Pulitzer Prize Winning Books

general-nonfiction.md

General Non-Fiction

2010s

2010:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
	X	608	The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
		576	The Evolution of God
		416	How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

2011:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
	X	608	Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
		304	The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
		371	Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

2012:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		356	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
		336	One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
		336	Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

2013:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		464	Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
		288	Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
		288	The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

2014:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
	X	560	Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
		544	The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide
		432	The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

2015:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
	X	336	The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
	X	320	No Good Men Among the Living
		416	Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

2016:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
X	X	384	Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
X	X	176	Between the World and Me
		352	If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

2017:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
	X	432	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
		688	In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
		416	The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery

2018:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
X	X	320	Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
		448	The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World and us
		288	Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

2019:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		336	Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
		240	In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
		320	Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

2020:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		384	The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America]
		320	The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care]
		464	Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life]

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Total Pages	12,807

history.md

History

2010s

2010:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
	X	575	Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
		800	Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
		432	Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

2011:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		448	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
		456	Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
		384	Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston

2012:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		608	Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
		640	Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
		654	The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden
		720	Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

2013:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		864	Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
		640	The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
		512	Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History

2014:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		624	The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
		400	A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
X	X	656	Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety

2015:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		480	Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
		640	Empire of Cotton: A Global History
		448	An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

2016:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		608	Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
		400	Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
		672	Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
		576	The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

2017:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
X	X	752	Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
		464	Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It
		368	New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

2018:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
		608	The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
		416	Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
		432	Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America

2019:

Read	Own	Pages	Title
	X	912	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
		480	American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
		416	Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition

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Total Pages	18,085