Honors English 12 Ms. Ferrone

Honors English 12 Summer Reading Assignment

One of the objectives of Honors English 12 is that you will learn to analyze literature from various cultures – including our own – in order to consider abstract ideas about values, beliefs, priorities, and cultural systems. You will compare and contrast these cultures based on these aspects. You will be expected to open your mind toward others’ views, to see things from unique perspectives, and to challenge your own perceptions.

Your summer reading assignment reflects these goals.

As students entering your final year of high school English, I expect you are already reading all the time. For that reason, and the fact that it is summer, I want to leave some of the choice of what you read this summer up to you. All I ask is that you read something contemporary and of literary value (either fiction or non-fiction).

What does that mean, you ask?

Novels and books of literary merit are often identified by scholars and writers who use myriad criteria by which to judge whether a book is notable in some way. These people consider aspects like the style and quality of writing, the nature of the topic and themes, and the originality of the work.

One of the sources that feature notable contemporary books of literary merit is The New York Times. Each week The Times features a list of bestselling hardcover fiction and ​ non-fiction. This is one of the lists from which you could choose a summer reading book for ​ this year. You are not limited to choosing only from this week’s list. A book from any of the hardcover fiction or non-fiction lists that have been published in the NYTimes in the last year is acceptable. I suggest also using the The New York Times’ Sunday Book Review section to read reviews of the books before making your selection. Other lists that feature books of ​ literary merit include, Pulitzer Prize winner lists, The National Book Award list, the Pen/Faulkner list, and the Man Booker Award list. All of these lists can be accessed ​ online. I have also included a list of possible choices on the Google Classroom Honors English 12 Summer Reading site.

If you are choosing a non-fiction reading book, PLEASE do not choose a memoir, autobiography ​ or biography at this time. There will be an opportunity to read a memoir, autobiography or ​ biography first quarter of the school year.

The bookstores and libraries on the Island (including the MVRHS library) have copies of books to purchase or borrow. The CLAMS library network of which the Island libraries are a part, also allow you to download books for free onto a Kindle device. It is up to you to get whatever ​ book you choose. If there is some extenuating circumstance that may prevent you from ​ purchasing or borrowing a book, please let me know as soon as possible.

I would like NO MORE THAN TWO students reading the same book. How will you know who is reading what? You must post your choice to the Google Classroom Summer Reading Honors English 12-2018 web page that has been created for you. You can join this “class” by entering the following class code: 3hu9nm

Please post your choice as soon as possible or by July 15th at the latest.

Honors English 12 Summer Reading Assignment: Guidelines for Note-Taking

To ensure that you read actively, I ask that you keep a written record of your thoughts, reactions and ideas about the text as you read. These notes will be used to complete an assignment you will receive when you enter class in September. This assignment will require that you show, in some way, your understanding of and engagement with your chosen summer reading book. This assignment will be integrated into your portfolio grade, but will also count as a homework grade. DUE in hard copy the first day of class.

FICTION NOTE-TAKING GUIDELINES

As you carefully read your fiction choice, keep a list of “big idea” topics that arise in the book. For example, forgiveness and dreams are big idea topics (but are not the only options – merely examples). As you keep your list, you should also note instances of those topics in the text and record page numbers and quotations, as well as an explanation for that quotation. The ​ ​ explanation should address how that particular instant connects to the “big idea.”

You should aim to keep track of 2-3 “big idea” topics and your notes should include, at minimum, five examples of that topic in the text (better is to include all the examples of that topic – the number of which will vary, depending on the topic/book).

Please complete no more than three pages of TYPED notes. (Use 12 point font and don’t double-space).

You may find it helpful to keep a chart, like this (it would be expected that you would find multiple instances of a topic, if it is a “big idea,” so it is up to you how you would like to arrange your notes – either chronologically or by topic): SUMMER READING NOTES (FICTION)

Topic – the big idea topic you Page # - page number(s) for Explanation – WHY/HOW have inferred the topic and quote or plot does this particular quote or detail. (A quotation need plot detail reflect the “big ​ not be copied completely idea”? What does it suggest – the first phrase will about that big idea? suffice, so long as you can find that passage later.) NON-FICTION NOTE-TAKING GUIDELINES

As you carefully read your non-fiction choice, keep a journal on your thoughts as you read.

You should aim to take note of your responses throughout the book and your notes should include, at minimum, at least one thought for every 20 pages of the text (better is to include all your thoughts as you read – the number of which will vary, depending on your book).

SUMMER READING DOUBLE-ENTRY JOURNAL NOTES (NON-FICTION)

In the left column, what you learned or In the right column, write your reaction ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ what provoked your thinking as you were to that quote, detail, fact. reading. Include page numbers. ​ This is where you keep track of what the Possibilities include: voice in your head is saying as you read.

Notes, Quotations, Summaries, Main Ideas, The right hand side should be your thoughts. Facts/Concepts/Evidence, Illustrations, Possibilities include: Questions, Responses to specific questions, Descriptions Immediate reactions; Reactions after learning The quotations could be: a passage that something new; Answers to questions; What strikes you in some way, something you more you would like to learn; Why you agree question or don’t understand, something you or disagree; What you understand or don’t agree or disagree with, or something to which understand; Comparisons or contrasts; you connect. Connections to other sources or ideas; Your interpretation; Observations, Perspectives. (A quotation need not be copied The overriding question to consider as you completely – the first phrase will respond is, “Why is this an important ​ suffice, so long as you can find that idea,quote, question and how does it passage later.) support the central argument of the text?”

It is NOT summary, but analysis, so length of response to a particular idea, quote, or question will vary.

JOURNAL/NOTE TAKING ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

CHECK +: The journal CHECK: The journal and/or CHECK -: The ​ ​ ​ and/or notes show a notes show understanding journal/note-taking shows sophisticated understanding and engagement with the text weak understanding and and engagement with the and some insightful minimal engagement with the text. Commentary is commentary. Commentary is text. Commentary is not supported by apt textual supported by textual well-supported and reflects evidence and reflects evidence. more summary than insight. insightful thinking. Student completed two or Student completed at least less pages. Student completed three 2-3 pages of notes. pages of notes.

If you have any questions or concerns about this assignment or the course in general, please feel free to ask me before you leave for summer vacation.

Happy reading! Have a wonderful summer!

Sites where you can find lists of great books: http://www.pulitzer.org http://www.nationalbook.org http://themanbookerprize.com http://www.penfaulkner.org/ https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/hardcover-nonfiction/?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/hardcover-fiction/

REMEMBER: If you are choosing from the NYTimes lists, only choose from the HARDCOVER fiction or nonfiction. You may also choose from anything that has appeared on the HARDCOVER lists from the last year. (Many of these will now be in paperback).

Lastly, the librarians at any of the local libraries as well as the booksellers at the bookstores on the Island are also great resources for recommendations, etc. SUGGESTED READING IS BELOW Pulitzer Prize Winning Novels

2000s ● 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx ​ ​ ​ ○ Waiting by Ha Jin ​ ​ ​ ● 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates ​ ​ ​ ○ The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams ​ ​ ​ ● 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen ​ ​ ​ ○ John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead ​ ​ ​ ● 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett ​ ​ ​ ○ You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett ​ ​ ​ ● 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ American Woman by Susan Choi ​ ​ ​ ○ Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins ​ ​ ​ ● 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ An Unfinished Season by Ward Just ​ ​ ​ ○ War Trash by Ha Jin ​ ​ ​ ● 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ The Bright Forever by Lee Martin ​ ​ ​ ○ The March by E. L. Doctorow ​ ​ ​ ● 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ After This by Alice McDermott ​ ​ ​ ○ The Echo Maker by Richard Powers ​ ​ ​ ● 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal ​ ​ ​ ○ Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson ​ ​ ​ ● 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ All Souls by Christine Schutt ​ ​ ​ ○ The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich ​ ​ ​ 2010s ● 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin ​ ​ ​ ○ Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet ​ ​ ​ ● 2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ The Privileges by Jonathan Dee ​ ​ ​ ○ The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee ​ ​ ​ ● 2012: No award given.[6] [7] ​ ​ ​ ○ Train Dreams by Denis Johnson ​ ​ ​ ○ Swamplandia! by Karen Russell ​ ​ ​ ○ The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (posthumous nominee) ​ ​ ​ ​ ● 2013: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander ​ ​ ​ ○ The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey ​ ​ ​ ● 2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ The Son by Philipp Meyer ​ ​ ​ ○ The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis ​ ​ ​ ● 2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ Let Me Be Frank with You by Richard Ford ​ ​ ​ ○ The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami ​ ​ ​ ○ Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates ​ ​ ​ ● 2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen[8] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link ​ ​ ​ ○ Maud's Line by Margaret Verble ​ ​ ​ ● 2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead[9] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett ​ ​ ​ ○ The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan ​ ​ ​ ● 2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ In the Distance by Hernan Diaz ​ ​ ​ ○ The Idiot by Elif Batuman ​ ​ ​

National Book Award Winners(Fiction)

2000: Susan Sontag — In America[84] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Charles Baxter — The Feast of Love ​ ​ ​ ● Alan Lightman — The Diagnosis ​ ​ ​ ● Joyce Carol Oates — Blonde ​ ​ ​ ● Francine Prose — Blue Angel ​ ​ ​ 2001: Jonathan Franzen — The Corrections[85] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Dan Chaon — Among the Missing ​ ​ ​ ● Jennifer Egan — Look at Me ​ ​ ​ ● Louise Erdrich — The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse ​ ​ ​ ● Susan Straight — Highwire Moon ​ ​ ​ 2002: Julia Glass — Three Junes[86] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Mark Costello — Big If ​ ​ ● Adam Haslett — You Are Not a Stranger Here ​ ​ ​ ● Martha McPhee — Gorgeous Lies ​ ​ ​ ● Brad Watson — The Heaven of Mercury ​ ​ ​ 2003: Shirley Hazzard — The Great Fire[87] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● T.C. Boyle — Drop City ​ ​ ​ ● Edward P. Jones — The Known World ​ ​ ​ ● Scott Spencer — A Ship Made of Paper ​ ​ ​ ● Marianne Wiggins — Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel ​ ​ ​ 2004: Lily Tuck — The News from Paraguay[88] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Sarah Shun-lien Bynum — Madeleine is Sleeping ​ ​ ​ ● Christine Schutt — Florida ​ ​ ​ ● Joan Silber — Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories ​ ​ ​ ● Kate Walbert — Our Kind ​ ​ ​ 2005: William Vollmann — Europe Central[89] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● E.L. Doctorow — The March ​ ​ ​ ● Mary Gaitskill — Veronica ​ ​ ​ ● Christopher Sorrentino — Trance ​ ​ ​ ● Rene Steinke — Holy Skirts ​ ​ ​ 2006: Richard Powers — The Echo Maker[90] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Mark Z. Danielewski — Only Revolutions ​ ​ ​ ● Ken Kalfus — A Disorder Peculiar to the Country ​ ​ ​ ● Dana Spiotta — Eat the Document ​ ​ ​ ● Jess Walter — The Zero ​ ​ ​ 2007: Denis Johnson — Tree of Smoke[91] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Mischa Berlinski — Fieldwork ​ ​ ​ ● Lydia Davis — Varieties of Disturbance ​ ​ ​ ● Joshua Ferris — Then We Came to the End ​ ​ ​ ● Jim Shepard — Like You'd Understand, Anyway ​ ​ ​ 2008: Peter Matthiessen — Shadow Country[92] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Aleksandar Hemon — The Lazarus Project ​ ​ ​ ● Rachel Kushner — Telex from Cuba ​ ​ ​ ● Marilynne Robinson — Home ​ ​ ​ ● Salvatore Scibona — The End ​ ​ ​ 2009: Colum McCann — Let the Great World Spin[93] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Bonnie Jo Campbell — American Salvage ​ ​ ​ ● Daniyal Mueenuddin — In Other Rooms, Other Wonders ​ ​ ​ ● Jayne Anne Phillips — Lark and Termite ​ ​ ​ ● Marcel Theroux — Far North ​ ​ ​ 2010 to date 2010: Jaimy Gordon — Lord of Misrule[94] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Peter Carey — Parrot and Olivier in America ​ ​ ​ ● Nicole Krauss — Great House ​ ​ ​ ● Lionel Shriver — So Much for That ​ ​ ​ ● Karen Tei Yamashita — I Hotel ​ ​ 2011: Jesmyn Ward — Salvage the Bones[95] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Andrew Krivak — The Sojourn ​ ​ ​ ● Téa Obreht — The Tiger's Wife ​ ​ ​ ● Julie Otsuka — The Buddha in the Attic ​ ​ ​ ● Edith Pearlman — Binocular Vision ​ ​ [96][97][98][99] 2012: Louise Erdrich — The Round House ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Junot Díaz — This Is How You Lose Her ​ ​ ​ ● Dave Eggers — A Hologram for the King ​ ​ ​ ● Ben Fountain — Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ​ ​ ​ ● Kevin Powers — The Yellow Birds ​ ​ ​ [100][101] 2013: James McBride — The Good Lord Bird ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Rachel Kushner — The Flamethrowers ​ ​ ​ ● Jhumpa Lahiri — The Lowland ​ ​ ​ ● Thomas Pynchon — Bleeding Edge ​ ​ ​ ● George Saunders — Tenth of December: Stories ​ ​ ​ [102][103][104] 2014: Phil Klay — Redeployment' ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Rabih Alameddine — An Unnecessary Woman ​ ​ ​ ● Anthony Doerr — All the Light We Cannot See ​ ​ ​ ● Emily St. John Mandel — Station Eleven ​ ​ ​ ● Marilynne Robinson — Lila ​ ​ ​ 2015: Adam Johnson — Fortune Smiles[105] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Karen Bender — Refund: Stories ​ ​ ● Lauren Groff — Fates and Furies ​ ​ ​ ● Angela Flournoy — The Turner House ​ ​ ● Hanya Yanagihara — A Little Life ​ ​ ​ 2016: Colson Whitehead — The Underground Railroad[106] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Chris Bachelder — The Throwback Special ​ ​ ● Paulette Jiles — News of the World ​ ​ ● Karan Mahajan — The Association of Small Bombs ​ ​ ​ ● Jacqueline Woodson — Another Brooklyn ​ ​ ​ 2017: Jesmyn Ward — Sing, Unburied, Sing[107] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Elliot Ackerman — Dark at the Crossing ​ ​ ● Lisa Ko — The Leavers ​ ​ ● Min Jin Lee — Pachinko ​ ​ ​ ● Carmen Maria Machado — Her Body and Other Parties: Stories ​ ​

National Book Award Winners (Non-Fiction)

2000: Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex[24] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to ​ ​ the Present [about: Robert ● Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach ​ ​ Brasillach] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, [bio: W.E.B. Du ​B​ o​ is, vol.2] 1919–1963 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Patrick Tierney, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the ​ ​ Amazon [25][26] ● Patrick Tierney's book was later determined to be deliberately fraudulent. ​ ​ 2001: Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression[27] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Marie Arana, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood ​ ​ ● Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care ​ ​ ● David James Duncan, My Story as Told by Water ​ ​ ● Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, ​ ​ ​ Poland [bio: Lyndon Johnson][28] 2002: Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Devra Davis, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the ​ ​ [about: Donora Smog of 1948] Battle Against Pollution ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science ​ ​ ● Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man ​ ​ ● Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past through Our Genes ​ ​ 2003: Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy[29] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History ​ ​ ​ ● George Howe Colt, The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home [memoir] ​ ​

[bio: Bayard Rustin] ● John D'Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that ​ ​ ​ Changed America 2004: Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Age[30] ​ ● David Hackett Fischer, Washington's Crossing ​ ​ ​ ● Jennifer Gonnerman, Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett ​ ​ ● Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare ​ ​ ● The 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National ​ ​ ​ Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States- Authorized Edition [memoir][31] 2005: Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion ​ ​ [bio: Jean-Jacques Rousseau] ● Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ the Twin Towers ● Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an ​ ​ ​ Empire's Slaves 2006: Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Great American Dust Bowl[32] ​ ● Taylor Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 ​ ​ ​ ● Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone ​ ​ ​ ● Peter Hessler, Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present ​ ​ ● Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 ​ ​ ​ 2007: Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA[33] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying ​ ​ ● Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything ​ ​ ​ ● Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution ​ ​ [bio: Ralph Ellison] ● Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 2008: Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family[34] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War ​ ​ ● Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a ​ ​ ​ War on American Ideals ● Jim Sheeler, Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives ​ ​ ● Joan Wickersham, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order ​ ​ [bio: Cornelius 2009: T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt ​ ​ Vanderb​il​t]​ [35] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook ​ ​ ● Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of ​ ​ Species ● Greg Grandin, Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City [about: Fordlândia] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's ​ ​ [bio: Mithradates] Deadliest Enemy ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [memoir][36] 2010: Patti Smith, Just Kids ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea ​ ​ ​ ● John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq ​ ​ ● Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, ​ ​ [bio: Samuel Steward] Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War ​ ​ 2011: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern[37] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [bio: Maryam​ Jameelah] ● Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [bio: Karl ● Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution ​ ​ Marx and Jenny von W​ e​ stphalen] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [bio: Malcolm X] ● Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [bio: Marie & Pierre ● Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love & Fallout ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Curie] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 2012: Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai ​ ​ ​ [38][39][40][41] ​ ​ ​ Undercity ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945–1956 ​ ​ ● Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson ​ ​ ​ ● Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas ​ ​ ● Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East ​ ​ ​ [42][43][44] 2013: George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Jill Lepore, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin ​ ​ ● Wendy Lower, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields ​ ​ ● Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 ​ ​ ​ ● Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief ​ ​ ​ 2014: Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ​ ​ [​ 45][46][47] ​ ​ ​ China ​ ​ ​ ● Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? ​ ​ ● Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among The Living ​ ​ ● John Lahr, Tennessee Williams ​ ​ ● E.O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence ​ ​ [48][49] 2015: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs ​ ​ ● Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of ​ ​ Consciousness ● Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart ​ ​ of the Quran ● Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light: A Memoir ​ ​ 2016: Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ in America[50] ​ ● Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the ​ ​ American Right ● Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War ​ ​ ● Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in ​ ​ America ● Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its ​ ​ ​ Legacy 2017: Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia[51] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their ​ ​ Runaway Slave, Ona Judge ● Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America ​ ​ ● David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI ​ ​ ​ ● Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth ​ ​ Plan for America

Pulitzer Prize Winning Non-Fiction

2000s ○ 2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ■ The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene ​ ​ ​ ■ Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds by Scott ​ ​ ​ Weidensaul ○ 2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ■ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers ​ ​ ​ ■ Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover ​ ​ ​ ○ 2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil ​ ​ ​ Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter ​ ​ ​ ■ The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon ​ ​ ​ ■ War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David ​ ​ ​ Halberstam ○ 2003: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Power ■ The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit by Ellen Meloy ​ ​ ■ The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker ​ ​ ​ ○ 2004: Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ■ The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by ​ Dana Priest ■ Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler ​ ​ ​ ○ 2005: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, ​ ​ ​ from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll ​ ​ ​ ■ The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea ​ ​ ​ ■ Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta ​ ​ ​ ○ 2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by ​ ​ ​ ​ Caroline Elkins ■ The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer ​ ​ ​ ■ Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt ​ ​ ​ ○ 2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ■ Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness by ​ Pete Earley ■ Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks ​ ​ ​ ○ 2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945 by ​ ​ ​ ​ Saul Friedlander ■ The Cigarette Century by Allan M. Brandt ​ ​ ​ ■ The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross ​ ​ ​ ○ 2009: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from ​ ​ ​ the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon ​ ​ ​ ■ The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe by ​ William I. Hitchcock ■ Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur L. Herman ​ ​ ​ ● 2010s ● 2010: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous ​ ​ ​ Legacy by David E. Hoffman ​ ​ ​ ○ The Evolution of God by Robert Wright ​ ​ ​ ○ How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy ​ ​ ​ ● 2011: Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr ​ ​ ​ ○ Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne ​ ​ ​ ● 2012: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman ​ ​ ​ ○ Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl ​ ​ ​ ● 2013: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a ​ ​ ​ New America by Gilbert King ​ ​ ​ ○ Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by ​ Katherine Boo ○ The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell ​ ​ ​ ​ ● 2014: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. ​ Bass ○ The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan ​ ​ ​ ● 2015: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert[2] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal ​ ​ ​ ○ Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan ​ ​ ​ Osnos ● 2016: Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick[3] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ​ ​ ​ ○ If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power ​ ​ ​ ● 2017: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond[4] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery by ​ Micki McElya ● 2018: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Jr. ○ The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us by Richard O. Prum ​ ​ ​ ○ Notes on a Foreign Country: An