Pulitzer Prize Winners and Finalists for general nonfiction, 1995-2014

= 1995: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner / How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt

= Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett

= 1997: Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger

= 1998: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond / How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
1999: Annals of the Former World by John McPhee / The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris,

== 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

= 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

= 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

= 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

= Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur L. Herman
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 /

= 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