ASJA Outstanding Book Award Winners

The American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Awards are conferred upon members whose nonfiction books, either alone or added to a ...more

Winners

	Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure by Julian Smith (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 617 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Memoir/Autobiography (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
	Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet by Jonathan Green (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 558 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson by Jessica DuLong (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 98 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Memoir/Autobiography (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
	Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg by Andrea Warren 3.95 avg rating — 83 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	You'd Be So Pretty If . . .: Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies--Even When We Don't Love Our Own by Dara Chadwick (Goodreads Author) 3.34 avg rating — 105 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self Help (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
	Pressured Parents, Stressed-out Kids: Dealing With Competition While Raising a Successful Child by Wendy S. Grolnick 3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self Help (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
	Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them (Vintage Departures) by Kimberly Lisagor (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 62 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster by Allen Anderson (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 69 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	This Is How We Do It: The Working Mothers' Manifesto by Carol Evans 3.47 avg rating — 38 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives by Edwin Black 3.90 avg rating — 149 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	The Resilient Writer: Tales of Rejection and Triumph by 23 Top Authors by Catherine Wald (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	Scaling Down : Living Large in a Smaller Space by Judi Culbertson (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 265 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	Tools of Navigation: A Kid's Guide to the History & Science of Finding Your Way by Rachel Dickinson 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Children/Young Adult Nonfiction (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
	Goodnight Saigon: The True Story of the U.S. Marines' Last Days in Vietnam by Charles Henderson 3.81 avg rating — 72 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 548 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution by Robin Marantz Henig (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 59 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	Healthy Teens, Body and Soul: A Parent's Complete Guide by Andrea Marks 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	Dojo Wisdom by Jennifer Lawler 3.27 avg rating — 45 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Mary Collins 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Children/Young Adult Nonfiction (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
	Stalking the Divine by Kristin Ohlson (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 202 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black 4.01 avg rating — 1,640 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	Informed Decisions by Harmon Eyre it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren 4.18 avg rating — 5,163 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Children/Young Adult Nonfiction (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
	Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's Monsters and the World They Live In by Erich Hoyt (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 129 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	The Body Clock Guide to Better Health: How to Use your Body's Natural Clock to Fight Illness and Achieve Maximum Health by Michael Smolensky 3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury by Cathy Crimmins 4.11 avg rating — 1,957 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for General Nonfiction (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
	When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy by Barbara Luke 4.03 avg rating — 994 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	License to Steal : The Secret World of Wall Street and the Systematic Plundering of the American Investor by Anonymous 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	Helping Someone with Mental Illness by Rosalynn Carter 3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Service/Self-help (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
	The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by KANIGEL ROBERT 4.02 avg rating — 8,321 ratings ASJA Outstanding Book 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