Books

Anisfield Wolf Book Award (awards)

This award was given to 178 books.


  1. Great House

    by Nicole Krauss

    Year: 2011
  2. The Warmth of Other Suns

    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    by Isabel Wilkerson

    Year: 2011
  3. The Boat

    by Nam Le

    Year: 2009
  4. The Hemingses of Monticello

    An American Family

    by Annette Gordon-Reed

    Year: 2009
  5. Infidel

    by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

    Year: 2008
  6. America in the King Years: Book 3

    At Canaan's Edge

    America in the King Years, 1965-68

    by Taylor Branch

    Year: 2007
  7. Blue Front

    Poems

    by Martha Collins

    Year: 2007
  8. Steel Drivin' Man

    John Henry: The Untold Story of an American Legend

    by Scott Reynolds Nelson

    Year: 2007
  9. On Beauty

    by Zadie Smith

    Year: 2006
  10. New York Burning

    Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

    by Jill Lepore

    Year: 2006
  11. Unforgivable Blackness

    The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    by Geoffrey C. Ward

    Year: 2005
  12. Macnolia

    Poems

    by A. Van Jordan

    Year: 2005
  13. Random Family

    Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

    by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

    Year: 2004
  14. Generations of Captivity

    A History of African-American Slaves

    by Ira Berlin

    Year: 2004
  15. A Problem from Hell

    America and the Age of Genocide

    by Samantha Power

    Year: 2003
  16. Vernon Can Read!

    A Memoir

    by Vernon E. Jordan

    Year: 2002
  17. Million Dollar Baby

    Stories from the Corner

    by F. X. Toole

    Year: 2001
  18. W. E. B. Du Bois

    The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

    by David Levering Lewis

    Year: 2001
  19. ROPE BURNS: STORIES FROM THE CORNER

    by F.X. Toole

    Year: 2001
  20. Out of Place

    A Memoir

    by Edward W. Said

    Year: 2000
  21. A Gesture Life.

    by CHANG RAE. LEE

    Year: 2000
  22. Walking with the Wind

    A Memoir of the Movement

    by John Lewis, Michael D'Orso

    Year: 1999
  23. The Color of Water

    A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

    by James McBride

    Year: 1997
  24. Amazing Grace

    The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

    by Jonathan Kozol

    Year: 1996
  25. Parallel Time

    Growing Up in Black and White

    by Brent A. Staples

    Year: 1995
  26. A Different Mirror

    A History of Multicultural America

    by Ronald T. Takaki

    Year: 1994

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