Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards - Non-Fiction
Established 1976.
- 2008
- The Wall by Peter Sís (Foster/Farrar)
- 2007
- The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr written and illustrated by Nicolas Debon
- 2006
- If You Decide to Go to the Moon Faith McNulty, illustrated by Steven Kellogg
- 2005
- The Race to Save the Lord God Bird Phillip Hoose
- 2004
- An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Jim Murphy
- 2003
- Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey Maira Kalman
- 2002
- This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie Elizabeth Partridge
- 2001
- The Longitude Prize Joan Dash, illustrated by Dusan Petricic
- 2000
- Sir Walter Ralegh and the quest for El Dorado Marc Aronson
- 1999
- The top of the world: climbing Mount Everest Steve Jenkins
- 1998
- Leon's story Leon Walter Tillage
- 1997
- A drop of water: a book of science and wonder Walter Wick
- 1996
- Orphan train rider: one boy's true story Andrea Warren
- 1995
- Abigail Adams: witness to a revolution Natalie S Bober
- 1994
- Eleanor Roosevelt: a life of discovery Russell Freedman
- 1993
- Sojourner truth: ain't I a woman? Patricia C and Frederick McKissack
- 1992
- Talking with artists Pat Cummings
- 1991
- Appalachia: the voices of sleeping birds Cynthia Rylant
- 1990
- The great little Madison Jean Fritz