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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2005 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2005 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerGileadMarilynne RobinsonIn 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was o...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAn Unfinished SeasonWard JustAmazonWar TrashHa JinAmazon

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2005 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2005 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerGhost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Steve CollProvides a comprehensive overview of the CIA's and other covert agencies' operations in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, detailing the rise of the Taliban and bin Laden, the secret efforts of the CIA to capture or k...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistMaximum City: Bombay Lost and FoundSuketu MehtaAmazonThe Devil's Highway: A True StoryLuis Alberto UrreaAmazon

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2005 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2005 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerWashington's CrossingDavid Hackett FischerSix months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer rec...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistArc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz AgeKevin BoyleAmazonConjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2Michael O'BrienAmazon

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2005 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2005 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerDelights & ShadowsTed KooserWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate (2004–2006), is a poet who works toward clarity and accessibility, so that each distinctive poem appears to be as fresh and bright and spontaneous as a good waterc...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistSearch Party: Collected PoemsWilliam MatthewsAmazonThe OrchardBrigit Pegeen KellyAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2006 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerAmerican Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerKai Bird and Martin J. SherwinJ. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific pr...Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistA Beautiful MindSylvia NasarAmazonGeorge Santayana: A BiographyJohn Owen McCormickAmazonJonathan Swift: His Life and His WorldLeo DamroschAmazonThe Road From CoorainJill Ker ConwayAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2006 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerMarchGeraldine BrooksBrooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr March. An idealistic abolitionist, March has gone to serve the Union cause as chaplain to the troops. But the war tests his faith, not only in ...Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe Bright ForeverLee MartinAmazonThe MarchE. L. DoctorowAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2006 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerImperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in KenyaCaroline ElkinsOnly a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly t...Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistPostwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Tony JudtAmazonThe Assassins' Gate: America in IraqGeorge PackerAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2006 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerPolio: An American StoryDavid OshinskyHere David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond....Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistNew York BurningJill LeporeAmazonThe Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to LincolnSean WilentzAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2006 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2006 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerLate WifeClaudia EmersonA collection of poems in which the poet reminisces about the life she led with her first husband, describes the healing she went through after her divorce, and expresses her feelings toward her second husband, whose former wife died of cancer....Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistAmerican SublimeElizabeth AlexanderAmazonElegy on Toy PianoDean YoungAmazon

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2007 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2007 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward BeecherDebby ApplegateNo one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings—especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned th...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistHemingwayKenneth S. LynnAmazonJohn Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil LibertyArthur H. CashAmazonThe Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy AdamsLeonard L. RichardsAmazonThe Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in VietnamMax BootAmazonThe Worlds of Lincoln KirsteinMartin DubermanAmazon