The award is named after Sophie Brody and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the Brodart Foundation.
Sophie Brody Medal and Honor Winners| Year | Recipient | Title | Publisher | Citation |
|---|
| 2017 | {{sortname>Michael|Chabon}} | A Novel | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2017 | {{sortname>Ezra|Glinter}} | Have I got a Story For You: More than a Century of Fiction from the Forward | W. W. Norton & Company | Honor |
| 2017 | {{sortname>Helen Maryles|Shankman}} | In the Land of Armadillos | Charles Scribner's Sons | Honor |
| 2017 | {{sortname>Matti|Friedman}} | Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story | Algonquin Books | Honor |
| 2017 | {{sortname>Abraham|Karpinowitz}} | Vilna My Vilna | Syracuse University Press | Honor |
| 2016 | {{sortname>Jim|Shepard}} | {{sort>book of aron|The Book of Aron: A Novel}} | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner |
| 2016 | {{sortname>Michal|Lemberger}} | After Abel and Other Stories | Prospect Park Books | Honor |
| 2016 | {{sortname>Primo|Levi}} | {{sort>complete works of primo levi|The Complete Works of Primo Levi}} | Liveright | Honor |
| 2016 | {{sortname>Sasha|Abramsky}} | {{sort>House of Twenty Thousand Books|The House of Twenty Thousand Books}} | The New York Review of Books | Honor |
| 2016 | {{sortname>Dan|Ephron}} | Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel | W. W. Norton & Company | Honor |
| 2015 | {{sortname>Boris|Fishman}} | {{sort>Replacement Life|A Replacement Life}} | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2015 | {{sortname>Stuart|Rojstaczer}} | {{sort>Mathematician’s Shiva|The Mathematician’s Shiva}} | Penguin | Honor |
| 2015 | {{sortname>Ruchama King|Feuerman}} | In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist | New York Review of Books | Honor |
| 2014 | {{sortname>Yossi Klein|Halevi}} | Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2014 | {{sortname>Ari|Shavit}} | My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | Spiegel & Grau | Honor |
| 2014 | {{sortname>Jeremy|Dauber}} | {{sort>Worlds of Sholem Aleichem|The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye}} | Schocken Books | Honor |
| 2013 | {{sortname>Matti|Friedman}} | {{sort>aleppo codex|The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible}} | Algonquin Books | Winner |
| 2013 | {{sortname>Anouk|Markovits}} | I Am Forbidden | Hogarth Press | Honor |
| 2013 | {{sortname>Nathan|Englander}} | What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank | Alfred A. Knopf | Honor |
| 2013 | {{sortname>Herman|Wouk}} | {{sort>lawgiver|The Lawgiver}} | | Honor |
| 2012 | {{sort>Hoffman, Adina and Peter Cole|Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole}} | Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza | Schocken Books | Winner |
| 2012 | {{sortname>Simon Sebag|Montefiore}} | Jerusalem: the Biography | Alfred A. Knopf | Honor |
| 2012 | {{sortname>Art|Spiegelman}} | MetaMaus | Pantheon Books | Honor |
| 2012 | {{sortname>Erika|Dreifus}} | Quiet Americans: Stories | Last Light Studio Books | Honor |
| 2011 | {{sortname>Judith|Shulevitz}} | {{sort>Sabbath World|The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time}} | Random House | Winner |
| 2011 | {{sortname>Eshkol|Nevo}} | Homesick | Dalkey Archive Press | Honor |
| 2010 | {{sortname>Jonathon|Keats}} | {{sort>Book of the Unknown|The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six}} | Random House | Winner |
| 2010 | {{sortname>Thomas|Buergenthal}} | {{sort>lucky child|A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy}} | Little Brown | Honor |
| 2010 | {{sortname>Melvin|Konner}} | {{sort>Jewish Body|The Jewish Body}} | Schocken Books | Honor |
| 2010 | {{sort>Kramer, Clara and Stephen Gantz|Clara Kramer and Stephen Gantz}} | Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival | Ecco Press | Honor |
| 2009 | {{sortname>Peter|Manseau}} | Songs for the Butcher's Daughter | Free Press | Winner |
| 2009 | {{sortname>Ron|Leshem}} | Beaufort | Delacorte Press | Honor |
| 2009 | {{sortname>A.B.|Yehoshua}} | Friendly Fire | | Honor |
| 2009 | {{sortname>Arie|Kaplan}} | From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books | Jewish Publication Society | Honor |
| 2008 | {{sortname>Nathan|Englander}} | {{sort>Ministry of Special Cases|The Ministry of Special Cases}} | Alfred A. Knopf | Winner |
| 2008 | {{sortname>Shalom|Auslander}} | Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir | Riverhead Books | Honor |
| 2008 | {{sortname>Diane|Ackerman}} | {{sort>Zookeeper’s Wife|The Zookeeper's Wife}} | W. W. Norton & Company | Honor |
| 2008 | {{sortname>Joyce|Antler}} | You Never Call! You Never Write! A History of the Jewish Mother | Oxford University Press | Honor |
| 2007 | {{sortname>Daniel|Mendelsohn}} | {{sort>Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million|A Search for Six of Six Million}} | HarperCollins | Winner |
| 2007 | {{sortname>Dara|Horn}} | {{sort>world to come|The World to Come}} | W. W. Norton & Company | Honor |
| 2007 | {{sortname>Sandy|Tolan}} | {{sort>LemonTree|LemonTree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East}} | Bloomsbury | Honor |
| 2007 | {{sortname>Markus|Zusak}} | {{sort>Book Thief|The Book Thief}} | Alfred A. Knopf | Honor |
| 2006 | {{sortname>Avner|Mandelman}} | Talking to the Enemy | Seven Stories Press | Winner |
| 2006 | {{sortname>Michael|Wex}} | Born to Kvetch | St. Martin's Press | Honor |
| 2006 | {{sortname>Michael|Lavigne}} | Not Me | Random House | Honor |
| 2006 | {{sortname>Tom|Reiss}} | {{sort>Orientalist|The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life}} | Random House | Honor |
1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/brody|title=The Sophie Brody Award|publisher=Ala.org|accessdate=7 December 2014}}