* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder | Leonard Levitt | Regan Books | Comment: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Are You There Alone? | Suzanne O'Malley | Simon & Schuster | Comment: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Ballad of the Whiskey Robber | Julian Rubinstein | Little, Brown | Comment: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Forensics for Dummies | D.P. Lyle, MD | Wiley Publishing - For Dummies | |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Green River, Running Red | Ann Rule | Free Press/Macmillan | Comment: The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's Deadliest Serial Murderer |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Ready for the People | Marissa N. Batt | Arcade Publishing | Comment: My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | Random House - Crown Books | |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan & the Lynching of Leo Frank | Steve Oney | Pantheon Books | |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | Black Dahlia Avenger - The True Story | Steve Hodel | Arcade Publishing | |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders | Dick Lehr, Mitchell Zuckoff | HarperCollins | |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | Rothstein: The Life, Times & Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series | David Pietrusza | Carroll & Graf | |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | Fire Lover | Joseph Wambaugh | Morrow | |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | Blood & Ink: International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature | Albert Borowitz | Kent State University Press | |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | Death at the Priory: Sex, Love and Murder in Victorian England | James Ruddick | Grove/Atlantic | |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire | Douglas Century, Rick Cowan | Putnam | |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | The Count and the Confession | John Taylor | Random House | |
| 2002 | Best Fact Crime | Son of a Grifter | Kent Walker | Wm. Morrow | Comment: with Mark Schone |
| 2002 | Best Fact Crime | Base Instincts: What Makes a Killer Kill? | Jonathan H. Pincus M.D. | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 2002 | Best Fact Crime | Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind | Roy Hazelwood, Stephen G. Michaud | St. Martin's Press | |
| 2002 | Best Fact Crime | Leavenworth Train: A Fugitive's Search for Justice in the Vanishing West | Joe Jackson | Carroll & Graf | |
| 2002 | Best Fact Crime | The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict in the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case | James Neff | Random House | |
| 2001 | Best Fact Crime | Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI, & A Devil's Deal | Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill | Public Affairs/Perseus Press | |
| 2001 | Best Fact Crime | Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous | Don Foster | Henry Holt and Company | |
| 2001 | Best Fact Crime | Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln & The Almanac Trial | John Evangelist Walsh | St. Martin's Press | |
| 2001 | Best Fact Crime | Portraits of Guilt: The Woman Who Profiles the Faces of America's Deadliest Criminals | Jeanne Boylan | Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster | |
| 2001 | Best Fact Crime | The Seekers: A Bounty Hunter's Story | Joshua Armstrong, Anthony Bruno | HarperCollins | |
| 2000 | Best Fact Crime | Blind Eye | James B. Stewart | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2000 | Best Fact Crime | And Never Let Her Go | Ann Rule | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2000 | Best Fact Crime | Disco Bloodbath | James St. James | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2000 | Best Fact Crime | Mean Justice | Edward Humes | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2000 | Best Fact Crime | The Ghosts of Hopewell | Jim Fisher | Southern Illinois University Press | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | To The Last Breath | Carlton Stowers | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | Death Sentence | Jerry Bledsoe | Dutton | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | Greentown | Timothy Dumas | Arcade Publishing | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | One of Ours | Richard A. Serrano | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | Tough Jews | Rich Cohen | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | The Death of Innocents | Richard Firstman, Jamie Talan | Bantam | |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, A Mother's Sacrifice | Ann Rule | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime & Punishment | John C. Tucker | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | Our Guys:The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb | Bernard Lefkowitz | Univeristy of California Press | |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief | Ben MacIntyre | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | Power To Hurt | Darcy O'Brien | HarperCollins | |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | Fall Guys | Jim Fisher | Southern Illinois University Press | |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | No Matter How Loud I Shout | Edward Humes | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | Outrage | Vincent Bugliosi | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | Trespasses | Howard Swindle | Viking | |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | Circumstantial Evidence | Pete Earley | Bantam | |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | Born To Kill | T.J. English | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | By Two and Two | Jim Schutze | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | Mindhunter | John Douglas, Mark Olshaker | Scribners | |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | Unfinished Murder | James Neff | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | To Protect and Serve | Joe Domanick | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Before He Wakes | Jerry Bledsoe | Dutton | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Breakdown | Eileen McNamara | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | In the Best of Families | Dennis McDougal | Warner Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Mississippi Mud | Edward Humes | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | Until the Twelfth of Never | Bella Stumbo | Pocket Books | |
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | Final Justice | Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith | Dutton | |
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | Gone in the Night | David Protess, Rob Warden | Delacorte Press | |
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | Lindbergh: The Crime | Noel Behn | Atlantic Monthly/Grove | |
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | The Misbegotten Son | Jack Olsen | Delacorte Press | |
| 1993 | Best Fact Crime | My Husband's Trying to Kill Me | Jim Schutze | HarperCollins | |
| 1993 | Best Fact Crime | The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd | Jana Bommersbach | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1993 | Best Fact Crime | Swift Justice | Harry Farrell | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1993 | Best Fact Crime | Blood Echoes | Thomas H. Cook | Dutton | |
| 1993 | Best Fact Crime | Everything She Ever Wanted | Ann Rule | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets | David Simon | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano | Andris Kurins, Joseph F. O'Brien | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Death of Elvis: What Really Happened | James P. Cole, Charles C. Thompson II | Delacorte Press | |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Den of Thieves | James B. Stewart | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell | Christopher Joyce, Eric Stover | Little, Brown | |
| 1991 | Best Fact Crime | In a Child's Name | Peter Maas | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1991 | Best Fact Crime | A Death in White Bear Lake | Barry Siegel | Bantam | |
| 1991 | Best Fact Crime | Beyond Reason | Ken Englade | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1991 | Best Fact Crime | Goombata | John Cummings, Ernest Volkman | Little, Brown | |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell | Jack Olsen | Atheneum | |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | Murder in Little Egypt | Darcy O'Brien | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | The Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders | Joseph Wambaugh | Perigord/Morrow | |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders | Peter Elkind | Viking | |
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | Wasted: The Preppie Murder | Linda Wolfe | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | In Broad Daylight | Harry N. MacLean | Harper & Row | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | A Gathering of Saints | Robert Lindsey | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring | Pete Earley | Bantam | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | Monkey on a Stick | Lindsey Gruson, John Hubner | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | The Cocaine Wars | Paul Eddy, Hugo Sabogal, Sara Walden | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | CBS Murders | Richard Hammer | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | Dreams of Ada | Robert Mayer | Viking | |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | Engaged to Murder | Loretta Schwartz-Noble | Viking | |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | Talked to Death | Stephen Singular | Beechtree Books/Morrow | |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | The Man Who Robbed the Pierre | Ira Berkow | Atheneum | |
| 1987 | Best Fact Crime | Careless Whispers: The True Story of a Triple Murder and the Determined Lawman Who Wouldn't Give Up | Carlton Stowers | Taylor | |
| 1987 | Best Fact Crime | Incident at Big Sky: Sheriff Johnny France and the Mountain Men | Johnny France, Malcolm McConnell | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1987 | Best Fact Crime | The Poison Tree: A True Story of Family Violence and Revenge | Alan Prendergast | Putnam | |
| 1987 | Best Fact Crime | Unveiling Claudia: A True Story of Serial Murder | Daniel Keyes | Bantam | |
| 1987 | Best Fact Crime | Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family | Nicholas Pileggi | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | Savage Grace | Stephen M.L. Aronson, Natalie Robins | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal | Jonathan Coleman | Atheneum | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album | Shana Alexander | Doubleday | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper | Gordon Burn | Viking | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann | Ludovic Kennedy | Viking |