All Finalists - Lukas Prizes

Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Napoleon: A Life

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game

The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Father of Modern Anthropology

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968

The World Without Us

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives