1. 2010 - Lords of Finance
1917 J. J. Jusserand - With Americans of Past and Present Days
1918 James Ford Rhodes - A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
1920 Justin H. Smith - The War with Mexico
1921 William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick - The Victory at Sea
1922 James Truslow Adams - The Founding of New England
1923 Charles Warren - The Supreme Court in United States History
1924 Charles Howard McIlwain - The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
1925 Frederic L. Paxson - History of the American Frontier
1926 Edward Channing - A History of the United States
1927 Samuel Flagg - Bemis Pinckney's Treaty
1928 Vernon Louis Parrington - Main Currents in American Thought
1929 Fred Albert Shanoon - The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865
1930 Claude H. Van Tyne The War of Independence
1931 Bernadotte E. Schmitt The Coming of the War, 1914
1932 John J. Pershing My Experiences in the World War
1933 Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of Sections in American History
1934 Herbert Agar The People's Choice
1935 Charles McLean Andrews The Colonial Period of American History
1936 Andrew C. McLaughlin A Constitutional History of the United States
1937 Van Wyck Brooks The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
1938 Paul Herman Buck The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
1939 Frank Luther Mott A History of American Magazines
1940 Carl Sandburg Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
1941 Marcus Lee Hansen The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
1942 Margaret Leech Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865
1943 Esther Forbes Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
1944 Merle Curti The Growth of American Thought
1945 Stephen Bonsal Unfinished Business
1946 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Age of Jackson
1947 James Phinney Baxter III Scientists Against Time
1948 Bernard DeVoto Across the Wide Missouri
1949 Roy Franklin Nichols The Disruption of American Democracy
1950 Oliver W. Larkin Art and Life in America
1951 R. Carlyle Buley The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840
1952 Oscar Handlin The Uprooted
1953 George Dangerfield The Era of Good Feelings
1954 Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox
1955 Paul Horgan Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
1956 Richard Hofstadter The Age of Reform
1957 George F. Kennan Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920
1958 Bray Hammond Banks and Politics in America
1959 Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider The Republican Era: l869-1901
1960 Margaret Leech In the Days of McKinley
1961 Herbert Feis Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
1962 Lawrence H. Gipson The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766
1963 Constance McLaughlin Green Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
1964 Sumner Chilton Powell Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
1965 Irwin Unger The Greenback Era
1966 Perry Miller The Life of the Mind in America
1967 William H. Goetzmann Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
1968 Bernard Bailyn The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
1969 Leonard W. Levy Origins of the Fifth Amendment
1970 Dean Acheson Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department
1971 James MacGregor Burns Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
1972 Carl N. Degler Neither Black Nor White
1973 Michael Kammen People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
1974 Daniel Boorstin The Americans: The Democratic Experience
1975 Dumas Malone Jefferson and His Time
1976 Paul Horgan Lamy of Santa Fe
1977 David M. Potter and Don E. Fehrenbacher The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867
1978 Alfred Chandler The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
1979 Don E. Fehrenbacher The Dred Scott Case
1980 Leon F. Litwack Been in the Storm So Long
1981 Lawrence A. Cremin American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
1982 C. Vann Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War
1983 Rhys L. Isaac The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
1985 Thomas K. McGraw Prophets of Regulation
1986 Walter A. McDougall ...the Heavens and the Earth
1987 Bernard Bailyn Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
1988 Robert V. Bruce The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876
1989 James M. McPherson Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
1989 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
1990 Stanley Karnow In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
1991 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich A Midwife's Tale
1992 Mark E. Neely, Jr. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
1993 Gordon S. Wood The Radicalism of the American Revolution
1994 (no award)
1995 Doris Kearns Goodwin No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
1996 Alan Taylor William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
1997 Jack N. Rakove Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
1998 Edward J. Larson Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
1999 Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
2000 David M. Kennedy Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
2001 Joseph J. Ellis Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
2002 Louis Menand - The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
2003 Rick Atkinson - An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943
2004 Steven Hahn - A Nation Under Our Feet
2005 David Hackett Fischer - Washington's Crossing
2006 David M. Oshinsky - Polio: An American Story
2007 Steven Hahn - A Nation Under Our Feet
2008 Daniel Walker Howe - What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848
(less)1. A Visit From the Goon Squad (2011)
2. Tinkers (2010)
3. Olive Kitteridge (2009)
4. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (2008)
5. The Road (2007)
10. Cameron's Auburn Ale
9. Stone Hammer Premium Light
8. Wolfgang's German Style Pilsner
7. Devil's Pale Ale 666
6. 1664 Kronenburg
Booked to complete on 13 Apr 12.
5. Flying Monkey's Smashbomb Atomic IPA
4. Beau's Beaver Creek
2011 - Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer; The Shallows; Empire of the Summer Moon
2010 - The Dead Hand; The Evolution of God; How Markets Fail
2009 - Slavery By Another Name; The Bitter Road to Freedom; Gandhi and Churchill
2008 - The Years of Extermination; The Cigarette Century; The Rest is Noise
2007 - The Looming Tower; Crazy: A Father's Search; Fiasco
2006 - Imperial Reckoning
2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007 - The Road (McCarthy)
2006 - March (Brooks)
2005 - Gilead (Robinson)
2004 - The Known World (Jones)
2003 - Middlesex (Eugenides)
2002 - Empire Falls (Russo)
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon)
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
1999 - The Hours (Cunningham)
1998 - American Pastoral (Roth)
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser)
1996 - Independence Day (Ford)
1995 - The Stone Diaries (Shields)
1994 - The Shipping News (Proulx)
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Butler)
1992 - A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
1991 - Rabbit at Rest (Updike)
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Hijuelos)
1989 - Breathing Lessons (Tyler)
1988 - Beloved (Morrison)
1987 - A Summons to Memphis (Taylor)
1986 - Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
1985 - Foreign Affairs (Lurie)
1984 - Ironweed (Kennedy)
1983 - The Color Purple (Walker)
1982 - Rabbit is Rich (Updike)
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
1980 - The Executioner’s Song (Mailer)
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever (Cheever)
1978 - Elbow Room (McPherson)
1977 - None given
1976 - Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)
1975 - The Killer Angels (Shaara)
1974 - None given
1973 - The Optimist’s Daughter (Welty)
1972 - Angle of Repose (Stegner)
1971 - None given
1970 - Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Stafford)
1969 - House Made of Dawn (Momaday)
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron)
1967 - The Fixer (Malamud)
1966 - Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Porter)
1965 - The Keepers Of the House (Grau)
1964 - None given
1963 - The Reivers (Faulkner)
1962 - The Edge of Sadness (Edwin O’Connor)
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
1960 - Advise and Consent (Drury)
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Taylor)
1958 - A Death in the Family (Agee)
1957 - None
1956 - Andersonville (Kantor)
1955 - A Fable (Faulkner)
1954 - None
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
1952 - The Caine Mutiny (Wouk)
1951 - The Town (Richter)
1950 - The Way West (Guthrie)
1949 - Guard of Honor (Cozzens)
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
1947 - All the King’s Men (Warren)
1946 - None
1945 - Bell for Adano (Hersey)
1944 - Journey in the Dark (Flavin)
1943 - Dragon’s Teeth I (Sinclair)
1942 - In This Our Life (Glasgow)
1941 - None
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
1939 - The Yearling (Rawlings)
1938 - The Late George Apley (Marquand)
1937 - Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
1936 - Honey in the Horn (Davis)
1935 - Now in November (Johnson)
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom (Miller)
1933 - The Store (Stribling)
1932 - The Good Earth (Buck)
1931 - Years of Grace (Barnes)
1930 - Laughing Boy (Lafarge)
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin)
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)
1927 - Early Autumn (Bromfield)
1926 - Arrowsmith (Lewis)
1925 - So Big (Ferber)
1924 - The Able McLauglins (Wilson)
1923 - One of Ours (Cather)
1922 - Alice Adams (Tarkington)
1921 - The Age of Innocence (Wharton)
1920 - None
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons (Tarkington)
1918 - His Family (Poole)
(less)1. Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery Amber Ale
2. Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery Hoptical Illusion
3. Kilimanjaro Pale Ale
Planned for 1-14 Feb 12.
3. Printer
4. TV/VCR Combo
2. Two pairs of Lululemon shorts
1. Garcia's Heart
1. Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery Amber Ale
1. Straight Razors (Kijiji)
1. Tinker (2010) by Paul Harding