* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Best Fact Crime | In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child | Kim Cross | Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2024 | Best Fact Crime | Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall | Zeke Faux | Penguin Random House - Crown Currency | |
| 2024 | Best Fact Crime | Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders | John Glatt | Macmillan Publishers - St. Martin's Press | |
| 2024 | Best Fact Crime | Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal | Nathan Masters | Hachette Book Group - Hachette Books | |
| 2024 | Best Fact Crime | I Know Who You Are: How An Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever | Barbara Rae-Venter | Penguin Random House - Ballantine Books | |
| 2024 | Best Fact Crime | The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy | Joe Sexton | Simon & Schuster - Scribner | |
| 2023 | Best Fact Crime | Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls | Kathleen Hale | Grove Atlantic - Grove Press | |
| 2023 | Best Fact Crime | Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation | Erika Krouse | Flatiron Books | |
| 2023 | Best Fact Crime | Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders | Kathryn Miles | Hachette Book Group - Workman Publishing - Algonquin Books | |
| 2023 | Best Fact Crime | American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C. | Shahan Mufti | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | |
| 2023 | Best Fact Crime | American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper | Daniel Stashower | Minotaur Books | |
| 2022 | Best Fact Crime | The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History | Margalit Fox | Random House Publishing Group - Random House | |
| 2022 | Best Fact Crime | Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York | Elon Green | Celadon Books | |
| 2022 | Best Fact Crime | Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away | Ann Hagedorn | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2022 | Best Fact Crime | Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice | Ellen McGarrahan | Penguin Random House - Random House | |
| 2022 | Best Fact Crime | The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade | Benjamin T. Smith | W.W. Norton & Company | |
| 2022 | Best Fact Crime | When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer | Curtis Wilkie | W.W. Norton & Company | |
| 2021 | Best Fact Crime | Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America | Mark A. Bradley | W.W. Norton & Company | |
| 2021 | Best Fact Crime | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia | Emma Copley Eisenberg | Hachette Book Group - Hachette Books | |
| 2021 | Best Fact Crime | Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic | Eric Eyre | Simon & Schuster - Scribner | |
| 2021 | Best Fact Crime | Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country | Sierra Crane Murdoch | Penguin Random House - Random House | |
| 2021 | Best Fact Crime | Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife | Ariel Sabar | Penguin Random House - Doubleday | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America | Karen Abbott | Penguin Random House - Crown | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity | Axton Betz-Hamilton | Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century | Maureen Callahan | Penguin Random House - Viking | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History | Peter Houlahan | Counterpoint Press | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall | James Polchin | Counterpoint Press | |
| 2019 | Best Fact Crime | Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | Robert W. Fieseler | W.W. Norton & Company - Liveright | |
| 2019 | Best Fact Crime | Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal | Jonathan Green | W.W. Norton & Company | |
| 2019 | Best Fact Crime | The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure | Carl Hoffman | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2019 | Best Fact Crime | The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century | Kirk Wallace Johnson | Penguin Random House - Viking | |
| 2019 | Best Fact Crime | I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer | Michelle McNamara | HarperCollins Publishers - Harper | |
| 2019 | Best Fact Crime | The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia | Alex Perry | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2018 | Best Fact Crime | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI | David Grann | Penguin Random House - Doubleday | |
| 2018 | Best Fact Crime | The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple | Jeff Guinn | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2018 | Best Fact Crime | American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land | Monica Hesse | W.W. Norton & Company - Liveright | |
| 2018 | Best Fact Crime | The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery | Bill James | Simon & Schuster - Scribner | |
| 2018 | Best Fact Crime | The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery | Rachel McCarthy James | Simon & Schuster - Scribner | |
| 2018 | Best Fact Crime | Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation | Brad Ricca | St. Martin's Press | |
| 2017 | Best Fact Crime | Morgue: A Life in Death | Dr. Vincent diMaio | St. Martin's Press | |
| 2017 | Best Fact Crime | Morgue: A Life in Death | Ron Franscell | St. Martin's Press | |
| 2017 | Best Fact Crime | The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan | Laurence Leamer | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2017 | Best Fact Crime | Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England | Paul Thomas Murphy | Pegasus Books | |
| 2017 | Best Fact Crime | While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness | Eli Sanders | Penguin Random House - Viking Books | |
| 2017 | Best Fact Crime | The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer | Kate Summerscale | Penguin Random House - Penguin Press | |
| 2016 | Best Fact Crime | Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide | Eric Bogosian | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company | |
| 2016 | Best Fact Crime | Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him | T.J. English | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2016 | Best Fact Crime | Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully | Allen Kurzweil | HarperCollins Publishers - Harper | |
| 2016 | Best Fact Crime | Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime | Val McDermid | Grove Atlantic - Grove Press | |
| 2016 | Best Fact Crime | American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic | John Temple | Rowman & Littlefield - Lyons Press | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America | Kevin Cook | W.W. Norton | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | Carl Hoffman | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | The Other Side: A Memoir | Lacy M. Johnson | Tin House Books | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood | William Mann | HarperCollins Publishers - Harper | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation | Harold Schechter | Amazon Publishing - New Harvest | |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War | Daniel Stashower | Minotaur Books | |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | Duel with the Devil: The True Story of how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery | Paul Collins | Crown Publishers | |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal | Michael D'Antonio | Thomas Dunne Books | |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder | Charles Graeber | Grand Central Publishing/Twelve | |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines | Cate Lineberry | Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown and Company | |
| 2013 | Best Fact Crime | Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China | Paul French | ||
| 2013 | Best Fact Crime | Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Gilbert King | HarperCollins Publishers - Harper | |
| 2013 | Best Fact Crime | Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies | Ben Macintyre | Crown Publishers | |
| 2013 | Best Fact Crime | More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered | D.P. Lyle, MD | Medallion Press | |
| 2013 | Best Fact Crime | The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up | Richard Lloyd Parry | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 2012 | Best Fact Crime | Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President | Candice Millard | Random House - Doubleday | |
| 2012 | Best Fact Crime | Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender | Steve Miller | Penguin Group USA - Berkley | |
| 2012 | Best Fact Crime | The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter | Mark Seal | Penguin Group - Viking | |
| 2012 | Best Fact Crime | The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars | Paul Collins | Crown Publishing Group | |
| 2012 | Best Fact Crime | The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge | T.J. English | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity | Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry | University of Nebraska Press - Bison Original | |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery | Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz | Simon & Schuster/Scribner | |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin | Hampton Sides | Random House - Doubleday | |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South | Alex Heard | HarperCollins | |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science | Douglas Starr | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2010 | Best Fact Crime | Columbine | Dave Cullen | Hachette Book Group/Twelve | |
| 2010 | Best Fact Crime | Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde | Jeff Guinn | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2010 | Best Fact Crime | Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art | Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo | The Penguin Press | |
| 2010 | Best Fact Crime | The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Bostons Racial Divide | Dick Lehr | HarperCollins | |
| 2010 | Best Fact Crime | Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa | R.A. Scotti | Random House/Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2009 | Best Fact Crime | American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood and the Crime of the Century | Howard Blum | Random House - Crown Books | |
| 2009 | Best Fact Crime | For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago | Simon Baatz | HarperCollins | |
| 2009 | Best Fact Crime | Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost it to the Revolution | T.J. English | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2009 | Best Fact Crime | The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren | Jonathan Lopez | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2009 | Best Fact Crime | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher | Kate Summerscale | Bloomsbury - Walker & Company | |
| 2008 | Best Fact Crime | Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy | Vincent Bugliosi | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 2008 | Best Fact Crime | Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit | Kevin Flynn | Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons | |
| 2008 | Best Fact Crime | Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind | Bruce Watson | Penguin Group - Viking | |
| 2008 | Best Fact Crime | The Birthday Party | Stanley Alpert | Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons | |
| 2007 | Best Fact Crime | Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer | James L. Swanson | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2007 | Best Fact Crime | A Death in Belmont | Sebastian Junger | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 2007 | Best Fact Crime | Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine | Kate Clark Flora, Joseph K. Loughlin | University Press of New England | |
| 2007 | Best Fact Crime | Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer | Robin Odell | Kent State University Press | |
| 2007 | Best Fact Crime | Strange Piece of Paradise | Terri Jentz | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 2007 | Best Fact Crime | The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder | Daniel Stashower | Dutton | |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece | Edward Dolnick | HarperCollins | |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans | Jed Horne | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | The Elements of Murder: The History of Poison | John Emsley | Oxford University Press | |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa | Michael Finkel | HarperCollins | |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | Written in Blood | Diane Fanning | St. Martin's True Crime |