Cornelius Ryan Award Winners

The Cornelius Ryan Award is given for "best nonfiction book on international affairs" by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). To be eligible for ...more

Winners

	The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State by Declan Walsh 4.13 avg rating — 1,511 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 5,556 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 957 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen 4.06 avg rating — 2,500 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky 4.04 avg rating — 1,670 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth by Tom Burgis 4.06 avg rating — 2,156 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos 4.25 avg rating — 8,125 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 1,703 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L. Bergen 4.10 avg rating — 4,124 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World by Robin Wright 3.80 avg rating — 404 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough 4.18 avg rating — 356 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good Soldiers by David Finkel 4.22 avg rating — 8,105 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forever War by Dexter Filkins 4.12 avg rating — 10,585 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War by Bob Drogin 3.93 avg rating — 284 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran 4.04 avg rating — 6,128 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer 4.05 avg rating — 2,947 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll 4.31 avg rating — 16,086 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan by Mary Anne Weaver 3.45 avg rating — 89 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB by Milton Bearden 4.13 avg rating — 1,120 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence 4.34 avg rating — 759 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden 3.97 avg rating — 17,322 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 by A.J. Langguth 3.96 avg rating — 150 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman 3.60 avg rating — 8,306 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch 4.20 avg rating — 33,148 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Japan: A Reinterpretation by Patrick Smith 3.60 avg rating — 179 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass 4.35 avg rating — 1,288 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shooting At The Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos by Roger Warner 4.08 avg rating — 106 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism by Michael Ignatieff 3.84 avg rating — 281 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 1,110 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (1992)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels by Sam Dillon liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings Cornelius Ryan Award (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars