Series, Vol 1) by John Gould Fletcher | Poetry, 1939 |
| The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Novel, 1939 |
| Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (four-volume set) by Carl Sandburg | History, 1940 |
| Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren | Poetry, 1940 |
| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | Novel, 1940 |
| The Time of Your Life: A Comedy in Three Acts by William Saroyan | Drama, 1940 |
| Woodrow Wilson Life and Letters: Armistice Vol. 8 by Ray Stannard Baker | Biography or Autobiography, 1940 |
| Woodrow Wilson: Life and letters ; War leader, April 6, 1917 - February 28, 1918 (The life and letters of Woodrow Wilson by raystannardbaker | Biography or Autobiography, 1940 |
| The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States by Marcus Lee Hansen | History, 1941 |
| Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758 by Ola Elizabeth Winslow | Biography or Autobiography, 1941 |
| Sunderland capture, and other poems by leonardbacon | Poetry, 1941 |
| There Shall Be No Night by Robert E. Sherwood | Drama, 1941 |
| Crusader in crinoline, the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Robert Forrest Wilson | Biography or Autobiography, 1942 |
| Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benét | Poetry, 1942 |
| In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow | Novel, 1942 |
| Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech | History, 1942 |
| Admiral of the Ocean Sea : a life of Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison | Biography or Autobiography, 1943 |
| Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair | Novel, 1943 |
| Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes | History, 1943 |
| The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder | Drama, 1943 |
| A Witness Tree by Robert Frost | Poetry, 1943 |
| The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse by Carleton Mabee | Biography or Autobiography, 1944 |
| The growth of American thought by Merle Eugene Curti | History, 1944 |
| Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin | Novel, 1944 |
| Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benét | Poetry, 1944 |
| A Bell for Adano by John Hersey | Novel, 1945 |
| George Bancroft; Brahmin Rebel by Russel Blaine Nye | Biography or Autobiography, 1945 |
| Unfinished business by Stephen Bonsal | History, 1945 |
| V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro | Poetry, 1945 |
| The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. | History, 1946 |
| Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe | Biography or Autobiography, 1946 |
| State of the Union by Howard Lindsay | Drama, 1946 |
| All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren | Novel, 1947 |
| The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White | Biography or Autobiography, 1947 |
| Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell | Poetry, 1947 |
| Scientists against time by James Phinney Baxter | History, 1947 |
| Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto | History, 1948 |
| The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden | Poetry, 1948 |
| Forgotten first citizen: John Bigelow by margaretantoinettecl | Biography or Autobiography, 1948 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams | Drama, 1948 |
| Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener | Fiction, 1948 |
| Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller | Drama, 1949 |
| The disruption of American democracy by Roy F. Nichols | History, 1949 |
| Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens | Fiction, 1949 |
| Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History by Robert E. Sherwood | Biography or Autobiography, 1949 |
| Terror and Decorum: Poems, 1940-1948 by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck | Poetry, 1949 |
| Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks | Poetry, 1950 |
| Art and life in America by Oliver W. Larkin | History, 1950 |
| John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis | Biography or Autobiography, 1950 |
| South Pacific: A Musical Play by Richard Rodgers | Drama, 1950 |
| The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. | Fiction, 1950 |
| The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg by Carl Sandburg | Poetry, 1951 |
| John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret L. Coit | Biography or Autobiography, 1951 |
| The Old Northwest Pioneer Period, : 1815-1840 (2 volumes) by R. Carlyle Buley | History, 1951 |
| The Town by Conrad Richter | Fiction, 1951 |
| The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk | Fiction, 1952 |
| Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey | Biography or Autobiography, 1952 |
| Collected Poems by Marianne Moore | Poetry, 1952 |
| The Shrike by Joseph Kramm | Drama, 1952 |
| The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin | History, 1952 |
| Collected poems, 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish | Poetry, 1953 |
| Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803; a biography by davidjohnmays | Biography or Autobiography, 1953 |
| The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield | History, 1953 |
| The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | Fiction, 1953 |
| Picnic: A Summer Romance by William Inge | Drama, 1953 |
| The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton | History, 1954 |
| The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh | Biography or Autobiography, 1954 |
| The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick | Drama, 1954 |
| The Waking: Poems 1933-1955 by Theodore Roethke | Poetry, 1954 |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams | Drama, 1955 |
| Collected poems by Wallace Stevens | Poetry, 1955 |
| A Fable by William Faulkner | Fiction, 1955 |
| Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Vol. 1, Indians and Spain. Vol. 2, Mexico and the United States. by Paul Horgan | History, 1955 |
| The Taft story by William Smith White | Biography or Autobiography, 1955 |
| The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter | History, 1956 |
| Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor | Fiction, 1956 |
| Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Hamlin | Biography or Autobiography, 1956 |
| North & south by Elizabeth Bishop | Poetry, 1956 |
| Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill | Drama, 1957 |
| Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy | Biography or Autobiography, 1957 |
| Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 by George F. Kennan | History, 1957 |
| Things of this world;: Poems by Richard Wilbur | Poetry, 1957 |
| Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Bray Hammond | History, 1958 |
| A Death in the Family by James Agee | Fiction, 1958 |
| George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes) by Douglas Southall Freeman | Biography or Autobiography, 1958 |
| Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings | Drama, 1958 |
| Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren | Poetry, 1958 |
| J.B.: A Play in Verse by Archibald MacLeish | Drama, 1959 |
| The Republican Era, 1869-1901: A Study in Administrative History by Leonard D. White | History, 1959 |
| Selected poems, 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz | Poetry, 1959 |
| The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor | Fiction, 1959 |
| Woodrow Wilson by Arthur Walworth | Biography or Autobiography, 1959 |
| Advise and Consent by Allen Drury | Fiction, 1960 |
| The Armada by Garrett Mattingly | Special Citation, 1960 |
| Fiorello;: A new musical by Jerry Bock | Drama, 1960 |
| Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass | Poetry, 1960 |
| In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech | History, 1960 |
| John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison | Biography or Autobiography, 1960 |
| All The Way Home by Tad Mosel | Drama, 1961 |
| The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton | Special Citation, 1961 |
| Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis | History, 1961 |
| Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Herbert Donald | Biography or Autobiography, 1961 |
| Times three;: Selected verse from three decades, with seventy new poems by Phyllis McGinley | Poetry, 1961 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | Fiction, 1961 |
| The British Empire Before the American Revolution Volume XI The Triumphant Empire: the Rumbling of the Coming Storm, 1766-1770 by Lawrence Henry Gipson | History, 1962 |
| The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor | Fiction, 1962 |
| The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White | General Non-Fiction, 1962 |
| Poems by Alan Dugan | Poetry, 1962 |
| The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman | History, 1963 |
| Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-81 by Leon Edel | Biography or Autobiography, 1963 |
| Henry James: The Middle Years, 1881-95 by Leon Edel | Biography or Autobiography, 1963 |
| Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams | Poetry, 1963 |
| The Reivers by William Faulkner | Fiction, 1963 |
| Washington: A History of the Capital (Princeton Paperbacks) (v. 1) by Constance McLaughlin Green | History, 1963 |
| Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter | General Non-Fiction, 1964 |
| At the End of the Open Road by Louis Simpson | Poetry, 1964 |
| John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate | Biography or Autobiography, 1964 |
| Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell | History, 1964 |
| 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman | Poetry, 1965 |
| The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879 by Irwin Unger | History, 1965 |
| Henry Adams by Ernest Samuels | Biography or Autobiography, 1965 |
| The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau | Fiction, 1965 |
| O strange new world; American culture: the formative years by Howard Mumford Jones | General Non-Fiction, 1965 |
| The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy | Drama, 1965 |
| The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter | Fiction, 1966 |
| The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Books One Through Three by Perry Miller | History, 1966 |
| Selected Poems: 1930-1965 by Richard Eberhart | Poetry, 1966 |
| A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | Biography or Autobiography, 1966 |
| Wandering through winter; a naturalist's record of a 20,000-mile journey through the North American winter by Edwin Way Teale | General Non-Fiction, 1966 |
| A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee | Drama, 1967 |
| Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann | History, 1967 |
| The Fixer by Bernard Malamud | Fiction, 1967 |
| Live or Die by Anne Sexton | Poetry, 1967 |
| Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin Kaplan | Biography or Autobiography, 1967 |
| The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis | General Non-Fiction, 1967 |
| The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron | Fiction, 1968 |
| The hard hours; poems by Anthony Hecht | Poetry, 1968 |
| The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn | History, 1968 |
| Rousseau and Revolution by Will Durant | General Non-Fiction, 1968 |
| The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler | Drama, 1969 |
| House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday | Fiction, 1969 |
| The Man From New York - John Quinn and His Friends by B. L. Reid | Biography or Autobiography, 1969 |
| The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer | General Non-Fiction, 1969 |
| Of Being Numerous by George Oppen | Poetry, 1969 |
| Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination by Leonard W. Levy | History, 1969 |
| So Human an Animal by Rene Dubos | General Non-Fiction, 1969 |
| The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford | Fiction, 1970 |
| Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson | General Non-Fiction, 1970 |
| Huey Long by T. Harry Williams | Biography or Autobiography, 1970 |
| No Place to be Somebody by Charles Gordone | Drama, 1970 |
| Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson | History, 1970 |
| Untitled Subjects: Poems by Richard Howard | Poetry, 1970 |
| The Carrier of Ladders: Poems by W.S. Merwin | Poetry, 1971 |
| The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel | Drama, 1971 |
| The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (Modern Library War) by John Toland | General Non-Fiction, 1971 |
| Robert Frost the Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 by Lawrence Roger Thompson | Biography or Autobiography, 1971 |
| Roosevelt : The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns | History, 1971 |
| Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner | Fiction, 1972 |
| Collected Poems by James Wright | Poetry, 1972 |
| Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash | Biography or Autobiography, 1972 |
| Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States by Carl N. Degler | History, 1972 |
| Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman | General Non-Fiction, 1972 |
| Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald | General Non-Fiction, 1973 |
| George Washington and the New Nation, 1783-1793 by James Thomas Flexner | Special Citation, 1973 |
| George Washington in the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by James Thomas Flexner | Special Citation, 1973 |
| George Washington, Anguish and Farewell (1793-1799) by James Thomas Flexner | Special Citation, 1973 |
| George Washington, the Forge of Experience, 1732-1775 by James Thomas Flexner | Special Citation, 1973 |
| Luce and his empire by W. A. Swanberg | Biography or Autobiography, 1973 |
| Migrants, sharecroppers, mountaineers by Robert Coles | General Non-Fiction, 1973 |
| The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty | Fiction, 1973 |
| People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael G. Kammen | History, 1973 |
| The South goes North by Robert Coles | General Non-Fiction, 1973 |
| That Championship Season by Jason Miller | Drama, 1973 |
| Up Country: Poems of New England, New and Selected by Maxine Kumin | Poetry, 1973 |
| The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin | History, 1974 |
| The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker | General Non-Fiction, 1974 |
| The Dolphin by Robert Lowell | Poetry, 1974 |
| Notturno [score] by Donald Martino | Music, 1974 |
| O'Neill, son and artist by Louis Sheaffer | Biography or Autobiography, 1974 |
| Jefferson and his time by Dumas Malone | History, 1975 |
| The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara | Fiction, 1975 |
| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard | General Non-Fiction, 1975 |
| The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro | Biography or Autobiography, 1975 |
| Seascape by Edward Albee | Drama, 1975 |
| Turtle Island by Gary Snyder | Poetry, 1975 |
| A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical by James Kirkwood | Drama, 1976 |
| Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis | Biography or Autobiography, 1976 |
| Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow | Fiction, 1976 |
| Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan | History, 1976 |
| Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery | Poetry, 1976 |
| Why Survive?: Being Old in America by Robert N. Butler | General Non-Fiction, 1976 |
| Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William W. Warner | General Non-Fiction, 1977 |
| Divine comedies: Poems by James Ingram Merrill | Poetry, 1977 |
| The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter | History, 1977 |
| A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack | Biography or Autobiography, 1977 |
| Roots by Alex Haley | Special Citation, 1977 |
| The Shadow Box: A Drama in Two Acts by Michael Cristofer | Drama, 1977 |
| The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov | Poetry, 1978 |
| The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan | General Non-Fiction, 1978 |
| Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson | Fiction, 1978 |
| The gin game: A tragi-comedy in two acts by D. L. Coburn | Drama, 1978 |
| Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate | Biography or Autobiography, 1978 |
| The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Jr. Alfred D. Chandler | History, 1978 |
| Buried Child by Sam Shepard | Drama, 1979 |
| Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews (Galaxy Books) by Leonard Baker | Biography or Autobiography, 1979 |
| The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher | History, 1979 |
| Now and then : poems, 1976-1978 by Robert Penn Warren | Poetry, 1979 |
| On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson | General Non-Fiction, 1979 |
| The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever | Fiction, 1979 |
| Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack | History, 1980 |
| The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer | Fiction, 1980 |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter | General Non-Fiction, 1980 |
| The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris | Biography or Autobiography, 1980 |
| Selected Poems by Donald Justice | Poetry, 1980 |
| Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson | Drama, 1980 |
| American education: The national experience, 1783-1876 (Harper Colophon Books) by Lawrence Arthur Cremin | History, 1981 |
| A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole | Fiction, 1981 |
| Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley | Drama, 1981 |
| Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske | General Non-Fiction, 1981 |
| The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler | Poetry, 1981 |
| Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie | Biography or Autobiography, 1981 |
| Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath | Poetry, 1982 |
| Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely | Biography or Autobiography, 1982 |
| Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut | History, 1982 |
| Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike | Fiction, 1982 |
| A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller | Drama, 1982 |
| The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder | General Non-Fiction, 1982 |
| 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman | Drama, 1983 |
| The Color Purple by Alice Walker | Fiction, 1983 |
| Growing Up by Russell Baker | Biography or Autobiography, 1983 |
| Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan | General Non-Fiction, 1983 |
| Selected Poems Galway Kinnell by Galway Kinnell | Poetry, 1983 |
| The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys Isaac | History, 1983 |
| American Primitive by Mary Oliver | Poetry, 1984 |
| Booker T. Washington. Vol. 2, The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan | Biography or Autobiography, 1984 |
| Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet | Drama, 1984 |
| Ironweed by William J. Kennedy | Fiction, 1984 |
| The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry by Paul Starr | General Non-Fiction, 1984 |
| "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel | General Non-Fiction, 1985 |
| Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie | Fiction, 1985 |
| The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman | Biography or Autobiography, 1985 |
| Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn by Thomas K. McCraw | History, 1985 |
| Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim | Drama, 1985 |
| Yin: New Poems by Carolyn Kizer | Poetry, 1985 |
| ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. Mcdougall | History, 1986 |
| Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas | General Non-Fiction, 1986 |
| The Flying Change: Poems by Henry Taylor | Poetry, 1986 |
| Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry | Fiction, 1986 |
| Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank | Biography or Autobiography, 1986 |
| Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld | General Non-Fiction, 1986 |
| Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler | General Non-Fiction, 1987 |
| Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Perennial Classics) by David Garrow | Biography or Autobiography, 1987 |
| Fences by August Wilson | Drama, 1987 |
| The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court : Stories by Peter Taylor | Fiction, 1987 |
| A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor | Fiction, 1987 |
| Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove | Poetry, 1987 |
| Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn | History, 1987 |
| Beloved by Toni Morrison | Fiction, 1988 |
| Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry | Drama, 1988 |
| The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce | History, 1988 |
| Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald | Biography or Autobiography, 1988 |
| The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes | General Non-Fiction, 1988 |
| Partial Accounts by William Meredith | Poetry, 1988 |
| Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson | History, 1989 |
| Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler | Fiction, 1989 |
| A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan | General Non-Fiction, 1989 |
| The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein | Drama, 1989 |
| New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur | Poetry, 1989 |
| Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann | Biography or Autobiography, 1989 |
| Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch | History, 1989 |
| And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by Dale Maharidge | General Non-Fiction, 1990 |
| In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow | History, 1990 |
| Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian De Grazia | Biography or Autobiography, 1990 |
| The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos | Fiction, 1990 |
| The Piano Lesson by August Wilson | Drama, 1990 |
| The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic | Poetry, 1990 |
| The Ants by Bert Hölldobler | General Non-Fiction, 1991 |
| Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh | Biography or Autobiography, 1991 |
| Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon | Drama, 1991 |
| A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | History, 1991 |
| Near Changes: Poems by Mona Van Duyn | Poetry, 1991 |
| Rabbit at Rest by John Updike | Fiction, 1991 |
| The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman | Special Award, 1992 |
| The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely | History, 1992 |
| Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. by Lewis B. Puller | Biography or Autobiography, 1992 |
| The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan | Drama, 1992 |
| Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman | special category honored two-volume set |
| Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman | Special Citation, 1992 |
| The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin | General Non-Fiction, 1992 |
| Selected Poems by James Tate | Poetry, 1992 |
| A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley | Fiction, 1992 |
| Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner | Drama, 1993 |
| Countrymen of Bones by Robert Olen Butler | Fiction, 1993 |
| A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler | Fiction, 1993 |
| Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills | General Non-Fiction, 1993 |
| The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood | History, 1993 |
| Truman by David McCullough | Biography or Autobiography, 1993 |
| The Wild Iris by Louise Glück | Poetry, 1993 |
| Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick | General Non-Fiction, 1994 |
| Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry) by Yusef Komunyakaa | Poetry, 1994 |
| The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx | Fiction, 1994 |
| Three Tall Women by Edward Albee | Drama, 1994 |
| W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 [1868] by David L. Lewis | Biography or Autobiography, 1994 |
| The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner | General Non-Fiction, 1995 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick | Biography or Autobiography, 1995 |
| No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin | History, 1995 |
| The Simple Truth: Poems by Philip Levine | Poetry, 1995 |
| The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields | Fiction, 1995 |
| The Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote | Drama, 1995 |
| Dream Of The Unified Field by Jorie Graham | Poetry, 1996 |
| God: A Biography by Jack Miles | Biography or Autobiography, 1996 |
| The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg | General Non-Fiction, 1996 |
| Independence Day by Richard Ford | Fiction, 1996 |
| Rent by Jonathan Larson | Drama, 1996 |
| William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor | History, 1996 |
| Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller | Poetry, 1997 |
| Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt | Biography or Autobiography, 1997 |
| Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger | General Non-Fiction, 1997 |
| Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser | Fiction, 1997 |
| Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove | History, 1997 |
| American pastoral by Philip Roth | Fiction, 1998 |
| Black Zodiac: Poems by Charles Wright | Poetry, 1998 |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond | General Non-Fiction, 1998 |
| How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel | Drama, 1998 |
| Personal History by Katharine Graham | Biography or Autobiography, 1998 |
| Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson | History, 1998 |
| Annals of the Former World by John McPhee | General Non-Fiction, 1999 |
| Blizzard of One: Poems by Mark Strand | Poetry, 1999 |
| Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows | History, 1999 |
| The Hours by Michael Cunningham | Fiction, 1999 |
| Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg | Biography or Autobiography, 1999 |
| Wit by Margaret Edson | Drama, 1999 |
| Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies | Drama, 2000 |
| Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower | General Non-Fiction, 2000 |
| Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy | History, 2000 |
| Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri | Fiction, 2000 |
| Repair: Poems by C. K. Williams | Poetry, 2000 |
| Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff | Biography or Autobiography, 2000 |
| The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon | Fiction, 2001 |
| Different Hours: Poems by Stephen Dunn | Poetry, 2001 |
| Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis | History, 2001 |
| Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix | General Non-Fiction, 2001 |
| Proof by David Auburn | Drama, 2001 |
| W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis | Biography or Autobiography, 2001 |
| Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter | General Non-Fiction, 2002 |
| Empire Falls by Richard Russo | Fiction, 2002 |
| John Adams by David McCullough | Biography or Autobiography, 2002 |
| The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand | History, 2002 |
| Practical Gods by Carl Dennis | Poetry, 2002 |
| Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks | Drama, 2002 |
| "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power | General Non-Fiction, 2003 |
| Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz | Drama, 2003 |
| An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson | History, 2003 |
| Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro | Biography or Autobiography, 2003 |
| Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides | Fiction, 2003 |
| Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon | Poetry, 2003 |
| Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum | General Non-Fiction, 2004 |
| I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright | Drama, 2004 |
| Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman | Biography or Autobiography, 2004 |
| The Known World by Edward P. Jones | Fiction, 2004 |
| A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn | History, 2004 |
| Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright | Poetry, 2004 |
| de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens | Biography or Autobiography, 2005 |
| Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser | Poetry, 2005 |
| Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley | Drama, 2005 |
| Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll | General Non-Fiction, 2005 |
| Gilead by Marilynne Robinson | Fiction, 2005 |
| Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer | History, 2005 |
| American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird | Biography or Autobiography, 2006 |
| Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins | General Non-Fiction, 2006 |
| Late Wife: Poems by Claudia Emerson | Poetry, 2006 |
| March by Geraldine Brooks | Fiction, 2006 |
| Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky | History, 2006 |
| The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright | General Non-Fiction, 2007 |
| The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate | Biography or Autobiography, 2007 |
| Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey | Poetry, 2007 |
| Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire | Drama, 2007 |
| The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts | History, 2007 |
| The Road by Cormac McCarthy | Fiction, 2007 |
| Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman | Music, 2007 |
| August: Osage County by Tracy Letts | Drama, 2008 |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz | Fiction, 2008 |
| Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson | Biography or Autobiography, 2008 |
| Failure by Philip Schultz | Poetry, 2008 |
| Time and Materials by Robert Hass | Poetry, 2008 |
| What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe | History, 2008 |
| The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer | General Non-Fiction, 2008 |
| American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham | Biography or Autobiography, 2009 |
| The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed | History, 2009 |
| Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout | Fiction, 2009 |
| Ruined by Lynn Nottage | Drama, 2009 |
| The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin | Poetry, 2009 |
| Slavery By Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon | General Nonfiction, 2009 |
| The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman | General Nonfiction, 2010 |
| The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles | Biography, 2010 |
| Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed | History, 2010 |
| Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey | Drama, 2010 |
| Tinkers by Paul Harding | Fiction, 2010 |
| Versed by Rae Armantrout | Poetry, 2010 |
| The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan | Poetry, 2011 |
| Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris | Drama, 2011 |
| The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee | General Nonfiction, 2011 |
| The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner | History, 2011 |
| A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan | Fiction, 2011 |
| Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow | Biography, 2011 |
