The purpose of this list is to keep track of my goal to read all Pulitzer Prize winning General Non-fiction Books
You can fork this repo and maintain your own list.
Pulitzers Read: 0
Pulitzers To-Go: 55
- 1962: The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore White
- 1963: The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
- 1964: Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
- 1965: O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones
- 1966: Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale
- 1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
- 1968: Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, by Will and Ariel Durant.
- 1969: So Human an Animal by Rene Jules Dubos
- 1969: The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
- 1970: Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
- 1971: The Rising Sun by John Toland
- 1972: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by *Barbara W. *Tuchman
- 1973: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
- 1973: Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3, by Robert Coles
- 1974: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- 1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- 1976: Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert Neil Butler
- 1977: Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner
- 1978: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
- 1979: On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
- 1980: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
- The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas
- 1981: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
- Goodbye*, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
- Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey by Marshall Frady
- 1982: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- Basin and Range by John McPhee
- Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana Trilling
- 1983: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan
- The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
- Terrorists and Novelists by Diane Johnson
- 1984: The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
- Conversations With the Enemy by Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer
- Wild Justice by Susan Jacoby
- 1985: The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel -Endless Enemies by Jonathan Kwitny
- Dawn to the West by Donald Keene
- 1986 (two winners): Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
- Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld
- Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert Neelly Bellah
- 1987: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler
- Rising from the Plains by John McPhee
- Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir by Cyra McFadden
- 1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
- Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society by Daniel Callahan
- 1989: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by *Neil *Sheehan
- The Last Farmer by Howard Kohn
- Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
- 1990: And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by *Stephen Jay *Gould
- A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 by David Fromkin
- 1991: The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
- Looking for a Ship by John McPhee
- River of Traps: A Village Life by William duBuys and Alex Harris
- 1992: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
- Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall*
- Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus
- 1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
- Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez
- Where the Buffalo Roam by Anne Matthews
- A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin
- 1994: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
- The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud by Peter Gay
- The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age by *John *Lukacs
- 1995: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by *Jonathan *Weiner
- How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
- 1996: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by *Tina *Rosenberg
- Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life by *Daniel C. *Dennett
- 1997: Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
- Fame and Folly by Cynthia Ozick
- The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond by Samuel G. Freedman
- 1998: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by *Jon *Krakauer
- 1999: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
- The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by *Judith *Rich Harris
- Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie
- 2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
- 2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
- 2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
- 2003: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by *Samantha *Power
- 2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
- 2005: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
- 2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
- 2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
- 2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
- 2009: Slavery by *Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from *the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
- 2010: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
- 2011: Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- 2012: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- 2013: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
- 2014: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
- 2015: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert[2]