Pulitzer Prize Winners

John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg

The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker

Amy Reading

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Jason Roberts

Larry McMurtry: A Life

Tracy Daugherty

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Ilyon Woo

Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century

Jennifer Homans

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

Pessoa: A Biography

Richard Zenith

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Janice P. Nimura

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Winfred Rembert† and Erin I. Kelly

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Heather Clark

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

Amy Stanley

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne† and Tamara Payne

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

George Packer

Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me

Deirdre Bair

Sontag: Her Life and Work

Benjamin Moser

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

Max Boot

Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris

Caroline Weber

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C. Stewart

Richard Nixon: The Life

John A. Farrell

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

Kay Redfield Jamison

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser

In the Darkroom

Susan Faludi

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

Hisham Matar

The Light of the World: A Memoir

Elizabeth Alexander

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

T. J. Stiles

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan

Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

Thomas Brothers

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928

Stephen Kotkin

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

David I. Kertzer

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

Leo Damrosch

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

Jonathan Sperber

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

Megan Marshall

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Michael Gorra

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

David Nasaw

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Tom Reiss

Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

Mary Gabriel

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

George F. Kennan: An American Life

John Lewis Gaddis

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

Alan Brinkley

Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon

Michael O'Brien

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

Cheever: A Life

Blake Bailey

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

John Milton Cooper, Jr.

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

T. J. Stiles

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

H.W. Brands

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

Steve Coll

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

Martin Duberman

The Life of Kingsley Amis

Zachary Leader

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

John Matteson

John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty

Arthur H. Cash

Andrew Carnegie

David Nasaw

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

Debby Applegate

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

Megan Marshall

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt

Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America

William Souder

de Kooning: An American Master

Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

Isaac Newton

James Gleick

Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work

Hayden Herrera

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

William Taubman

The Fly Swatter: A Portrait of an Exceptional Character

Nicholas Dawidoff

Beethoven: The Music and the Life

Lewis Lockwood

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert Caro

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

Jimmy Carter

Grant

Jean Edward Smith

John Adams

David McCullough

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

H.W. Brands

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

Christoph Wolff

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963

David Levering Lewis

Clear Springs: A Memoir

Bobbie Ann Mason

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

Dava Sobel

Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov

Stacy Schiff

At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life

Francine du Plessix Gray

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

Lindbergh

A. Scott Berg

Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life

James H. Jones

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

Sam Tanenhaus

Personal History

Katharine Graham

In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country

Kim Barnes

Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851

Hershel Parker

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

John Sloan: Painter and Rebel

John Loughery

Mozart: A Life

Maynard Solomon

God: A Biography

Jack Miles

Hugo Black: A Biography

Roger K. Newman

Saint-Exupery: A Biography

Stacy Schiff

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life

Joan D. Hedrick

In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding

Deborah Baker

Genet: A Biography

Edmund White

W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919

David Levering Lewis

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

James Gleick

Kissinger: A Biography

Walter Isaacson

Truman

David McCullough

Frederick Douglass

William S. McFeely

Orwell: The Authorized Biography

Michael Shelden

Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.

Lewis B. Puller

The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880–1918

Patricia O'Toole

Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family

Joseph Frazier Wall

Jackson Pollock: An American Saga

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

The Road from Coorain

Jill Ker Conway

Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides

Reynolds Price

A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt

Geoffrey C. Ward

Machiavelli in Hell

Sebastian de Grazia

Freud: A Life for Our Time

Peter Gay

The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941–1967: I Dream a World

Arnold Rampersad

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Neil Sheehan

Oscar Wilde

Richard Ellmann†

Hemingway

Kenneth S. Lynn

George Santayana: A Biography

John Owen McCormick

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe

David Herbert Donald

Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860–1865

Joseph Frank

The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams

Leonard L. Richards

Murrow: His Life and Times

A.M. Sperber

Bearing The Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

David J. Garrow

George Washington Williams: A Biography

John Hope Franklin

A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942–1945

Frida Scheps Weinstein

Louise Bogan: A Portrait

Elizabeth Frank

Becoming William James

Howard M. Feinstein

The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton

Michael Mott

The Life and Times of Cotton Mather

Kenneth Silverman

Thomas Carlyle: A Biography

Fred Kaplan

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just

Kenneth Manning

Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915

Louis R. Harlan

Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874–1915

Ted Morgan

Thomas E. Dewey and His Times

Richard Norton Smith

Growing Up

Russell Baker

Waldo Emerson

Gay Wilson Allen

Mornings on Horseback

David McCullough

Grant: A Biography

William S. McFeely

Walt Whitman: A Life

Justin Kaplan

Walter Lippmann and the American Century

Ronald Steel

Peter the Great: His Life and World

Robert K. Massie

Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur

Ernest Samuels

Being Bernard Berenson

Meryle Secrest

The Duke of Deception

Geoffrey Wolff

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews

Leonard Baker

Samuel Johnson

Walter Jackson Bate

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence

John E. Mack

Edith Wharton: A Biography

R. W. B. Lewis

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert Caro

O'Neill, Son and Artist

Louis Sheaffer

Luce and His Empire

W. A. Swanberg

Eleanor and Franklin

Joseph P. Lash

Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938,

Lawrance Thompson

Huey Long

Thomas Harry Williams

The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends

Benjamin Lawrence Reid

Memoirs

George F. Kennan

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

Justin Kaplan

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Henry Adams, 3 vols.

Ernest Samuels

John Keats

Walter Jackson Bate

Henry James

Leon Edel

Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

David Donald

John Paul Jones

Samuel Eliot Morison

Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet

Arthur Walworth

George Washington, vols. I-VII

Douglas Southall Freeman† with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth

Profiles in Courage

John F. Kennedy

Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Talbot Faulkner Hamlin

The Taft Story

William S. White

The Spirit of St. Louis

Charles A. Lindbergh

Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803

David J. Mays

Charles Evans Hughes

Merlo J. Pusey

John C. Calhoun: American Portrait

Margaret Louise Coit

John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy

Samuel Flagg Bemis

Roosevelt and Hopkins

Robert E. Sherwood

Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow

Margaret Clapp

The Autobiography of William Allen White

William Allen White†

Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir

Linnie Marsh Wolfe

George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel

Russel Blaine Nye

The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse

Carleton Mabee

Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Samuel Eliot Morison

Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Forrest Wilson

Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: a biography

Ola Elizabeth Winslow

Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII

Ray Stannard Baker

Benjamin Franklin

Carl Van Doren

Andrew Jackson, 2 vols.

Marquis James

Hamilton Fish

Allan Nevins

The Thought and Character of William James

Ralph Barton Perry

R. E. Lee

Douglas S. Freeman

John Hay

Tyler Dennett

Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage

Allan Nevins

Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography

Henry F. Pringle

Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869–1901

Henry James

The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston

Marquis James

The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page

Burton J. Hendrick

The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas

Charles Edward Russell

Whitman

Emory Holloway

The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.

Harvey Cushing

Barrett Wendell and His Letters

M. A. De Wolfe Howe

From Immigrant to Inventor

Michael I. Pupin

The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page

Burton J. Hendrick

A Daughter of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland

The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

Edward Bok

The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols.

Albert J. Beveridge

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams†

Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed

William Cabell Bruce

Julia Ward Howe

Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

The Unicorn Woman

Gayl Jones

Mice 1961

Stacey Levine

James

Percival Everett

Doubleday (2024)

Wednesday's Child

Yiyun Li

Same Bed Different Dreams

Ed Park

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

Knopf (2023)

The Immortal King Rao

Vauhini Vara

Trust

Hernan Diaz

Riverhead Books (2022)

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

Harper (2022)

Monkey Boy

Francisco Goldman

Palmares

Gayl Jones

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

Joshua Cohen

New York Review Books (2021)

A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth

Daniel Mason

Telephone

Percival Everett

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich

HarperCollins (2020)

The Dutch House

Ann Patchett

The Topeka School

Ben Lerner

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

Doubleday (2019)

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

There There

Tommy Orange

The Overstory

Richard Powers

W. W. Norton & Company (2018)

In the Distance

Hernan Diaz

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

Less

Andrew Sean Greer

Little, Brown and Company (2017)

Imagine Me Gone

Adam Haslett

The Sport of Kings

C. E. Morgan

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

Doubleday (2016)

Get in Trouble: Stories

Kelly Link

Maud's Line

Margaret Verble

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Grove Press (2015)

Let Me Be Frank With You

Richard Ford

Lovely, Dark, Deep

Joyce Carol Oates

The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Charles Scribner's Sons (2014)

The Son

Philipp Meyer

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Bob Shacochis

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Little, Brown and Company (2013)

The Snow Child

Eowyn Ivey

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Nathan Englander

The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson

Random House (2012)

Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

The Pale King (posthumously)

David Foster Wallace

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

Karen Russell, Swamplandia!David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (posthumously)Denis Johnson, Train Dreams

Not awarded

The Privileges

Jonathan Dee

The Surrendered

Chang-rae Lee

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

Alfred A. Knopf (2010)

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Daniyal Mueenuddin

Love in Infant Monkeys

Lydia Millet

Tinkers

Paul Harding

Bellevue Literary Press (2009)

All Souls

Christine Schutt

The Plague of Doves

Louise Erdrich

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

Random House (2008)

Shakespeare's Kitchen

Lore Segal

Tree of Smoke

Denis Johnson

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

Riverhead Books (2007)

After This

Alice McDermott

The Echo Maker

Richard Powers

The Road

Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023)

Alfred A. Knopf (2006)

The Bright Forever

Lee Martin

The March

E. L. Doctorow

March

Geraldine Brooks

Viking Press (2005)

An Unfinished Season

Ward Just

War Trash

Ha Jin

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2004)

American Woman

Susan Choi

Evidence of Things Unseen

Marianne Wiggins

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

Amistad Press (2003)

Servants of the Map: Stories

Andrea Barrett

You Are Not a Stranger Here

Adam Haslett

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2002)

John Henry Days

Colson Whitehead

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

Alfred A. Knopf (2001)

Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates

The Quick and the Dead

Joy Williams

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

Random House (2000)

Close Range: Wyoming Stories

Annie Proulx

Waiting

Ha Jin

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

Houghton Mifflin (1999)

Cloudsplitter

Russell Banks

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998)

Bear and His Daughter: Stories

Robert Stone

Underworld

Don DeLillo

American Pastoral

Philip Roth (1933–2018)

Houghton Mifflin (1997)

The Manikin

Joanna Scott

Unlocking the Air and Other Stories

Ursula K. Le Guin

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

Steven Millhauser

Crown Publishers (1996)

Mr. Ives' Christmas

Oscar Hijuelos

Sabbath's Theater

Philip Roth

Independence Day

Richard Ford

Alfred A. Knopf (1995)

The Collected Stories

Grace Paley

What I Lived For

Joyce Carol Oates

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields (1935–2003)

Random House (1993)

Operation Shylock: A Confession

Philip Roth

The Collected Stories

Reynolds Price

The Shipping News

E. Annie Proulx

Charles Scribner's Sons (1993)

At Weddings and Wakes

Alice McDermott

Black Water

Joyce Carol Oates

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Robert Olen Butler

Henry Holt (1992)

Jernigan

David Gates

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

Robert M. Pirsig

Mao II

Don DeLillo

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

Alfred A. Knopf (1991)

Mean Spirit

Linda Hogan

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

Rabbit At Rest

John Updike (1932–2009)

Alfred A. Knopf (1990)

Billy Bathgate

E. L. Doctorow

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1989)

Where I'm Calling From

Raymond Carver

Breathing Lessons

Anne Tyler

Alfred A. Knopf (1988)

Persian Nights

Diane Johnson

That Night

Alice McDermott

Beloved

Toni Morrison (1931–2019)

Alfred A. Knopf (1987)

Paradise

Donald Barthelme

Whites

Norman Rush

A Summons to Memphis

Peter Taylor (1917–1994)

Alfred A. Knopf (1986)

Continental Drift

Russell Banks

The Accidental Tourist

Anne Tyler

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry (1936–2021)

Simon & Schuster (1985)

I Wish This War Were Over

Diana O'Hehir

Leaving the Land

Douglas Unger

Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie (1926–2020)

Random House (1984)

Cathedral

Raymond Carver

The Feud

Thomas Berger

Ironweed

William Kennedy

Viking Press (1983)

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Anne Tyler

Rabbis and Wives

Chaim Grade

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1982)

A Flag for Sunrise

Robert Stone

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

Rabbit Is Rich

John Updike (1932–2009)

Alfred A. Knopf (1981)

Godric

Frederick Buechner

So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell

A Confederacy of Dunces (posthumously)

John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969)

Louisiana State University Press (1980)

Birdy

William Wharton

The Ghost Writer

Philip Roth

The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer (1923–2007)

Little, Brown (1979)

The Stories of John Cheever

John Cheever (1912–1982)

Alfred A. Knopf (1978)

Elbow Room

James Alan McPherson (1943–2016)

Little, Brown (1977)

Humboldt's Gift

Saul Bellow (1915–2005)

Viking Press (1975)

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara (1928–1988)

David McKay Publications (1974)

The Optimist's Daughter

Eudora Welty (1909–2001)

Random House (1972)

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993)

Doubleday (1971)

Collected Stories

Jean Stafford (1915–1979)

Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1969)

House Made of Dawn

N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024)

Harper & Row (1968)

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron (1925–2006)

Random House (1967)

The Fixer

Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)

Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1966)

The Collected Stories

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)

Harcourt Brace (1965)

The Keepers of the House

Shirley Ann Grau (1929–2020)

Alfred A. Knopf (1964)

The Reivers (posthumously)

William Faulkner (1897–1962)

Random House (1962)

The Edge of Sadness

Edwin O'Connor (1918–1968)

Little, Brown and Company (1961)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee (1926–2016)

J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1960)

Advise and Consent

Allen Drury (1918–1998)

Doubleday (1959)

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

Robert Lewis Taylor (1912–1998)

Doubleday (1958)

A Death in the Family (posthumously)

James Agee (1909–1955)

McDowell, Obolensky (1957)

Andersonville

MacKinlay Kantor (1904–1977)

Penguin Books (1955)

A Fable

William Faulkner (1897–1962)

Random House (1954)

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

Charles Scribner's Sons (1952)

The Caine Mutiny

Herman Wouk (1915–2019)

Doubleday (1951)

The Town

Conrad Richter (1890–1968)

Alfred A. Knopf (1950)

The Way West

A. B. Guthrie (1901–1991)

William Sloane Associates (1949)

Guard of Honor

James Gould Cozzens (1903–1978)

Harcourt, Brace & Company (1948)

Tales of the South Pacific

James A. Michener (1907–1997)

Macmillan Publishers (1947)

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

Harcourt, Brace & Company (1946)

A Bell for Adano

John Hersey (1914–1993)

Alfred A. Knopf (1944)

Journey in the Dark

Martin Flavin (1883–1967)

Harper & Brothers (1943)

Dragon's Teeth

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968)

Viking Press (1942)

In This Our Life

Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

Jonathan Cape (1941)

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

Viking Press (1939)

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953)

Charles Scribner's Sons (1938)

The Late George Apley

John Phillips Marquand (1893–1960)

Little, Brown and Company (1937)

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)

Macmillan Publishers (1936)

Honey in the Horn

Harold L. Davis (1894–1960)

Harper & Brothers (1935)

Now in November

Josephine Winslow Johnson (1910–1990)

Simon & Schuster (1934)

Lamb in His Bosom

Caroline Miller (1903–1992)

Harper & Brothers (1933)

The Store

T. S. Stribling (1881–1965)

Doubleday, Doran (1932)

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)

John Day Company (1931)

Years of Grace

Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886–1967)

Houghton Mifflin (1930)

Laughing Boy

Oliver La Farge (1901–1963)

Houghton Mifflin (1929)

Scarlet Sister Mary

Julia Peterkin (1880–1961)

Bobbs-Merrill Company (1928)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

Albert & Charles Boni (1927)

Early Autumn

Louis Bromfield (1896–1956)

Amereon Ltd (1926)

Arrowsmith

Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)

Harcourt Brace & Co. (1925)

So Big

Edna Ferber (1885–1968)

Grosset & Dunlap (1924)

The Able McLaughlins

Margaret Wilson (1882–1973)

Harper & Brothers (1923)

One of Ours

Willa Cather (1873–1947)

Alfred A. Knopf (1922)

Alice Adams

Booth Tarkington (1869–1949)

Doubleday, Page & Co. (1921)

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

D. Appleton & Company (1920)

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington (1869–1949)

Doubleday, Page & Co. (1918)

His Family

Ernest Poole (1880–1950)

Macmillan (1917)

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

Benjamin Nathans

Princeton University Press

Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

Harvard University Press

"A focused, extensively reported study of how, between 1977 and 2007, Guatemala became the second largest source of foreign adoptions in the world, a breeding ground for racism, greed and exploitation."

I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India

Penguin

"A captivating account of a crusading South Indian's murder, a mystery rich in local culture and politics that also connects to such global themes as authoritarianism, fundamentalism and other threats to free expression."

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall

Metropolitan Books

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

St. Martin's Press

"A powerful examination of mining operations in the Southeastern Congo that reveals a global system of modern-day slavery, and the inhumane, often deadly working conditions for the men, women and children who extract the rare metal required for smartphones, computers and electric vehicles."

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

Knopf

"An unsparing account of the rapacious Alberta Sands fire, fueled by an overheated atmosphere, dry forest and omnipresent petroleum products, that consumed the town of Fort McMurray at the heart of Canada's oil industry, which brings the global crisis of carbon emissions and climate change into urgent relief."

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Toluse Olorunnipa

Viking

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

Viking

"An insightful and revelatory work that scientifically reconsiders natural sound as a wonder of evolution, voicing concern that noisy human progress may return us to silence."

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Riverhead Books

"A beguiling and original geopolitical account of how China's international prominence was made possible by the preservation and modernization of the Chinese language and the integration of Mandarin into global communication."

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

Doubleday

"A morally urgent and elegantly rendered work drawing on history, medical research and years of reporting to document how racism infects the American healthcare system, a call to action that also offers some solutions."

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City

Andrea Elliott

Random House

Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism

One World

"An eye-opening global investigation into the deradicalization of violent extremists that impeccably balances empathy and skepticism."

The Family Roe: An American Story

W. W. Norton

"A deeply reported account of Norma McCorvey, the Roe of Roe v. Wade, and her family, which casts fresh light on the American judicial system's half century of struggle to reckon with abortion."

Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

David Zucchino

Atlantic Monthly Press

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

Random House

"A richly-layered story with an imperfect yet memorable protagonist battling corruption, greed and intergenerational trauma when a fracking oil boom collides with reservation life in North Dakota."

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

One World

"A captivating and insightful essay collection that provides an emotional consideration of racial consciousness, compelling readers to interrogate their own ideas about our common humanity."

The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

Anne Boyer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Metropolitan Books

"A sweeping and beautifully written book that probes the American myth of boundless expansion and provides a compelling context for thinking about the current political moment."

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Bloomsbury

"An empathetic and nuanced critique, informed by the author's decades of experience as a geriatrician, of the ways in which our society and healthcare system neglect, stereotype and mistreat the elderly."

Grove Atlantic

Solitary

"An unflinching indictment of Louisiana's most notorious prison and the racist criminal justice system as told through an innocent man's redemptive journey faced with a life sentence in solitary confinement."

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Eliza Griswold

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Milkweed Editions

"A rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas, particularly disenfranchised people with limited access to the tools of rebuilding."

In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence against America's Most Vulnerable Workers

New Press

"An unembellished series of case studies about sexual violence exacted on mostly immigrant women in America, many toiling in a shadow economy."

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"A brave and disturbing account of what it means to be an American in the world during the first decades of the 21st century."

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us

Doubleday

"A fascinating, nuanced and compelling account of the potentially unsettling implications surrounding sexual selection."

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

Crown

In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

Crown

"For a passionate work of advocacy that traces public perceptions about autism from chillingly cruel beginnings to a kinder but still troubling present."

The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery

Harvard University Press

"For a luminous investigation of how policies and practices at Arlington National Cemetery have mirrored the nation's fierce battles over race, politics, honor and loyalty."

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

Joby Warrick

Doubleday

Spiegel and Grau

Between the World and Me

"A powerful book that passionately and bleakly propounds the hazards faced by black men coming of age in America."

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

Holt

"A perceptive account of a year spent reading the Quran, displaying grace, subtlety and humane intellect as antidotes to rampant Islamophobia."

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

Holt

No Good Men among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes

Metropolitan Books

"A remarkable work of nonfiction storytelling that exposes the cascade of blunders that doomed America's misbegotten intervention in Afghanistan."

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"The story of a vast country and society in the grip of transformation, calmly surveyed, smartly reported and portrayed with exacting strokes."

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Dan Fagin

Bantam Books

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

Knopf

"A disquieting exploration of the role played by the American president and his national security advisor in the 1971 Pakistani civil war, a bloodbath that killed hundreds of thousands and created millions of refugees."

The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

Simon and Schuster

"An engrossing look at how a tenacious general became the ringleader of efforts to reshape America's military strategy in the post-Cold War age."

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Gilbert King

Harper

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Random House

"An engrossing book that plunges the reader into an Indian slum in the shadow of gleaming hotels near Mumbai's airport, revealing a complex subculture where poverty does not extinguish aspiration."

The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

Viking

"A fascinating book that, for a year, closely follows the natural wonders occurring within a tiny patch of old-growth Tennessee forest."

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt

W. W. Norton

One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing

W. W. Norton

"A resilient author's account of caring for a stricken husband, sharing fears and insights as she explores neurology and ponders the gift of words."

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

PublicAffairs

"An evocative, deeply researched book probing the causes and effects of a global imbalance in the gender ratio."

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Scribner

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

W. W. Norton

"A thought provoking exploration of the Internet's physical and cultural consequences, rendering highly technical material intelligible to the general reader."

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

Scribner

"A memorable examination of the longest and most brutal of all the wars between European settlers and a single Indian tribe."

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

David E. Hoffman

Doubleday

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"A work that probes the complexity of the Great Recession, using solid research and precise documentation to reveal not only a gripping human drama but also a tense clash of ideas."

Little

The Evolution of God

"A sweeping look at the origins and development of religious belief throughout human history."

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Douglas A. Blackmon

Doubleday

Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Bantam Books

"An authoritative, deeply researched book that achieves an extraordinary balance in weighing two mighty protagonists against each other."

The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe

Free Press

"A heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar."

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945

Saul Friedländer

HarperCollins

Basic Books

The Cigarette Century

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright

Knopf

Crazy: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness

Putnam

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Penguin

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins

Holt

Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945

Penguin

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Steve Coll

Penguin

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Knopf

The Devil's Highway: A True Story

Little

Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps

Anne Applebaum

Doubleday

University of Chicago Press

Rembrandt's Jews

The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military

W. W. Norton

"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

Basic Books

The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit

Pantheon

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Viking

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Diane McWhorter

Simon and Schuster

War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

Scribner

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Scribner

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

HarperCollins

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Random House

Simon and Schuster

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

New Press

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

W. W. Norton

Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Annals of the Former World

John McPhee

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Metropolitan Books

Crime and Punishment in America

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Free Press

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

W. W. Norton

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Villard

W. W. Norton

How the Mind Works

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

Richard Kluger

Knopf

The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond

Simon and Schuster

Knopf

Fame and Folly

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism

Tina Rosenberg

Random House

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Simon and Schuster

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology

Pantheon

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

Jonathan Weiner

Knopf

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story

Random House

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Knopf

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

David Remnick

Random House

The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud

W. W. Norton

The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age

Ticknor and Fields

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Garry Wills

Simon and Schuster

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Doubleday

Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains

Grove

Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

Viking

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Daniel Yergin

Simon and Schuster

Godine

Broken Vessels

Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics

W. W. Norton

The Ants

Bert Hölldobler

Harvard University Press (Belknap)

River of Traps: A Village Life

University of New Mexico Press

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Looking for a Ship

And Their Children after Them

Dale Maharidge

Pantheon

A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922

Holt

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

W. W. Norton

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Neil Sheehan

Random House

Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years

Random House

William Morrow

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Summit Books

The Last Farmer

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

Simon and Schuster

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society

Simon and Schuster

Chaos: Making a New Science

Viking

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

David K. Shipler

Times Books

Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir

Knopf

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Rising from the Plains

Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White

Joseph Lelyveld

Times Books

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

Knopf

Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

University of California Press

"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II

Studs Terkel

Pantheon

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era

Holt

Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World

Congdon and Weed

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

Paul Starr

Basic Books

Putnam

Conversations with the Enemy

Harper

Wild Justice

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Susan Sheehan

Houghton Mifflin

Knopf

Terrorists and Novelists

The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

Atlantic

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Basin and Range

Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor

Harcourt

Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Carl E. Schorske

Knopf

Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey

New American Library

Knopf

China Men

Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

Little

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter

Basic Books

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Yale University Press

The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

Viking

On Human Nature

Edward O. Wilson

Harvard University Press

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Carl Sagan

Random House

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

William W. Warner

Little

Why Survive?: Being Old in America

Robert N. Butler

Harper

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

Harper's Magazine Press

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

Free Press

Children of Crisis, Volumes II and III

Robert Coles

Little

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Little

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–1945

Barbara W. Tuchman

Macmillan

The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945

John Toland

Random House

Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

Erik Erikson

W. W. Norton

So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events

René Dubos

Scribner

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History

World

The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution

Ariel Durant

Simon and Schuster

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

David Brion Davis

Cornell University Press

Wandering through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey through the North American Winter

Edwin Way Teale

Dodd

O Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years

Howard Mumford Jones

Viking

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Richard Hofstadter

Random House

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

Macmillan

The Making of the President 1960

Theodore H. White

Atheneum

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

Seth Rockman

Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Edda L. Fields-Black

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal

American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Michael Willrich

Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion

Elliott West

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

Jacqueline Jones

Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Michael John Witgen

Watergate: A New History

Garrett M. Graff

Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Jefferson Cowie

Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Kate Masur

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

Nicole Eustace

Cuba: An American History

Ada Ferrer

The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

Eric Cervini

The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

Megan Kate Nelson

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Marcia Chatelain

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

W. Caleb McDaniel

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Victoria Johnson

Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

Kim Phillips-Fein

Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America

Steven J. Ross

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

Jack E. Davis

Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It

Larrie D. Ferreiro

New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

Wendy Warren

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Brian Matthew Jordan

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

James M. Scott (historian)

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

Annie Jacobsen

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

T. J. Stiles

An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

Nick Bunker

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Sven Beckert

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People

Elizabeth A. Fenn

A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

Jacqueline Jones

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

Alan Taylor

Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History

John Fabian Witt

The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

Bernard Bailyn

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

Fredrik Logevall

Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860

Anne F. Hyde

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Richard White

The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden

Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

Stephanie McCurry

Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston

Michael J. Rawson

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Eric Foner

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Gordon S. Wood

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

Greg Grandin

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamed

The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s

G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

Robert Dallek

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

David Halberstam

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Daniel Walker Howe

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Nathaniel Philbrick

Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

James T. Campbell

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Jill Lepore

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

Sean Wilentz

Polio: An American Story

David Oshinsky

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Kevin Boyle

Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2

Michael O'Brien

Washington's Crossing

David Hackett Fischer

Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center

Daniel Okrent

They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967

David Maraniss

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

Steven Hahn

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

Philip Dray

Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

Rick Atkinson

Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation

J. William Harris

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

Daniel K. Richter

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

Louis Menand

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

Alexander Keyssar

Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War

Frances FitzGerald

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Joseph J. Ellis

Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier

James H. Merrell

The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America

Kevin Phillips

Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War

David M. Kennedy

In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival

Paula Mitchell Marks

This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age

William E. Burrows

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America

J. Anthony Lukas

Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History

Rogers Smith

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion

Edward J. Larson

Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

Mary Beth Norton

The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday

Stephen Nissenbaum

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Jack N. Rakove

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Richard Rhodes

The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic

Lance Banning

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

Alan Taylor

Lincoln in American Memory

Merrill D. Peterson

Stories of Scottsboro

James Goodman

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

Gerald Posner

Crime and Punishment in American History

Lawrence M. Friedman

William Faulkner and Southern History

Joel Williamson

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Garry Wills

The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction

Edward L. Ayers

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Gordon S. Wood

A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs

Theodore Draper

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

William Cronon

Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century

John Frederick Martin

The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

Richard White

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties

Mark E. Neely, Jr.

America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink

Kenneth M. Stampp

Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939

Lizabeth Cohen

The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy

Hugh Davis Graham

A Midwife's Tale

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970

Thomas P. Hughes

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I

Hugh Honour

In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

Stanley Karnow

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Neil Sheehan

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863-1877

Eric Foner

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

James M. McPherson

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963

Taylor Branch

The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System

Charles E. Rosenberg

The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925

David Montgomery

The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876

Robert V. Bruce

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

David Garrow

Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945

David Eisenhower

Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

Bernard Bailyn

Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America

Kerby A. Miller

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present

Jacqueline Jones

Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution

Forrest McDonald

...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

Walter A. McDougall

The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation

Joel Williamson

The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians

Francis Paul Prucha

Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn

Thomas K. McCraw

Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789

Robert Middlekauff

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

Rhys L. Isaac

Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945

Akira Iriye

White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History

George M. Fredrickson

Mary Chesnut's Civil War

C. Vann Woodward

A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England

Lyle Koehler

Over Here: The First World War and American Society

David M. Kennedy

American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876

Lawrence A. Cremin

The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60

John B. Unruh

The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution

Gary B. Nash

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

Leon F. Litwack

The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics

Don E. Fehrenbacher

The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861

David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)

Lamy of Santa Fe

Paul Horgan

Jefferson and His Time

Dumas Malone

The Americans: The Democratic Experience

Daniel J. Boorstin

People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization

Michael Kammen

Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States

Carl N. Degler

Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom

James MacGregor Burns

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Dean Acheson

Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination

Leonard W. Levy

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Bernard Bailyn

Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West

William H. Goetzmann

The Life of the Mind in America

Perry Miller

The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879

Irwin Unger

Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town

Sumner Chilton Powell

Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878

Constance McLaughlin Green

The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766

Lawrence H. Gipson

Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference

Herbert Feis

In the Days of McKinley

Margaret Leech

The Republican Era: 1869-1901

Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider

Banks and Politics in America

Bray Hammond

Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920

George F. Kennan

The Age of Reform

Richard Hofstadter

Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History

Paul Horgan

A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton

The Era of Good Feelings

George Dangerfield

The Uprooted

Oscar Handlin

The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840

R. Carlyle Buley

Art and Life in America

Oliver W. Larkin

The Disruption of American Democracy

Roy Franklin Nichols

Across the Wide Missouri

Bernard DeVoto

Scientists Against Time

James Phinney Baxter III

The Age of Jackson

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Unfinished Business

Stephen Bonsal

The Growth of American Thought

Merle Curti

Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

Esther Forbes

Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865

Margaret Leech

The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860

Marcus Lee Hansen

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years

Carl Sandburg

A History of American Magazines

Frank Luther Mott

The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900

Paul Herman Buck

The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865

Van Wyck Brooks

A Constitutional History of the United States

Andrew C. McLaughlin

The Colonial Period of American History

Charles McLean Andrews

The People's Choice

Herbert Agar

The Significance of Sections in American History

Frederick J. Turner

My Experiences in the World War

John J. Pershing

The Coming of the War, 1914

Bernadotte E. Schmitt

The War of Independence

Claude H. Van Tyne

The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865

Fred Albert Shannon

Main Currents in American Thought

Vernon Louis Parrington

Pinckney's Treaty

Samuel Flagg Bemis

A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849-1865)

Edward Channing

History of the American Frontier

Frederic L. Paxson

The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation

Charles Howard McIlwain

The Supreme Court in United States History

Charles Warren

The Founding of New England

James Truslow Adams

The Victory at Sea

William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick

The War with Mexico

Justin H. Smith

A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

James Ford Rhodes

With Americans of Past and Present Days

Jean Jules Jusserand

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls

MCD

Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Grove

"An elegiac meditation on motherhood and grief, written from the rage and pain of losing a child, but in a voice that ultimately resonates with beauty and hard-won acceptance."

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Penguin Press

"A questioning yet clear-eyed narrative of the author’s journey to become who she is from who she once was, set against a vanished New York City that is profoundly part of her past."

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

Cristina Rivera Garza

Hogarth

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Penguin Press

"An emotionally resonant account by an author losing his eyesight from a rare genetic disorder, a memoir that explores the physical and conceptual experience of blindness, and that explains honestly how ableism fueled his reticence to accept his diagnosis."

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Penguin Press

"An account of the author's brilliant childhood best friend and fellow student who was diagnosed as schizophrenic before fatally stabbing his girlfriend, a tragedy used to explore mental illness and the history of institutionalization."

Stay True

Hua Hsu

Doubleday

Easy Beauty: A Memoir

Avid Reader Press

"A spellbinding and brutally honest memoir drawing on art, travel, cultural observation and philosophical scholarship to convey the full experience of life as a disabled person whose view of humanity becomes increasingly compassionate."

Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

Doubleday

"A lyrical personal account that reclaims a family legacy of indigenous practices, beliefs, and narratives to challenge Western notions of history and memory."