Award overlap

Books That Won Both the National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography

1 book has won both the National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011/2012). 12 more were recognized by both without winning both.

Years are award years. National Book Awards · Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography

Won both

Books that won both the National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography, most recent first.
BookAuthorNational Book AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography
The Swerve: How the World Became ModernStephen Greenblatt
  • 2011 Winner (Nonfiction)
  • 2012 Winner (General Nonfiction)

Recognized by both

Books recognized by both the National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography without winning both, most recent first.
BookAuthorNational Book AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter WorldJohn Vaillant
  • 2023 Finalist (Nonfiction)
  • 2024 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for JusticeCristina Rivera Garza
  • 2023 Finalist (Nonfiction)
  • 2024 Winner (Memoir or Autobiography)
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial JusticeRobert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
  • 2022 Finalist (Nonfiction)
  • 2023 Winner (General Nonfiction)
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A MemoirIngrid Rojas Contreras
  • 2022 Finalist (Nonfiction)
  • 2023 Finalist (Memoir or Autobiography)
SolitaryAlbert Woodfox, Leslie George
  • 2019 Finalist (Nonfiction)
  • 2020 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of AmericaGreg Grandin
  • 2019 Longlist (Nonfiction)
  • 2020 Winner (General Nonfiction)
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates
  • 2015 Winner (Nonfiction)
  • 2016 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the QuranCarla Power
  • 2015 Finalist (Nonfiction)
  • 2016 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaEvan Osnos
  • 2014 Winner (Nonfiction)
  • 2015 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
No Good Men Among the LivingAnand Gopal
  • 2014 Finalist (Nonfiction)
  • 2015 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine Boo
  • 2012 Winner (Nonfiction)
  • 2013 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence Wright
  • 2006 Finalist (Nonfiction)
  • 2007 Winner (General Nonfiction)