Ebben a listában a Pulitzer-díj „ismeretterjesztő könyvek” kategóriájának jelöltjei és nyertesei találhatóak.
Év Könyv Szerző 2022 Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Andrea Elliott Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism Carla Power The Family Roe: An American Story Joshua Prager 2021 Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy David Zucchino Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Cathy Park Hong Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country Sierra Crane Murdoch 2020 The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Greg Grandin The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care Anne Boyer Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimaging Life Louise Aronson Solitary Albert Woodfox és Leslie George 2019 Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America Eliza Griswold In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers Bernice Yeung Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore Elizabeth Rush 2018 Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America James Forman Jr. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us Richard O. Prum Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World Suzy Hansen 2017 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond In a Different Key: The Story of Autism John Donvan és Caren Zucker The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery Micki McElya 2016 Fekete lobogók: az Iszlám Állam felemelkedése (Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS) Joby Warrick Between the World and Me Ta-Neshi Coates If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of Quran Carla Power 2015 A hatodik kihalás (The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History) Elizabeth Kolbert No Good Men Among the Living Anand Gopal Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China Evan Osnos 2014 Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Dan Fagin The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide Gary J. Bass The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan 2013 Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys Gilbert King Az örök szépségen túl (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity) Katherine Boo The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature David George Haskell 2012 Egy reneszánsz könyvvadász: hogyan vált modernné a világunk? (The Swerve: How the World Became Modern) Stephen Greenblatt One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing Diane Ackerman Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men Mara Hvistendahl 2011 Betegségek betegsége: mindent a rákról (The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer) Siddhartha Mukherjee Hogyan változtatja meg agyunkat az internet? : a sekélyesek kora (The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains) Nicholas Carr Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History S. C. Gwynne 2010 The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy David E. Hoffman How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities John Cassidy Isten evolúciója: Vallások és kultúrák (The Evolution of God) Robert Wright 2009 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Arthur Herman The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe William I. Hitchcock 2008 The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Saul Friedländer The Cigarette Century Allan Brandt The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Alex Ross 2007 Magasba nyúló tornyok: Az al-Kaida útja (The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11) Lawrence Wright Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness Pete Earley Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq Thomas E. Ricks 2006 Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins A háború után: Európa története 1945 óta (Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945) Tony Judt The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq George Packer 2005 Ghost Wars Steve Coll Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Suketu Mehta The Devil’s Highway: A True Story Luis Alberto Urrea 2004 A Gulag története (Gulag: A History) Anne Applebaum Rembrandt’s Jews Steven Nadler The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military Dana Priest 2003 ”A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature Steven Pinker The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit Ellen Meloy 2002 Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Diane McWhorter War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals David Halberstam The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Andrew Solomon 2001 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Herbert P. Bix Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Ted Conover A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers 2000 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II John W. Dower Az elegáns univerzum: Szuperhúrok, rejtett dimenziók és a végső elmélet kihívása (The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest forthe Ultimate Theory) Brian Greene Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds Scott Weidensaul 1999 Annals of the Former World John McPhee Crime and Punishment in America Elliott Currie The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do Judith Rich Harris 1998 Háborúk, járványok, technikák: A társadalmak fátumai (Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies) Jared Diamond Ég és jég: Személyes beszámoló a Mount Everest-i hegymászó-tragédiáról (Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster) Jon Krakauer Hogyan működik az elme (How the Mind Works) Steven Pinker 1997 Ashes To Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris Richard Kluger The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond Samuel G. Freedman Fame and Folly Cynthia Ozick 1996 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism Tina Rosenberg Darwin veszélyes ideája (Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life) Daniel Dennett Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder Lawrence Weschler 1995 The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time Jonathan Weiner Éjfél a jó és a rossz kertjében: Savannah-i történet (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story) John Berendt Hogyan halunk meg? (How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter) Sherwin B. Nuland 1994 Lenin sírja: A szovjet birodalom végnapjai (Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire) David Remnick A XX. század és az újkor vége (The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age) John Lukacs The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud Peter Gay 1993 Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Garry Wills A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War Susan Griffin Where the Buffalo Roam Anne Matthews Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father Richard Rodriguez 1992 The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money and Power Daniel Yergin Broken Vessels Andre Dubus Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics Thomas Byrne Edsall és Mary D. Edsall 1991 The Ants Bert Holldobler és Edward Osborne Wilson River of Traps: A Village Life William duBuys és Alex Harris Looking for a Ship John McPhee 1990 And Their Children After Them Dale Maharidge és Michael Williamson A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922 David Fromkin Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Stephen Jay Gould 1989 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan Danger and Survival McGeorge Bundy Coming of Age in the Milky Way Timothy Ferris The Last Farmer Howard Kohn 1988 Az atombomba története (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) Richard Rhodes Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society Daniel Callahan Káosz: Egy új tudomány születése (Chaos: Making a New Science) James Gleick 1987 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land David K. Shipler Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir Cyra McFadden Rising from the Plains John McPhee 1986 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families J. Anthony Lukas Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White Joseph Lelyveld Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life Robert N. Bellah 1985 The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two Studs Terkel Dawn to the West Donald Keene Endless Enemies Jonathan Kwitny 1984 The Social Transformation Of American Medicine Paul Starr Conversations With the Enemy Winston Groom és Duncan Spencer Wild Justice Susan Jacoby 1983 Is There No Place On Earth For Me? Susan Sheehan Terrorists and Novelists Diane Johnson The Fate of the Earth Jonathan Schell 1982 The Soul of A New Machine Tracy Kidder Basin and Range John McPhee Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor Diana Trilling 1981 Bécsi századvég: Politika és kultúra (Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture) Carl E. Schorske Southerners: A Journalist’s Odyssey Marshall Frady China Men Maxine Hong Kingston Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War William Manchester 1980 Gödel, Escher, Bach: Egybefont Gondolatok Birodalma (Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid) Douglas R. Hofstadter The Madwoman in the Attic Sandra M. Gilbert és Susan Gubar The Medusa and the Snail Lewis Thomas 1979 On Human Nature Edward Osborne Wilson 1978 Az éden sárkányai: Tűnődések az emberi intelligencia evolúciójáról (The Dragons of Eden) Carl Sagan 1977 Beautiful Swimmers William W. Warner 1976 Why Survive?: Being Old In America Robert N. Butler 1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 1974 The Denial of Death Ernest Becker 1973 Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Frances FitzGerald Children of Crisis Robert Coles 1972 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 Barbara W. Tuchman 1971 The Rising Sun John Toland 1970 Gandhi’s Truth Erik H. Erikson 1969 Az éjszaka hadai: A történelem mint regény, a regény mint történelem (The Armies Of The Night) Norman Mailer So Human An Animal René Jules Dubos 1968 Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization Will és Ariel Durant 1967 The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture David Brion Davis 1966 Wandering Through Winter Edwin Way Teale 1965 O Strange New World Howard Mumford Jones 1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Richard Hofstadter 1963 The Guns of August Barbara W. Tuchman 1962 The Making of the President 1960 Theodore H. White
Források