Books

Pulitzer Prize (awards)

This award was given to 864 books.


  1. The Publisher

    Henry Luce and His American Century

    by Alan Brinkley

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Finalist
  2. Mrs. Adams in Winter

    A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

    by Michael O'Brien

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Finalist
  3. The Publisher

    Henry Luce and His American Century

    by Alan Brinkley

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Finalist
  4. Washington

    A Life

    by Ron Chernow

    Year: 2011
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Rank: Winner
  5. Detroit: A Play

    by Lisa D'Amour

    Year: 2011
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  6. A Free Man of Color

    by John Guare

    Year: 2011
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  7. Clybourne Park

    A Play

    by Bruce Norris

    Year: 2011
    Category: Drama
  8. A Visit From the Goon Squad

    by Jennifer Egan

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
  9. The Emperor of All Maladies

    A Biography of Cancer

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Year: 2011
    Category: General Nonfiction
  10. Empire of the Summer Moon

    Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

    by S. C. Gwynne

    Year: 2011
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  11. The Shallows

    What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    by Nicholas G. Carr

    Year: 2011
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  12. The Fiery Trial

    Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    by Eric Foner

    Year: 2011
    Category: History
  13. Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston

    by Michael Rawson

    Year: 2011
    Category: History
    Finalist
  14. Confederate Reckoning

    Power and Politics in the Civil War South

    by Stephanie McCurry

    Year: 2011
    Category: History
    Finalist
  15. The Best of It

    New and Selected Poems

    by Kay Ryan

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
  16. The Common Man

    by Maurice Manning

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  17. Break the Glass (Lannan Literary Selections)

    by Jean Valentine

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  18. Cheever

    A Life

    by Blake Bailey

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  19. Woodrow Wilson

    A Biography

    by John Milton Cooper

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  20. The First Tycoon

    The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

    by T. J. Stiles

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Winner
  21. Next to Normal

    by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt

    Year: 2010
    Category: Drama
  22. In the Next Room

    or, The Vibrator Play

    by Sarah Ruhl

    Year: 2010
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  23. Three Plays

    Gruesome Playground Injuries / Animals Out of Paper / Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

    by Rajiv Joseph

    Year: 2010
    Category: Drama (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo)
    Finalist
  24. Tinkers

    by Paul Harding

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  25. Love in Infant Monkeys

    by Lydia Millet

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  26. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

    by Daniyal Mueenuddin

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  27. The Dead Hand

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman

    Year: 2010
    Category: General nonfiction
  28. How Markets Fail

    The Logic of Economic Calamities

    by John Cassidy

    Year: 2010
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  29. The Evolution of God

    by Robert Wright

    Year: 2010
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  30. Lords of Finance

    The Bankers Who Broke the World

    by Liaquat Ahamed

    Year: 2010
    Category: History
  31. Fordlandia

    The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

    by Greg Grandin

    Year: 2010
    Category: History
    Finalist
  32. Oxford History of the United States: Book 4

    Empire of Liberty

    A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

    by Gordon S. Wood

    Year: 2010
    Category: History
    Finalist
  33. Versed

    by Rae Armantrout

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
  34. Tryst

    by Angie Estes

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  35. Inseminating the Elephant

    by Lucia Maria Perillo

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  36. Inseminating the Elephant

    by Lucia Maria Perillo

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  37. Empire of Illusion

    The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

    by Chris Hedges

    Year: 2009
  38. Traitor to His Class

    The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    by H. W. Brands

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  39. The Bin Ladens

    An Arabian Family in the American Century

    by Steve Coll

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  40. American Lion

    Andrew Jackson in the White House

    by Jon Meacham

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
    Rank: Winner
  41. Ruined

    by Lynn Nottage

    Year: 2009
    Category: Drama
  42. In the Heights

    by Lin-Manuel Miranda

    Year: 2009
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  43. Becky Shaw (Modern Plays)

    by Gina Gionfriddo

    Year: 2009
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  44. Olive Kitteridge

    A Novel in Stories

    by Elizabeth Strout

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  45. All Souls

    by Christine Schutt

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  46. Slavery by Another Name

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    by Douglas A. Blackmon

    Year: 2009
    Category: General Nonfiction
  47. The Bitter Road to Freedom

    A New History of the Liberation of Europe

    by William I. Hitchcock

    Year: 2009
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  48. Gandhi & Churchill

    The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

    by Arthur Herman

    Year: 2009
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  49. The Hemingses of Monticello

    An American Family

    by Annette Gordon-Reed

    Year: 2009
    Category: History
  50. The Liberal Hour

    Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s

    by G. Calvin Mackenzie

    Year: 2009
    Category: History
    Finalist

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