Nerdy Book AwardLong Form Nonfiction

Given by Nerdy Book Club

Other Names: Nerdies
175 Works / 178 Items 49,017 Books 3,082 Reviews 4.2
Way back on December 1, 2011, this site began with a post explaining about how we would choose the Best Books of 2011.


That was not only the beginning of this site, but also the beginning of what show more would be called the Nerdy Book Awards.

Nominations and voting takes place in December with winners announced during the last days of December. show less
Categories:
All, Early Readers and Chapter Books (133), Fiction Picture Books (215), Graphic Novels (186), Long Form Nonfiction (178), Middle Grade Fiction (250), Nonfiction Picture Books (186), Poetry and Novels in Verse (175), Young Adult Literature (222)
Years:
All, 2023 (15), 2022 (19), 2021 (18), 2020 (13), 2019 (19), 2018 (14), 2017 (21), 2016 (20), 2015 (10), 2014 (14), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5)
Announced:
January 3: Young Adult Literature2023 Recent
January 1: Middle Grade Fiction2023 Recent
December 2023: Long Form Nonfiction2023 Recent
December 2023: Poetry and Novels in Verse2023 Recent
December 2023: Early Readers and Chapter Books2023 Recent
December 2023: Graphic Novels2023 Recent
December 2023: Nonfiction Picture Books2023 Recent
December 2023: Fiction Picture Books2023 Recent
WorkYear
America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger
2023
The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day
2023
Total Garbage: A Messy Dive into Trash, Waste, and Our World by Rebecca Donnelly
2023
Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases by Lindsey Fitzharris
2023
Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge by Deidre Havrelock
2023
Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (Scholastic Focus) by Deborah Hopkinson
2023
Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin
2023
Where Are the Aliens?: The Search for Life Beyond Earth by Stacy McAnulty
2023
History Smashers: Christopher Columbus and the Taino People by Kate Messner
2023
Who's Got Mail?: The History of Mail in America by Linda Barrett Osborne
2023
Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney
2023
You: The Story: A Writer's Guide to Craft Through Memory by Ruta Sepetys
2023
Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin
2023
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing, What Birds Are Doing and Why by David Allen Sibley
2023
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater
2023
Troublemakers in Trousers: Women and What They Wore to Get Things Done by Sarah Albee
2022
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers by Tom Angleberger
2022
Hardcourt: Stories from 75 Years of the National Basketball Association by Fred Bowen
2022
The Wolves and Moose of Isle Royale: Restoring an Island Ecosystem by Nancy F. Castaldo
2022
Unequal: A Story of America by Michael Eric Dyson
2022
Close-Up on War: The Story of Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam by Mary Cronk Farrell
2022
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace Fleming
2022
My Big Book of Outdoors by Tim Hopgood
2022
American Murderer: The Parasite that Haunted the South (Medical Fiascoes) by Gail Jarrow
2022
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
2022
Mammoth Math: Everything You Need to Know About Numbers by David Macaulay
2022
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner by Marissa Moss
2022
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge
2022
Queer Ducks and Other Animals: The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer
2022
Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies: Unsung Women of the Holocaust by Swartz Silberstein, Sarah
2022
Peace Is a Chain Reaction: How World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs Brought People of Two Nations Together by Tanya Lee Stone
2022
How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps by Pamela S. Turner
2022
What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise by Dr Seema Yasmin
2022
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi
2022
Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica by Rebecca E. F. Barone
2021
Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States (English and Spanish Edition) by Warren Binford
2021
While I Was Away by Waka T. Brown
2021
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert
2021
Rescuing Titanic: A True Story of Quiet Bravery in the North Atlantic by Flora Delargy
2021
RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone by Nadine Epstein
2021
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by Maria Garcia Esperon
2021
The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield
2021
Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow
2021
The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege by Brendan Kiely
2021
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
2021
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen
2021
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds
2021
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown by Steve Sheinkin
2021
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
2021
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
2021
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin
2021
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
2021
A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created the Paralympic Games by Lori Alexander
2020
One Real American: The Life of Ely S. Parker, Seneca Sachem and Civil War General by Joseph Bruchac
2020
Finish the Fight! The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Veronica Chambers
2020
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
2020
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming
2020
Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis by K. R. Gaddy
2020
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love, and Truth by Wade Hudson
2020
Blood and germs : the civil war battle against wounds and disease by Gail Jarrow
2020
Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy by Kelly Jensen
2020
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (Volume 1) (Empower the Future, 1) by Tiffany Jewell
2020
History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote by Kate Messner
2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds
2020
How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure by John Rocco
2020
VIRAL: The Fight Against AIDS in America by Ann Bausum
2019
Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science behind Your Favorite Monsters by Carlyn Beccia
2019
A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Richie Chevat
2019
Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away [Young Readers Edition] by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
2019
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
2019
Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia by Marc Favreau
2019
Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington by Jacqueline Houtman
2019
Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson
2019
The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in our Food and Drugs by Gail Jarrow
2019
The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce by Angie Manfredi
2019
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust by Albert Marrin
2019
Insect Superpowers: 18 Real Bugs that Smash, Zap, Hypnotize, Sting, and Devour! by Kate Messner
2019
The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa’s Last Great Herds by Sy Montgomery
2019
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) by Trevor Noah
2019
Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive! by Ammi-Joan Paquette
2019
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E Pitman
2019
1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler
2019
Owling: Enter the World of the Mysterious Birds of the Night by Mark Wilson
2019
What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal by Eldon Yellowhorn
2019
Dog Days of History: The Incredible Story of Our Best Friends (Animals) by Sarah Albee
2018
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man by Tonya Bolden
2018
Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump by Martha Brockenbrough
2018
Back from the Brink: Saving Animals from Extinction by Nancy Castaldo
2018
Marley Dias Gets It Done and So Can You! by Marley Dias
2018
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson
2018
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow
2018
Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill by Heather L. Montgomery
2018
Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive! by Ammi-Joan Paquette
2018
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge
2018
Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi
2018
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science by Joyce Sidman
2018
Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin by James L. Swanson
2018
First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great by Sandra Neil Wallace
2018
Poison: Deadly Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines by Sarah Albee
2017
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice) by Laura Atkins
2017
The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power by Ann Bausum
2017
Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls by Tonya Bolden
2017
Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough
2017
Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island by Loree Griffin Burns
2017
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy
2017
Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy by Michael Cottman
2017
Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories by Jack Gantos
2017
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman
2017
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops
2017
Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees by Mary Beth Leatherdale
2017
Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today by Cynthia Levinson
2017
Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd by Mary Losure
2017
Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender by S.D. Nelson
2017
Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive! by Ammi-Joan Paquette
2017
The Quilts of Gee's Bend by Susan Goldman Rubin
2017
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
2017
Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone
2017
How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
2017
Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story by Sandra Neil Wallace
2017
Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb [YA] by Neal Bascomb
2016
The Story of Seeds: From Mendel's Garden to Your Plate, and How There's More of Less to Eat Around the World by Nancy Castaldo
2016
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis
2016
Vietnam: A History of the War by Russell Freedman
2016
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman
2016
Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word by Nadia Abushanab Higgins
2016
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
2016
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America by Gail Jarrow
2016
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II by Albert Marrin
2016
The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero by Patricia McCormick
2016
The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller
2016
Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly by Deborah Noyes
2016
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne
2016
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz
2016
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren Stelson
2016
Everything Robotics: All the Photos, Facts, and Fun to Make You Race for Robots by Jennifer Swanson
2016
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet
2016
Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird by Pamela S. Turner
2016
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner
2016
Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights by Rich Wallace
2016
Why'd They Wear That?: Fashion as the Mirror of History by Sarah Albee
2015
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
2015
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2015
Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights by Ann Bausum
2015
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
2015
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow
2015
The Octopus Scientists: Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk by Sy Montgomery
2015
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pinkney
2015
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
2015
Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall by Anita Silvey
2015
Bugged: How Insects Changed History by Sarah Albee
2014
El Deafo by Cece Bell
2014
How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
2014
Beetle Busters : a Rogue Insect and the People Who Track It by Loree Griffin Burns
2014
Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices by Lisa Charleyboy
2014
This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl by Esther Earl
2014
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines by Paul Fleischman
2014
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
2014
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman
2014
Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat by Gail Jarrow
2014
Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Nonfiction - Grades 4-8) by Patricia Newman
2014
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
2014
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
2014
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
2014
Locomotive by Brian Floca
2013
The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest--and Most Surprising--Animals on Earth by Steve Jenkins
2013
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson
2013
Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
2013
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone
2013
Guy-Write: What Every Guy Writer Needs to Know by Ralph Fletcher
2012
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman
2012
Titanic: Voices From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
2012
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery
2012
Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
2012
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
2011
Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
2011
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
2011
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet
2011
Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg
2011

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