Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognizes books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich...more
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author)   4.31 avg rating — 4,923 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction (2011)
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by David Eltis 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction (2011)
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Great House
by Nicole Krauss  3.37 avg rating — 6,034 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2011)
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The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
by Mary Helen Stefaniak 3.49 avg rating — 202 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2011)
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Burnt Shadows
by Kamila Shamsie  3.85 avg rating — 951 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2010)
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The Plague of Doves
by Louise Erdrich 3.66 avg rating — 3,428 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2009)
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The Hemingses of Monticello
by Annette Gordon-Reed 3.74 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2009)
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The Boat
by Nam Le 3.59 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2009)
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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 4.18 avg rating — 19,119 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2008)
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid 3.55 avg rating — 9,776 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2008)
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz 3.81 avg rating — 60,228 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2008)
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Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 4.16 avg rating — 8,714 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2007)
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
by Taylor Branch 4.48 avg rating — 300 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2007)
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Blue Front: Poems
by Martha Collins 3.99 avg rating — 79 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2007)
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
by Scott Reynolds Nelson 3.59 avg rating — 61 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2007)
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
by Jill Lepore 3.64 avg rating — 143 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2006)
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On Beauty
by Zadie Smith 3.55 avg rating — 21,134 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2006)
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The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat 3.69 avg rating — 2,320 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2005)
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M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems
by A. Van Jordan 4.18 avg rating — 159 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2005)
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
by Geoffrey C. Ward 4.19 avg rating — 162 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2005)
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 4.20 avg rating — 4,632 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2004)
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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
by Ira Berlin 3.81 avg rating — 64 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2004)
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The Known World
by Edward P. Jones 3.75 avg rating — 13,982 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2004)
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The Emperor of Ocean Park
by Stephen L. Carter 3.51 avg rating — 2,700 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2003)
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World Hotel
by Reetika Vazirani 3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2003)
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power 4.32 avg rating — 2,446 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2003)
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Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
by Quincy Jones 3.87 avg rating — 189 ratings
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2002)
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John Henry Days
by Colson Whitehead 3.64 avg rating — 759 ratings
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Vernon Can Read!
by Vernon Jordan 3.76 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner
by F.X. Toole 3.83 avg rating — 449 ratings
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