These are the Pulitzer prize winning non-fiction books. I’ve read only two: Godel, Escher, Bach and Guns, Germs and Steel. These were the very best books I have EVER read. If that’s any indication to go by, I want to finish this whole list.
- 1962: The Making of the President, 1960 by Theodore H White
- 1963: The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
- 1964: Anti-intellectualism in America by Richard Hofstadter
- 1965: O Strange New World by Howard M Jones
- 1966: Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale
- 1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
- 1968: Rousseau & Revolution Story of CIV Volume 10 by Will Durant
- 1969: Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
- 1970: Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence 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 by Frances Fitzgerald
- 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 N Butler
- 1977: Beautiful Swimmers by William W Warner
- 1978: Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
- 1979: On Human Nature by Edward Osborne Wilson
- 1980: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- 1981: Fin-de-siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl Schorske
- 1982: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- 1983: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan
- 1984: The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
- 1985: The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel
- 1986: Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas
- 1987: Arab and Jew by David K Shipler
- 1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- 1989: A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
- 1990: And Their Children After Them by Michael Williamson
- 1991: Ants by Bert Holldobler
- 1992: Prize by Daniel Yergin
- 1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
- 1994: Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
- 1995: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
- 1996: The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg
- 1997: Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger
- 1998: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
- 1999: The Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
- 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 by Diane McWhorter
- 2003: A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power
- 2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
- 2005: Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
Thanks a ton for the list. Pulitzer books in non-fiction are just gems!
Ouch, haven’t read even one of these. And i thought i read more non-fiction than most!!!
Next on my reading list are Ants (don’t be fooled: though it’s really about ants, it’s apparantly a fascinating read), Annals of the Former World (which I developed a liking for since I read A Short History of Everything), and Carl Sagan’s Dragons of Eden.
Hi Anand, I liked your Bolg style, can I take some ideas from here? Which blogging site you are using?
Feel free to pull ideas. But I don’t use any blogging software. I write entries in Excel, and my Perl program converts that to HTML, which I then I FTP. Not much help, I’m afraid…