The book that rose the highest on Amazon after yesterday’s announcement of the Pulitzer Prize winners was the winner for poetry (Note: there was no winner for fiction this year).

Here’s how they stack up:

THE WINNER FOR POETRY

#97 (from #38,923)

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Life on Mars: Poems Tracy K. Smith Retail Price: $15.00 Paperback: 88 pages Publisher: Graywolf Press – (2011-05-10) ISBN / EAN: 1555975844 / 9781555975845

THE WINNER FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

#141 (from #904) 

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Stephen Greenblatt Retail Price: $16.95 Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company – (2012-09-03) ISBN / EAN: 0393343405 / 9780393343403

THE WINNER FOR HISTORY

#277 (from # 6,736)

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Manning Marable Retail Price: $18.00 Paperback: 608 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) – (2011-12-28) ISBN / EAN: 0143120328 / 9780143120322

THE WINNER FOR BIOGRAPHY

#298 (from  #5,567)

George F. Kennan: An American Life John Lewis Gaddis Retail Price: $39.95 Hardcover: 800 pages Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The – (2011-11-10) ISBN / EAN: 1594203121 / 9781594203121

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