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Fiction
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2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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The Guns of August
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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Gulag: A History
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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Washington: A Life
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
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The Denial of Death
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The Making of the President 1960
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The Good War: Oral History of WWII
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
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The Soul of a New Machine
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
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Annals of the Former World
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
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Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10)
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Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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On Human Nature
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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Dan Fagin (Goodreads Author)
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1)
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
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David E. Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
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James Forman Jr. (Goodreads Author)
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Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
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The Executioner's Song
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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
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Dale Maharidge (Goodreads Author)
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
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Richard Kluger (Goodreads Author)
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
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Anne Boyer (Goodreads Author)
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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Why Survive?: Being Old in America
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (Abacus Books)
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O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years
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Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series
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Children of Crisis, Volume 2: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers
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Children of Crisis, Volume 3: South Goes North
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The Ants
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Pinckney's Treaty
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No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
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A History of the United States: The War for Southern Independence 1849-1865 Vol VI
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Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
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The Founding of New England
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Cuba: An American History
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The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
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The Victory at Sea: By the Commander of the Naval Forces Operating in European Waters During World War I
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
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So Human an Animal: How We are Shaped by Surroundings and Events
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Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter
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Themis-Athena wrote: "What is "Bel Canto" doing on this list?"Got rid of it.
Just a note: #47 isn't a Pulitzer Prize winning book.
Iziezi wrote: "Just a note: #47 isn't a Pulitzer Prize winning book."According to the official list published at http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/General..., Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 1973. Goodreads's bibliographical data for the book (on the respective book page) correctly reflect this.
It would seem that Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia did not win the Pulitzer Prize, however.
Jessica, do you want non-award-winners to be removed?
Are you missing the 2009 winner?Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Peter, feel free to add it yourself. Listopias are user-sourced. Often people only vote for the books they have actually read. Perhaps no one who voted has read that particular book.It's not the only one missing from the list.
#14 is History winner for 1995 not Non Fiction#43 is for Biography in 2011 not NF
#47 is not a Pulitzer prize winner of any type
#53 is a finalist in in NF 2010, not a winner
These four items have been checked against the Pulitzer website
I am going to add the winners for 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2016 as they are not on the list. Believe then that the list is complete if the entries above are removed for not being in this category.
The Evolution of God (#58) is a 2010 nominee, not a winner.Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration is not a Pulitzer winner.
Amanda wrote: "The Evolution of God (#58) is a 2010 nominee, not a winner.Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration is not a Pulitzer winner."
Gone.
Oops, I realized I added The Power Broker to this list, but it should be (and in fact, is) on the Pulitzer Biographies list instead. My bad.
Brahm wrote: "Oops, I realized I added The Power Broker to this list, but it should be (and in fact, is) on the Pulitzer Biographies list instead. My bad."I removed it.
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