* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady | Brian Kates | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings | Mike Weiss | Addison-Wesley | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Earth to Earth | John Cornwell | Ecco Press | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs | Jim Atkinson, John Bloom | Texas Monthly Press | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Murder at the Met | David Black | Dial | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | The Molineux Affair | Jane Pejsa | Kenwood Publishing | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Very Much A Lady | Shana Alexander | Little, Brown | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Deadly Force | Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Judgement Day | B.C. Hall, Bob Lancaster | Seaview Putnam | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Son | Jack Olsen | Atheneum | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | The Von Bulow Affair | William Wright | Delacorte Press | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | The Vatican Connection | Richard Hammer | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Big Bucks | Ernest Tidyman | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Deadly Intentions | William Randolph Stevens | Congdon & Weed | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Indecent Exposure | David McClintock | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Somebody is Lying: The Story of Doctor X. | Myron Farber | Doubleday | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | The Sting Man | Robert W. Greene | Dutton | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | By Reason of Doubt | Ellen Godfrey | Clarke, Irwin & Co. | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | Papa's Game | Gregory Wallance | Rawson Wade | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa | Seymore V. Reit | Summit | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | The Minds of Billy Milligan | Daniel Keyes | Random House | |
| 1981 | Best Fact Crime | A True Deliverance | Fred Harwell | Knopf | |
| 1981 | Best Fact Crime | Assassination of Embassy Row | John Dinges, Saul Landeau | Pantheon | |
| 1981 | Best Fact Crime | The Trial of Policeman Thomas Shea | Thomas Hawser | Viking | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | The Falcon and the Snowman | Robert Lindsey | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Anyone's Daughter | Shana Alexander | Viking | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Blood Will Tell | Gary Cartwright | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Sentenced to Die | Stephen H. Gettinger | Macmillan | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Zebra | Clark Howard | Marek | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Till Death Do Us Part | Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Criminal Violence | Charles Silberman | Random House | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Perjury | Alan Weinstein | Knopf | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Why Have They Taken Our Children? | Jack W. Baugh, Jefferson Morgan | Delacorte Press | |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | Closing Time | Lacey Fosburgh | Delacorte Press | |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | Justice Crucified | Roberta S. Feuerlicht | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | Six Against the Rock | Clark Howard | Dial | |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | The Voice of Guns | Paul Avery, Vin McLellan | Putnam | |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | By Persons Unknown | Barbara Amiel, George Jonas | Grove Press | |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | Blood and Money | Thomas Thompson | Doubleday | |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | Murder in Coweta County | Margaret Anne Barnes | Reader's Digest Press | |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | The Michigan Murders | Edward Keyes | Reader's Digest Press | |
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | A Time To Die | Tom Wicker | Quadrangle NY Times | |
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | Invitation to a Lynching | Gene Miller | Doubleday | |
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | The House on Garibaldi Street | Isser Harel | Viking | |
| 1975 | Best Fact Crime | Helter Skelter | Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1975 | Best Fact Crime | Dummy | Ernest Tidyman | Little, Brown | |
| 1975 | Best Fact Crime | The Memphis Murders | Gerald Meyer | Seabury Press | |
| 1974 | Best Fact Crime | Legacy of Death | Barbara Levy | Prentice-Hall | |
| 1974 | Best Fact Crime | Burden of Proof | Ed Cray | Macmillan | |
| 1974 | Best Fact Crime | The Implosion Conspiracy | Louis Nizer | Doubleday | |
| 1974 | Best Fact Crime | The Medical Detectives | Paulette Cooper | David McKay | |
| 1974 | Best Fact Crime | The Profession of Violence | John Pearson | Saturday Review Press | |
| 1973 | Best Fact Crime | Hoax | Lewis Chester, Stephen Fay, Magnus Linkletter | Viking | |
| 1973 | Best Fact Crime | Shipwreck | Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan Witts | Stein & Day | |
| 1973 | Best Fact Crime | The Santa Claus Bank Robbery | A.C. Greene | Knopf | |
| 1973 | Best Fact Crime | They Got To Find Me Guilty Yet | T.P. Slattery | Doubleday | |
| 1972 | Best Fact Crime | Beyond A Reasonable Doubt | Sandor Frankel | Stein & Day | |
| 1972 | Best Fact Crime | The Disappearence of Dr. Parkman | Robert Sullivan | Little, Brown | |
| 1972 | Best Fact Crime | The Girl on the Volkswagen Floor | William A. Clark | Harper & Row | |
| 1971 | Best Fact Crime | A Great Fall | Mildred Savage | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1971 | Best Fact Crime | Crime in America | Ramsey Clark | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1971 | Best Fact Crime | The Ninth Juror | Girard Chester | Random House | |
| 1970 | Best Fact Crime | The Case That Will Not Die | Herbert B. Ehrmann | Little, Brown | |
| 1970 | Best Fact Crime | Scottsboro | Don T. Carter | Louisiana State University Press | |
| 1970 | Best Fact Crime | The Victims | Kenneth Gross, Bernard Lefkowitz | Putnam | |
| 1970 | Best Fact Crime | Whitmore | Fred C. Shapiro | Bobbs-Merrill | |
| 1969 | Best Fact Crime | Poe the Detective | John Evangelist Walsh | Rutgers University Press | |
| 1969 | Best Fact Crime | The Mulberry Tree | John Frasca | Prentice-Hall | |
| 1969 | Best Fact Crime | Three Sisters In Black | Norman Zierold | Little, Brown | |
| 1968 | Best Fact Crime | A Private Disgrace | Victoria Lincoln | Putnam | |
| 1968 | Best Fact Crime | Black Market Medicine | Margaret Kreig | Prentice-Hall | |
| 1968 | Best Fact Crime | Frame-Up | Curt Gentry | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1968 | Best Fact Crime | Justice in the Black Room | Selwyn Raab | World Publishing Co. | |
| 1967 | Best Fact Crime | The Boston Strangler | Gerold Frank | New American Library | |
| 1967 | Best Fact Crime | Crime and Detection | Julian Symons | Crown | |
| 1967 | Best Fact Crime | The Last Two to Hang | Elwyn Jones | Stein & Day | |
| 1966 | Best Fact Crime | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | Random House | |
| 1966 | Best Fact Crime | A Little Girl is Dead | Harry Golden | World | |
| 1966 | Best Fact Crime | Murderers Sane and Mad | Miriam Allen deFord | Abelard-Schuman | |
| 1966 | Best Fact Crime | The Century of the Detective | Jurgen Thorwald | Harcourt, Brace & World | |
| 1966 | Best Fact Crime | The Power of Life and Death | Lawrence G. Blochman, Michael V. DiSalle | Random House | |
| 1965 | Best Fact Crime | Gideon's Trumpet | Anthony Lewis | Random House | |
| 1965 | Best Fact Crime | Lament for the Molly Maguires | Arthur H. Lewis | Harcourt, Brace & World | |
| 1965 | Best Fact Crime | The Honored Society | Norman Lewis | Putnam | |
| 1965 | Best Fact Crime | The Minister and the Choir Singer | William Kunstler | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1965 | Best Fact Crime | The Molly Maguires | Wayne G. Broehl Jr. | Harvard University Press | |
| 1964 | Best Fact Crime | The Deed | Gerold Frank | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1964 | Best Fact Crime | Flight 967 | Brad Williams | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1964 | Best Fact Crime | The Hired Killers | Peter Wyden | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1963 | Best Fact Crime | Tragedy in Dedham | Francis Russell | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1962 | Best Fact Crime | Death and the Supreme Court | Barrett Prettyman Jr. | Harcourt, Brace & World | |
| 1962 | Best Fact Crime | Kidnap | George Waller | Dial | |
| 1962 | Best Fact Crime | Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story | Edward D. Radin | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1962 | Best Fact Crime | The Sheppard Murder Case | Paul Holmes | McKay | |
| 1961 | Best Fact Crime | The Overbury Affair | Miriam Allen deFord | Chilton | |
| 1961 | Best Fact Crime | Heaven Knows Who | Christianna Brand | Scribners | |
| 1961 | Best Fact Crime | Mostly Murder | Sir Sydney Smith | McKay | |
| 1960 | Best Fact Crime | Fire at Sea | Thomas Gallager | Rhinehart | |
| 1960 | Best Fact Crime | Great Train Robberies of the West | Eugene B. Block | Coward-McCann | |
| 1959 | Best Fact Crime | They Died in the Chair | Wenzell Brown | Popular Library |