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Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Books
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The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,311 ratings — published 1962
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,921 ratings — published 1997
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,459 ratings — published 1988
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,047 ratings — published 2001
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,316 ratings — published 1981
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,937 ratings — published 1979
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,998 ratings — published 1970
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,704 ratings — published 1971
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,571 ratings — published 1963
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,755 ratings — published 2011
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,062 ratings — published 2008
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,626 ratings — published 2007
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,581 ratings — published 2006
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,995 ratings — published 2003
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,507 ratings — published 2005
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,926 ratings — published 2002
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,495 ratings — published 2004
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,067 ratings — published 1999
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,326 ratings — published 2000
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,847 ratings — published 1994
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,739 ratings — published 1985
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 833 ratings — published 1986
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,293 ratings — published 1974
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,415 ratings — published 1968
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,269 ratings — published 1977
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,540 ratings — published 1976
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,425 ratings — published 1973
The Making of the President 1960 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,929 ratings — published 1961
Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 956 ratings — published
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 15,877 ratings — published 2012
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,032 ratings — published 2014
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,190 ratings — published 2010
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,477 ratings — published 2009
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 293 ratings — published 1997
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,249 ratings — published 1994
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,061 ratings — published 1986
On Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,583 ratings — published 1978
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,785 ratings — published 1984
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,292 ratings — published 1982
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,584 ratings — published 1980
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,387 ratings — published 1982
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,394 ratings — published 1972
Why Survive?: Being Old in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.30 — 20 ratings — published 1975
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 262 ratings — published 1969
So Human an Animal: How We are Shaped by Surroundings and Events (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 209 ratings — published 1968
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 165 ratings — published 1966
O Strange New World: American Culture, The Formative Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 3.29 — 24 ratings — published 1964
Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 241 ratings — published 1965
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,581 ratings — published 2018
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pulitzer-prize-nonfiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,272 ratings — published 2016
