Books

Pulitzer Prize (awards)

This award was given to 877 books.


  1. The Year of Magical Thinking

    by Joan Didion

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Finalist
  2. The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

    by Megan Marshall

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Finalist
  3. American Prometheus

    The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
  4. Red Light Winter

    by Adam Rapp

    Year: 2006
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  5. Miss Witherspoon

    by Christopher Durang

    Year: 2006
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  6. March

    by Geraldine Brooks

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
  7. The Bright Forever

    by Lee Martin

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  8. The March

    by E. L. Doctorow

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  9. Imperial Reckoning

    The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

    by Caroline Elkins

    Year: 2006
    Category: General Nonfiction
  10. The Assassins' Gate

    America in Iraq

    by George Packer

    Year: 2006
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  11. Postwar

    A History of Europe Since 1945

    by Tony Judt

    Year: 2006
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  12. Polio

    An American Story

    by David M. Oshinsky

    Year: 2006
    Category: History
  13. New York Burning

    Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

    by Jill Lepore

    Year: 2006
    Category: History
    Finalist
  14. The Rise of American Democracy

    Jefferson to Lincoln

    by Sean Wilentz

    Year: 2006
    Category: History
    Finalist
  15. Late Wife

    by Claudia Emerson

    Year: 2006
    Category: Poetry
  16. American Sublime

    by Elizabeth Alexander

    Year: 2006
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  17. Elegy On Toy Piano (Pitt Poetry)

    by Dean Young

    Year: 2006
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  18. The Sea

    by John Banville

    Year: 2005
  19. de Kooning

    An American Master

    by Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan

    Year: 2005
    Category: Biography
  20. Will in the World

    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt

    Year: 2005
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Finalist
  21. Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America

    by William Souder

    Year: 2005
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Finalist
  22. Doubt

    by John Patrick Shanley

    Year: 2005
    Category: Drama
  23. The Clean House

    by Sarah Ruhl

    Year: 2005
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  24. Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)

    by Will Eno

    Year: 2005
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  25. Gilead

    by Marilynne Robinson

    Year: 2005
    Category: Fiction
  26. War Trash

    by Ha Jin

    Year: 2005
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  27. An Unfinished Season

    by Ward S. Just

    Year: 2005
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  28. 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
    Category: General Nonfiction
  29. Maximum City

    Bombay Lost and Found

    by Suketu Mehta

    Year: 2005
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  30. Washington's Crossing

    by David Hackett Fischer

    Year: 2005
    Category: History
  31. Conjectures of Order

    Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860

    by Michael O'Brien

    Year: 2005
    Category: History
    Finalist
  32. Gracious Michigan Living

    Arc of Justice

    A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

    by Kevin Boyle

    Year: 2005
    Category: History
    Finalist
  33. The Devil's Highway

    A True Story

    by Luis Alberto Urrea

    Year: 2005
    Category: Honoring Excellence in Journalism and the Arts
    Finalist
  34. Delights and Shadows

    by Ted Kooser

    Year: 2005
    Category: Poetry
  35. The Orchard (American Poets Continuum)

    by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

    Year: 2005
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  36. Search Party

    Collected Poems

    by William Matthews

    Year: 2005
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  37. Khrushchev

    The Man and His Era

    by William Taubman

    Year: 2004
    Category: Biography
  38. Isaac Newton

    by James Gleick

    Year: 2004
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Finalist
  39. Arshile Gorky

    His Life and Work

    by Hayden Herrera

    Year: 2004
    Category: Biography or Autobiography
    Finalist
  40. I Am My Own Wife

    Studies for a Play About the Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf

    by Doug Wright

    Year: 2004
    Category: Drama
  41. Omnium Gatherum (A Play)

    by Theresa Rebeck, Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

    Year: 2004
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  42. Man from Nebraska: A Play

    by Tracy Letts

    Year: 2004
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  43. The Known World

    by Edward P. Jones

    Year: 2004
    Category: Fiction
  44. Evidence of Things Unseen

    by Marianne Wiggins

    Year: 2004
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  45. American Woman: A Novel

    by Susan Choi

    Year: 2004
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  46. Gulag

    A History

    by Anne Applebaum

    Year: 2004
    Category: General Nonfiction
  47. The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military

    by Dana Priest

    Year: 2004
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  48. Rembrandt's Jews

    by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Steven M. Nadler

    Year: 2004
    Category: General Non-fiction
    Finalist
  49. A Nation Under Our Feet

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

    by Steven Hahn

    Year: 2004
    Category: History

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