- 1917
- History
- With Americans of Past and Present Days, by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand
- Biography
- Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall (Houghton)
- History
- 1918
- Novel
- His Family, by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)
- Drama
- Why Marry?, by Jesse Lynch Williams
- History
- History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford Rhodes (Macmillan)
- Biography
- Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, by William Cabell Bruce (Putnam)
- Poetry
- Love Songs, by Sara Teasdale
- Novel
- 1919
- Novel
- The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
- Biography
- The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams (Houghton)
- Poetry
- Corn Huskers, by Carl Sandburg
- Novel
- 1920
- Drama
- Beyond the Horizon, by Eugene O'Neill
- History
- The War with Mexico, by Justin H. Smith (Macmillan)
- Biography
- The Life of John Marshall, by Albert J. Beveridge (Houghton)
- Drama
- 1921
- Novel
- The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
- Drama
- Miss Lulu Bett, by Zona Gale
- History
- The Victory at Sea, by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick (Doubleday)
- Biography
- The Americanization of Edward Bok, by Edward Bok (Scribner)
- Novel
- 1922
- Novel
- Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
- Drama
- Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill
- History
- The Founding of New England, by James Truslow Adams (Little)
- Biography
- A Daughter of the Middle Border, by Hamlin Garland (Macmillan)
- Poetry
- Collected Poems, by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
- Novel
- 1923
- Novel
- One of Ours, by Willa Cather (Knopf)
- Drama
- Icebound, by Owen Davis
- History
- The Supreme Court in United States History, by Charles Warren (Little)
- Biography
- The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton J. Hendrick (Houghton)
- Poetry
- The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany, by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper)
- Novel
- 1924
- Novel
- The Able McLaughlins, by Margaret Wilson (Harper)
- Drama
- Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, by Hatcher Hughes
- History
- The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation, by Charles Howard McIlwain (Macmillan)
- Biography
- From Immigrant to Inventor, by Michael Idvorsky Pupin (Scribner)
- Poetry
- New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, by Robert Frost (Holt)
- Novel
- 1925
- Novel
- So Big, by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)
- Drama
- They Knew What They Wanted, by Sidney Howard
- History
- History of the American Frontier, by Frederic L. Paxson (Houghton)
- Biography
- Barrett Wendell and His Letters, by M. A. Dewolfe Howe (Little)
- Poetry
- The Man Who Died Twice, by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
- Novel
- 1926
- Novel
- Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)
- Drama
- Craig's Wife, by George Kelly
- History
- A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865, by Edward Channing (Macmillan)
- Biography
- The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols., by Harvey Cushing (Oxford Univ. Press)
- Poetry
- What's O'Clock, by Amy Lowell (Houghton)
- Novel
- 1927
- Novel
- Early Autumn, by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)
- Drama
- In Abraham's Bosom, by Paul Green
- History
- Pinckney's Treaty, by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Johns Hopkins)
- Biography
- Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative, by Emory Holloway (Knopf)
- Poetry
- Fiddler's Farewell, by Leonora Speyer (Knopf)
- Novel
- 1928
- Novel
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder (Boni)
- Drama
- Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill
- History
- Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols., by Vernon Louis Parrington (Harcourt)
- Biography
- The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas, by Charles Edward Russell (Doubleday)
- Poetry
- Tristram, by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
- Novel
- 1929
- Novel
- Scarlet Sister Mary, by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)
- Drama
- Street Scene, by Elmer L. Rice
- History
- The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865, by Fred Albert Shannon (A.H. Clark)
- Biography
- The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, by Burton J. Hendrick (Houghton)
- Poetry
- John Browns Body, by Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)
- Novel
- 1930
- Novel
- Laughing Boy, by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
- Drama
- The Green Pastures, by Marc Connelly
- History
- The Founding of the American Republic, Volume II: The War of Independence: American Phase, by Claude H. Van Tyne (Houghton)
- Biography
- The Raven, by Marquis James (Bobbs)
- Poetry
- Selected Poems, by Conrad Aiken (Scribner)
- Novel
- 1931
- Novel
- Years of Grace, by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)
- Drama
- Alison's House, by Susan Glaspell
- History
- The Coming of the War 1914, by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (Scribner)
- Biography
- Charles W. Eliot, by Henry James (Houghton)
- Poetry
- Collected Poems, by Robert Frost (Holt)
- Novel
- 1932
- Novel
- The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
- Drama
- Of Thee I Sing, by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin
- History
- My Experiences in the World War, by John J. Pershing (Stokes)
- Biography
- Theodore Roosevelt, by Henry F. Pringle (Harcourt)
- Poetry
- The Flowering Stone, by George Dillon (Viking)
- Novel
- 1933
- Novel
- The Store, by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)
- Drama
- Both Your Houses, by Maxwell Anderson
- History
- The Significance of Sections in American History, by Frederick J. Turner (Holt)
- Biography
- Grover Cleveland, by Allan Nevins (Dodd)
- Poetry
- Conquistador, by Archibald Macleish (Houghton)
- Novel
- 1934
- Novel
- Lamb in His Bosom, by Caroline Miller (Harper)
- Drama
- Men in White, by Sidney Kingsley
- History
- The People's Choice, by Herbert Agar (Houghton)
- Biography
- John Hay, by Tyler Dennett (Dodd)
- Poetry
- Collected Verse, by Robert Hillyer (Knopf)
- Novel
- 1935
- Novel
- Now in November, by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
- Drama
- The Old Maid, by Zoe Akins
- History
- The Colonial Period of American History, by Charles McLean Andrews (Yale Univ. Press)
- Biography
- R. E. Lee, by Douglas S. Freeman (Scribner)
- Poetry
- Bright Ambush, by Audrey Wurdemann (John Day)
- Novel
- 1936
- Novel
- Honey in the Horn, by Harold L. Davis (Harper)
- Drama
- Idiots Delight, by Robert E. Sherwood
- History
- A Constitutional History of the United States, by Andrew C. McLaughlin (Appleton)
- Biography
- The Thought and Character of William James: As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes, Together with His Published Writings, by Ralph Barton Perry (Little)
- Poetry
- Strange Holiness, by Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Macmillan)
- Novel
- 1937
- Novel
- Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
- Drama
- You Can't Take It With You, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
- History
- The Flowering of New England 1815-1865, by Van Wyck Brooks (Dutton)
- Biography
- Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration, by Allan Nevins (Dodd)
- Poetry
- A Further Range, by Robert Frost (Holt)
- Novel
- 1938
- Novel
- The Late George Apley, by John Phillips Marquand (Little)
- Drama
- Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
- History
- The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900, by Paul Herman Buck (Little)
- Biography
- Pedlar's Progress, by Odell Shepard (Little)
- The Life of Andrew Jackson, by Marquis James (Bobbs)
- Poetry
- Cold Morning Sky, by Marya Zaturenska (Macmillan)
- Novel
- 1939
- Novel
- The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
- Drama
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by Robert E. Sherwood
- History
- A History of American Magazines, by Frank Luther Mott (Harvard Univ. Press)
- Biography
- Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren (Viking)
- Poetry
- Selected Poems, by John Gould Fletcher (Farrar)
- Novel
- 1940
- Novel
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (Viking)
- Drama
- The Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan
- History
- Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt)
- Biography
- Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII, by Ray Stannard Baker (Doubleday)
- Poetry
- Collected Poems, by Mark Van Doren (Holt)
- Novel
- 1941
- Drama
- There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E. Sherwood
- History
- The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860, by Marcus Lee Hansen (Harvard Univ. Press)
- Biography
- Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: A Biography, by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (Macmillan)
- Poetry
- Sunderland Capture, by Leonard Bacon (Harper)
- Drama
- 1942
- Novel
- In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)
- History
- Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech (Harper)
- Biography
- Crusader in Crinoline, by Forrest Wilson (Lippincott)
- Poetry
- The Dust Which Is God, by William Rose Benet (Dodd)
- Novel
- 1943
- Novel
- Dragon's Teeth, by Upton Sinclair (Viking)
- Drama
- The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder
- History
- Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
- Biography
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little)
- Poetry
- A Witness Tree, by Robert Frost (Holt)
- Music
- Secular Cantata No. 2. A Free Song, by William Schuman
- Novel
- 1944
- Novel
- Journey in the Dark, by Martin Flavin (Harper)
- History
- The Growth of American Thought, by Merle Curti (Harper)
- Biography
- The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse, by Carleton Mabee (Knopf)
- Poetry
- Western Star, by Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)
- Music
- Symphony No. 4. Opus 34, by Howard Hanson
- Novel
- 1945
- Novel
- A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey (Knopf)
- Drama
- Harvey, by Mary Chase
- History
- Unfinished Business, by Stephen Bonsal (Doubleday)
- Biography
- George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel, by Russell Blaine Nye (Knopf)
- Poetry
- V-Letter and Other Poems, by Karl Shapiro (Reynal)
- Music
- Appalachian Spring, by Aaron Copland
- Novel
- 1946
- Drama
- State of the Union, by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay
- History
- The Age of Jackson, by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
- Biography
- Son of the Wilderness, by Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Knopf)
- Music
- The Canticle of the Sun, by Leo Sowerby
- Drama
- 1947
- Novel
- All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
- History
- Scientists Against Time, by James Phinney Baxter 3rd (Little)
- Biography
- The Autobiography of William Allen White, by William Allen White (Macmillan)
- Poetry
- Lord Weary's Castle, by Robert Lowell (Harcourt)
- Music
- Symphony No. 3, by Charles Ives
- Novel
- 1948
- Fiction
- Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener (Macmillan)
- Drama
- A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
- History
- Across the Wide Missouri, by Bernard Devoto (Houghton)
- Biography
- Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, by Margaret Clapp (Little)
- Poetry
- The Age of Anxiety, by W. H. Auden (Random)
- Music
- Symphony, No. 3, by Walter Piston
- Fiction
- 1949
- Fiction
- Guard of Honor, by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)
- Drama
- Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
- History
- The Disruption of American Democracy, by Roy Franklin Nichols (Macmillan)
- Biography
- Roosevelt and Hopkins, by Robert E. Sherwood (Harper)
- Poetry
- Terror and Decorum, by Peter Viereck (Scribner)
- Music
- Music for the film Louisiana Story, by Virgil Thomson
- Fiction
- 1950
- Fiction
- The Way West, by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)
- Drama
- South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan
- History
- Art and Life in America, by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart)
- Biography
- John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf)
- Poetry
- Annie Allen, by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper)
- Music
- Music in The Consul, by Gian-Carlo Menotti
- Fiction
- 1951
- Fiction
- The Town, by Conrad Richter (Knopf)
- History
- The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840, by R. Carlyle Buley (Towers)
- Biography
- John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Louise Coit (Houghton)
- Poetry
- Complete Poems, by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt)
- Music
- Music in "Giants in the Earth", by Douglas S. Moore
- Fiction
- 1952
- Fiction
- The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)
- Drama
- The Shrike, by Joseph Kramm
- History
- The Uprooted, by Oscar Handlin (Little)
- Biography
- Charles Evans Hughes, by Merlo J. Pusey (Macmillan)
- Poetry
- Collected Poems, by Marianne Moore (Macmillan)
- Music
- Symphony Concertante, by Gail Kubik
- Fiction
- 1953
- Fiction
- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
- Drama
- Picnic, by William Inge
- History
- The Era of Good Feelings, by George Dangerfield (Harcourt)
- Biography
- Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803, by David J. Mays (Harvard Univ. Press)
- Poetry
- Collected Poems 1917-1952, by Archibald MacLeish (Houghton)
- Fiction
- 1954
- Drama
- The Teahouse of the August Moon, by John Patrick
- History
- A Stillness at Appomattox, by Bruce Catton (Doubleday)
- Biography
- The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles A. Lindbergh (Scribner)
- Poetry
- The Waking, by Theodore Roethke (Doubleday)
- Music
- Concerto For Two Pianos and Orchestra, by Quincy Porter
- Drama
- 1955
- Fiction
- A Fable, by William Faulkner (Random)
- Drama
- Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams
- History
- Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History, by Paul Horgan (Rinehart)
- Biography
- The Taft Story, by William S. White (Harper)
- Poetry
- Collected Poems, by Wallace Stevens (Knopf)
- Music
- The Saint of Bleecker Street, by Gian-Carlo Menotti
- Fiction
- 1956
- Fiction
- Andersonville, by MacKinlay Kantor (World)
- Drama
- Diary of Anne Frank, by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
- History
- The Age of Reform, by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf)
- Biography
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe, by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (Oxford Univ. Press)
- Poetry
- Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring, by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton)
- Music
- Symphony No. 3, by Ernst Toch
- Fiction
- 1957
- Drama
- Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill
- History
- Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O, by George F. Kennan (Princeton Univ. Press)
- Biography
- Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy (Harper)
- Poetry
- Things of This World, by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt)
- Music
- Meditations on Ecclesiastes, by Norman Dello Joio
- Drama
- 1958
- Fiction
- A Death In The Family, by James Agee (McDowell, Obolensky)
- Drama
- Look Homeward, Angel, by Ketti Frings
- History
- Banks and Politics in America, by Bray Hammond (Princeton Univ. Press)
- Biography
- George Washington, Volumes I-VII, by Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth
- Poetry
- Promises: Poems 1954-1956, by Robert Penn Warren (Random)
- Music
- Vanessa, by Samuel Barber
- Fiction
- 1959
- Fiction
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)
- Drama
- J. B., by Archibald Macleish
- History
- The Republican Era: l869-1901, by Leonard D. White
- Biography
- Woodrow Wilson, by Arthur Walworth (Longmans)
- Poetry
- Selected Poems 1928-1958, by Stanley Kunitz (Little)
- Music
- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, by John LaMontaine
- Fiction
- 1960
- Fiction
- Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury (Doubleday)
- Drama
- Fiorello!, by Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
- History
- In the Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech (Harper)
- Biography
- John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little)
- Poetry
- Heart's Needle, by W. D. Snodgrass (Knopf)
- Music
- Second String Quartet, by Elliott Carter
- Fiction
- 1961
- Fiction
- To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
- Drama
- All The Way Home, by Tad Mosel
- History
- Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference, by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press)
- Biography
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, by David Donald (Knopf)
- Poetry
- Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades, by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
- Music
- Symphony No. 7, by Walter Piston
- Fiction
- 1962
- Fiction
- The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O'Connor (Little)
- Drama
- How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
- History
- The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766, by Lawrence H. Gipson (Knopf)
- Poetry
- Poems, by Alan Dugan (Yale Univ. Press)
- General Nonfiction
- The Making of the President 1960, by Theodore H. White (Atheneum)
- Music
- The Crucible, by Robert Ward
- Fiction
- 1963
- Fiction
- The Reivers, by William Faulkner (Random)
- History
- Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878, by Constance McLaughlin Green (Princeton Univ. Press)
- Biography
- Henry James, by Leon Edel (Lippincott)
- Poetry
- Pictures from Brueghel, by William Carlos Williams (New Directions)
- General Nonfiction
- The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan)
- Music
- Piano Concerto No. 1, by Samuel Barber
- Fiction
- 1964
- History
- Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, by Sumner Chilton Powell (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
- Biography
- John Keats, by Walter Jackson Bate (Harvard Univ. Press)
- Poetry
- At The End Of The Open Road, by Louis Simpson (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter (Random)
- History
- 1965
- Fiction
- The Keepers Of The House, by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)
- Drama
- The Subject Was Roses, by Frank D. Gilroy
- History
- The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879, by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ. Press)
- Biography
- Henry Adams, three volumes, by Ernest Samuels (Harvard Univ. Press)
- Poetry
- 77 Dream Songs, by John Berryman (Farrar)
- General Nonfiction
- O Strange New World, by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking)
- Fiction
- 1966
- Fiction
- Collected Stories, by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)
- History
- The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, by Perry Miller (Harcourt)
- Biography
- A Thousand Days, by Arthur M. Schlesinger
- Poetry
- Selected Poems, by Richard Eberhart (New Directions)
- General Nonfiction
- Wandering Through Winter, by Edwin Way Teale (Dodd)
- Music
- Variations for Orchestra, by Leslie Bassett
- Fiction
- 1967
- Fiction
- The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)
- Drama
- A Delicate Balance, by Edward Albee
- History
- Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West, by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf)
- Biography
- Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, by Justin Kaplan (Simon & Schuster)
- Poetry
- Live or Die, by Anne Sexton (Houghton)
- General Nonfiction
- The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, by David Brion Davis (Cornell Univ. Press)
- Music
- Quartet No. 3, by Leon Kirchner
- Fiction
- 1968
- Fiction
- The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron (Random)
- History
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn (Harvard Univ. Press)
- Biography
- Memoirs, by George F. Kennan (Little)
- Poetry
- The Hard Hours, by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum)
- General Nonfiction
- The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution, by Will and Ariel Durant (Simon & Schuster)
- Music
- Echoes of Time and the River, by George Crumb
- Fiction
- 1969
- Fiction
- House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
- Drama
- The Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler
- History
- Origins of the Fifth Amendment, by Leonard W. Levy (Oxford Univ. Press)
- Biography
- The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends, by Benjamin Lawrence Reid (Oxford Univ. Press)
- Poetry
- Of Being Numerous, by George Oppen (New Directions)
- General Nonfiction
- So Human An Animal, by Rene Jules Dubos (Scribner)
- The Armies Of The Night, by Norman Mailer (World)
- Music
- String Quartet No. 3, by Karel Husa
- Fiction
- 1970
- Fiction
- Collected Stories, by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
- Drama
- No Place To Be Somebody, by Charles Gordone
- History
- Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department, by Dean Acheson (Norton)
- Biography
- Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams (Knopf)
- Poetry
- Untitled Subjects, by Richard Howard (Atheneum)
- General Nonfiction
- Gandhi's Truth, by Erik H. Erikson (Norton)
- Music
- Time's Encomium, by Charles Wuorinen
- Fiction
- 1971
- Drama
- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel
- History
- Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom, by James MacGregor Burns (Harcourt)
- Biography
- Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938, by Lawrance Thompson (Holt)
- Poetry
- The Carrier of Ladders, by William S. Merwin (Atheneum)
- General Nonfiction
- The Rising Sun, by John Toland (Random)
- Music
- Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sound (1970), by Mario Davidovsky
- Drama
- 1972
- Fiction
- Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)
- History
- Neither Black Nor White, by Carl N. Degler (Macmillan)
- Biography
- Eleanor and Franklin, by Joseph P. Lash (Norton)
- Poetry
- Collected Poems, by James Wright (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945, by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan)
- Music
- Windows, by Jacob Druckman
- Fiction
- 1973
- Fiction
- The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty (Random)
- Drama
- That Championship Season, by Jason Miller
- History
- People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization, by Michael Kammen (Knopf)
- Biography
- Luce and His Empire, by W. A. Swanberg (Scribner)
- Poetry
- Up Country, by Maxine Kumin (Harper)
- General Nonfiction
- Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III, by Robert Coles (Little)
- Fiction
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, by Frances FitzGerald (Little)
- Music
- String Quartet No. 3, by Elliott Carter
- 1974
- History
- The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random)
- Biography
- O'Neill, Son and Artist, by Louis Sheaffer (Little)
- Poetry
- The Dolphin, by Robert Lowell (Farrar)
- General Nonfiction
- The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker (Free Press/Macmillan)
- Music
- Notturno, by Donald Martino
- History
- 1975
- Fiction
- The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara (McKay)
- Drama
- Seascape, by Edward Albee
- History
- Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V, by Dumas Malone (Little)
- Biography
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro (Knopf)
- Poetry
- Turtle Island, by Gary Snyder (New Directions)
- General Nonfiction
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard (Harper's Magazine Press)
- Music
- From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, by Dominick Argento
- Fiction
- 1976
- Fiction
- Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow (Viking)
- Drama
- A Chorus Line, by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch, Nicholas Dante and Edward Kleban
- History
- Lamy of Santa Fe, by Paul Horgan (Farrar)
- Biography
- Edith Wharton: A Biography, by R. W. B. Lewis (Harper)
- Poetry
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, by John Ashbery (Viking)
- General Nonfiction
- Why Survive? Being Old In America, by Robert N. Butler (Harper)
- Music
- Air Music, by Ned Rorem
- Fiction
- 1977
- Drama
- The Shadow Box, by Michael Cristofer
- History
- The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, by David M. Potter (Harper)
- Drama
(A posthumous publication; manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacker.)
- Biography
- A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence, by John E. Mack (Little)
- Poetry
- Divine Comedies, by James Merrill (Atheneum)
- General Nonfiction
- Beautiful Swimmers, by William W. Warner (Atlantic Little Brown)
- Music
- Visions of Terror and Wonder, by Richard Wernick
- 1978
- Fiction
- Elbow Room, by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
- Drama
- The Gin Game, by Donald L. Coburn
- History
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, by Alfred D. Chandler
- Biography
- Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate (Harcourt)
- Poetry
- Collected Poems, by Howard Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago)
- General Nonfiction
- The Dragons of Eden, by Carl Sagan (Random House)
- Music
- Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, by Michael Colgrass
- Fiction
- 1979
- Fiction
- The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever (Knopf)
- Drama
- Buried Child, by Sam Shepard
- History
- The Dred Scott Case, by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford Univ. Press)
- Biography
- Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews, by Leonard Baker (Macmillan)
- Poetry
- Now and Then, by Robert Penn Warren (Random)
- General Nonfiction
- On Human Nature, by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ. Press)
- Music
- Aftertones of Infinity, by Joseph Schwantner
- Fiction
- 1980
- Fiction
- The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer (Little)
- Drama
- Talley's Folly, by Lanford Wilson
- History
- Been in the Storm So Long, by Leon F. Litwack (Knopf)
- Biography
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris (Coward)
- Poetry
- Selected Poems, by Donald Justice (Atheneum)
- General Nonfiction
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Basic Books)
- Music
- In Memory of a Summer Day, by David Del Tredici
- Fiction
- 1981
- Fiction
- A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole (Louisiana State U. Press)
- History
- American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876, by Lawrence A. Cremin (Harper & Row)
- Biography
- Peter the Great: His Life and World, by Robert K. Massie (Knopf)
- Poetry
- The Morning of the Poem, by James Schuyler (Farrar)
- General Nonfiction
- Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture, by Carl E. Schorske (Knopf)
- Fiction
- 1982
- Fiction
- Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike (Knopf)
- Drama
- A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller
- History
- Mary Chesnut's Civil War, by C. Vann Woodward (Yale U. Press)
- Biography
- Grant: A Biography, by William McFeely (Norton)
- Poetry
- The Collected Poems, by Sylvia Plath (Harper & Row)
- General Nonfiction
- The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder (Atlantic/Little)
- Music
- Concerto for Orchestra, by Roger Sessions
- Fiction
- 1983
- Fiction
- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
- Drama
- Night, Mother, by Marsha Norman
- History
- The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, by Rhys L. Isaac (U. North Carolina Press)
- Biography
- Growing Up, by Russell Baker (Congdon & Weed)
- Poetry
- Selected Poems, by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin)
- General Nonfiction
- Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, by Susan Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin)
- Music
- Symphony No. I (Three Movements for Orchestra), by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
- Fiction
- 1984
- Fiction
- Ironweed, by William Kennedy (Viking)
- Drama
- Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet
- Biography
- Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915, by Louis R. Harlan (Oxford U. Press)
- Poetry
- American Primitive, by Mary Oliver (Atlantic/Little)
- General Nonfiction
- The Social Transformation Of American Medicine, by Paul Starr (Basic Books)
- Music
- "Canti del Sole" for Tenor and Orchestra, by Bernard Rands
- Fiction
- 1985
- Fiction
- Foreign Affairs, by Alison Lurie (Random House)
- Drama
- Sunday in the Park With George, by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
- History
- Prophets of Regulation, by Thomas K. McCraw (Belknap/Harvard)
- Biography
- The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, by Kenneth Silverman (Harper & Row)
- Poetry
- Yin, by Carolyn Kizer (BOA Editions)
- General Nonfiction
- The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two, by Studs Terkel (Pantheon)
- Music
- Symphony, RiverRun, by Stephen Albert
- Fiction
- 1986
- Fiction
- Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
- History
- ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, by Walter A. McDougall (Basic Books)
- Biography
- Louise Bogan: A Portrait, by Elizabeth Frank (Alfred A. Knopf)
- A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945, by Frida Scheps Weinstein (Hill and Wang)
- Poetry
- The Flying Change, by Henry Taylor (Louisiana State University Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, by J. Anthony Lukas (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Music
- Wind Quintet IV, by George Perle
- Fiction
- 1987
- Fiction
- A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama
- Fences, by August Wilson
- History
- Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography
- Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, by David J. Garrow (William Morrow)
- Poetry
- Thomas and Beulah, by Rita Dove (Carnegie-Mellon University Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, by David K. Shipler (Times Books)
- Music
- The Flight Into Egypt, by John Harbison
- Fiction
- 1988
- Fiction
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama
- Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry
- History
- The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876, by Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography
- Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, by David Herbert Donald (Little)
- Poetry
- Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems, by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf)
- General Nonfiction
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes (Simon and Schuster)
- Music
- 12 New Etudes for Piano, by William Bolcom
- Fiction
- 1989
- Fiction
- Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama
- The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein
- History
- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press)
- Biography
- Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry
- New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
- General Nonfiction
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan (Random House)
- Music
- Whispers Out of Time, by Roger Reynolds
- Fiction
- 1990
- Fiction
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)
- Drama
- The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson
- History
- In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, by Stanley Karnow (Random House)
- Biography
- Machiavelli in Hell, by Sebastian de Grazia (Princeton University Press)
- Poetry
- The World Doesn't End, by Charles Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
- General Nonfiction
- And Their Children After Them, by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (Pantheon)
- Music
- "Duplicates": A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, by Mel Powell
- Fiction
- 1991
- Fiction
- Rabbit At Rest, by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama
- Lost in Yonkers, by Neil Simon
- History
- A Midwife's Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography
- Jackson Pollock, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Clarkson N. Potter)
- Poetry
- Near Changes, by Mona Van Duyn (Alfred A. Knopf)
- General Nonfiction
- The Ants, by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
- Music
- Symphony, by Shulamit Ran
- Fiction
- 1992
- Fiction
- A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama
- The Kentucky Cycle, by Robert Schenkkan
- History
- The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, by Mark E. Neely
- Biography
- Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet, by Lewis B. Puller
- Poetry
- Selected Poems, by James Tate (Wesleyan University Press)
- General Nonfiction
- The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power, by Daniel Yergin (Simon & Schuster)
- Music
- The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark, by Wayne Peterson
- Fiction
- 1993
- Fiction
- A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)
- Drama
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, by Tony Kushner
- History
- The Radicalism of the American Revolution, by Gordon S. Wood (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography
- Truman, by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
- Poetry
- The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück (The Ecco Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster)
- Music
- Trombone Concerto, by Christopher Rouse
- Fiction
- 1994
- Fiction
- The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
- Drama
- Three Tall Women, by Edward Albee
- Biography
- W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919, by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt)
- Poetry
- Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England)
- General Nonfiction
- Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire, by David Remnick (Random House)
- Music
- Of Reminiscences and Reflections, by Gunther Schuller
- Fiction
- 1995
- Fiction
- The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields (Viking)
- Drama
- The Young Man From Atlanta, by Horton Foote
- History
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
- Biography
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, by Joan D. Hedrick (Oxford University Press)
- Poetry
- The Simple Truth, by Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)
- General Nonfiction
- The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time, by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Music
- Stringmusic, by Morton Gould
- Fiction
- 1996
- Fiction
- Independence Day, by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama
- Rent, by Jonathan Larson
- History
- William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, by Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography
- God: A Biography, by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry
- The Dream of the Unified Field, by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press)
- General Nonfiction
- The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, by Tina Rosenberg (Random House)
- Music
- Lilacs, for voice and orchestra, by George Walker
- Fiction
- 1997
- Fiction
- Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
- History
- Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography
- Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt (Scribner)
- Poetry
- Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris, by Richard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Music
- Blood on the Fields, by Wynton Marsalis
- Fiction
- 1998
- Fiction
- American Pastoral, by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
- Drama
- How I Learned to Drive, by Paula Vogel
- History
- Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, by Edward J. Larson (BasicBooks)
- Biography
- Personal History, by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry
- Black Zodiac, by Charles Wright (Farrar)
- General Nonfiction
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton)
- Music
- String Quartet #2 (musica instrumentalis), by Aaron Jay Kernis
- Fiction
- 1999
- Fiction
- The Hours, by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Drama
- Wit, by Margaret Edson
- History
- Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press)
- Biography
- Lindbergh, by A. Scott Berg (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
- Poetry
- Blizzard of One, by Mark Strand (Alfred A. Knopf)
- General Nonfiction
- Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee (Farrar)
- Music
- Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion, by Melinda Wagner
- Fiction
- 2000
- Fiction
- Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
- Drama
- Dinner With Friends, by Donald Margulies
- History
- Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press)
- Biography
- Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), by Stacy Schiff (Random House)
- Poetry
- Repair, by C.K. Williams (Farrar)
- General Nonfiction
- Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, by John W. Dower (W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press)
- Music
- Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version, by Lewis Spratlan
- Fiction
- 2001
- Fiction
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon (Random House)
- Drama
- Proof, by David Auburn
- History
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography
- W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt and Company)
- Poetry
- Different Hours, by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company)
- General Nonfiction
- Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, by Herbert P. Bix (HarperCollins)
- Music
- Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra, by John Corigliano (G. Schirmer)
- Fiction
- 2002
- Fiction
- Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama
- Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks
- History
- The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand (Farrar)
- Biography
- John Adams, by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
- Poetry
- Practical Gods, by Carl Dennis (Penguin Books)
- General Nonfiction
- Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, by Diane McWhorter (Simon & Schuster)
- Music
- Ice Field, by Henry Brant
- Fiction
- 2003
- Fiction
- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
- Drama
- Anna in the Tropics, by Nilo Cruz
- History
- An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt and Company)
- Biography
- Master of the Senate, by Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry
- Moy Sand and Gravel, by Paul Muldoon (Farrar)
- General Nonfiction
- "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power (Basic Books)
- Music
- On the Transmigration of Souls, by John Adams (Boosey & Hawkes)
- Fiction
- 2004
- Fiction
- The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
- Drama
- I Am My Own Wife, by Doug Wright
- History
- A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, by Steven Hahn (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- Biography
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, by William Taubman (W.W. Norton)
- Poetry
- Walking to Martha's Vineyard, by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
- General Nonfiction
- Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday)
- Music
- Tempest Fantasy, by Paul Moravec
- Fiction
- 2005
- Fiction
- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)
- Drama
- Doubt, a parable, by John Patrick Shanley
- History
- Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)
- Biography
- de Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry
- Delights & Shadows, by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Ghost Wars, by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press)
- Music
- Second Concerto for Orchestra, by Steven Stucky (Theodore Presser Company)
- Fiction
- 2006
- Fiction
- March, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
- History
- Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)
- Biography
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry
- Late Wife, by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, by Caroline Elkins (Henry Holt)
- Music
- Piano Concerto: 'Chiavi in Mano', by Yehudi Wyner (Associated Music Publishers)
- Fiction
- 2007
- Fiction
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Drama
- Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsay-Abaire
- History
- The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography
- The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, by Debby Applegate (Doubleday)
- Poetry
- Native Guard, by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin)
- General Nonfiction
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Music
- Sound Grammar, by Ornette Coleman
- Fiction
- 2008
- Fiction
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
- Drama
- August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts
- History
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
- Biography
- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)
- Poetry
- Failure, by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)
- General Nonfiction
- The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945, by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins)
- Music
- The Little Match Girl Passion, by David Lang
- Fiction
- 2009
- Fiction
- Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
- Drama
- Ruined, by Lynn Nottage
- History
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Biography
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham (Random House)
- Poetry
- The Shadow of Sirius, by W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
- Music
- Double Sextet, by Steve Reich (Boosey & Hawkes)
- Fiction
- 2010
- Fiction
- Tinkers, by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)
- Drama
- Next to Normal, by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
- History
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press)
- Biography
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry
- Versed, by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press)
- General Nonfiction
- The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, by David E. Hoffman (Doubleday)
- Music
- Violin Concerto, by Jennifer Higdon (Lawdon Press)
- Fiction
- 2011
- Fiction
- A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf)
- Drama
- Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris
- History
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Biography
- Washington : A Life, by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)
- Poetry
- The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, by Kay Ryan (Grove/Atlantic)
- General Nonfiction
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
- Music
- Madame White Snake, by Zhou Long (Oxford University Press)
- Fiction
- 2012
- Drama
- Water by the Spoonful, by Quiara Alegría Hudes
- History
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable (Viking)
- Biography
- George F. Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)
- Poetry
- Life on Mars, by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)
- General Nonfiction
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Music
- Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts, by Kevin Puts (Aperto Press)
- Drama
- 2013
- Fiction
- The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson (Random House)
- Drama
- Disgraced, by Ayad Akhtar
- History
- Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall (Random House)
- Biography
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by Tom Reiss (Crown)
- Poetry
- Stag's Leap, by Sharon Olds (Alfred A. Knopf)
- General Nonfiction
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, by Gilbert King (Harper)
- Music
- Partita for 8 Voices, by Caroline Shaw (New Amsterdam Records)
- Fiction
- 2014
- Fiction
- The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)
- Drama
- The Flick, by Annie Baker
- History
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton)
- Biography
- Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Poetry
- 3 Sections, by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, by Dan Fagin (Bantam Books)
- Music
- Become Ocean, by John Luther Adams (Taiga Press/Theodore Front Musical Literature)
- Fiction
- 2015
- Fiction
- All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
- Drama
- Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis
- History
- Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)
- Biography
- The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, by David I. Kertzer (Random House)
- Poetry
- Digest, by Gregory Pardlo (Four Way Books)
- General Nonfiction
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert (Henry Holt)
- Music
- Anthracite Fields, by Julia Wolfe (Red Poppy Music/G. Schirmer, Inc.)
- Fiction
- 2016
- Fiction
- The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
- Drama
- Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- History
- Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Biography
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan (Penguin Press)
- Poetry
- Ozone Journal, by Peter Balakian (University of Chicago Press)
- General Nonfiction
- Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, by Joby Warrick (Doubleday)
- Music
- In for a Penny, In for a Pound, by Henry Threadgill (Pi Recordings)
- Fiction
- 2017
- Fiction
- The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
- Drama
- Sweat, by Lynn Nottage
- History
- Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon)
- Biography
- The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, by Hisham Matar (Random House)
- Poetry
- Olio, by Tyehimba Jess (Wave Books)
- General Nonfiction
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (Crown)
- Music
- Angel's Bone, by Du Yun
- Fiction
- 2018
- Fiction
- Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company)
- Drama
- Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok
- History
- The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E. Davis (Liveright/W.W. Norton)
- Biography
- Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books)
- Poetry
- Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016, by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- General Nonfiction
- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Music
- DAMN., by Kendrick Lamar
- Fiction
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