Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. The award is given to a nonfiction book written by an American author and published during the preceding calendar year that is ineligible for any other Pulitzer Prize. The Prize has been awarded since 1962; beginning in 1980, one to three finalists have been announced alongside the winner.
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Evicted
Matthew Desmond · 2016 · 7 lists
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The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright · 2006 · 6 lists
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes · 1986 · 5 lists
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The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014 · 4 lists
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A Bright Shining Lie
Neil Sheehan · 1988 · 3 lists
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Children of Crisis
Robert Coles · 1967 · 3 lists
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Common Ground
J. Anthony Lukas · 1985 · 3 lists
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond · 1991 · 3 lists
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard · 1974 · 3 lists
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The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2010 · 3 lists
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Invisible Child
Andrea Elliott · 2021 · 2 lists
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The Ants
E. O. Wilson, Bert Hölldobler · 1990 · 2 lists
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The Armies of the Night
Norman Mailer · 1968 · 2 lists
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The Good War
Studs Terkel · 1984 · 2 lists
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The Guns of August
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman · 1962 · 2 lists
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The Haunted Land
Tina Rosenberg · 1995 · 2 lists
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The Making of the President, 1960
Theodore White · 1961 · 2 lists
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The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt · 2011 · 2 lists
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The Undying
Anne Boyer · 2019 · 2 lists
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A Problem from Hell
Samantha Power · 2002 · 1 list
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Amity and Prosperity
Eliza Griswold · 2018 · 1 list
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And Their Children After Them
Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson · 2020 · 1 list
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Annals of the Former World
John McPhee · 1998 · 1 list
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Anti-intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter · 1963 · 1 list
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Arab and Jew
David K. Shipler · 1986 · 1 list
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Ashes to Ashes
Richard Kluger · 1999 · 1 list
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Beautiful Swimmers
William Warner · 1976 · 1 list
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Black Flags
Joby Warrick · 1996 · 1 list
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Carry Me Home
Diane McWhorter · 2001 · 1 list
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Devil in the Grove
Gilbert King · 2012 · 1 list
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Embracing Defeat
John W. Dower · 1999 · 1 list
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Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Carl E. Schorske · 1979 · 1 list
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Fire in the Lake
Frances FitzGerald · 1972 · 1 list
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Gandhis Truth
Erik H. Erikson · 1969 · 1 list
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Ghost Wars
Steve Coll · 2004 · 1 list
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter · 1979 · 1 list
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Gulag
Anne Applebaum · 2003 · 1 list
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix · 2000 · 1 list
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His Name Is George Floyd
Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa · 2022 · 1 list
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Imperial Reckoning
Caroline Elkins · 2005 · 1 list
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Is There No Place On Earth For Me?
Susan Sheehan · 1982 · 1 list
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Lenins Tomb
David Remnick · 1993 · 1 list
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Lincoln at Gettysburg
Garry Wills · 1992 · 1 list
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Locking Up Our Own
James Forman · 2017 · 1 list
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Move Your Shadow
Joseph Lelyveld · 1985 · 1 list
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O Strange New World
Howard Mumford Jones · 1964 · 1 list
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On Human Nature
E. O. Wilson · 1978 · 1 list
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Rousseau and Revolution
Will Durant, Ariel Durant · 2011 · 1 list
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Slavery
Another Name', Douglas A. Blackmon · 1900 · 1 list
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So Human an Animal
René Dubos · 1968 · 1 list
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The Beak of the Finch
Jonathan Weiner · 1994 · 1 list
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The Dead Hand
David Hoffman · 2009 · 1 list
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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker · 1973 · 1 list
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The Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan · 1977 · 1 list
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The End of the Myth
Greg Grandin · 2019 · 1 list
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The Prize
Daniel Yergin · 1991 · 1 list
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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
David Brion Davis · 1966 · 1 list
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The Rising Sun
John Toland · 1926 · 1 list
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Paul Starr · 1982 · 1 list
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The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder · 1981 · 1 list
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The Years of Extermination
Saul Friedlander · 2007 · 1 list
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Toms River
Dan Fagin · 2013 · 1 list
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Wandering Through Winter
Edwin Way Teale · 1965 · 1 list
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Why Survive? Being Old in America
Robert Neil Butler · 1975 · 1 list
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Wilmingtons Lie
David Zucchino · 2020 · 1 list