Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon.com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book and any other awards that the book was a finalist for. Award names in red indicate the the book was the winner of that award. Click the buy from Amazon.com link to be taken to the Amazon.com website where you can purchase the book from the premier online bookseller.

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2012 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt Winner! 640 reviews (2011) (356p) (PP Non) (NBA Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=5 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=2 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=2 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman 26 reviews (2011) (322p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl 25 reviews (2011) (336p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2011 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee Winner! 1305 reviews (2010) (592p) (PP Non) (NBCCA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr 169 reviews (2010) (276p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne 463 reviews (2010) (p) (PP Non) (NBCCA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2010 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman Winner! 59 reviews (2009) (p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy 59 reviews (2009) (400p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Evolution of God by Robert Wright 121 reviews (2009) (592p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2009 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon Winner! 104 reviews (2008) (496p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman 41 reviews (2008) (736p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by William I. Hitchcock 42 reviews (2008) (464p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2008 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander Winner! 31 reviews (2007) (896p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Cigarette Century by Allan Brandt 27 reviews (2007) (600p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross 151 reviews (2007) (640p) (PP Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2007 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright Winner! 688 reviews (2006) (480p) (PP Non) (NBA Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness by Pete Earley 69 reviews (2007) (384p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks 420 reviews (2006) (496p) (PP Non) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2006 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins Winner! 27 reviews (2005) (496p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt 366 reviews (2005) (896p) (PP Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (Amazon 05 EHis) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer 166 reviews (2005) (480p) (PP Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (ALA Non) (Amazon 05 ECE) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2005 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll Winner! 210 reviews (2004) (738p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=2 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta 94 reviews (2004) (560p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea 80 reviews (2004) (560p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2004 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum Winner! 393 reviews (2003) (736p) (PP Non) (NBCCA Non) (NBA Non) (Amazon Dec EHis) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=2 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler 7 reviews (2003) (280p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by Dana Priest 30 reviews (2003) (384p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2003 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power Winner! 268 reviews (2002) (656p) (PP Non) (NBCCA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit by Ellen Meloy 5 reviews (2002) (336p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker 330 reviews (2002) (528p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2002 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter Winner! 87 reviews (2001) (700p) (PP Non) (TIME Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam 86 reviews (2001) (560p) (PP Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=2 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon 316 reviews (2001) (576p) (PP Non) (NBA Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2001 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix Winner! 104 reviews (2000) (832p) (PP Non) (NBCCA Bio) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover 201 reviews (2000) (352p) (PP Non) (NBCCA Non) (Amazon Dec ENon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 1203 reviews (2000) (496p) (PP Non) (NYTimes Non) (TIME Non) (ALA Non) (Amazon 00 C50) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=3 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

2000 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower Winner! 65 reviews (1999) (680p) (PP Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene 538 reviews (1999) (464p) (PP Non) (ALA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul 19 reviews (1999) (432p) (PP Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page