Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists 2025
Discover the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists at Atlantic Books. From Percival Everett’s acclaimed novel James to Jason Roberts’ biography Every Living Thing, explore this year's most celebrated literary works.
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Jason Roberts
Hardcover
• Author(s): Jason Roberts • Publisher: Random House • Publisher Imprint: Random House • BISAC: HistoryAn epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth--a competition "with continued r...
View full detailsCombee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
Edda L. Fields-Black
Hardcover
• Author(s): Edda L. Fields-Black • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most ...
View full detailsNative Nations: A Millennium in North America: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
Kathleen DuVal
Paperback
• Author(s): Kathleen DuVal • Publisher: Profile Books • Publisher Imprint: Profile B. • Subject: HistoryWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY WINNER OF THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Winner of the Bancroft Prize 2025 Winner of the Mark L...
View full detailsTo the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Benjamin Nathans
Hardcover
• Author(s): Benjamin Nathans • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralA gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still prov...
View full detailsNew and Selected Poems, Volume One
Mary Oliver
Paperback
• Author(s): Mary Oliver • Publisher: Beacon Press • Publisher Imprint: Beacon Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsMary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of t...
View full detailsFeeding Ghosts: A Memoir
Tessa Hulls
Hardcover
• Author(s): Tessa Hulls • Publisher: MCD • Publisher Imprint: MCD • BISAC: WomenKIRKUS NONFICTION PRIZE FINALIST, LONGLISTED FOR THE NBCC AWARD AND THE CARNEGIE MEDAL, SHORTLISTED FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEA...
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Itamar Moses
Paperback
• Author(s): Itamar Moses • Publisher: Concord Theatricals • Publisher Imprint: Concord Theatricals • BISAC: Type - TragedyWhen Asaf is asked to sign a social justice manifesto, he expects to be able to do so without hesitation. Instead, he becom...
View full detailsFi: A Memoir of My Son
Alexandra Fuller
Paperback
• Author(s): Alexandra Fuller • Publisher: Grove Press • Publisher Imprint: Grove Press • BISAC: MemoirsFrom the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining mem...
View full detailsPlantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
Seth Rockman
Hardcover
• Author(s): Seth Rockman • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyAn eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdepend...
View full detailsBluff: Poems
Danez Smith
Paperback
• Author(s): Danez Smith • Publisher: Graywolf Press • Publisher Imprint: Graywolf Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWritten after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis be...
View full detailsAn Authentic Life
Paperback
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press • Publisher Imprint: Copper Canyon Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - FamilyAn Authentic Life is an exacting and fearless interrogation of the education one receives from the institutions of academia and fami...
View full detailsThe Unicorn Woman
Gayl Jones
Hardcover
• Author(s): Gayl Jones • Publisher: Beacon Press • Publisher Imprint: Beacon Press • BISAC: African American & Black - Historical"One of our greatest living authors."--Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe Marking a dramatic new direction for Jon...
View full detailsI Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
Lucy Sante
Hardcover
• Author(s): Lucy Sante • Publisher: Penguin Press • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Press • BISAC: MemoirsNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate "Reading this book is a joy . . . much to say about the tran...
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Rollo Romig
Paperback
• Author(s): Rollo Romig • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Murder - General"Romig makes for a powerful, effective chronicler of this bleak moment in Indian politics."--The New York Times A gripping investigati...
View full detailsMice 1961
Stacey Levine
Paperback
• Author(s): Stacey Levine • Publisher: Verse Chorus Press • Publisher Imprint: Verse Chorus Press • BISAC: Literary"Stacey Levine's fiction is unlike anything else. Peculiar, vivid, preternaturally alert to the strangeness of the human condition...
View full detailsUntil I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
Rachel Nolan
Hardcover
• Author(s): Rachel Nolan • Publisher: Harvard University Press • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press • BISAC: Latin America - Central AmericaThe poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, b...
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Rita Bullwinkel
Hardcover
• Author(s): Rita Bullwinkel • Publisher: MIXBZ • Publisher Imprint: MIXBZ • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: WomenLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS...
View full detailsJohn Lewis: A Life
David Greenberg
Hardcover
• Author(s): David Greenberg • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster • BISAC: African American & BlackNew York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024 Explore the "comprehensive and compelling" (Jon Meacha...
View full detailsThe World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
Amy Reading
Hardcover
• Author(s): Amy Reading • Publisher: Mariner Books • Publisher Imprint: Mariner Books • BISAC: Editors, Journalists, PublishersA National Book Critics Circle FinalistA lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker edi...
View full detailsJames
Percival Everett
Hardcover
• Author(s): Percival Everett • Publisher: MIXIG • Publisher Imprint: MIXIG • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Historical - General#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Ad...
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