2020 Short list:

• Going Home by Raja Shehadeh

• Slaves Among Us by Monique Villa

• I Will Never See the World Again by Ahmet Altan, trans. Yasemin Congar

• The Burmese Labyrinth by Carlos Sardiña Galache

• We Have Been Harmonized by Kai Strittmatter, trans. Ruth Martin

2019 Short list:

• The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

• No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid

• No Friend But the Mountains by Behrooz Boochani

• The Beekeeper of Sinjar by Dunya Mikhail

• Climate Justice by Mary Robinson

2018 Short list:

• Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gilda

• Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera

• Malacqua by Nicola Pugliese

• Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan

• Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo

2017 Short list:

• Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters by Kishalay Bhattacharjee 

• Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram

• The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni

• East West Street: On the origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands

• Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger