Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

2001 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerHirohito and the Making of Modern JapanHerbert P. BixWinner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never befor...Amazon2001 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusDave EggersAmazonNewjack: Guarding Sing SingTed ConoverAmazon

2002 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerCarry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights RevolutionDiane McWhorterNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, wa...Amazon2002 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of DepressionAndrew SolomonAmazonWar in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the GeneralsDavid HalberstamAmazon

2003 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerA Problem from Hell: America and the Age of GenocideSamantha PowerA character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th-century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans....Amazon2003 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistThe Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and SpiritEllen MeloyAmazonThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human NatureSteven PinkerAmazon

2004 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerGulag: A HistoryAnne ApplebaumThis landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any language to dr...Amazon2004 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistRembrandt's JewsSteven NadlerAmazonThe Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's MilitaryDana PriestAmazon

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

1991 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe AntsBert Hölldobler and Edward O. WilsonDiscusses the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of ants This book talks about the ants and their habitats and where they came from and arrived....Amazon1991 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistLooking for a ShipJohn McPheeAmazonRiver of Traps: A Village LifeWilliam duBuys and Alex HarrisAmazon

2007 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence WrightTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of '...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistCrazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health MadnessPete EarleyAmazonFiasco: The American Military Adventure in IraqThomas E. RicksAmazon

2008 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945Saul FriedlanderThe enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily o...Amazon2008 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistThe Cigarette CenturyAllan M. BrandtAmazonThe Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex RossAmazon

2009 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerSlavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIDouglas A. BlackmonReveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to businesses and provincial farmers....Amazon2009 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistGandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our AgeArthur L. HermanAmazonThe Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of EuropeWilliam I. HitchcockAmazon