Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,036 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 4.36 avg rating — 36,106 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,599 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,886 ratings
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power 4.43 avg rating — 12,040 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,145 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,281 ratings
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 4.31 avg rating — 18,331 ratings
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide 4.26 avg rating — 10,877 ratings
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Gulag: A History
Gulag: A History 4.28 avg rating — 12,841 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,680 ratings
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating — 29,045 ratings
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.26 avg rating — 5,208 ratings
14.
Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life 4.16 avg rating — 79,886 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence 4.19 avg rating — 21,187 ratings
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Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS 4.32 avg rating — 15,919 ratings
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death 4.05 avg rating — 15,168 ratings
18.
The Making of the President 1960
The Making of the President 1960 4.15 avg rating — 7,922 ratings
19.
The Good War: Oral History of WWII
The Good War: Oral History of WWII 4.30 avg rating — 4,770 ratings
20.
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 4.16 avg rating — 3,678 ratings
21.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam 4.24 avg rating — 12,399 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America 4.40 avg rating — 15,748 ratings
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II 4.20 avg rating — 46,350 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,942 ratings
25.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating — 34,485 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 22,176 ratings
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life 4.11 avg rating — 3,514 ratings
28.
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II 4.15 avg rating — 5,019 ratings
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families 4.32 avg rating — 2,727 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay 4.14 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution 4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya 4.05 avg rating — 1,492 ratings
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? 3.85 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 4.30 avg rating — 5,936 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine 4.12 avg rating — 9,240 ratings
37.
Annals of the Former World
Annals of the Former World 4.36 avg rating — 4,299 ratings
38.
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land 4.05 avg rating — 816 ratings
39.
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam 4.08 avg rating — 2,382 ratings
39.
Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10)
Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10) 4.29 avg rating — 948 ratings
41.
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 4.24 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
42.
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence 3.91 avg rating — 259 ratings
43.
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan 3.86 avg rating — 3,269 ratings
44.
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History 3.61 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism 4.04 avg rating — 562 ratings
46.
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time 4.17 avg rating — 9,807 ratings
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On Human Nature
On Human Nature 4.14 avg rating — 3,567 ratings
48.
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by: Dan Fagin
4.09 avg rating — 4,618 ratings
49.
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America 4.16 avg rating — 8,535 ratings
50.
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture 4.09 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
51.
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1)
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy 4.16 avg rating — 5,432 ratings
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America 4.37 avg rating — 4,459 ratings
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Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia 3.70 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song 4.05 avg rating — 22,787 ratings
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And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South
And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South 4.05 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America 4.26 avg rating — 4,531 ratings
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Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris 3.92 avg rating — 290 ratings
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry 4.17 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America 4.28 avg rating — 3,038 ratings
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care 4.16 avg rating — 5,455 ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City 4.70 avg rating — 18,457 ratings
63.
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy 4.43 avg rating — 4,087 ratings
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Why Survive?: Being Old in America
Why Survive?: Being Old in America 3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
65.
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (Abacus Books)
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White (Abacus Books) 4.14 avg rating — 150 ratings
66.
O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years
O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years 3.29 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series
Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series 4.02 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Children of Crisis, Volume 2: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers
Children of Crisis, Volume 2: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Children of Crisis, Volume 3: South Goes North
Children of Crisis, Volume 3: South Goes North 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Ants
The Ants 4.60 avg rating — 834 ratings
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Pinckney's Treaty
Pinckney's Treaty 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
No Right to An Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era 3.93 avg rating — 114 ratings
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention 3.79 avg rating — 3,451 ratings
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A History of the United States: The War for Southern Independence 1849-1865 Vol VI
A History of the United States: The War for Southern Independence 1849-1865 Vol VI 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power 4.49 avg rating — 810 ratings
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History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893
History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893 3.84 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America 3.61 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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The Founding of New England
The Founding of New England 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Cuba: An American History
Cuba: An American History 4.46 avg rating — 4,958 ratings
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The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Victory at Sea: By the Commander of the Naval Forces Operating in European Waters During World War I
The Victory at Sea: By the Commander of the Naval Forces Operating in European Waters During World War I it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy 4.35 avg rating — 11,054 ratings
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice 4.50 avg rating — 3,050 ratings
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So Human an Animal: How We are Shaped by Surroundings and Events
So Human an Animal: How We are Shaped by Surroundings and Events 3.92 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter
Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter 4.28 avg rating — 241 ratings