2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

A Novel

By: Colson Whitehead
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Colson Whitehead
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

“A brilliant black boy, in the wrong car, meets the wrong cop. A for-profit penal system puts him in a reform school run by abusers, with a suspicious graveyard out back. What happens next is... a powerful arc bending toward justice? Colson Whitehead delivers a book about suffering that does not revel in suffering, a book about keeping soul in a... Read more

Sweet Taste of Liberty

A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

By: W. Caleb McDaniel
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice—and reparations



Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War,... Read more

Sontag

Her Life and Work

By: Benjamin Moser
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

“Love her or loathe her, Susan Sontag was a towering American intellectual and a truly public figure of the twentieth century. Moser’s engrossing and all encompassing biography examines the private as well as the public Sontag, a fascinating and not always likable force of nature. Read more

The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 59 minutes

Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes... Read more

The End of the Myth

From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

By: Greg Grandin
Narrated by: Eric Pollins
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

*WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION*

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall.

Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a... Read more

The Undying

Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

By: Anne Boyer
Narrated by: Amy Finegan
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data?sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying. A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For... Read more