Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

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

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

2013 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerDevil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New AmericaGilbert King* Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction * Nominated for a 2013 Edgar Award * Book of the Year (Non-fiction, 2012) The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor From acclaimed, prize-winning author Gilbert King comes this gripping true stor...Amazon2013 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine BooAmazonThe Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in NatureDavid George HaskellAmazon

2014 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerToms River: A Story of Science and SalvationDan FaginThe true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and has been hailed by The New York Times as "a new classic of science reporting....Amazon2014 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistThe Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten GenocideGary J. BassAmazonThe Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of WarFred KaplanAmazon

2015 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryElizabeth Kolbert"Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since t...Amazon2015 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaEvan OsnosAmazonNo Good Men Among the LivingAnand GopalAmazon

2016 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerBlack Flags: The Rise of ISISJoby WarrickDrawing on unique access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Joby Warrick weaves together heart-pounding, moment-by-moment operational details with overarching historical perspectives to reveal the long trajectory of today's most dangerous ......Amazon2016 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistBetween the World and MeTa-Nehisi CoatesAmazonIf the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the QuranCarla PowerAmazon

2017 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew DesmondA Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional le...Amazon2017 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistIn a Different Key: The Story of AutismJohn Donvan and Caren ZuckerAmazonThe Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National CemeteryMicki McElyaAmazon

2018 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerLocking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericaJames Forman Jr.Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Longlisted for the National Book Award One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017 Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its dispro...Amazon2018 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistNotes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American WorldSuzy HansenAmazonThe Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and UsRichard O. PrumAmazon

2019 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of AmericaEliza GriswoldWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Seven years in the making, Amity and Prosperity tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and of one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent...Amazon2019 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistIn a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable WorkersBernice YeungAmazonRising: Dispatches from the New American ShoreElizabeth RushAmazon

1977 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerBeautiful SwimmersWilliam W. WarnerCombines a natural history of the Atlantic blue crab with an historical and ecological study of Chesapeake Bay and a chronicle of the commercial crabber's year...Amazon