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Pulitzer Prize Winning Books

General Non-Fiction

2010s

2010:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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]

Total Pages 12,807

History

2010s

2010:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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

Total Pages 18,085
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