Award Winning History Books

The Pulitzer Prize for History has recognised the best book on American history every year since 1917, which makes its winner list a reading list for the country's own past. Added to it here is the history that won general non fiction prizes instead, work on the wider world that the Pulitzer category was never able to reach.

481 books drawn from 19 prize lists, newest first.

• 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution by Amanda Vaill
• 2026 Pulitzer Prize for History
  We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore
• 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black
• 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts
• 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  James by Percival Everett
• 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
• 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Satantango by László Krasznahorkai
• 2025 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
• 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction
  The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• 2025 National Book Award for Fiction
  The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine
• 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans
• 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall
• 2024 Edgar Award for Best Novel
  Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke
• 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
• 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
• 2024 Pulitzer Prize for History
  No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones
• 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
• 2023 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie
• 2023 Newbery Medal
  Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
• 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
• 2023 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk
• 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
• 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Trust by Hernan Diaz
• 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth by Henry Gee
• 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
• 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly
• 2022 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace
• 2022 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
• 2022 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  South to America by Imani Perry
• 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
• 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Years by Annie Ernaux
• 2021 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
• 2021 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
• 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
• 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• 2021 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
• 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction
  Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
• 2020 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin
• 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
• 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
• 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
• 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
• 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.
• 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
• 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
• 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
• 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  How to Survive a Plague by David France
• 2017 The Booker Prize
  Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Olio by Tyehimba Jess
• 2017 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• 2017 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Future Is History by Masha Gessen
• 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• 2016 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
• 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles
• 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  East West Street by Philippe Sands
• 2016 Caldecott Medal
  Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Sophie Blackall
• 2016 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
• 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn
• 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer
• 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
• 2014 Caldecott Medal
  Locomotive by Brian Floca
• 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
• 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor
• 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
• 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
• 2013 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• 2013 Edgar Award for Best Novel
  Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
• 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
• 2013 National Book Award for Fiction
  The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
• 2013 The Booker Prize
  The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
• 2013 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Unwinding by George Packer
• 2012 The Booker Prize
  Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• 2012 Newbery Medal
  Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
• 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
• 2012 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  Into the Silence by Wade Davis
• 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
• 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
• 2012 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  The Information by James Gleick
• 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
• 2011 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
• 2011 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter
• 2011 Newbery Medal
  Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
• 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
• 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
• 2010 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
• 2010 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman
• 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
• 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles
• 2010 Women's Prize for Fiction
  The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
• 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
• 2009 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
• 2009 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles
• 2009 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
• 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller
• 2009 The Booker Prize
  Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Desert by J. M. G. Le Clézio
• 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
• 2008 Newbery Medal
  Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
• 2008 National Book Award for Fiction
  Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
• 2008 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
• 2008 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
• 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedländer
• 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History
  What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
• 2007 Women's Prize for Fiction
  Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• 2007 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
• 2007 Edgar Award for Best Novel
  The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
• 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
• 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
• 2006 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
• 2006 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  Electric Universe by David Bodanis
• 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins
• 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  March by Geraldine Brooks
• 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature
  My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
• 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
• 2006 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
• 2005 National Book Award for Fiction
  Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
• 2005 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
• 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• 2005 Newbery Medal
  Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
• 2005 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
• 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
• 2004 Pulitzer Prize for History
  A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
• 2004 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• 2004 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle
• 2004 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
• 2004 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  Stasiland by Anna Funder
• 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• 2004 Caldecott Medal
  The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
• 2004 National Book Award for Fiction
  The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
• 2004 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  'A Problem from Hell' by Samantha Power
• 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History
  An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 by Rick Atkinson
• 2003 Newbery Medal
  Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
• 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 2003 Women's Prize for Fiction
  Property by Valerie Martin
• 2003 National Book Award for Fiction
  The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• 2002 Newbery Medal
  A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter
• 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
• 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  John Adams by David McCullough
• 2002 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
• 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
• 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature
  A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
• 2001 Newbery Medal
  A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
• 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• 2001 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
• 2001 Caldecott Medal
  So You Want to Be President? by David Small
• 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• 2001 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
• 2001 The Booker Prize
  True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
• 2000 Newbery Medal
  Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• 2000 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower
• 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War by David M. Kennedy
• 2000 National Book Award for Fiction
  In America by Susan Sontag
• 2000 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• 2000 The Booker Prize
  The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• 2000 Women's Prize for Fiction
  When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
• 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
• 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
• 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
• 1999 Caldecott Medal
  Snowflake Bentley by Mary Azarian
• 1999 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
  Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
• 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
• 1999 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• 1999 National Book Award for Fiction
  Waiting by Ha Jin
• 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• 1998 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• 1998 Newbery Medal
  Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
• 1998 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
• 1998 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
• 1998 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• 1997 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger
• 1997 National Book Award for Fiction
  Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
• 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
• 1997 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 1997 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  The Wisdom of the Bones by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman
• 1997 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Underworld by Don DeLillo
• 1996 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  Plague's Progress by Arno Karlen
• 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham
• 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg
• 1996 Newbery Medal
  The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• 1996 Pulitzer Prize for History
  William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor
• 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick
• 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History
  No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• 1994 Caldecott Medal
  Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
• 1994 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick
• 1994 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Alienist by Caleb Carr
• 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 by David Levering Lewis
• 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Beloved by Toni Morrison
• 1993 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills
• 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
• 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Truman by David McCullough
• 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Omeros by Derek Walcott
• 1992 The Booker Prize
  Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
• 1992 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
• 1992 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Prize by Daniel Yergin
• 1992 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
• 1991 Pulitzer Prize for History
  A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
• 1991 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  Freedom (Vol. 1) by Orlando Patterson
• 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
• 1991 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
• 1990 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge & Michael Williamson
• 1990 Pulitzer Prize for History
  In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
• 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia
• 1990 National Book Award for Fiction
  Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
• 1990 Newbery Medal
  Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• 1990 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
• 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
• 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
• 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
• 1989 Royal Society Science Book Prize
  Bones of Contention by Roger Lewin
• 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
• 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
• 1988 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
• 1988 Newbery Medal
  Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
• 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
• 1988 The Booker Prize
  Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
• 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
• 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce
• 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler
• 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
• 1987 The Booker Prize
  Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
• 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
• 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
• 1987 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
• 1986 Pulitzer Prize for History
  ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
• 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas
• 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka
• 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld
• 1986 Newbery Medal
  Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• 1985 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• 1985 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
• 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Good War by Studs Terkel
• 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
• 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 by Louis R. Harlan
• 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Ironweed by William Kennedy
• 1984 Caldecott Medal
  The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot by Alice and Martin Provensen
• 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
• 1983 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox Butterfield
• 1983 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
• 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
• 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
• 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature
  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• 1982 The Booker Prize
  Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
• 1982 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• 1981 Pulitzer Prize for History
  American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
• 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Fin-de-Siècle Vienna by Carl E. Schorske
• 1981 Newbery Medal
  Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
• 1981 The Booker Prize
  Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
• 1981 National Book Award for Fiction
  Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris
• 1980 Newbery Medal
  A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal by Joan Blos
• 1980 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack
• 1980 Caldecott Medal
  Ox-Cart Man by Barbara Cooney
• 1980 The Booker Prize
  Rites of Passage by William Golding
• 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz
• 1980 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
• 1980 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
• 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker
• 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
• 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher
• 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
• 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• 1978 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
• 1978 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
• 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
• 1977 Caldecott Medal
  Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Leo and Diane Dillon
• 1977 Newbery Medal
  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• 1977 The Booker Prize
  Staying On by Paul Scott
• 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter
• 1977 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe
• 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis
• 1976 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
• 1976 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by David Brion Davis
• 1975 The Booker Prize
  Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• 1975 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
• 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
• 1974 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
• 1974 Newbery Medal
  The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
• 1973 National Book Award for Fiction
  Augustus by John Williams
• 1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald
• 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg
• 1973 Pulitzer Prize for History
  People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen
• 1973 The Booker Prize
  The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
• 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Voss by Patrick White
• 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• 1972 The Booker Prize
  G. by John Berger
• 1972 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States by Carl N. Degler
• 1972 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
• 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Rising Sun by John Toland
• 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Huey Long by Thomas Harry Williams
• 1970 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
• 1970 Newbery Medal
  Sounder by William H. Armstrong
• 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination by Leonard W. Levy
• 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
• 1969 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  White Over Black by Winthrop D. Jordan
• 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Memoirs by George F. Kennan
• 1968 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Rousseau and Revolution by Will and Ariel Durant
• 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• 1968 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
• 1967 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
• 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias
• 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan
• 1967 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay
• 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• 1967 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis
• 1966 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• 1966 Newbery Medal
  I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
• 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Only Yesterday by Shmuel Agnon
• 1966 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
• 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature
  And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
• 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Henry Adams by Ernest Samuels
• 1965 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones
• 1965 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879 by Irwin Unger
• 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
• 1964 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
• 1964 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Rise of the West by William H. McNeill
• 1963 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
• 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
• 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
• 1962 Newbery Medal
  The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
• 1962 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The City in History by Lewis Mumford
• 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• 1962 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White
• 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
• 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 1961 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
• 1961 Newbery Medal
  Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
• 1961 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
• 1960 Pulitzer Prize for History
  In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
• 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1959 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Republican Era: 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
• 1959 Newbery Medal
  The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth
• 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
• 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  George Washington, Vols. I-VII by Douglas Southall Freeman, John Alexander Carroll, and Mary Wells Ashworth
• 1958 Newbery Medal
  Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
• 1958 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Lion and the Throne by Catherine Drinker Bowen
• 1958 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
• 1957 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan
• 1957 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 by George F. Kennan
• 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
• 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
• 1956 Newbery Medal
  Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
• 1956 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
• 1955 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
• 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Independent People by Halldór Laxness
• 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Taft Story by William S. White
• 1954 Pulitzer Prize for History
  A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
• 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
• 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803 by David J. Mays
• 1953 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
  The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto
• 1953 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
• 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Second World War by Winston Churchill
• 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey
• 1952 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin
• 1951 Newbery Medal
  Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
• 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
• 1951 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 by R. Carlyle Buley
• 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Town by Conrad Richter
• 1950 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
• 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1950 Newbery Medal
  The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
• 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
• 1949 Newbery Medal
  King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
• 1949 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
• 1948 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
• 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp
• 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell
• 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
• 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White
• 1947 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• 1946 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
• 1946 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russel Blaine Nye
• 1945 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal
• 1944 Newbery Medal
  Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse by Carleton Mabee
• 1944 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
• 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Long Journey by Johannes V. Jensen
• 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 1943 Newbery Medal
  Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
• 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
• 1943 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
• 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Forrest Wilson
• 1942 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 by Margaret Leech
• 1942 Newbery Medal
  The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
• 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
• 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen
• 1941 Caldecott Medal
  They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
• 1940 Caldecott Medal
  Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
• 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
• 1940 Newbery Medal
  Daniel Boone by James Daugherty
• 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History
  A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott
• 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
• 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Meek Heritage by Frans Eemil Sillanpää
• 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott by Odell Shepard
• 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
• 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Life of Andrew Jackson by Marquis James
• 1938 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 by Paul Herman Buck
• 1938 Newbery Medal
  The White Stag by Kate Seredy
• 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins
• 1937 Newbery Medal
  Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
• 1937 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
• 1936 Pulitzer Prize for History
  A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin
• 1936 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• 1936 Newbery Medal
  Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
• 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis
• 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry
• 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman
• 1935 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews
• 1934 Newbery Medal
  Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs
• 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  John Hay by Tyler Dennett
• 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
• 1934 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The People's Choice by Herbert Agar
• 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish
• 1933 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
• 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Store by T. S. Stribling
• 1932 Pulitzer Prize for History
  My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing
• 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
• 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1909 by Henry James
• 1931 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
• 1930 Newbery Medal
  Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
• 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James
• 1930 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne
• 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
• 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 1929 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 by Fred Albert Shannon
• 1929 Newbery Medal
  The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
• 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
• 1928 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington
• 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell
• 1927 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• 1927 Pulitzer Prize for History
  Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis
• 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History
  A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865) by Edward Channing
• 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. De Wolfe Howe
• 1925 Pulitzer Prize for History
  History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson
• 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
• 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
• 1924 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain
• 1924 Newbery Medal
  The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
• 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Peasants by Władysław Reymont
• 1923 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren
• 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
• 1922 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
• 1922 Newbery Medal
  The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
• 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Penguin Island by Anatole France
• 1921 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
• 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge
• 1920 Pulitzer Prize for History
  The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith
• 1919 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
  The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
• 1918 Pulitzer Prize for History
  A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 by James Ford Rhodes
• 1917 Pulitzer Prize for History
  With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand
• 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Charles Men by Verner von Heidenstam
• 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The Weavers by Gerhart Hauptmann
• 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
• 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature
  The History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen