2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Updated May 6, 2024
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Night watch
Phillips, Jayne Anne
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION * A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War--and a...
King : a life
Eig, Jonathan
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Time A New York Times...
Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom
Woo, Ilyon
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and...
A day in the life of Abed Salama : anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy
Thrall, Nathan
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives...
The country of the blind : a memoir at the end of sight
Leland, Andrew
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE  Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ATLANTIC * NPR * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * LITHUB "Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble...
The country of the blind : a memoir at the end of sight
Leland, Andrew
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own "The Country of the Blind is about seeing-but also about marriage and family and the moral and...
Cobalt red : how the blood of the Congo powers our lives
Kara, Siddharth
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation--and the...
Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world
Vaillant, John
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING * WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION * ONE OF THE...

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