Penghargaan Pulitzer untuk Nonfiksi Umum diberikan sejak tahun 1962 untuk sebuah buku nonfiksi karya penulis Amerika Serikat yang tidak cocok dimasukkan ke kategori lain. Satu hadiah diberikan setiap tahunnya. Para finalis mulai diumumkan pada tahun 1980.

1960-an 
 1962: The Making of the President, 1960 karya Theodore White
 1963: The Guns of August karya Barbara W. Tuchman
 1964: Anti-intellectualism in American Life karya Richard Hofstadter
 1965: O Strange New World karya Howard Mumford Jones
 1966: Wandering Through Winter karya Edwin Way Teale
 1967: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture karya David Brion Davis
 1968: Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, karya Will and Ariel Durant.
 1969: So Human an Animal karya Rene Jules Dubos
 1969: The Armies of the Night karya Norman Mailer

1970-an 
 1970: Gandhi's Truth karya Erik H. Erikson
 1971: The Rising Sun karya John Toland
 1972: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 karya Barbara W. Tuchman
 1973: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam karya Frances FitzGerald
 1973: Children of Crisis, vols. 2 and 3, karya Robert Coles
 1974: The Denial of Death karya Ernest Becker
 1975: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek karya Annie Dillard
 1976: Why Survive? Being Old In America karya Robert Neil Butler
 1977: Beautiful Swimmers karya William W. Warner
 1978: The Dragons of Eden karya Carl Sagan
 1979: On Human Nature karya Edward O. Wilson

1980-an 
Finalists have been announced since 1980, and are shown as the indented entries.
 1980: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid karya Douglas Hofstadter
 The Madwoman in the Attic karya Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
 The Medusa and the Snail karya Lewis Thomas
 1981: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture karya Carl E. Schorske
 China Men karya Maxine Hong Kingston
 Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War karya William Manchester
 Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey karya Marshall Frady
 1982: The Soul of a New Machine karya Tracy Kidder
 Basin and Range karya John McPhee
 Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor karya Diana Trilling
 1983: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? karya Susan Sheehan
 The Fate of the Earth karya Jonathan Schell
 Terrorists and Novelists karya Diane Johnson
 1984: The Social Transformation of American Medicine karya Paul Starr
 Conversations With the Enemy karya Winston Groom and Duncan Spencer
 Endless Enemies karya Jonathan Kwitny
 1985: The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two karya Studs Terkel
 Endless Enemies karya Jonathan Kwitny
 Dawn to the West karya Donald Keene
 1986 (two winners): Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families karya J. Anthony Lukas
 Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White karya Joseph Lelyveld
 Habits and the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life karya Robert Neelly Bellah
 1987: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land karya David K. Shipler
 Rising from the Plains karya John McPhee
 Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir karya Cyra McFadden
 1988: The Making of the Atomic Bomb karya Richard Rhodes
 Chaos: Making a New Science karya James Gleick
 Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society karya Daniel Callahan
 1989: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam karya Neil Sheehan
 The Last Farmer karya Howard Kohn
 Coming of Age in the Milky Way karya Timothy Ferris

1990-an 
 1990: And Their Children After Them karya Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
 Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History karya Stephen Jay Gould
 A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 karya David Fromkin
 1991: The Ants karya Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
 Looking for a Ship karya John McPhee
 River of Traps: A Village Life karya William duBuys and Alex Harris
 1992: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power karya Daniel Yergin
 Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics karya Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall
 Broken Vessels karya Andre Dubus
 1993: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America karya Garry Wills
 Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father karya Richard Rodriguez
 Where the Buffalo Roam karya Anne Matthews
 A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War karya Susan Griffin
 1994: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire karya David Remnick
 The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud karya Peter Gay
 The End of the Twentieth Century: And the End of the Modern Age karya John Lukacs
 1995: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time karya Jonathan Weiner
 How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter karya Sherwin B. Nuland
 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story karya John Berendt
 1996: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism karya Tina Rosenberg
 Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder karya Lawrence Weschler
 Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of Life karya Daniel C. Dennett
 1997: Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris karya Richard Kluger
 Fame and Folly karya Cynthia Ozick
 The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond karya Samuel G. Freedman
 1998: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies karya Jared Diamond
 How the Mind Works karya Steven Pinker
 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster karya Jon Krakauer
 1999: Annals of the Former World karya John McPhee
 The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do karya Judith Rich Harris
 Crime and Punishment in America karya Elliott Currie

 2000-an 
 2000: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II karya John W. Dower
 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory karya Brian Greene
 Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds karya Scott Weidensaul
 2001: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan karya Herbert P. Bix
 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius karya Dave Eggers
 Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing karya Ted Conover
 2002: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution karya Diane McWhorter
 The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression karya Andrew Solomon
 War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals karya David Halberstam
 2003: "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide karya Samantha Power
 The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit karya Ellen Meloy
 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature karya Steven Pinker
 2004: Gulag: A History karya Anne Applebaum
 The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military karya Dana Priest
 Rembrandt's Jews karya Steven Nadler
 2005: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 karya Steve Coll
 The Devil's Highway: A True Story karya Luis Alberto Urrea
 Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found karya Suketu Mehta
 2006: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya karya Caroline Elkins
 The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq karya George Packer
 Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 karya Tony Judt
 2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 karya Lawrence Wright
 Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness karya Pete Earley
 Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq karya Thomas E. Ricks
 2008: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 karya Saul Friedlander
 The Cigarette Century karya Allan M. Brandt
 The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century karya Alex Ross
 2009: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II karya Douglas A. Blackmon
 The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe karya William I. Hitchcock
 Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age karya Arthur L. Herman

 2010-an 
 2010: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy karya David E. Hoffman
 The Evolution of God karya Robert Wright
 How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities karya John Cassidy
 2011: Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer karya Siddhartha Mukherjee
 The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains karya 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 karya S.C. Gwynne
 2012: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern karya Stephen Greenblatt
 One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing karya Diane Ackerman
 Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men karya Mara Hvistendahl
 2013: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America karya Gilbert King
 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity karya Katherine Boo
 The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature karya David George Haskell
 2014: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation karya Dan Fagin
 The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide karya Gary J. Bass
 The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War karya Fred Kaplan
 2015: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History karya Elizabeth Kolbert No Good Men Among the Living karya Anand Gopal
 Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China karya Evan Osnos
 2016: Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS karya Joby Warrick
 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
 If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of Quran karya Carla Power
 2017: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City karya Matthew Desmond
 In a Different Key: The Story of Autism karya John Donvan dan Caren Zucker
 The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery karya Micki McElya
 2018: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America karya James Forman Jr.
 The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us karya Richard O. Prum
 Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World karya Suzy Hansen

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