PaperBack Swap: Pulitzer Prize Winning Books

2008	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Author: Junot Diaz Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 105
2007	The Road Author: Cormac McCarthy Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 981
2006	March Author: Geraldine Brooks Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 245
2005	Gilead Author: Marilynne Robinson Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 125
2004	The Known World Author: Edward P. Jones Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: 65
2003	Middlesex: A Novel Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 139
2002	Empire Falls Author: Richard Russo Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 71
2001	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Author: Michael Chabon Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 77
2000	Interpreter of Maladies Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 394
1999	The Hours Author: Michael Cunningham Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 253
1998	American Pastoral Author: Philip Roth Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: 63
1997	Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Vintage Contemporaries) Author: Steven Millhauser Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 48
1996	Independence Day Author: Richard Ford Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 15
1995	The Stone Diaries Author: Carol Shields Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: 178
1994	The Shipping News Author: Annie Proulx Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 423
1993	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Author: Robert Olen Butler Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 31
1992	Thousand Acres Author: Jane Smiley Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 140
1991	Rabbit at Rest Author: John Updike Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 15
1990	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Author: Oscar Hijuelos Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 24
1989	Breathing Lessons Author: Anne Tyler Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 166
1988	Beloved Author: Toni Morrison Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 284
1987	A Summons to Memphis Author: Peter Taylor Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 19
1986	Lonesome Dove Author: Larry McMurtry Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 54
1985	Foreign Affairs Author: Alison Lurie Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 25
1984	Ironweed Author: William J. Kennedy Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: 59
1983	The Color Purple Author: Alice Walker Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 196
1982	Rabbit Is Rich Author: John Updike Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 12
1981	A Confederacy of Dunces Author: John Kennedy Toole Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 296
1980	The Executioner's Song (Vintage International) Author: Norman Mailer Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 41
1979	The Stories of John Cheever Author: John Cheever Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 7
1978	Elbow Room Author: James Alan Mcpherson Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 5
1977	No Award Given
1976	Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics) Author: Saul Bellow Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 12
1975	The Killer Angels Author: Michael Shaara Genre: History, Literature & Fiction Rating: 228
1974	No Award Given
1973	The Optimist's Daughter Author: Eudora Welty Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 44
1972	Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) Author: Wallace Stegner Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: 62
1971	No Award Given
1970	The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Author: Jean Stafford Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
1969	House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics) Author: N. Scott Momaday Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: 11
1968	The Confessions of Nat Turner Author: William Styron Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: 16
1967	The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Author: Bernard Malamud Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 13
1966	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Author: Katherine Anne Porter Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 10
1965	The Keepers of the House (Voices of the South) Author: Shirley Ann Grau Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 4

2008	The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Author: Saul Friedlander Genre: History Rating: ?
2007	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Author: Lawrence Wright Genre: History, Nonfiction Rating: 9
2006	Imperial Reckoning : The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya Author: Caroline Elkins Genre: History Rating: ?
2005	Ghost Wars: The Secret History of The CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to 9/11/2001 Author: Steve Coll Genre: History, Nonfiction Rating: 18
2004	Gulag : A History Author: Anne Applebaum Genre: History Rating: 6
2003	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Author: Samantha Power Genre: History, Nonfiction Rating: 5
2002	Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Author: Diane McWhorter Genre: History, Nonfiction Rating: 1
2001	Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Author: Herbert P. Bix Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: 2
2000	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Author: John W. Dower Genre: History Rating: 4
1999	Annals of the Former World Author: John McPhee Genre: Science, Professional & Technical Rating: 1
1998	Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Author: Jared Diamond Genre: History, Nonfiction, Science, Professional & Technical, Substores Rating: 34
1997	Ashes to Ashes : America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Trium ph of Philip Morris Author: Richard Kluger Genre: Business & Investing, History, Nonfiction Rating: ?
1996	The Haunted Land : Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Vintage) Author: Tina Rosenberg Genre: History, Nonfiction Rating: 3
1995	The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Author: Jonathan Weiner Genre: Science, Professional & Technical, Outdoors & Nature Rating: 16
1994	Lenin's Tomb : The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Author: David Remnick Genre: History, Nonfiction Rating: 4
1993	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Author: Garry Wills Genre: History Rating: 6
1992	Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Author: Daniel Yergin Genre: Business & Investing Rating: 7
1991	The Ants Author: Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson Genre: Science, Professional & Technical Rating: ?
1990	And Their Children After Them : The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Author: Dale Maharidge Genre: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction, Travel, Home & Garden Rating: ?
1989	A Bright Shining Lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Author: Neil Sheehan Genre: History Rating: 5
1988	The Making of the Atomic Bomb Author: Richard Rhodes Genre: History Rating: 4
1987	Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Author: David K. Shipler Genre: History, Nonfiction Rating: 1
1986	Common Ground : A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Author: J. Anthony Lukas Genre: Parenting & Families, Nonfiction, Professional & Technical Rating: 6

2008	Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father Author: John Matteson Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Rating: 1
2007	The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher Author: Debby Applegate Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality Rating: 1
2006	American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Vintage) Author: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Science Rating: 2
2005	De Kooning : An American Master Author: Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Rating: 1
2004	Khrushchev: The Man and His Era Author: William Taubman Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: ?
2003	Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Author: Robert A. Caro Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: ?
2002	John Adams Author: David McCullough Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: 47
2001	W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 Author: David Levering Lewis Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: 1
2000	Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) Author: Stacy Schiff Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: 6
1999	Lindbergh Author: A. Scott Berg Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: 14
1998	Personal History (Vintage) Author: Katharine Graham Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Rating: 53
1997	Angela's Ashes Author: Frank McCourt Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Rating: 362
1996	God: A Biography Author: Jack Miles Genre: Religion & Spirituality Rating: 6
1995	Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life Author: Joan D. Hedrick Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Rating: ?
1994	W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963 Author: David Levering Lewis Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: 1
1993	Truman Author: David McCullough Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Rating: 30
1992	Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Author: Lewis B., Jr. Puller Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: 1
1991	Jackson Pollock: An American Saga Author: Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith Genre: Arts & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs Rating: 1
1990	Machiavelli in Hell (Vintage) Author: Sebastian De Grazia Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction Rating: ?
1989	Oscar Wilde Author: Richard Ellmann Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Rating: 2
1988	Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolf Author: David Herbert Donald Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction Rating: 1
1987	Bearing the Cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Author: David Garrow Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Rating: ?
1986	Louise Bogan Author: Elizabeth Frank Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction Rating: ?

2008	What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States) Author: Daniel Walker Howe Genre: History, Religion & Spirituality Rating: 1
2007	The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation Author: Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff Genre: Arts & Photography, History, Reference, Nonfiction, Substores Rating: ?
2006	Polio: An American Story Author: David M. Oshinsky Genre: History, Nonfiction, Medicine, Professional & Technical Rating: 5
2005	Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) Author: David Hackett Fischer Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: 4
2004	A Nation under Our Feet : Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration Author: Steven Hahn Genre: History Rating: 1
2003	An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy Author: Rick Atkinson Genre: History Rating: 3
2002	The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Author: Louis Menand Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Nonfiction Rating: 17
2001	Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Author: Joseph J. Ellis Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Nonfiction Rating: 25
2000	Freedom from Fear : The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States, Vol 9) Author: David M. Kennedy Genre: History Rating: 2
1999	Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Author: Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace Genre: History, Substores Rating: ?
1998	Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion Author: Edward J. Larson Genre: Nonfiction, Science, Law, Professional & Technical Rating: 4
1997	Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Author: Jack N. Rakove Genre: History, Nonfiction, Law, Engineering, Professional & Technical Rating: 2
1996	William Cooper's Town : Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Vintage) Author: Alan Taylor Genre: History Rating: ?
1995	No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History Rating: 24
1994	No Award Given
1993	The Radicalism of the American Revolution Author: Gordon S. Wood Genre: History Rating: 10
1992	The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Author: Mark E. Neely Genre: History, Nonfiction Rating: ?
1991	A Midwife's Tale : The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Nonfiction Rating: 64
1990	In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines Author: Stanley Karnow Genre: History Rating: ?
1989	Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Author: James M. Mcpherson Genre: History Rating: 12
1988	The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 (Impact of the Civil War) Author: Robert V. Bruce Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Science Rating: ?
1987	Voyagers to the West : A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution Author: Bernard Bailyn Genre: History, Nonfiction Rating: 1
1986	...the Heavens and the Earth : A Political History of the Space Age Author: Walter A. McDougall Genre: History, Nonfiction, Science Rating: ?
671	Parting the Waters Author: Taylor Branch Genre: History Rating: 4

2008	August, Osage County Author: Tracy Letts Genre: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction Rating: 5
2007	Rabbit Hole Author: David Lindsay-Abaire Genre: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction Rating: 1
2006	No Award Given
2005	Doubt:: A Parable Author: John Patrick Shanley Genre: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction Rating: 9
2004	I Am My Own Wife : A Play Author: Doug Wright Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 3
2003	Anna in the Tropics Author: Nilo Cruz Genre: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction Rating: 4
2002	Topdog/Underdog Author: Suzan-Lori Parks Genre: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction, Parenting & Families Rating: 9
2001	Proof : A Play Author: David Auburn Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 15
2000	Dinner with Friends Author: Donald Margulies Genre: Arts & Photography, Substores Rating: 1
1999	Wit : A Play Author: Margaret Edson Genre: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction Rating: 20
1998	The Mammary Plays : How I Learned to Drive and The Mineola Twins Author: Paula How I Learned to Drive Vogel, Paula Vogel Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 7
1997	No Award Given
1996	Rent Author: Jonathan Larson Estate Genre: Arts & Photography, Entertainment Rating: 11
1995	The Young Man From Atlanta. Author: Horton Foote Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: ?
1994	3 Tall Women (Plume Drama) Author: Edward Albee Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 2
1993	Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches Author: Tony Kushner Genre: Arts & Photography, History, Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian Rating: 34
1992	The Kentucky Cycle. Author: Robert Schenkkan Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 2
1991	Lost in Yonkers (Plume Drama) Author: Neil Simon Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 5
1990	The Piano Lesson (Plume Drama) Author: August Wilson Genre: Arts & Photography Rating: 11
1989	The Heidi Chronicles / Uncommon Women and Others / Isn't It Romantic Author: Wendy Wasserstein Genre: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction Rating: 12
1988	Driving Miss Daisy Author: Alfred Uhry Genre: Arts & Photography, Literature & Fiction Rating: 8
1987	Fences Author: August Wilson Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 21
1986	No Award Given

2008	Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 Author: Robert Hass Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
2007	Native Guard: Poems Author: Natasha Trethewey Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
2006	Late Wife: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets Series) Author: Claudia Emerson Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: ?
2005	Delights and Shadows Author: Ted Kooser Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 5
2004	Walking to Martha's Vineyard Author: Franz Wright Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
2003	Moy Sand and Gravel: Poems Author: Paul Muldoon Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
2002	Practical Gods (Penguin Poets) Author: Carl Dennis Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 1
2001	Different Hours: Poems Author: Stephen Dunn Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
2000	Repair Author: C. K. Williams Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
1999	Blizzard of One : Poems Author: Mark Strand Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 1
1998	Black Zodiac: Poems Author: Charles Wright Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
1997	Alive Together: New and Selected Poems Author: Lisel Mueller Genre: Literature & Fiction, Substores Rating: 1
1996	Dream Of The Unified Field Author: Jorie Graham Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
1995	The Simple Truth : Poems Author: Philip Levine Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 1
1994	Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry) Author: Yusef Komunyakaa Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 1
1993	Wild Iris Author: Louise Gluck Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 2
1992	Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry) Author: James Tate Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 1
1991	Near Changes : Poems Author: Mona Van Duyn Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
1990	The World Doesn't End Author: Charles Simic Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 1
1989	New and Collected Poems (Harvest Book) Author: Richard Wilbur Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 1
1988	Partial Accounts Author: William Meredith Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?
1987	Thomas and Beulah Author: Rita Dove Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: 3
1986	The Flying Change: Poems Author: Henry Taylor Genre: Literature & Fiction Rating: ?

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