Thursday, March 28

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

2019 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America Eliza Griswold

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Eliza Griswold

2018 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America James Forman Jr.

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.

2017 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

2016 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS Joby Warrick

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Joby Warrick

2015 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

2014 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Dan Fagin

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Dan Fagin

2013 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Gilbert King

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Gilbert King

2012 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Stephen Greenblatt

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt

2011 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee

Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

2010 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy David E. Hoffman

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

David E. Hoffman

2009 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Douglas A. Blackmon

2008 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 Saul Friedlander

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945

Saul Friedlander

2007 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

2006 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins

2005 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Steve Coll

2004 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Gulag: A History Anne Applebaum

Gulag: A History

Anne Applebaum

2003 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

2002 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Diane McWhorter

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Diane McWhorter

2001 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Herbert P. Bix

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

2000 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II John W. Dower

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

1999 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Annals of the Former World John McPhee

Annals of the Former World

John McPhee

1998 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

1997 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris Richard Kluger

Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

Richard Kluger

1996 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism Tina Rosenberg

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism

Tina Rosenberg

1995 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Jonathan Weiner

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

Jonathan Weiner

1994 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire David Remnick

Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

David Remnick

1993 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Garry Wills

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Garry Wills

1992 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Daniel Yergin

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Daniel Yergin

1991 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Ants Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson

The Ants

Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson

1990 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

And Their Children After Them Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

And Their Children After Them

Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

1989 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Neil Sheehan

1988 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhode

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhode

1987 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land David K. Shipler

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

David K. Shipler

1986 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families J. Anthony Lukas

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

J. Anthony Lukas

1985 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two Studs Terkel

The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two

Studs Terkel

1984 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Social Transformation of American Medicine Paul Starr

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Paul Starr

1983 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Susan Sheehan

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Susan Sheehan

1982 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder

The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

1981 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture Carl E. Schorske

Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Carl E. Schorske

1980 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid Douglas Hofstadter

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter

1979 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

On Human Nature Edward O. Wilson

On Human Nature

Edward O. Wilson

1978 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Dragons of Eden Carl Sagan

The Dragons of Eden

Carl Sagan

1977 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Beautiful Swimmers William W. Warner

Beautiful Swimmers

William W. Warner

1976 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Why Survive? Being Old In America Robert Neil Butler

Why Survive? Being Old In America

Robert Neil Butler

1975 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

1974 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Denial of Death Ernest Becker

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

1973 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3, Robert Coles

Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3,

Robert Coles

1972 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 Barbara W. Tuchman

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45

Barbara W. Tuchman

1971 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Rising Sun John Toland

The Rising Sun

John Toland

1970 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Gandhi's Truth Erik H. Erikson

Gandhi’s Truth

Erik H. Erikson

1969 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

So Human an Animal René Jules Dubos

So Human an Animal

René Jules Dubos

1968 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, Will and Ariel Durant

Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization,

Will and Ariel Durant

1967 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture David Brion Davis

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

David Brion Davis

1966 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Wandering Through Winter Edwin Way Teale

Wandering Through Winter

Edwin Way Teale

1965 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

O Strange New World Howard Mumford Jones

O Strange New World

Howard Mumford Jones

1964 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Anti-intellectualism in American Life Richard Hofstadter

Anti-intellectualism in American Life

Richard Hofstadter

1963 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Guns of August Barbara W. Tuchman

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

1962 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

The Making of the President 1960 Theodore White

The Making of the President 1960

Theodore White