2008  An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore, read by Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood
2007  The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream, Barack Obama
2006  (tie)  Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis, Jimmy Carter
                 With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis
2005  Dreams From My Father, Senator Barack Obama
2004  My Life, Bill Clinton
2003  Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look at the Right, Al Franken
2002  A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Maya Angelou
2001  Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, Quincy Jones
2000  The Measure of a Man, Sidney Poitier

1999  The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., LeVar Burton with Martin Luther King, Jr.
1998  Still Me, Christopher Reeve
1997  Charles Kuralt's Spring, Charles Kuralt
1996  It Takes A Village, Hillary Rodham Clinton