Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
2017
Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo (Random House)
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton (The New Press) — WINNER
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France (A.A. Knopf)
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard Reeves (Brookings Institute Press)
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers (Hachette)
2018
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen (Harper)
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung (The New Press) — WINNER
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg (Crown)
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks (St. Martin’s Press)
Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration, by Greg Berman and Julian Adler (The New Press)
2019
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz (Nan A. Talese) — WINNER
No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing by Jan Haldipur (NYU Press) — WINNER
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered (The New Press)
Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World by Shannon Watts (HarperOne)
Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns by Igor Volsky (The New Press)
