No description yet for awardname: Outstanding Book
| ID # |
YR given |
Given by |
Category | Rank | Recipient | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 1999 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Susan K. Golant and Rosalynn Carter | Helping Someone with Mental Illness: A Compassionate Guide for Family, Friends, and Caregivers |
| 75 | 2000 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Dr. Barbara Luke and Tamara Eberlein | When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads |
| 76 | 2000 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Anonymous and Timothy Harper | License to Steal |
| 57 | 2001 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Cathy Crimmins | Where is the Mango Princess? |
| 74 | 2001 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Michael Smolensky, Ph.D. and Lynne Lamberg | The Body Clock Guide to Better Health |
| 55 | 2002 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Erich Hoyt | Creatures of the Deep |
| 56 | 2002 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable mention | Bruce Henderson | Fatal North |
| 73 | 2002 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Dianne Partie Lange et al | Informed Decisions |
| 84 | 2002 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Andrea Warren | Surviving Hitler |
| 54 | 2003 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Edwin Black | IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation |
| 51 | 2004 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Kristin Ohlson | Stalking the Divine |
| 52 | 2004 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Andrea King Coller | Still with Me: A Daughter's Journey of Love and Loss |
| 53 | 2004 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Steve Kemper | Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World |
| 71 | 2004 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Betty Rothbart | Healthy Teens, Body and Soul: A Parent's Complete Guide to Adolescent |
| 72 | 2004 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Jennier Lawler | Dojo wisdom : 100 simple ways to become a stronger, calmer, more courageous person |
| 83 | 2004 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Mary Collins | Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright |
| 49 | 2005 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Robin Marantz Henig | Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution |
| 50 | 2005 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable mention | Kathryn Black | Mothering Without a Map |
| 70 | 2005 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Barbara DeMarco-Barrett | Pen on Fire |
| 47 | 2006 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Charles Henderson | Goodnight Saigon |
| 48 | 2006 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Nancy Rubin Stuart | The Reluctant Spiritualist |
| 68 | 2006 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Catherine Wald | The Resilient Writer |
| 69 | 2006 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Honorable Mention | Judi Culbertson and Marj Decker | Scaling Down |
| 82 | 2006 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Rachel Dickinson | Tools of Navigation |
| 45 | 2007 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Edwin Black | Internal Combustion |
| 46 | 2007 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Victor Chase | Shattered Nerves |
| 66 | 2007 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Allen and Linda Anderson | Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster |
| 67 | 2007 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Honorable mention | Carol Evans | This is How We Do It, The Working Mother's Manifesto |
| 65 | 2008 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Wendy Lyons Sunshine | The Connected Child |
| 44 | 2009 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen | Disappearing Destinations |
| 64 | 2009 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Kathy Seal and Wendy Grolnick | Pressured Parents, Stressed Out Kids |
| 408 | 2009 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | John Rosengren | Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty & The Say Hey Kid |
| 409 | 2009 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Cheryl Harris Sharman | Nightshift NYC |
| 410 | 2009 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Honorable Mention | Tina Adler | Alzheimer's Action Plan |
| 43 | 2010 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Andrea Warren | Under Siege! Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg |
| 63 | 2010 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Dara Chadwick | You'd Be So Pretty If. . . |
| 90 | 2010 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Winner | Jessica DuLong | My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson |
| 438 | 2010 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Mary Collins | American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture |
| 439 | 2010 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Susan Golant | The Alzheimer's Project: Momentum in Science |
| 441 | 2010 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Honorable Mention | John Hanc | The Coolest Race on Earth |
| 42 | 2011 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Jonathan Green | Murder in the High Himalaya |
| 62 | 2011 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Kevin Daum | Green Sense |
| 81 | 2011 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Echo Garrett | My Orange Duffle Bag |
| 89 | 2011 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Winner | Julian Smith | Crossing the Heart of Africa |
| 41 | 2012 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Jennifer Wilson | Running Away to Home |
| 61 | 2012 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Joan Price | Naked at Our Age |
| 88 | 2012 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Winner | Kathleen Flinn | The Kitchen Counter Cooking School |
| 40 | 2013 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan | Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day |
| 60 | 2013 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Kelly James-Enger | Writer for Hire: 101 Secrets to Freelance Success |
| 80 | 2013 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Aline Alexander Newman | National Geographic Kids Chapter: Ape Escapes!: And More True Stories |
| 87 | 2013 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Winner | Dorothy Foltz-Gray | With and Without Her: A Memoir of Being and Losing a Twin |
| 39 | 2014 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Meg Lukens Noonan | The Coat Route |
| 59 | 2014 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D with Leslie Pepper | You and Your Anxious Child |
| 79 | 2014 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Aline Alexander Newman | Animal Superstars |
| 86 | 2014 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Winner | Pamela Gerhardt | Lucky That Way, Rediscovering My Father's World |
| 38 | 2015 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | John Pollack | Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas |
| 58 | 2015 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Catherine Dold and Howard Eisenberg | The Recovery Book |
| 78 | 2015 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Matt Chandler | Side-by-Side Baseball Stars |
| 85 | 2015 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Winner | Gabrielle Selz | Unstill Life |
| 354 | 2016 | ASJA | Biography or History | Winner | Marvin J. Wolf | Abandoned in Hell: The Fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate |
| 355 | 2016 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Andrea Warren | The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas |
| 356 | 2016 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Kim Cross | What Stands In a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley |
| 357 | 2016 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Winner | Kimberly Meyer | The Book of Wanderings: A Mother- Daughter Pilgrimage |
| 358 | 2016 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Winner | Beverly Blair Harzog | The Debt Escape Plan: How to Free Yourself From Credit Card Balances, Boost Your Credit Score, and Live Debt-Free |
| 359 | 2016 | ASJA | Service, Self-Help, Collaboration | Honorable Mention | Sandra Lamb | Writing Well for Business Success: A Complete Guide to Style, Grammar, and Usage at Work |
| 736 | 2017 | ASJA | Self-Help/How-To | Honorable mention | C.L. Fornari | The Cocktail Hour Garden |
| 735 | 2017 | ASJA | Self-Help/How-To | Winner | Charlotte Libov | The Cancer Survival Guide |
| 732 | 2017 | ASJA | General nonfiction | Honorable mention: | Mei Fong | One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment |
| 731 | 2017 | ASJA | General nonfiction | Winner | David Hechler | In Good Hands: Investigating Death, Mystery, and the Lessons of Broken Trust In One Family Daycare |
| 730 | 2017 | ASJA | Biography/History | Winner | Dawn Anahid MacKeen | The Hundred-Year Walk -- An Armenian Odyssey |
| 764 | 2018 | ASJA | Service/Self-help | Winner | Allison Engel, Reise Moore and Margaret Engel | Thriftstyle: the Ultimate Bargain Shopper's Guide to Smart Fashion |
| 762 | 2018 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Katherine Hauswirth | The Book of Noticing: Collections and Connections on the Trail |
| 761 | 2018 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Lenora Chu | Little Soldiers: An American Boy, A Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve |
| 760 | 2018 | ASJA | Children/Young Adult Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Erich Hoyt | The Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises |
| 759 | 2018 | ASJA | Children/Young Adult Nonfiction | Winner | Tricia Martineau Wagner | 50 Wacky Things Animals Do |
| 758 | 2018 | ASJA | Biography/History | Winner | Stefan Bechtel and Laurence Roy Stains | Through a Glass, Darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Quest to Solve the Greatest Mystery of All |
| 796 | 2019 | ASJA | Service/Self-Help | Winner | Susan Shapiro | The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks |
| 795 | 2019 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Winner | Deena Kastor with Michelle Hamilton | Let Your Mind Run: A memoir of thinking my way to victory |
| 794 | 2019 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Katherine Reynolds Lewis | The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids are Less Disciplined Than Ever -- And What To Do About It |
| 793 | 2019 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Rachel Love Nuwer | Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking |
| 792 | 2019 | ASJA | Children/Young Adult Nonfiction | Winner | Tara Haelle | Vaccination Investigation: the History and Science of Vaccines |
| 791 | 2019 | ASJA | Biography/History | Winner | Eugene L. Meyer | Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army |
| 828 | 2020 | ASJA | Service/Self-Help | Winner | Joan Price | Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved |
| 826 | 2020 | ASJA | General Non-Fiction | Winner | Katherine Eban | Bottle of Lies: the Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom |
| 825 | 2020 | ASJA | Children's Books/Young Adult Books | Honorable Mention | Ilima Loomis | Eclipse Chaser, Science in the Moon's Shadow |
| 824 | 2020 | ASJA | Children's Books/Young Adult Books | Winner | Andrea Warren | Enemy Child, the Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II |
| 823 | 2020 | ASJA | Biography/History | Honorable Mention | Michael Bobelian | Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court |
| 822 | 2020 | ASJA | Biography/History | Winner | Jack El-Hai | The Lost Brothers |
| 862 | 2021 | ASJA | Biography/History | Winner | Faris Cassell | The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help |
| 863 | 2021 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Isabelle Groc | Sea Otters, A Survival Story |
| 864 | 2021 | ASJA | Children | Honorable Mention | Erich Hoyt | Strange Sea Creatures |
| 865 | 2021 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | James Nestor | Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art |
| 867 | 2021 | ASJA | Service | Winner | Kris Bordessa | Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living |
| 896 | 2022 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | J.B. MacKinnon | The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves |
| 897 | 2022 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Jessica Nordell | The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias |
| 898 | 2022 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Adam Harris | The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal -- and How to Set Them Right |
| 901 | 2022 | ASJA | Biography/History | Winner | Neil Lanctot | The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future |
| 902 | 2022 | ASJA | Service | Winner | Tanja Hester | Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change |
| 903 | 2022 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Isabelle Groc | Conservation Canines: How Dogs Work for the Environment |
| 904 | 2022 | ASJA | Children | Honorable Mention | Donna Sandstrom | Orca Rescue! The True Story of an Orphaned Orca Named Springer |
| 943 | 2023 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Nicholas Dawidoff | The Other Side of Prospect |
| 945 | 2023 | ASJA | Biography/History | Winner | David Randall | The Monster's Bones |
| 946 | 2023 | ASJA | Biography/History | Honorable Mention | Nancy Rubin Stuart | POOR RICHARD'S WOMEN; Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father |
| 947 | 2023 | ASJA | Service | Winner | Susan Shapiro | The Book Bible |
| 948 | 2023 | ASJA | Children | Winner | Erich Hoyt | Planktonia: The Nightly Migration of the Ocean's Smallest Creatures |
| 949 | 2023 | ASJA | Children | Honorable Mention | Eileen Kennedy Moore | Moody Moody Cars |
| 1007 | 2024 | ASJA | Biography/History | Winner | Kenneth Miller | Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked The Mysteries of Sleep |
| 1008 | 2024 | ASJA | Children/Young Adult Nonfiction | Winner | Nicola Jones | Saving the Spotted Owl: Zalea's Story |
| 1009 | 2024 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Tom Mueller | How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine |
| 1010 | 2024 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Alison Young | Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and A World at Risk |
| 1012 | 2024 | ASJA | Service/Self-Help | Winner | Jennifer L.W. Fink | Building Boys: Raising Great Guys in A World That Misunderstands Males |
| 1120 | 2025 | ASJA | Biography/History | Winnder | Stephanie Gorton | The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America |
| 1121 | 2025 | ASJA | Children/Young Adult Nonfiction | Winner | Robert Lerose | The Abortion Controversy |
| 1122 | 2025 | ASJA | Children/Young Adult Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Debbie Levy | A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, The Original Fight Over Science in Schools |
| 1123 | 2025 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Winner | Leigh Ann Henion | Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens and Other Marvels of the Dark |
| 1124 | 2025 | ASJA | General Nonfiction | Honorable Mention | Will Cockrell | Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World |
| 1125 | 2025 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Winner | Besha Rodell | Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table |
| 1126 | 2025 | ASJA | Memoir/Autobiography | Honorable Mention | Michele Weldon | The Time We Have: Essays on Pandemic Living |
| 1127 | 2025 | ASJA | Service/Self-Help | Winner | Wendy Lyons Sunshine | Tender Paws: How Science-Based Parenting Can Transform Our Relationship With Dogs |