Winner
George Packer
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Knopf)
Finalists
Leo Damrosch The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age (Yale University Press)
Victoria Riskin Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir (Pantheon)
Yuval Taylor Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal (W. W. Norton & Company)
Evan Thomas First: Sandra Day O'Connor (Random House)
Judges
Marcus Anthony Hunter, Tom Nolan and Marion Elizabeth Rodgers.
Winner
Emily Bazelon Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House)
Finalists
Mark Arax The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California (Knopf)
Ronan Farrow Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Little, Brown and Company)
Dina Nayeri The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (Catapult)
Rachel Louise Snyder No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Judges
Sandy Banks, Bill Boyarsky and Celeste Fremon.
Winner
Ben Lerner The Topeka School: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists
Tash Aw We, The Survivors: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Madeline Ffitch Stay and Fight: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Maaza Mengiste The Shadow King: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company)
Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys: A Novel (Doubleday)
Judges
Natashia Deon, Rick Whitaker and Amy Wilentz.
Winner
Eleanor Davis The Hard Tomorrow (Drawn and Quarterly)
Finalists
Michael DeForge Leaving Richard’s Valley (Drawn and Quarterly)
Jaime Hernandez Is This How You See Me (Fantagraphics)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim Grass (Drawn and Quarterly)
Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (First Second)
Judges
James Kuo, Charles Solomon and Angie Wang.
Winner
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press)
Finalists
Toby Green A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (University of Chicago Press)
Charles King Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (Doubleday)
Sarah Milov The Cigarette: A Political History (Harvard University Press)
David Treuer The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (Riverhead Books)
Judges
Anna-Lisa Cox, Thulani Davis and Laurent Dubois.
Winner
Steph Cha Your House Will Pay (Ecco)
Finalists
Michael Connelly The Night Fire (Little, Brown and Company)
Jane Harper The Lost Man (Flatiron Books)
Laura Lippman Lady in the Lake (William Morrow)
Attica Locke Heaven, My Home (Mulholland Books)
Judges
Oline Cogdill, Michael Nava and Paula L. Woods.
Winner
Ilya Kaminsky Deaf Republic: Poems (Graywolf Press)
Finalists
Reginald Dwayne Betts Felon: Poems (W.W. Norton & Company)
Sally Wen Mao Oculus: Poems (Graywolf Press)
Mary Ruefle Dunce (Wave Books)
Carmen Giménez Smith Be Recorder: Poems (Graywolf Press)
Judges
Cyrus Cassells, Victoria Chang and Adriana Ramirez.
Winner
Maria Popova Figuring (Pantheon)
Finalists
Katherine Eban Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom (Ecco)
Adam Higginbotham Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Simon & Schuster)
Caroline Criado Perez Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Harry N. Abrams)
Angela Saini Superior: The Return of Race Science (Beacon Press)
Judges
Jia-Rui Cook, Robert Lee Hotz and Erika Check Hayden.
Winner
Marlon James Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy) (Riverhead Books)
Finalists
Ted Chiang Exhalation: Stories (Knopf)
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone This is How You Lose the Time War (Gallery / Saga Press)
Brian Evenson Song for the Unraveling of the World (Coffee House Press)
Namwali Serpell The Old Drift: A Novel (Hogarth)
Judges
Tananarive Due, Kelly Link and Tim Pratt.
Winner
Malla Nunn When the Ground is Hard (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
Finalists
Laurie Halse Anderson Shout (Viking Children's Books)
A.S. King Dig. (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Thanhha Lai Butterfly Yellow (HarperCollins Books for Young Readers)
Randy Ribay Patron Saints of Nothing (Kokila/Penguin Young Readers)
Judges
Andrew Aydin, Hannah Gomez and Christina Vortia.