Gear Up for a Great Read: Pulitzer-Winning Books of 2022

by Joshua Cohen

Mixing fiction with non-fiction, this wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity and politics follows a Jewish historian (but not an historian of the Jews) as he plays the reluctant host to an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition and his family.

by Nicole Eustace

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the definition of justice in early America.

by Ada Ferrer

Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade.

by Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly

The late celebrated artist tells his life story of growing up in the segregated south, joining the civil rights movement and surviving a near-lynching through a series of drawings and paintings.

by Diane Seuss

These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss’s working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again.

by Andrea Elliott

A reporter follows eight years in the life of a young girl in Brooklyn as her family navigates the world of homeless shelters, violence and addiction, as well as her eventual enrollment in a Pennsylvania boarding school.