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Award-Winning Books @ Memorial Library

Find award-winning books: Pulitzer, National Book Award, and more.

Pulitzer Prize

Memorial Library collects the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, drama, history, biography, poetry, and general nonfiction.

2019

Winners

Amity and Prosperity: one family and the fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
Call Number: TD195.G3 G747 2018
Be With by Forrest Gander
Call Number: PS3557.A47 A6 2018
Fairview : a play by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Call Number: Ebook
Frederick Douglass: prophet of freedom by David W. Blight
Call Number: E449.D75 B557 2018
The New Negro: the life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Call Number: E185.97.L79 S83 2018 & Ebook
The Overstory: a novel by Richard Powers
Call Number: PS3566.O92 O94 2018

2018

Winners

The Gulf: the making of an American sea Front cover image for The Gulf : the making of an American by Jack E. Davis
Call Number: F296 .D38 2017
ISBN: 9780871408662
Half-Light: collected poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
Call Number: PS3552 .I33 2017
Less: a novel by Andrew Sean Greer
Call Number: PS3557.R3987 L47 2017
Locking up Our Own: crime and punishment in black America by James Forman
Call Number: HV9950 .F655 2017
Prairie Fires: the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
Call Number: PS3545.I342 Z6455 2017

2017

Winners

Blood in the Water: the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Call Number: HV9475.N72 A8385 2016
Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond
Call Number: HD7287.96.U6 D47 2016
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Call Number: PS3610.E874 A6 2016
The Return: fathers, sons, and the land in between by Hisham Matar
Call Number: PR6113.A87 Z46 2016
Sweat by Lynn Nottage
Call Number: PS3564.O795 S94 2017 & Ebook
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573.H4768 U53 2016