Add to your TBR list with The Pulitzer Prize-winning books for 2018:
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company)
Kindle Price: $13.99
A generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range, about growing older and the essential nature of love.
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis (Liveright/W.W. Norton)
Kindle Price: $10.18
An important environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico that brings crucial attention to Earth’s 10th-largest body of water, one of the planet’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems.
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books)
Kindle Price $16.99
A deeply researched and elegantly written portrait of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House on the Prairie series, that describes how Wilder transformed her family’s story of poverty, failure and struggle into an uplifting tale of self-reliance, familial love and perseverance.
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Kindle Price: $19.99
A volume of unyielding ambition and remarkable scope that mixes long dramatic poems with short elliptical lyrics, building on classical mythology and reinventing forms of desires that defy societal norms.
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Kindle Price: $9.99
An examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.