| Títulos | Orden |
| El turista accidental por Anne Tyler | Fiction, 1986 |
| Lake Wobegon Days por Garrison Keillor | Fiction, 1986 |
| Cities on a Hill: A Brilliant Exploration of Visonary Communities Remaking the American Dream por Frances FitzGerald | American Studies, 1987 |
| The Cycles of American History por Arthur Meier Schlesinger | American Studies, 1987 |
| The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume 1, 1902–1941, I, Too, Sing America por Arnold Rampersad | Biography/Autobiography, 1987 |
| La versión de Roger por John Updike | Fiction, 1987 |
| The Story of English por Robert McCrum | Special Citation, 1987 |
| The Collected Prose por Robert Lowell | American Arts & Letters, 1988 |
| Miami por Joan Didion | American Studies, 1988 |
| Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright por Brendan Gill | Biography/Autobiography, 1988 |
| La hoguera de las vanidades por Tom Wolfe | Fiction, 1988 |
| At Home: Essays 1982-1988 por Gore Vidal | American Arts & Letters, 1989 |
| A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam por Neil Sheehan | American Studies, 1989 |
| Martin Luther King y su tiempo: Estados Unidos desde 1954 -63 323.11 BRA por Taylor Branch | Biography/Autobiography, 1989 |
| Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories por Raymond Carver | Fiction, 1989 |
| The Writing Life por Annie Dillard | American Arts & Letters, 1990 |
| Among Schoolchildren por Tracy Kidder | American Studies, 1990 |
| Vida de este chico por Tobias Wolff | Biography/Autobiography, 1990 |
| La última viuda de la Confederación por Allan Gurganus | Fiction, 1990 |
| The House of Barrymore por Margot Peters | American Arts & Letters, 1991 |
| New York Life: Of Friends and Others por Brendan Gill | American Studies, 1991 |
| The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance por Ron Chernow | Biography/Autobiography, 1991 |
| Killing Mister Watson por Peter Matthiessen | Fiction, 1991 |
| The Journals of John Cheever por John Cheever | American Arts & Letters, 1992 |
| The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 por Michael R. Beschloss | American Studies, 1992 |
| Woodrow Wilson por August Heckscher | Biography/Autobiography, 1992 |
| Heredarás la tierra por Jane Smiley | Fiction, 1992 |
| American Views: Essays on American Art por John Wilmerding | Special Prize, 1992 |
| Up In the Old Hotel and Other Stories por Joseph Mitchell | 1993 |
| Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America por Garry Wills | American Studies, 1993 |
| Archibald MacLeish; an American Life por Scott Donaldson | Biography/Autobiography, 1993 |
| Outerbridge Reach por Robert Stone | Fiction, 1993 |
| W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race por David Levering Lewis | Biography/Autobiography, 1994 |
| The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court : Stories por Peter Taylor | Fiction, 1994 |
| Tesserae and Other Poems por John Hollander | Poetry, 1994 |
| Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South por John Egerton | American Studies, 1995 |
| No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II por Doris Kearns Goodwin | Biography/Autobiography, 1995 |
| The Collected Stories por Grace Paley | Fiction, 1995 |
| Like Most Revelations por Richard Howard | Poetry, 1995 |
| The Liars' Club por Mary Karr | 1996 |
| Moving Violations por John Hockenberry | American Studies, 1996 |
| Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography por David S. Reynolds | Biography/Autobiography, 1996 |
| All the days and nights: the collected stories por William Maxwell | Fiction, 1996 |
| Atlantis: Poems by por Mark Doty | Poetry, 1996 |
| Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West por Stephen E. Ambrose | American Studies, 1997 |
| Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Guardians of the American Century por Robert W. Merry | Biography/Autobiography, 1997 |
| In the Beauty of the Lilies por John Updike | Fiction, 1997 |
| The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 por Robert Pinsky | Poetry, 1997 |
| Underworld por Peter Conrad | Fiction, 1998 |
| American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America por Robert Hughes | American Studies, 1998 |
| Quemar los días por James Salter | Autobiography, 1998 |
| American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson por Joseph J. Ellis | Biography, 1998 |
| Submundo por Don DeLillo | Fiction, 1998 |
| Black Zodiac: Poems por Charles Wright | Poetry, 1998 |
| God and the American Writer por Alfred Kazin | Special Prize, 1998 |
| Slaves in the Family por Edward Ball | American Studies, 1999 |
| N. C. Wyeth: A Biography por David Michaelis | Biography/Autobiography, 1999 |
| Me casé con un comunista por Philip Roth | Fiction, 1999 |
| The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren por Robert Penn Warren | Poetry, 1999 |
| Entre el Miedo y la Libertad. por David M. Kennedy | American Studies, 2000 |
| Morgan: American Financier por Jean Strouse | Biography/Autobiography, 2000 |
| Brokeback mountain en terreno vedado : historias de Wyoming por Annie Proulx | Fiction, 2000 |
| Vita Nova por Louise Glück | Poetry, 2000 |
| En el corazón del mar por Nathaniel Philbrick | American Studies, 2001 |
| Hearst: Un magnate de la prensa por David Nasaw | Biography/Autobiography, 2001 |
| The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks por Russell Banks | Fiction, 2001 |
| American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 : Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker por Robert Hass | Poetry, 2001 |
| American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 : E.E. Cummings to May Swenson por Robert Hass | Poetry, 2001 |
| John Adams por David McCullough | 2002 |
| Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution por Diane McWhorter | American Studies, 2002 |
| Empire Falls por Richard Russo | Fiction, 2002 |
| The Darkness and the Light: Poems por Anthony Hecht | Poetry, 2002 |
| Middlesex por Jeffrey Eugenides | Fiction, 2003 |
| In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 por Mary Beth Norton | American Studies, 2003 |
| Jesse James, Last Rebel of the Civil War por T. J. Stiles | Biography/Autobiography, 2003 |
| Springing: New and Selected Poems por Marie Ponsot | Poetry, 2003 |
| The Time of Our Singing por Richard Powers | Fiction, 2004 |
| They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 por David Maraniss | American Studies, 2004 |
| Hawthorne: A Life por Brenda Wineapple | Biography/Autobiography, 2004 |
| Collected Poems por Robert Lowell | Poetry, 2004 |
| Gilead por Marilynne Robinson | Fiction, 2005 |
| Washington's Crossing por David Hackett Fischer | American Studies, 2005 |
| de Kooning: An American Master por Mark Stevens | Biography/Autobiography, 2005 |
| Collected Poems por Donald Justice | Poetry, 2005 |
| American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer por Kai Bird | 2006 |
| Liberation por Joanna Scott | Fiction, 2006 |
| A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America por Stacy Schiff | American Studies, 2006 |
| Migration: New & Selected Poems por W. S. Merwin | Poetry, 2006 |
| The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl por Timothy Egan | American Studies, 2007 |
| The Afterlife por Donald Antrim | Autobiography, 2007 |
| The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher por Debby Applegate | Biography, 2007 |
| Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq por Thomas E. Ricks | Current Affairs, 2007 |
| The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel por Amy Hempel | Fiction, 2007 |
| Averno: Poems por Louise Glück | Poetry, 2007 |
| Blackbird and Wolf: Poems por Henri Cole | Poetry, 2008 |
| Edith Wharton por Hermione Lee | Biography, 2008 |
| Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties por Robert Stone | Autobiography, 2008 |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist por Mohsin Hamid | Fiction, 2008 |
| Storming the Gates of Paradise por Rebecca Solnit | American Studies, 2008 |
| Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories por Steven Millhauser | Fiction, 2009 |
| The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals por Jane Mayer | Current Affairs, 2009 |
| Old War: Poems por Alan Shapiro | Poetry, 2009 |
| A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir por Donald Worster | Biography/Autobiography, 2009 |
| A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade por Christopher Benfey | American Studies, 2009 |
| Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression por Morris Dickstein | American Studies, 2010 |
| Louis D. Brandeis: A Life por Melvin I. Urofsky | Biography/Autobiography, 2010 |
| Mercury Dressing: Poems por J. D. McClatchy | Poetry, 2010 |
| Que el vasto mundo siga girando por Colum McCann | Fiction, 2010 |
| The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War por James Mann | American Studies, 2010 |
| Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original por Robin Kelley | Special Distinction Award, 2010 |
| The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg por Deborah Eisenberg | Fiction, 2011 |
| El refugio de la memoria por Tony Judt | Special Distinction Award, 2011 |
| Every Riven Thing: Poems por Christian Wiman | Poetry, 2011 |
| The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century por Alan Brinkley | Biography/Autobiography, 2011 |
| La vida inmortal de Henrietta Lacks por Rebecca Skloot | American Studies, 2011 |
