2025 | 24th Thurber Prize

2025 Winner

Alexandra Petri, Alexandra Petri’s US History

2025 Finalists

Jason Roeder, Griefstrike!

Jane Roper, The Society of Shame

2024 | 23rd Thurber Prize

2024 Winner

S.E. Boyd, The Lemon

2024 Finalists

Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

Elinor Lipman, Ms. Demeanor

2023 | 22nd Thurber Prize

2023 Winner

Steven Rowley, The Guncle

2023 Finalists

Annabelle Gurwitch, You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility

Danielle Henderson, The Ugly Cry

2022 | 21st Thurber Prize

2022 Winner

James McBride, Deacon King Kong

2022 Finalists

Mike Birbiglia, The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

Alexandra Petri: Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

2021 | 20th Thurber Prize

2021 Winner

Damon Young, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker

2021 Finalists

Dave Barry, Lessons from Lucy

Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

2019 | 19th Thurber Prize

2019 Winner

Simon Rich, Hits & Misses

2019 Finalists

Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

John Kenney, Love Poems for Married People

2018 | 18th Thurber Prize

2018 Winner

Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

2018 Finalists

Jenny Allen, Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas

John Hodgman, Vactionland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

2017 | 17th Thurber Prize

2017 Winner

Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

2017 Finalists

Ken Pisani, Amp'd

Aaron Thier, Mr. Eternity

2016 | 16th Thurber Prize

2016 Winner

Harrison Scott Key, The World's Largest Man

2016 Finalists

Jason Gay, Little Victories

Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

2015 | 15th Thurber Prize

2015 Winner

Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

2015 Finalists

Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

Annabelle Gurwitch, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50

2014 | 14th Thurber Prize

2014 Winner

John Kenney, Truth in Advertising

2014 Finalists

Liza Donnelly, Women on Men

Bruce McCall and David Letterman, This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me)

2013 | 13th Thurber Prize

2013 Winner

Dan Zevin, Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad

2013 Finalists

Shalom Auslander, Hope, A Tragedy

Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, Lunatics: A Novel

2012 | 12th Thurber Prize

2012 Winner

Calvin Trillin, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

2012 Finalists

Nate DiMeo and the creative team of Parks and Recreation, Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America

Patricia Marx, Starting From Happy

2011 | 11th Thurber Prize

2011 Winner

David Rakoff, Half Empty

2011 Finalists

Rick Reilly, Sports from Hell

Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk with Me

2010 | 10th Thurber Prize

2010 Winner

Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist

2010 Finalists

Jancee Dunn, Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo

Rhoda Janzen, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

2009 | 9th Thurber Prize

2009 Winner

Ian Frazier, Lamentations of the Father

2009 Finalists

Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Don Lee, Wrack and Ruin

Laurie Notaro, The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death

2008 | 8th Thurber Prize

2008 Winner

Larry Doyle, I Love You, Beth Cooper 

2008 Finalists

Patricia Marx, Him Her Him Again The End of Him 

Simon Rich, Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations

2007 | 7th Thurber Prize

2007 Winner

Joe Keenan, My Lucky Star 

2007 Finalists

Merrill Markoe, Walking in Circles Before Lying Down 

Bob Newhart, I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This and Other Things That Strike Me Funny

2006 | 6th Thurber Prize

2006 Winner

Alan Zweibel, The Other Shulman 

2006 Finalists

Bill Scheft, Time Won’t Let Me 

Kinky Friedman, Texas Hold ‘Em

2005 | 5th Thurber Prize

2005 Winner

Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show, America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction

2005 Finalists

Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers

Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi

2004 | 4th Thurber Prize

2004 Winner

Christopher Buckley, No Way to Treat a First Lady 

2004 Finalists

Robert Kaplow, Me and Orson Welles 

Dan Zevin, The Day I Turned Uncool 

2001 | 3rd Thurber Prize

2001 Winner

David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day 

2001 Special Honor Book

Henry Alford, Big Kiss 

2001 Finalists

Andy Borowitz, The Trillionaire Next Door 

Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country 

Brett Leveridge, Men My Mother Dated 

Jim Mullen, It Takes a Village Idiot 

1999 | 2nd Thurber Prize

1999 Winner

The editors of The Onion, Our Dumb Century: 100 Years of Headlines from America’s Finest News Source  

1997 | 1st Thurber Prize

1997 Winner

Ian Frazier, Coyote v. Acme 

1997 Honor Books

David Sedaris, Naked 

Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations