Books

Pulitzer Prize (Awards)

This award was given to 166 books.


  1. The Heidi Chronicles

    Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic

    by Wendy Wasserstein

    Year : 1989

  2. A Bright Shining Lie

    John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

    by Neil Sheehan

    Year : 1989

  3. Angela's Ashes

    A Memoir

    by Frank McCourt

    Year : 1997

  4. Beloved

    by Toni Morrison

    Year : 1988

  5. The Hours

    by Michael Cunningham

    Year : 1999

  6. Oscar Wilde

    by Richard Ellmann

    Year : 1989

  7. Lincoln at Gettysburg

    The Words That Remade America

    by Garry Wills

    Year : 1993

  8. Imperial Reckoning

    The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

    by Caroline Elkins

    Year : 2006

  9. Gulag

    A History

    by Anne Applebaum

    Year : 2004

  10. Master of the Senate

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson

    by Robert A. Caro

    Year : 2003

  11. Battle Cry of Freedom

    The Civil War Era

    by James M. McPherson

    Year : 1989

  12. The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

    Year : 2007

  13. Black Zodiac

    by Charles Wright

    Year : 1998

  14. Lost in Yonkers

    by Neil Simon

    Year : 1991

  15. Gilead

    by Marilynne Robinson

    Year : 2005

  16. Empire Falls

    by Richard Russo

    Year : 2002

  17. A Problem from Hell

    America and the Age of Genocide

    by Samantha Power

    Year : 2003

  18. The Ants

    by Bert Holldobler

    Year : 1991

  19. Rabbit at Rest

    by John Updike

    Year : 1991

  20. A Bell for Adano

    by John Hersey

    Year : 1945

  21. Ironweed

    by William Kennedy

    Year : 1984

  22. A Midwife's Tale

    The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

    by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

    Year : 1991

  23. The Heavens and the Earth

    A Political History of the Space Age

    by Walter A. McDougall

    Year : 1986

  24. Fences

    by August Wilson

    Year : 1987

  25. Rabbit Is Rich

    by John Updike

    Year : 1982

  26. Arab and Jew

    Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

    by David K. Shipler

    Year : 1987

  27. Wild Iris

    by Louise Gluck

    Year : 1993

  28. Look Homeward

    A Life of Thomas Wolfe

    by David Herbert Donald

    Year : 1988

  29. Carry Me Home

    Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

    by Diane McWhorter

    Year : 2002

  30. Voyagers to the West

    A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

    by Bernard Bailyn

    Year : 1987

  31. In Our Image

    America's Empire in the Philippines

    by Stanley Karnow

    Year : 1990

  32. The Race Beat

    The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

    by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff

    Year : 2007

  33. The Haunted Land

    Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

    by Tina Rosenberg

    Year : 1996

  34. Practical Gods

    by Carl Dennis

    Year : 2002

  35. The Fate of Liberty

    Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties

    by Mark E. Neely

    Year : 1992

  36. Time and Materials

    Poems, 1997-2005

    by Robert Hass

    Year : 2008

  37. Slavery by Another Name

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

    by Douglas A. Blackmon

    Year : 2009

  38. The Hemingses of Monticello

    An American Family

    by Annette Gordon-Reed

    Year : 2009

  39. Martin Dressler

    The Tale of an American Dreamer

    by Steven Millhauser

    Year : 1997

  40. Fortunate Son

    The Healing of a Vietnam Vet

    by Lewis B. Puller

    Year : 1992

  41. Rent

    by Jonathan Larson

    Year : 1996

  42. Selected Poems

    by James Tate

    Year : 1992

  43. What Hath God Wrought

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    by Daniel Walker Howe

    Year : 2008

  44. Bearing the Cross

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    by David J. Garrow

    Year : 1987

  45. Failure

    by Philip Schultz

    Year : 2008

  46. Parting the Waters

    America in the King Years, 1954-63

    by Taylor Branch

    Year : 1989

  47. Wit

    by Margaret Edson

    Year : 1999

  48. I Am My Own Wife

    Studies for a Play About the Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf

    by Doug Wright

    Year : 2004

  49. Embracing Defeat

    Japan in the Wake of World War II

    by John W. Dower

    Year : 2000

  50. Olive Kitteridge

    A Novel in Stories

    by Elizabeth Strout

    Year : 2009

  51. Lindbergh

    by A. Scott Berg

    Year : 1999

  52. Doubt

    by John Patrick Shanley

    Year : 2005

  53. William Cooper's Town

    Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

    by Alan Taylor

    Year : 1996

  54. No Ordinary Time

    Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

    by Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Year : 1995

  55. Humboldt's Gift

    by Saul Bellow

    Year : 1976

  56. Summer for the Gods

    The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion

    by Edward J. Larson

    Year : 1998

  57. And Their Children After Them

    The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South

    by Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson

    Year : 1990

  58. Vera

    Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov

    by Stacy Schiff

    Year : 2000

  59. Neon Vernacular

    New and Selected Poems

    by Yusef Komunyakaa

    Year : 1994

  60. Common Ground

    A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

    by J. Anthony Lukas

    Year : 1986

  61. A Nation Under Our Feet

    Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

    by Steven Hahn

    Year : 2004

  62. Repair: Poems

    by C. K. Williams

    Year : 2000

  63. The Years of Extermination

    Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

    by Saul Friedlander

    Year : 2008

  64. The Prize

    The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

    by Daniel Yergin

    Year : 1992

  65. Lenin's Tomb

    The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

    by David Remnick

    Year : 1994

  66. Proof

    by David Auburn

    Year : 2001

  67. Freedom from Fear

    The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

    by David M. Kennedy

    Year : 2000

  68. Late Wife

    by Claudia Emerson

    Year : 2006

  69. The Metaphysical Club

    A Story of Ideas in America

    by Louis Menand

    Year : 2002

  70. The Looming Tower

    Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

    by Lawrence Wright

    Year : 2007

  71. Beak of the Finch

    A Story of Evolution in Our Time

    by Jonathan Weiner

    Year : 1995

  72. Ashes to Ashes

    America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

    by Richard Kluger

    Year : 1997

  73. Thomas and Beulah

    by Rita Dove

    Year : 1987

  74. American Lion

    Andrew Jackson in the White House

    by Jon Meacham

    Year : 2009

  75. Lonesome Dove

    by Larry McMurtry

    Year : 1986

  76. God

    A Biography

    by Jack Miles

    Year : 1996

  77. Founding Brothers

    The Revolutionary Generation

    by Joseph J. Ellis

    Year : 2001

  78. W. E. B. Du Bois

    The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

    by David Levering Lewis

    Year : 2001

  79. Guns, Germs, and Steel

    The Fates of Human Societies

    by Jared Diamond

    Year : 1998

  80. Liberation Trilogy: Book 1

    An Army at Dawn

    The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

    by Rick Atkinson

    Year : 2003

  81. Eden's Outcasts

    The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

    by John Matteson

    Year : 2008

  82. Truman

    by David G. McCullough

    Year : 1993

  83. The Most Famous Man in America

    The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

    by Debby Applegate

    Year : 2007

  84. March

    by Geraldine Brooks

    Year : 2006

  85. The Sea

    by John Banville

    Year : 2005

  86. Ghost Wars

    The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

    by Steve Coll

    Year : 2005

  87. Gotham

    A History of New York City to 1898

    by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace

    Year : 1999

  88. The Killer Angels

    A Novel of the Civil War

    by Michael Shaara

    Year : 1975

  89. Original Meanings

    Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

    by Jack N. Rakove

    Year : 1997

  90. Ruined

    by Lynn Nottage

    Year : 2009


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