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Award Winners: Non-Fiction (English)
Award winning non-fiction books also cover a wide variety of sub-genres that include arts and letters; history and biography; and science, philosophy and religion. The titles in this collection are winners from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize from 1985 to present. These titles should lend themselves well to book and conversation clubs with English learning.
This collection contains: 42 books
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (English)
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in...
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (English)
Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement...
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us (English)
An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to...
And Their Children after Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (English)
The writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families...
Annals of the Former World (English)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through...
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (English)
An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil...
Arctic Dreams (English)
Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North...
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris (English)
No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes — mankind's most common...
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (English)
A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, "perfect Paul" earns straight A's and shines...
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (English)
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of...
Between the World and Me
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NAMED ONE OF TIME 'S TEN BEST NONFICTION...
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (English)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book...
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (English)
Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is a gripping true story...
Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (English)
This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of...
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10 2001 (English)
Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S...
Gulag: A History (English)
In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (English)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of...
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (English)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito,...
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (English)
New Edition : With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life care A runaway...
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (English)
A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of...
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (English)
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition , and In the Hurricane's Eye— the riveting...
Just Kids (English)
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots,...
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (English)
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner...
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (English)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the...
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (English)
In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence...
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (English)
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson's story through...
The Ants (English)
This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading...
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (English)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize On a desert island in...
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (English)
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came...
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (English)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All...
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (English)
"The Good War" , for which Studs Terkel won the Pulitzer Prize, is a testament not only to the...
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism (English)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (English)
Published to critical acclaim twenty years ago, and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan...
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (English)
This Pulitzer Prize winner is the basis for the upcoming Hulu series starring Peter Sarsgaard,...
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power (English)
Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies...
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (English)
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative...
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (English)
The 2013 National Book Award Winner A New York Times Bestseller Selected by New York Times '...
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (English)
"The Worst Hard Time is an epic story of blind hope and endurance almost beyond belief; it is...
The Year of Magical Thinking (English)
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion...
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (English)
The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million...
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation (English)
The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds...
