Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize was established in accordance with the will of Joseph Pultizer, a visionary newspaper publisher of the nineteenth century, and was first awarded in 1917.
Prizes have since been awarded in the four categories of Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music; due to Pulitzer's foresight, the Board have the power to modify the awards criteria in order to remain current.
Shop the literary nominees in each category below.
Less (HB) by Andrew Sean Greer
$48.58 NZD
Category: Fiction
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review). WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 A Washington Post Top Ten B ...Show more
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. (Contribution by)
$29.89 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLong-listed for the National Book AwardFinalist, Current Interest Category, Los Angeles Times Book PrizesOne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017Short-listed for the Inaugural Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Soc ...Show more
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren
$48.99 NZD
Category: History
In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America's beginnings. Nowhere is this more evident than in Wendy Warren's explosive New England Bound, which reclaims the lives of so ...Show more
Notes on a Foreign Country - An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
$10.36 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning ...Show more
Olio by Tyehimba Jess
$54.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes d ...Show more
Prairie Fires - The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder HB by Caroline Fraser
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography or Autobiography
Millions of devoted readers believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains and went on to write the famous autobiographical books. But the full saga of her life has never been told. Now Caroline Fraser, editor of the Library of America's ...Show more
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
$14.74 NZD
Category: Biography or Autobiography
In Richard Nixon, award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America's most controversial political figures. Beginning in 1946, when young Navy lieutenant 'Nick' Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, Farrell traces how this idealistic dreamer b ...Show more
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character by Kay Redfield Jamison
$60.00 NZD
Category: Biography or Autobiography
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind brings a fresh perspective to the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as ...Show more
Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Runner-up for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2018) Art can't shield our bodies or stabilize the earth's climate, but Evie Shockley's semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and reawaken the imagination. The volume responds primarily to the twenty-first century's inescapable evidence of ...Show more
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us by Richard O. Prum
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life- which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature? Y ...Show more
The Gulf - The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfictio A National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalis ANew York Times Notable Book of 2017 One of theWashington Post's Best Books of the Year In this "cri de coeur about the Gulf's environmental ruin" New York Times), "Davis has written a beautiful hom ...Show more
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature, and spends a lot of time thinking abou ...Show more