Other Pulitzer Prize lists : Drama, Biography/Autobiography, Fiction, Poetry, History, General Nonfiction

2020

The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin
A sweeping and beautifully written book that probes the American myth of boundless expansion and provides a compelling context for thinking about the current political moment. (Moved by the Board from the History category.)

2019

Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.

2018

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America  by James Forman Jr.
An examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.

2017

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty.

2016

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
A deeply reported book of remarkable clarity showing how the flawed rationale for the Iraq War led to the explosive growth of the Islamic State.

2015

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 
by Elizabeth Kolbert
ALA Notable Books (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (2015), Helen Bernstein Book Award (2015), Kirkus Prize (2014), L.A. Times Book Prize (2014), Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) (2015), National Book Critics Circle Award (2014), Pulitzer Prize (2015)

 2014. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Dan Fagin
Books for a Better Life (2013), Books for a Better Life (2014), Helen Bernstein Book Award (2014)

 2013. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Gilbert King
Chautauqua Prize (2013), Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2013), Edgar Allan Poe Awards (2013), Florida Book Award (2013)

 2012. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Stephen Greenblatt
ALA Notable Books (2012), MLA Prize (2012), National Book Awards (2011)

 2011. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee
ALA Notable Books (2012), Books for a Better Life (2010), Discover Great New Writers (2010), Guardian First Book Award (2011), Indies Choice Book Awards (2011), L.A. Times Book Prize (2010), Literary Award (2011), Lukas Prize Project (2011), National Book Critics Circle Award (2010), PEN Literary Award (2011)

 2010. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy David E. Hoffman
 2009. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon
 2008. Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination, 1939–1945 Saul Friedländer

 2007. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright
Helen Bernstein Book Award (2007), L.A. Times Book Prize (2006), Lukas Prize Project (2007), National Book Awards (2006)

 2006. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins
 2005. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll

2004. Gulag Anne Applebaum
L.A. Times Book Prize (2003), Lukas Prize Project (2004), National Book Awards (2003), National Book Critics Circle Award (2003)


2003. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power
L.A. Times Book Prize (2002), Lukas Prize Project (2003), National Book Critics Circle Award (2002)

 2002. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Diane McWhorter
 2001. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Herbert P. Bix
Kiriyama Prize (2000), National Book Critics Circle Award (2000)

 2000. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II John W. Dower | 4.10 avg rating — 2,713 ratings
 1999. Annals of the Former WorldJohn McPhee | 4.33 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
 1998. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared Diamond | 4.00 avg rating — 188,700 ratings
 1997. Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard Kluger | 3.86 avg rating — 182 ratings
 1996. The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After CommunismTina Rosenberg | 4.03 avg rating — 384 ratings
 1995. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our TimeJonathan Weiner | 4.15 avg rating — 6,849 ratings
 1994. Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireDavid Remnick | 4.18 avg rating — 2,859 ratings
 1993. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade AmericaGarry Wills | 4.13 avg rating — 6,223 ratings
 1992. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and PowerDaniel Yergin | 4.40 avg rating — 6,334 ratings
 1991. The AntsBert Hölldobler | 4.45 avg rating — 436 ratings
 1990. And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the SouthDale Maharidge | 4.03 avg rating — 170 ratings
 1989. A Bright Shining LieNeil Sheehan | 4.21 avg rating — 8,814 ratings
 1988. The Making of the Atomic BombRichard Rhodes | 4.32 avg rating — 13,517 ratings
 1987. Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised LandDavid K. Shipler | 4.02 avg rating — 483 ratings
 1986. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesJ. Anthony Lukas | 4.27 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
 1986. Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and WhiteJoseph Lelyveld | 4.17 avg rating — 89 ratings
 1985. The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIStuds Terkel | 4.26 avg rating — 3,202 ratings
 1984. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast IndustryPaul Starr | 4.05 avg rating — 727 ratings
 1983. Is There No Place on Earth for Me?Susan Sheehan | 3.82 avg rating — 837 ratings
 1982. The Soul of a New MachineTracy Kidder | 4.09 avg rating — 4,601 ratings
 1981. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and CultureCarl E. Schorske | 4.07 avg rating — 1,075 ratings
 1980. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidDouglas R. Hofstadter | 4.30 avg rating — 34,106 ratings
 1979. On Human NatureEdward O. Wilson | 4.07 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
 1978. Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human IntelligenceCarl Sagan | 4.16 avg rating — 14,492 ratings
 1977. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake BayWilliam W. Warner | 4.07 avg rating — 840 ratings
 1976. Why Survive?: Being Old in AmericaRobert N. Butler | 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
 1975. Pilgrim at Tinker CreekAnnie Dillard | 4.10 avg rating — 17,240 ratings
 1974. The Denial of DeathErnest Becker | 4.19 avg rating — 5,006 ratings
 1973. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in VietnamFrances FitzGerald | 4.04 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
 1972. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45Barbara W. Tuchman | 4.08 avg rating — 2,407 ratings
 1971. The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–45John Willard Toland | 4.21 avg rating — 3,116 ratings
 1970. Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant NonviolenceErik H. Erikson | 3.93 avg rating — 176 ratings
 1969. So Human an Animal: How We are Shaped by Surroundings and EventsRené Dubos | 3.93 avg rating — 134 ratings
 1968. Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10)Will Durant | 4.18 avg rating — 544 ratings
 1967. The Problem of Slavery in Western CultureDavid Brion Davis | 3.98 avg rating — 99 ratings
 1966. Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist’s Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American WinterEdwin Way Teale | 4.24 avg rating — 116 ratings
 1965. O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative YearsHoward Mumford Jones | 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
 1964. Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeRichard Hofstadter | 4.18 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
 1963. The Guns of AugustBarbara W. Tuchman | 4.18 avg rating — 38,826 ratings
 1962. The Making of the President 1960Theodore H. White | 4.13 avg rating — 6,253 ratings

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 2017. The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National CemeteryMicki McElya | 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
 2016. If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the QuranCarla Power | 4.01 avg rating — 864 ratings
 2016. Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates | 4.40 avg rating — 108,931 ratings
 2015. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan EyesAnand Gopal | 4.43 avg rating — 1,366 ratings
 2014. The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of WarFred Kaplan | 4.00 avg rating — 486 ratings
 2014. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten GenocideGary J. Bass | 4.28 avg rating — 1,213 ratings
 2013. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine Boo | 3.97 avg rating — 78,587 ratings
 2013. The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in NatureDavid George Haskell | 4.20 avg rating — 1,829 ratings
 2012. Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of MenMara Hvistendahl | 3.84 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
 2011. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsNicholas Carr | 3.85 avg rating — 15,507 ratings
 2010. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistoryS.C. Gwynne | 4.13 avg rating — 22,854 ratings
 2010. The Evolution of GodRobert Wright | 3.92 avg rating — 5,397 ratings
 2010. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic CalamitiesJohn Cassidy | 4.03 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
 2009. The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of EuropeWilliam I. Hitchcock | 3.79 avg rating — 300 ratings
 2009. Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our AgeArthur Herman | 4.05 avg rating — 929 ratings
 2008. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex Ross | 4.08 avg rating — 10,239 ratings
 2008. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined AmericaAllan M. Brandt | 3.99 avg rating — 292 ratings
 2007. Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health MadnessPete Earley | 4.20 avg rating — 2,317 ratings
 2007. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in IraqThomas E. Ricks | 4.09 avg rating — 5,311 ratings
 2006. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Tony Judt | 4.33 avg rating — 6,883 ratings
 2006. The Assassins’ Gate: America in IraqGeorge Packer | 4.05 avg rating — 2,480 ratings
 2005. The Devil’s Highway: A True StoryLuis Alberto Urrea | 4.02 avg rating — 5,858 ratings
 2004. Rembrandt’s JewsSteven Nadler | 3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings
 2004. The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America’s MilitaryDana Priest | 3.56 avg rating — 75 ratings
 2003. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human NatureSteven Pinker | 4.07 avg rating — 16,703 ratings
 2003. The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and SkyEllen Meloy | 4.01 avg rating — 888 ratings
 2002. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the GeneralsDavid Halberstam | 3.91 avg rating — 603 ratings
 2002. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of DepressionAndrew Solomon | 4.15 avg rating — 8,369 ratings
 2001. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusDave Eggers | 3.68 avg rating — 150,971 ratings
 2001. Newjack: Guarding Sing SingTed Conover | 3.96 avg rating — 3,144 ratings
 2000. Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory BirdsScott Weidensaul | 4.36 avg rating — 352 ratings
 2000. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate TheoryBrian Greene | 4.06 avg rating — 70,827 ratings
 1999. Crime and Punishment in AmericaElliott Currie | 3.76 avg rating — 75 ratings
 1999. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They DoJudith Rich Harris | 4.12 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
 1998. How the Mind WorksSteven Pinker | 3.97 avg rating — 14,735 ratings
 1998. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest DisasterJon Krakauer | 4.11 avg rating — 304,479 ratings
 1997. Fame & Folly: EssaysCynthia Ozick | 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings
 1997. The Inheritance: How Three Families and the American Political Majority Moved From Left to RightSamuel G. Freedman | 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings
 1996. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic TechnologyLawrence Weschler | 4.02 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
 1996. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of LifeDaniel C. Dennett | 4.03 avg rating — 11,475 ratings
 1995. Midnight in the Garden of Good and EvilJohn Berendt | 3.90 avg rating — 178,100 ratings
 1995. How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final ChapterSherwin B. Nuland | 4.04 avg rating — 5,651 ratings
 1994. The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern AgeJohn Lukacs | 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
 1994. The Cultivation of Hatred — the Bourgeois Experience — Victoria to FreudPeter Gay | 4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
 1993. A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of WarSusan Griffin | 4.22 avg rating — 342 ratings
 1993. Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican FatherRichard Rodríguez | 3.69 avg rating — 377 ratings
 1993. Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America’s Great PlainsAnne Matthews | 3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings
 1992. Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American PoliticsThomas Byrne Edsall | 3.53 avg rating — 60 ratings
 1992. Broken VesselsAndre Dubus | 4.36 avg rating — 340 ratings
 1991. River of Traps: A Village LifeWilliam deBuys | 4.33 avg rating — 57 ratings
 1991. Looking for a ShipJohn McPhee | 4.11 avg rating — 997 ratings
 1990. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire And The Creation Of The Modern Middle EastDavid Fromkin | 4.17 avg rating — 4,975 ratings
 1990. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryStephen Jay Gould | 4.11 avg rating — 7,929 ratings
 1989. The Last Farmer: An American MemoirHoward Kohn | 3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings
 1989. Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty YearsMcGeorge Bundy | 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings
 1989. Coming of Age in the Milky WayTimothy Ferris | 4.13 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
 1988. Chaos: Making a New ScienceJames Gleick | 3.98 avg rating — 24,083 ratings
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 1987. Rising from the PlainsJohn McPhee | 4.21 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
 1986. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American LifeRobert N. Bellah | 3.85 avg rating — 759 ratings
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 1984. Conversations With the Enemy: The Story of PFC Robert GarwoodWinston Groom | 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
 1983. The Fate of the EarthJonathan Schell | 3.86 avg rating — 197 ratings
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 1982. Basin and RangeJohn McPhee | 4.18 avg rating — 2,416 ratings
 1981. Southerners: A Journalist’s OdysseyMarshall Frady | 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
 1981. China MenMaxine Hong Kingston | 3.70 avg rating — 1,448 ratings
 1981. Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific WarWilliam Manchester | 4.18 avg rating — 4,584 ratings
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 1980. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary ImaginationSandra M. Gilbert | 4.19 avg rating — 2,868 ratings
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