Living Canon

Pulitzer Award-Winning Books

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

  2025PulitzerNonfiction
• Purpose by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

  2025PulitzerDrama
• New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe

  2025PulitzerPoetry
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  Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal

  2025PulitzerHistory
• James by Percival Everett

  2025PulitzerFiction
• Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

  2025PulitzerMemoir
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  Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts

  2025PulitzerBiography
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  Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black

  2025PulitzerHistory
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  Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som

  2024PulitzerPoetry
• Primary Trust by Eboni Booth

  2024PulitzerDrama
• No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones

  2024PulitzerHistory
• Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

  2024PulitzerFiction
• Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

  2024PulitzerBiography
• Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

  2024PulitzerMemoir
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  King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

  2024PulitzerBiography
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  A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

  2024PulitzerNonfiction
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  Trust by Hernan Diaz

  2023PulitzerFiction
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  Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips

  2023PulitzerPoetry
• Stay True by Hua Hsu

  2023PulitzerMemoir
• His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

  2023PulitzerNonfiction
• G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

  2023PulitzerBiography
• Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie

  2023PulitzerHistory
• English by Sanaz Toossi

  2023PulitzerDrama
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  Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

  2023PulitzerFiction
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  The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen

  2022PulitzerFiction

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