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Walter Lippmann and the American CenturyRonald Steel198038 pts4 wins5 listsTaylor & FrancisBiographyPresidential Biography+1
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence Wright200636 pts5 wins6 listsKnopfHistoryLiterature & Writers
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesJ. Anthony Lukas198534 pts4 wins4 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls WilderCaroline Fraser201834 pts4 wins6 listsMetropolitan BooksBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
de Kooning: An American MasterMark Stevens, Annalyn Swan200630 pts3 wins3 listsKnopfBiographyArt, Music & Performance+2
Angela's Ashes: A MemoirFrank McCourt199630 pts3 wins3 listsTouchstoneMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great MigrationIsabel Wilkerson201030 pts5 wins7 listsRandom HouseHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Edith Wharton: A BiographyR. W. B. Lewis197528 pts2 wins4 listsHarperBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Things in Nature Merely GrowYiyun Li202526 pts2 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxMemoir & AutobiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared Diamond199824 pts3 wins3 listsW. W. NortonHistoryScience & Discovery+2
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?Roz Chast201424 pts2 wins3 listsBloomsbury USAMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
The Swerve: How the World Became ModernStephen Greenblatt201224 pts2 wins4 listsW. W. NortonHistoryLiterature & Writers
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond LimitsLinda Gordon200922 pts2 wins3 listsW. W. NortonBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal RemainsThomas W. Laqueur201622 pts4 wins4 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+2
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestWilliam Cronon199222 pts3 wins4 listsW. W. NortonHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeRichard Hofstadter196322 pts3 wins4 listsRandom HouseSociety & CultureIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as HistoryNorman Mailer196820 pts2 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryArt, Music & Performance+1
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy TalesBruno Bettelheim197620 pts2 wins2 listsThames & HudsonScienceArt, Music & Performance+1
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in AmericaLouis Menand200120 pts3 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryConstitutional History+2
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory in Northern IrelandPatrick Radden Keefe201920 pts2 wins4 listsWilliam CollinsTrue Crime & JusticeLiterature & Writers+2
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His WorldLeo Damrosch201320 pts1 wins5 listsYale University PressBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex Ross200720 pts1 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryArt, Music & Performance+2
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of WarLucy Hughes-Hallett201318 pts3 wins3 listsFourth EstateBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
ZeitounDave Eggers200918 pts3 wins3 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+1
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth CenturyJoya Chatterji202318 pts2 wins3 listsYale University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild WestRebecca Solnit200318 pts2 wins3 listsPenguin BooksTechnologyLiterature & Writers+2
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph HearstDavid Nasaw200018 pts2 wins3 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
Bearing The Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceDavid J. Garrow198618 pts2 wins3 listsWilliam MorrowBiographyAmerican Civil War+2
O Strange New World: American Culture-The Formative YearsHoward Mumford Jones196418 pts2 wins3 listsVikingHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the FleshJohn Lahr200716 pts1 wins3 listsW. W. NortonBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. JohnsonAdam Sisman200016 pts1 wins3 listsPenguin Publishing GroupBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
Ordinary NotesChristina Sharpe202316 pts1 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxRace & EthnicityArt, Music & Performance+1
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All LifeJason Roberts202014 pts2 wins2 listsRandom HouseScienceNatural History & Animals+2
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsMarina Warner201214 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Alexander Pope: A LifeMaynard Mack198514 pts2 wins2 listsW. W. NortonBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
Mordecai: The Life & TimesCharles Foran201114 pts2 wins2 listsUnknown imprintBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Heavy: An American MemoirKiese Laymon201914 pts1 wins2 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyBlack History & Culture+2
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the RipperHallie Rubenhold201914 pts1 wins2 listsDoubledayTrue Crime & JusticeLiterature & Writers+1
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISISRobert F. Worth201614 pts1 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxPolitics & GovernmentNationalism & Authoritarianism+2
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of ToleranceIan Buruma200614 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressTrue Crime & JusticeLiterature & Writers+2
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860Michael O’Brien200414 pts1 wins2 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
A Short History of Nearly EverythingBill Bryson200314 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseScienceLiterature & Writers+1
William Morris: A Life for Our TimeFiona MacCarthy199514 pts1 wins2 listsFaber & FaberBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas WolfeDavid Herbert Donald198814 pts1 wins2 listsBloomsburyBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Louise Bogan: A PortraitElizabeth Frank198514 pts1 wins2 listsColumbia University PressBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz KafkaErnst Pawel198414 pts1 wins2 listsNoonday PressBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New EnglandJohn Putnam Demos198214 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and CultureCarl E. Schorske198114 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfSociety & CultureEurope & Russia+2
Max Perkins: Editor of GeniusA. Scott Berg197914 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978Malcolm Cowley197814 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin BooksArts & CriticismLiterature & Writers+2
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)Meyer Schapiro197814 pts1 wins2 listsGeorge BrazillerArts & CriticismLiterature & Writers+2
Charles Evans HughesMerlo J. Pusey195114 pts1 wins2 listsMacmillanBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American HistoryPaul Horgan195514 pts1 wins2 listsRinehart & CompanyHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
Lab GirlHope Jahren201614 pts1 wins3 listsKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupMemoir & AutobiographyScientific Biography+2
Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman201112 pts1 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxScienceLiterature & Writers+2
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu NoguchiHayden Herrera200112 pts1 wins2 listsThames & HudsonBiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne MooreLinda Leavell201312 pts2 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American RomanticismMegan Marshall200412 pts2 wins3 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtBiographyGender & Feminism+2
Coleridge: Darker ReflectionsRichard Holmes199512 pts1 wins3 listsHodder & StoughtonBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
Baldwin: A Love StoryNicholas Boggs202512 pts1 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane FranklinJill Lepore201312 pts1 wins4 listsKnopfBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends 1880–1918Patricia O'Toole199012 pts0 wins3 listsBallantine BooksBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional AgeTimothy Bewes202210 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressArts & CriticismMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen CranePaul Auster202110 pts1 wins1 listsHenry Holt and CompanyBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
GirlhoodMelissa Febos202110 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+2
Mad at the World: A Life of John SteinbeckWilliam Souder202010 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
Sontag: Her Life and WorkBenjamin Moser201910 pts1 wins1 listsEccoBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and CareAnne Boyer201910 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+1
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)Rebecca Solnit201810 pts1 wins1 listsHaymarket BooksPolitics & GovernmentLiterature & Writers+2
Feel Free: EssaysZadie Smith201810 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin BooksSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+2
Flash: The Making of Weegee the FamousChristopher Bonanos201810 pts1 wins1 listsHenry Holt and CompanyBiographyGroup Biography+2
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary ShelleyCharlotte Gordon201610 pts1 wins1 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed MessagesCarina Chocano201610 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintGender & SexualityArt, Music & Performance+1
The ArgonautsMaggie Nelson201510 pts1 wins1 listsGraywolf PressMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+1
Distant ReadingFranco Moretti201310 pts1 wins1 listsVerso BooksArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From HaitiAmy Wilentz201310 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMemoir & AutobiographyLiterary Biography+2
Margaret Fuller: A New American LifeMegan Marshall201310 pts1 wins1 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and ReviewsGeoff Dyer201110 pts1 wins1 listsGraywolf PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular AgeSergio Luzzatto201010 pts1 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the WestClare Cavanagh200910 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressPolitics & GovernmentArt, Music & Performance+1
Notes from No Man's Land: American EssaysEula Biss200910 pts1 wins1 listsGraywolf PressRace & EthnicityArt, Music & Performance+1
Children's Literature: A Readers' History: Reader's History from Aesop to Harry PotterSeth Lerer200810 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's GloryLisa Jardine200810 pts1 wins1 listsHarperHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her FatherJohn Matteson200710 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Everything That Rises: A Book of ConvergencesLawrence Weschler200610 pts1 wins1 listsMcSweeney'sArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of TinWilliam Logan200510 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop PlanetPatrick Neate200310 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+1
Tests of TimeWilliam H. Gass200210 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on PaperNicholson Baker200110 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksSociety & CultureLiterature & Writers+2
Annals of the Former WorldJohn McPhee200010 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxScienceAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Quarrel & QuandaryCynthia Ozick200010 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksArts & CriticismMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
SidewalkMitchell Duneier with Ovie Carter (photographer)199910 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+1
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000Martin Amis199810 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth CenturyJohn Brewer199710 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Finding a FormWilliam H. Gass199610 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim ThompsonRobert Polito199510 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American CultureGerald Early199510 pts1 wins1 listsEccoArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
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All awards · Topic: Literature & Writers · Sorted by score · 651 books · filtered