Pulitzer Prize Short List

The Duke of Deception

Being Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson, The Making of a Connoisseur

The Medusa and the Snail

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

The Urban Crucible

The Plains Across

Birdy

The Ghost Writer

Walt Whitman: A Life

Walter Lippmann and the American Century

China Men

Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey

Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

Over Here: The First World War and American Society

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

Godric

So Long, See You Tomorrow

Waldo Emerson

Mornings on Horseback

Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor

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

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

A Flag for Sunrise

Housekeeping

Thomas E. Dewey and His Times

Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915

The Fate of the Earth

Terrorists and Novelists

Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South

Rabbis and Wives

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Thomas Carlyle: A Biography

Black Apollo of Science: the Life of Ernest Everett Just

Wild Justice

Conversations With the Enemy

Cathedral

The Feud

Fool for Love

Painting Churches

The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton

Becoming William James

Dawn to the West

Endless Enemies

The Crucible of Race

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

Leaving the Land

I Wish This War Were Over

The Dining Room

The Gospel at Colonus

George Washington Williams: A Biography

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

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

Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution

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

Continental Drift

The Accidental Tourist

Murrow: His Life and Times

Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865

The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams

Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir

Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945

Whites

Paradise (1986)

Broadway Bound

A Walk in the Woods

Hemingway

George Santayana: A Biography

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society

The Fall of the House of Labor

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

Persian Nights

That Night

Talk Radio

Boy's Life

Freud: A Life For Our Time

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

The Last Farmer

Danger and Survival

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

M. Butterfly

The Road From Coorain

Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides

A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

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

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

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

Love Letters

And What of the Night?

Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Family

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

Looking for a Ship

River of Traps: A Village Life

America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink

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

The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy

Mean Spirit

The Things They Carried

Prelude to a Kiss

Frederick Douglass

Orwell: The Authorized Biography

Broken Vessels

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

A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

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

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

Mao II

Jernigan

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

Sight Unseen

Miss Evers' Boys

Two Trains Running

Conversations With My Father

Kissinger

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Where the Buffalo Roam

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction

Black Water

At Weddings and Wakes

The Destiny of Me

Fires in the Mirror

Genet: A Biography

In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding

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

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

Crime and Punishment in American History

William Faulkner and Southern History

Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

The Collected Stories (1994)

Operation Shylock: A Confession

A Perfect Ganesh

Keely and Du

Hugo Black: A Biography

Saint-Exupery: A Biography

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

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

Stories of Scottsboro

Lincoln in American Memory

What I Lived For

The Collected Stories (1995)

The Cryptogram

Seven Guitars

Mozart: A Life

John Sloan: Painter and Rebel

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

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

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

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

Sabbath's Theater

Mr. Ives' Christmas

Old Wicked Songs

A Fair Country

In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country

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

Fame and Folly

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

The Battle for Christmas

Founding Mothers and Fathers

The Manikin

Unlocking the Air and Other Stories

Collected Stories (1997)

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Pride's Crossing

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public-Private Life

How the Mind Works

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

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

Underworld

Bear and His Daughter: Stories

Freedomland

Three Days of Rain

A Beautiful Mind

At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life

Crime and Punishment in America

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

The New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age

In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival

Cloudsplitter

The Poisonwood Bible

Side Man

Running Man

Clear Springs: A Memoir

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

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

Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds

Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier

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

Close Range: Wyoming Stories

Waiting

King Hedley II

In the Blood

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Way Out There in the Blue

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

Blonde

The Quick and the Dead

The Play About the Baby

The Waverly Gallery

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

Grant

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

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

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

John Henry Days

The Glory of Living

Yellowman

The Fly Swatter

Beethoven: The Music and the Life

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

The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature

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

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

You Are Not a Stranger Here

Servants of the Map: Stories

Isaac Newton

Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work

Rembrandt's Jews

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

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

Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center

American Woman

Evidence of Things Unseen

Man from Nebraska

Omnium Gatherum

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

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story

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

War Trash

An Unfinished Season

Thom Pain (based on nothing)

The Clean House

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

New York Burning

The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

The Bright Forever

Miss Witherspoon

The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow

Red Light Winter

John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty

Andrew Carnegie

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

After This

Orpheus X

Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

The Life of Kingsley Amis

The Cigarette Century

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Shakespeare's Kitchen

Yellow Face

Dying City

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

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family In An American Century

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

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

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

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

The Plague of Doves

All Souls

Becky Shaw

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

The Evolution of God

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

Love in Infant Monkeys

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

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

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

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston

The Privileges

The Surrendered

A Free Man of Color

Detroit

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

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

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

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

Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Train Dreams

Swamplandia!

The Pale King

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

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

The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

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

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

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

The Snow Child

Rapture, Blister, Burn

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide

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

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

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

The Son

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence

Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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

Between the World and Me

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

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Let Me Be Frank with You

The Moor's Account

Lovely, Dark, Deep

The Light of the World

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

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

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

Maud's Line

Get in Trouble: Stories

Gloria

In the Darkroom

When Breath Becomes Air

In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

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

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

New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

Imagine Me Gone

Sport of Kings

The Wolves

A 24-Decade History of Popular Music

Richard Nixon: The Life

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

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

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

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

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

In the Distance

The Idiot

Everybody

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

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

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

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

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

Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition

The Great Believers

There There

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

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

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Solitary

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

The Dutch House

The Topeka School

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

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

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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

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

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

A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth

Telephone

Circle Jerk

Stew

Pessoa: A Biography

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

The Family Roe: An American Story

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

Monkey Boy

Palmares

Selling Kabul

Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

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

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

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

Watergate: A New History

On Sugarland

Easy Beauty: A Memoir

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

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

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

Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion

Same Bed Different Dreams

Wednesday’s Child

Here There Are Blueberries

Public Obscenities

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

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

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

John Lewis: A Life

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

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

Headshot

Mice 1961

The Unicorn Woman

Oh, Mary!

The Ally

Fi: A Memoir of My Son

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford

True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen

Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution, a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and The Remaking of the American City

Audition

Stag Dance: A Quartet

Bowl EP

Meet the Cartozians

I'll Tell You When I'm Home

Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Clam Down: A Metamorphosis