J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Winners

The $10,000 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard ...more

Winners

	After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 1,427 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2021)	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
	An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz 4.33 avg rating — 4,505 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 11,321 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein 4.10 avg rating — 7,008 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge 4.24 avg rating — 4,659 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard 4.27 avg rating — 1,843 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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 Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 12,940 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink 3.93 avg rating — 33,058 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon 4.25 avg rating — 20,817 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White by Daniel J. Sharfstein (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 295 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold 3.82 avg rating — 822 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	The Good Soldiers by David Finkel 4.22 avg rating — 8,245 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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 Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer 4.19 avg rating — 4,357 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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 Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin 4.09 avg rating — 17,620 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 31,533 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee 4.13 avg rating — 779 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 18,185 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace, Vietnam And America, October 1967 by David Maraniss (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 1,830 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power 4.26 avg rating — 10,247 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter 4.20 avg rating — 961 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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 Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw 3.98 avg rating — 1,027 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski 4.04 avg rating — 980 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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
	All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer 4.28 avg rating — 196 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (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

nominees

	Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism by Seyward Darby 4.19 avg rating — 2,754 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (2021)	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 Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 11,558 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (2021)	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
	Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State by Barton Gellman 4.06 avg rating — 1,000 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (2021)	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 Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America by Margaret O'Mara 3.95 avg rating — 883 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (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
	Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises by Jodie Adams Kirshner (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 272 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (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
	Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 1,532 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (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
	Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 1,701 ratings J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Nominee (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

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