Pulitzer Prize Winning Books & Authors (General Nonfiction)

2023	His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Author: Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa Currently 4/5 Stars. 1
2022	Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Author: Andrea Elliott ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
2021	Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Author: David Zucchino ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
2020	The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care Author: Anne Boyer ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
2020	The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Author: Greg Grandin ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
2019	Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America Author: Eliza Griswold Currently 4.3/5 Stars. 2 *Other Versions:* Paperback
2018	Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Author: James Forman ? *Other Versions:* Paperback
2017	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Author: Matthew Desmond Currently 4/5 Stars. 23 *Other Versions:* Paperback, Paperback, Paperback
2016	Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS Author: Joby Warrick ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Audio CD (Unabridged), Paperback, Paperback
2015	The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Author: Elizabeth Kolbert Currently 3.9/5 Stars. 13 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members! Retail Price: ~~$16.00~~ Buy New: $12.79 (save 20%) or Become a PBS member and pay $8.89+1 PBS book credit (save 44%)
2014	Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Author: Dan Fagin Currently 4.5/5 Stars. 7 *Other Versions:* Paperback, Paperback
2013	Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Author: Gilbert King Currently 4/5 Stars. 3 *Other Versions:* Paperback, Paperback
2012	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Author: Stephen Greenblatt Currently 4.1/5 Stars. 6 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback
2011	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee Currently 4.2/5 Stars. 17 *Other Versions:* Audio CD (Unabridged,Unabridge), Audio CD (Unabridged,Library -), Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Paperback
2010	The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy Author: David Hoffman Currently 4.6/5 Stars. 4 *Other Versions:* Paperback
2009	Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Author: Douglas A. Blackmon Currently 4.3/5 Stars. 3 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio CD (Library), Audio CD
2008	The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Author: Saul Friedlander Currently 4.5/5 Stars. 2 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio CD (Library), Audio CD
2007	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Author: Lawrence Wright Currently 4/5 Stars. 24 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Audio CD (Library ed.), Audio CD (MP3)
2006	Imperial Reckoning : The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Author: Caroline Elkins Currently 3.8/5 Stars. 4 *Other Versions:* Hardcover The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members! Retail Price: ~~$20.00~~ Buy New: $14.79 (save 26%) or Become a PBS member and pay $10.89+1 PBS book credit (save 45%)
2005	Ghost Wars: The Secret History of The CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to 9/11/2001 Author: Steve Coll Currently 3.4/5 Stars. 30 *Other Versions:* Hardcover The Market's bargain prices are even better for Paperbackswap club members! Retail Price: ~~$20.00~~ Buy New: $14.79 (save 26%) or Become a PBS member and pay $10.89+1 PBS book credit (save 45%)
2004	Gulag : A History Author: Anne Applebaum Currently 4.3/5 Stars. 13 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio CD (MP3 Una)
2003	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Author: Samantha Power Currently 4.7/5 Stars. 6 *Other Versions:* Paperback, Audio CD (MP3 Una), Audio CD (Unabridged), Paperback, Audio CD (MP3 Una)
2002	Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Author: Diane McWhorter Currently 3/5 Stars. 2 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback
2001	Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Author: Herbert P. Bix Currently 3.8/5 Stars. 4 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback
2000	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Author: John W. Dower Currently 4.2/5 Stars. 5 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover
1999	Annals of the Former World Author: John McPhee Currently 3.4/5 Stars. 4 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Audio Cassette
1998	Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Author: Jared Diamond Currently 4.1/5 Stars. 55 *Other Versions:* Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette (4 Cassettes; 6 Hours), Paperback
1997	Ashes to Ashes : America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Trium ph of Philip Morris Author: Richard Kluger Currently 4.5/5 Stars. 1 *Other Versions:* Hardcover
1996	The Haunted Land : Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism Author: Tina Rosenberg Currently 3.8/5 Stars. 8 *Other Versions:* Paperback
1995	The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Author: Jonathan Weiner Currently 4/5 Stars. 33 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged)
1994	Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Author: David Remnick Currently 4.2/5 Stars. 10 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
1993	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Author: Garry Wills Currently 3.8/5 Stars. 11 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Paperback
1992	The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Author: Daniel Yergin Currently 4.5/5 Stars. 13 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback
1991	The Ants Author: Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover
1990	And Their Children After Them : The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Author: Dale Maharidge ? *Other Versions:* Hardcover
1989	A Bright Shining Lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Author: Neil Sheehan Currently 4.5/5 Stars. 11 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback
1988	The Making of the Atomic Bomb Author: Richard Rhodes Currently 4.5/5 Stars. 11 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback, Paperback
1987	Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Author: David K. Shipler Currently 4.6/5 Stars. 4 *Other Versions:* Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Paperback, Paperback
1986	Common Ground : A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Author: J. Anthony Lukas Currently 4.1/5 Stars. 10 *Other Versions:* Paperback

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