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Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Dan Fagin
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Gilbert King
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
David E. Hoffman
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945
Saul Friedlander
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll
Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Power
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Diane McWhorter
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower
Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Richard Kluger
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism
Tina Rosenberg
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Jonathan Weiner
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
David Remnick
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Garry Wills
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin
The Ants
Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
And Their Children After Them
Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhode
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
David K. Shipler
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
J. Anthony Lukas
The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
Studs Terkel
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Paul Starr
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Susan Sheehan
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Carl E. Schorske
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter
On Human Nature
Edward O. Wilson
The Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan
Beautiful Swimmers
William W. Warner
Why Survive? Being Old In America
Robert Neil Butler
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3,
Robert Coles
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45
Barbara W. Tuchman
The Rising Sun
John Toland
Gandhi’s Truth
Erik H. Erikson
So Human an Animal
René Jules Dubos
Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization,
Will and Ariel Durant
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
David Brion Davis
Wandering Through Winter
Edwin Way Teale
O Strange New World
Howard Mumford Jones
Anti-intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
The Making of the President 1960
Theodore White
