Ambassador Book Award Winners
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)   4.08 avg rating — 69,808 ratings
Ambassador Book Award (2011)
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Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann (Goodreads Author)   3.89 avg rating — 27,611 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2010)
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Mercury Dressing: Poems
by J.D. McClatchy 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry (2010)
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Louis D. Brandeis
by Melvin I. Urofsky 3.85 avg rating — 48 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Biography (2010)
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
by Morris Dickstein 3.00 avg rating — 124 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2010)
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The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War
by James Mann 3.59 avg rating — 63 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2010)
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Old War: Poems
by Alan Shapiro 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry (2009)
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
by Donald Worster 4.03 avg rating — 135 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Biography (2009)
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Dangerous Laughter
by Steven Millhauser 3.71 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2009)
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
by Christopher E.G. Benfey 3.35 avg rating — 139 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2009)
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer 4.23 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Current Affairs (2009)
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Edith Wharton
by Hermione Lee 3.72 avg rating — 317 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Biography (2008)
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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
by Rebecca Solnit 4.15 avg rating — 99 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2008)
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Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
by Robert Stone 3.32 avg rating — 148 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Autobiography (2008)
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Blackbird and Wolf: Poems
by Henri Cole 3.83 avg rating — 78 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry (2008)
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid 3.55 avg rating — 9,776 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2008)
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The Afterlife
by Donald Antrim 3.39 avg rating — 135 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Autobiography (2007)
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Averno
by Louise Glück 4.12 avg rating — 589 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry (2007)
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The Collected Stories
by Amy Hempel 4.29 avg rating — 2,548 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2007)
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan 4.01 avg rating — 8,783 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2007)
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The Most Famous Man in America
by Debby Applegate 3.93 avg rating — 188 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Biography (2007)
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks 4.09 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Current Affairs (2007)
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird 4.20 avg rating — 1,589 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Biography (2006)
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Migration: New & Selected Poems
by W.S. Merwin 4.30 avg rating — 194 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry (2006)
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Liberation: A Novel
by Joanna Scott 3.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2006)
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
by Stacy Schiff 3.65 avg rating — 195 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2006)
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de Kooning: An American Master
by Mark Stevens 4.13 avg rating — 640 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Biography (2005)
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Collected Poems
by Donald Justice 4.40 avg rating — 110 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Poetry (2005)
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson 3.74 avg rating — 19,636 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2005)
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Washington's Crossing
by David Hackett Fischer 4.19 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2005)
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