2026 Pulitzer Prize Winning Books
Angel Down, by Daniel Kraus (Atria Books)
A breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.
Audition, by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books)
Stag Dance: A Quartet, by Torrey Peters (Random House)
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, by Jill Lepore (Liveright)
A lively and engaging narrative that investigates why the Constitution is so difficult to amend, including a review of noteworthy failed amendments proposed by marginalized groups.
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and The Remaking of the American City, by Bench Ansfield (W.W. Norton & Company)
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution, by Amanda Vaill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
A lively and detailed biography of two daughters of wealthy and influential Dutch landowners who colored our nation’s history, using present tense to tell their story and past tense to chronicle the dramatic sweep of the American Revolution.
True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, by Lance Richardson (Pantheon)
The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, by James McWilliams (University of Arkansas Press)
Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
A writer’s deeply moving and revelatory account of losing her younger son to suicide a little more than six years after her older son died in the same manner, an austere and defiant memoir of acceptance that focuses on facts, language and the persistence of life.
Clam Down: A Metamorphosis, by Anelise Chen (One World)
Bibliophobia: A Memoir, by Sarah Chihaya (Random House)
I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Ars Poeticas, by Juliana Spahr (Wesleyan University Press)
A collection in which the poet takes stock of her personal disillusionment, which she uses to interrogate her relationship to her art form, community and politics.
I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, by Douglas Kearney (Wave Books)
The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, by Patricia Smith (Scribner)
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone (Crown)
A feat of reportage, analysis and storytelling focusing on the issues that have created a national crisis of family homelessness among the so-called working poor.
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children, by Haley Cohen Gilliland (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church, by Kevin Sack (Crown)
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