Books

Pulitzer Prize (awards)

This award was given to 879 books.


  1. In the Heights

    by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

    by Gina Gionfriddo

    Year: 2009
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  3. Olive Kitteridge

    A Novel in Stories

    by Elizabeth Strout

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  4. All Souls

    by Christine Schutt

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  5. 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
  6. The Bitter Road to Freedom

    A New History of the Liberation of Europe

    by William I. Hitchcock

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

    The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

    by Arthur Herman

    Year: 2009
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  8. The Valley Series: Book 2

    Defend the Valley

    by Kenneth Jewett

    Year: 2009
    Category: Historical Fiction
  9. The Liberal Hour

    Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s

    by G. Calvin Mackenzie

    Year: 2009
    Category: History
    Finalist
  10. This Republic of Suffering

    Death and the American Civil War

    by Drew Gilpin Faust

    Year: 2009
    Category: History
    Finalist
  11. The Hemingses of Monticello

    An American Family

    by Annette Gordon-Reed

    Year: 2009
    Category: History
  12. The Shadow of Sirius

    by W. S. Merwin

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry
  13. What Love Comes To

    New and Selected Poems

    by Ruth Stone

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  14. Watching the Spring Festival

    Poems

    by Frank Bidart

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  15. The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

    by Martin B. Duberman

    Year: 2008
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  16. The Life of Kingsley Amis

    by Zachary Leader

    Year: 2008
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  17. Eden's Outcasts

    The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

    by John Matteson

    Year: 2008
    Category: Biography
  18. August: Osage County

    by Tracy Letts

    Year: 2008
    Category: Drama
  19. Dying City

    by Christopher Shinn

    Year: 2008
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  20. Yellow Face

    by David Henry Hwang

    Year: 2008
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  21. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    by Junot Díaz

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
  22. Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories

    by Lore Groszmann Segal

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  23. Tree of Smoke

    by Denis Johnson

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: nominated
  24. Nazi Germany and the Jews: Book 2

    The Years of Extermination

    Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

    by Saul Friedlander

    Year: 2008
    Category: General Nonfiction
  25. The Rest Is Noise

    Listening to the Twentieth Century

    by Alex Ross

    Year: 2008
    Category: General Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  26. The Cigarette Century

    The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

    by Allan M. Brandt

    Year: 2008
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  27. Oxford History of the United States: Book 5

    What Hath God Wrought

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    by Daniel Walker Howe

    Year: 2008
    Category: History
  28. The Coldest Winter

    America and the Korean War

    by David Halberstam

    Year: 2008
    Category: History
    Finalist
  29. Nixon and Kissinger

    Partners in Power

    by Robert Dallek

    Year: 2008
    Category: History
    Finalist
  30. Time and Materials

    Poems, 1997-2005

    by Robert Hass

    Year: 2008
    Category: Poetry
  31. Failure

    by Philip Schultz

    Year: 2008
    Category: Poetry
  32. Messenger

    New and Selected Poems 1976-2006

    by Ellen Bryant Voigt

    Year: 2008
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  33. John Wilkes

    The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty

    by Arthur H. Cash

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  34. Andrew Carnegie

    by David Nasaw

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  35. The Most Famous Man in America

    The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

    by Debby Applegate

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
  36. Rabbit Hole

    by David Lindsay-Abaire

    Year: 2007
    Category: Drama
  37. Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue

    by Quiara Alegría Hudes

    Year: 2007
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  38. Bulrusher

    by Eisa Davis

    Year: 2007
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  39. The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
  40. After This

    by Alice McDermott

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  41. The Looming Tower

    Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

    by Lawrence Wright

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Nonfiction
  42. Fiasco

    The American Military Adventure in Iraq

    by Thomas E. Ricks

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  43. Crazy

    A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

    by Pete Earley

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  44. The Race Beat

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

    by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff

    Year: 2007
    Category: History
  45. Mayflower

    A Story of Courage, Community, and War

    by Nathaniel Philbrick

    Year: 2007
    Category: History
    Finalist
  46. Middle Passages

    African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

    by James T. Campbell

    Year: 2007
    Category: History
    Finalist
  47. Native Guard

    Poems

    by Natasha D. Trethewey

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
  48. The Republic of Poetry: Poems

    by Martín Espada

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  49. Now and Forever

    Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99

    by Ray Bradbury

    Year: 2007
    Category: Special Citation

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