| Titler | Rækkefølge |
| Turist ved et tilfælde af Anne Tyler | Fiction, 1986 |
| Lake Wobegon Days af Garrison Keillor | Fiction, 1986 |
| Cities on a Hill: A Brilliant Exploration of Visonary Communities Remaking the American Dream af Frances FitzGerald | American Studies, 1987 |
| The Cycles of American History af Arthur Meier Schlesinger | American Studies, 1987 |
| The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume 1, 1902–1941, I, Too, Sing America af Arnold Rampersad | Biography/Autobiography, 1987 |
| Roger's Version af John Updike | Fiction, 1987 |
| The Story of English af Robert McCrum | Special Citation, 1987 |
| The Collected Prose af Robert Lowell | American Arts & Letters, 1988 |
| Miami af Joan Didion | American Studies, 1988 |
| Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright af Brendan Gill | Biography/Autobiography, 1988 |
| Forfængelighedens bål af Tom Wolfe | Fiction, 1988 |
| At Home: Essays 1982-1988 af Gore Vidal | American Arts & Letters, 1989 |
| A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam af Neil Sheehan | American Studies, 1989 |
| Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 af Taylor Branch | Biography/Autobiography, 1989 |
| Her hvor jeg ringer fra : 34 noveller af Raymond Carver | Fiction, 1989 |
| The Writing Life af Annie Dillard | American Arts & Letters, 1990 |
| Among Schoolchildren af Tracy Kidder | American Studies, 1990 |
| This Boy's Life af Tobias Wolff | Biography/Autobiography, 1990 |
| Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All af Allan Gurganus | Fiction, 1990 |
| The House of Barrymore af Margot Peters | American Arts & Letters, 1991 |
| New York Life: Of Friends and Others af Brendan Gill | American Studies, 1991 |
| The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance af Ron Chernow | Biography/Autobiography, 1991 |
| Killing Mister Watson af Peter Matthiessen | Fiction, 1991 |
| The Journals Of John Cheever af John Cheever | American Arts & Letters, 1992 |
| The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 af Michael R. Beschloss | American Studies, 1992 |
| Woodrow Wilson af August Heckscher | Biography/Autobiography, 1992 |
| A Thousand Acres af Jane Smiley | Fiction, 1992 |
| American Views: Essays on American Art af John Wilmerding | Special Prize, 1992 |
| Up In the Old Hotel and Other Stories af Joseph Mitchell | American Arts & Letters, 1993 |
| Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America af Garry Wills | American Studies, 1993 |
| Archibald MacLeish; an American Life af Scott Donaldson | Biography/Autobiography, 1993 |
| Outerbridge Reach af Robert Stone | Fiction, 1993 |
| W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race af David Levering Lewis | Biography/Autobiography, 1994 |
| The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court : Stories af Peter Taylor | Fiction, 1994 |
| Tesserae and Other Poems af John Hollander | Poetry, 1994 |
| Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South af John Egerton | American Studies, 1995 |
| No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II af Doris Kearns Goodwin | Biography/Autobiography, 1995 |
| The Collected Stories af Grace Paley | Fiction, 1995 |
| Like Most Revelations af Richard Howard | Poetry, 1995 |
| Moving Violations af John Hockenberry | American Studies, 1996 |
| Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography af David S. Reynolds | Biography/Autobiography, 1996 |
| All the days and nights: the collected stories af William Maxwell | Fiction, 1996 |
| Atlantis: Poems by af Mark Doty | Poetry, 1996 |
| The Liars' Club af Mary Karr | Special Award, 1996 |
| Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West af Stephen E. Ambrose | American Studies, 1997 |
| Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Guardians of the American Century af Robert W. Merry | Biography/Autobiography, 1997 |
| In the Beauty of the Lilies af John Updike | Fiction, 1997 |
| The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 af Robert Pinsky | Poetry, 1997 |
| American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America af Robert Hughes | American Studies, 1998 |
| Burning the Days: Recollection af James Salter | Autobiography, 1998 |
| American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson af Joseph J. Ellis | Biography, 1998 |
| Underverden : roman af Don DeLillo | Fiction, 1998 |
| Black Zodiac: Poems af Charles Wright | Poetry, 1998 |
| God and the American Writer af Alfred Kazin | Special Prize, 1998 |
| Slaves in the Family af Edward Ball | American Studies, 1999 |
| N. C. Wyeth: A Biography af David Michaelis | Biography/Autobiography, 1999 |
| Jeg blev gift med en kommunist af Philip Roth | Fiction, 1999 |
| The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren af Robert Penn Warren | Poetry, 1999 |
| Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 af David M. Kennedy | American Studies, 2000 |
| Morgan: American Financier af Jean Strouse | Biography/Autobiography, 2000 |
| Close Range af Annie Proulx | Fiction, 2000 |
| Vita Nova af Louise Glück | Poetry, 2000 |
| In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex af Nathaniel Philbrick | American Studies, 2001 |
| The Chief: the Life of William Randolph Hearst af David Nasaw | Biography/Autobiography, 2001 |
| The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks af Russell Banks | Fiction, 2001 |
| American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 : Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker af Robert Hass | Poetry, 2001 |
| American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 : E.E. Cummings to May Swenson af Robert Hass | Poetry, 2001 |
| Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution af Diane McWhorter | American Studies, 2002 |
| John Adams af David McCullough | Biography/Autobiography, 2002 |
| Empire Falls af Richard Russo | Fiction, 2002 |
| The Darkness and the Light: Poems af Anthony Hecht | Poetry, 2002 |
| Middlesex af Jeffrey Eugenides | Fiction, 2003 |
| In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 af Mary Beth Norton | American Studies, 2003 |
| Jesse James, Last Rebel of the Civil War af T. J. Stiles | Biography/Autobiography, 2003 |
| Springing: New and Selected Poems af Marie Ponsot | Poetry, 2003 |
| The Time of Our Singing af Richard Powers | Fiction, 2004 |
| They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 af David Maraniss | American Studies, 2004 |
| Hawthorne: A Life af Brenda Wineapple | Biography/Autobiography, 2004 |
| Collected Poems af Robert Lowell | Poetry, 2004 |
| Gilead af Marilynne Robinson | Fiction, 2005 |
| Washington's Crossing af David Hackett Fischer | American Studies, 2005 |
| de Kooning: An American Master af Mark Stevens | Biography/Autobiography, 2005 |
| Collected Poems af Donald Justice | Poetry, 2005 |
| Liberation af Joanna Scott | Fiction, 2006 |
| A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America af Stacy Schiff | American Studies, 2006 |
| American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer af Kai Bird | Biography/Autobiography, 2006 |
| Migration: New & Selected Poems af W. S. Merwin | Poetry, 2006 |
| The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl af Timothy Egan | American Studies, 2007 |
| The Afterlife af Donald Antrim | Autobiography, 2007 |
| The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher af Debby Applegate | Biography, 2007 |
| Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq af Thomas E. Ricks | Current Affairs, 2007 |
| The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel af Amy Hempel | Fiction, 2007 |
| Averno: Poems af Louise Glück | Poetry, 2007 |
| Blackbird and Wolf: Poems af Henri Cole | Poetry, 2008 |
| Edith Wharton af Hermione Lee | Biography, 2008 |
| Den modvillige fundamentalist af Mohsin Hamid | Fiction, 2008 |
| Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties af Robert Stone | Autobiography, 2008 |
| Storming the Gates of Paradise af Rebecca Solnit | American Studies, 2008 |
| Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories af Steven Millhauser | Fiction, 2009 |
| The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals af Jane Mayer | Current Affairs, 2009 |
| Old War: Poems af Alan Shapiro | Poetry, 2009 |
| A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir af Donald Worster | Biography/Autobiography, 2009 |
| A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade af Christopher Benfey | American Studies, 2009 |
| Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression af Morris Dickstein | American Studies, 2010 |
| Let the Great World Spin af Colum McCann | Fiction, 2010 |
| Louis D. Brandeis: A Life af Melvin I. Urofsky | Biography/Autobiography, 2010 |
| Mercury Dressing: Poems af J. D. McClatchy | Poetry, 2010 |
| The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War af James Mann | American Studies, 2010 |
| Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original af Robin Kelley | Special Distinction Award, 2010 |
| The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg af Deborah Eisenberg | Fiction, 2011 |
| Every Riven Thing: Poems af Christian Wiman | Poetry, 2011 |
| Henrietta Lacks' udødelige liv af Rebecca Skloot | American Studies, 2011 |
| The Memory Chalet af Tony Judt | Special Distinction Award, 2011 |
| The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century af Alan Brinkley | Biography/Autobiography, 2011 |
