Sunday, November 24

Pulitzer Prize

2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

2011 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerA Visit from the Goon SquadJennifer EganJennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader d...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe PrivilegesJonathan DeeAmazonThe SurrenderedChang-Rae LeeAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2011 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerEmperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerSiddhartha MukherjeeAn assessment of cancer addresses both the courageous battles against the disease and the misperceptions and hubris that have compromised modern understandings, providing coverage of such topics as ancient-world surgeries and the development of present-day...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistEmpire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistoryS.C. GwynneAmazonThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsNicholas G. CarrAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2011 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaveryEric Foner“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's cr...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistConfederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War SouthStephanie McCurryAmazonEden on the Charles: The Making of BostonMichael J. RawsonAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2011 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2011 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Best of It: New and Selected PoemsKay RyanKay Ryan’s recent appointment as the Library of Congress’s sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. Salon has compared her poems to “Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious device...Amazon2011 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistBreak the GlassJean ValentineAmazonThe Common ManMaurice ManningAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2012 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2012 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGeorge F. Kennan: An American LifeJohn Lewis GaddisA portrait of the Cold War strategist offers insight into his complex, troubled character while tracing his role in defining U.S. policy, covering his critical views on American diplomacy and his struggles with depression....Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazonThe Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. KennedyDavid NasawAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

2012 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2012 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Swerve: How the World Became ModernStephen GreenblattWinner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in w...Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistOne Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of HealingDiane AckermanAmazonUnnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of MenMara HvistendahlAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

2012 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2012 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableGroundbreaking . . . It will be difficult for anyone to better this book . . . a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop' Wil Haygood, Washington Post 'He was a...Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistEmpires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860Anne F. HydeAmazonRailroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaRichard WhiteAmazonThe Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin LadenAnthony Summers and Robbyn SwanAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

2012 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2012 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerLife on MarsTracy K. SmithWinner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by th...Amazon2012 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistCore Samples from the WorldForrest GanderAmazonHow LongRon PadgettAmazon
2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

2013 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2013 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte CristoTom ReissThe Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course are fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas’s own father, Alex - the son of a marquis and a black slave....Amazon2013 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistFreud: A Life for Our TimePeter GayAmazonThe Duke of DeceptionGeoffrey WolffAmazon