Award overlap

Books Recognized by Both the Goodreads Choice Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography

No book has won both the Goodreads Choice Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography. 11 were shortlisted or recognized by both.

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

Recognized by both

Books recognized by both the Goodreads Choice Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography without winning both, most recent first.
BookAuthorGoodreads Choice AwardsPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and Memoir or Autobiography
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our LivesSiddharth Kara
  • 2023 Nominee (Nonfiction)
  • 2024 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
Easy Beauty: A MemoirChloé Cooper Jones
  • 2022 Nominee (Memoir & Autobiography)
  • 2023 Finalist (Memoir or Autobiography)
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial JusticeRobert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
  • 2022 Nominee (History & Biography)
  • 2023 Winner (General Nonfiction)
Stay TrueHua Hsu
  • 2022 Nominee (Memoir & Autobiography)
  • 2023 Winner (Memoir or Autobiography)
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A MemoirIngrid Rojas Contreras
  • 2022 Nominee (Memoir & Autobiography)
  • 2023 Finalist (Memoir or Autobiography)
Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningCathy Park Hong
  • 2020 Nominee (Nonfiction)
  • 2021 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew Desmond
  • 2016 Nominee (Nonfiction)
  • 2017 Winner (General Nonfiction)
In a Different Key: The Story of AutismJohn Donvan, Caren Zucker
  • 2016 Nominee (Science & Technology)
  • 2017 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates
  • 2015 Nominee (Nonfiction)
  • 2016 Finalist (General Nonfiction)
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryElizabeth Kolbert
  • 2014 Nominee (Nonfiction)
  • 2015 Winner (General Nonfiction)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine Boo
  • 2012 Nominee (Nonfiction)
  • 2013 Finalist (General Nonfiction)