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2024 Pulitzer Prizes for Books

The book categories of the Pulitzer Prize honor distinguished achievement in biography, fiction, general nonfiction, history, and poetry.

Chicago Public Library

18 items

  • Finalist for Fiction
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — FIC LI
  • No Right to An Honest Living

    the Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

    Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-
    Winner for History
    BookNew York : Basic Books, [2023] — F73.44.J66 2023
  • American Anarchy

    the Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

    Willrich, Michael,
    Finalist for History
    BookNew York : Basic Books, 2023. — HX843.W555 2023
  • Continental Reckoning

    the American West in the Age of Expansion

    West, Elliott, 1945-
    Finalist for History
    PaperbackLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023] — F594.W27 2023
  • Winner for Biography (tie)
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — E185.97.K5E44 2023
  • Master Slave Husband Wife

    An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom

    Woo, Ilyon,
    Winner for Biography (tie)
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2023. — E450.W66 2023
  • Finalist for Biography
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — PS3563.A319Z65 2023
  • The Best Minds

    a Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

    Rosen, Jonathan, 1963-
    Finalist for Memoir or Autobiography
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2023. — RC514.R6467 2023
  • The Country of the Blind

    a Memoir at the End of Sight /

    Leland, Andrew,
    Finalist for Memoir or Autobiography
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2023. — HV1792.L453A3 2023
  • Winner for Poetry
    PaperbackAthens : The University of Georgia Press, [2023] — PS3619.O4395T75 2023
  • Finalist for Poetry
    PaperbackNew York : Penguin Books, [2023] — PS3619.C365I54 2023
  • Finalist for Poetry
    BookPort Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2023] — PS3557.R214T59 2023
  • Winner for General Nonfiction
    BookNew York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — DS119.76.T488 2023
  • Cobalt Red

    How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives /

    Kara, Siddharth,
    Finalist for General Nonfiction
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — HD9539.C463C7553 2023
  • Fire Weather

    a True Story From a Hotter World

    Vaillant, John,
    Finalist for General Nonfiction
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — SD421.34.N67V35 2023