The Pulitzer Novels
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So here is the goal: by the end of 2009, read the entire list of books that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
This is not as overwhelming as you might think. There are a handful of years between 1917 and 2008 where no award was given, and I have already read a dozen or so of the novels. That does leave about 70 books to read in 52 weeks. I will try to keep up on the reviews, so click on the X under the reviews column to see what I thought of the book.
Here is the list of winners on the official Pulitzer website.
Update: Dec 19
Whew life! I don't think I am gonna make the whole list. Oh well.
I will finish the list in 2010.
| Review | Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | no award | ||
| X | 1918 | Ernest Poole | His Family |
| X | 1919 | Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons |
| 1920 | no award | ||
| X | 1921 | Edith Wharton | The Age of Innocence |
| X | 1922 | Booth Tarkington | Alice Adams |
| X | 1923 | Willa Cather | One of Ours |
| 1924 | Margaret Wilson | The Able McLaughlins | |
| X | 1925 | Edna Ferber | So Big |
| X | 1926 | Sinclair Lewis | Arrowsmith |
| X | 1927 | Louis Bromfield | Early Autumn |
| X | 1928 | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| 1929 | Julia Peterkin | Scarlet Sister Mary | |
| X | 1930 | Oliver LaFarge | Laughing Boy |
| 1931 | Margaret Ayer Barnes | Years of Grace | |
| X | 1932 | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth |
| 1933 | T. S. Stribling | The Store | |
| 1934 | Caroline Miller | Lamb in His Bosom | |
| X | 1935 | Josephine Winslow Johnson | Now in November |
| X | 1936 | Harold L. Davis | Honey in the Horn |
| X | 1937 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone With the Wind |
| X | 1938 | John Phillips Marquand | The Late George Apley |
| X | 1939 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling |
| X | 1940 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| 1941 | no award | . | |
| 1942 | Ellen Glasgow | In This Our Life | |
| X | 1943 | Upton Sinclair | Dragon's Teeth |
| 1944 | Martin Flavin | Journey in the Dark | |
| X | 1945 | John Hersey | A Bell for Adano |
| 1946 | no award | . | |
| X | 1947 | Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men |
| X | 1948 | James A. Michener | Tales of the South Pacific |
| X | 1949 | James Gould Cozzens | Guard of Honor |
| X | 1950 | A. B. Guthrie | The Way West |
| X | 1951 | Conrad Richter | The Town |
| X | 1952 | Herman Wouk | The Caine Mutiny |
| X | 1953 | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea |
| 1954 | no award | . | |
| X | 1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable |
| X | 1956 | MacKinlay Kantor | Andersonville |
| 1957 | no award | . | |
| X | 1958 | the late James Agee | A Death In The Family |
| X | 1959 | Robert Lewis Taylor | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters |
| X | 1960 | Allen Drury | Advise and Consent |
| X | 1961 | Harper Lee | To Kill A Mockingbird |
| . | 1962 | Edwin O'Connor | The Edge of Sadness |
| X | 1963 | William Faulkner | The Reivers |
| 1964 | no award | . | |
| X | 1965 | Shirley Ann Grau | The Keepers Of The House |
| X | 1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | Collected Stories |
| X | 1967 | Bernard Malamud | The Fixer |
| X | 1968 | William Styron | The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| . | 1969 | N. Scott Momaday | House Made of Dawn |
| X | 1970 | Jean Stafford | Collected Stories |
| 1971 | no award | . | |
| . | 1972 | Wallace Stegner | Angle of Repose |
| . | 1973 | Eudora Welty | The Optimists Daughter |
| . | 1974 | no award | . |
| . | 1975 | Michael Shaara | The Killer Angels |
| . | 1976 | Saul Bellow | Humboldt's Gift |
| . | 1977 | no award | . |
| . | 1978 | James Alan McPherson | Elbow Room |
| . | 1979 | John Cheever | The Stories of John Cheever |
| . | 1980 | Norman Mailer | The Executioner's Song |
| . | 1981 | John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| . | 1982 | John Updike | Rabbit Is Rich |
| . | 1983 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| . | 1984 | William Kennedy | Ironweed |
| . | 1985 | Alison Lurie | Foreign Affairs |
| X | 1986 | Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove |
| . | 1987 | Peter Taylor | A Summons to Memphis |
| . | 1988 | Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| . | 1989 | Anne Tyler | Breathing Lessons |
| X | 1990 | Oscar Hijuelos | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
| . | 1991 | John Updike | Rabbit At Rest |
| . | 1992 | Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres |
| . | 1993 | Robert Olen Butler | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain |
| X | 1994 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News |
| . | 1995 | Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries |
| . | 1996 | Richard Ford | Independence Day |
| . | 1997 | Steven Millhauser | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer |
| . | 1998 | Philip Roth | American Pastoral |
| . | 1999 | Michael Cunningham | The Hours |
| . | 2000 | Jhumpa Lahiri | Interpreter of Maladies |
| X | 2001 | Michael Chabon | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
| . | 2002 | Richard Russo | Empire Falls |
| . | 2003 | Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex |
| . | 2004 | Edward P. Jones | The Known World |
| . | 2005 | Marilynne Robinson | Gilead |
| . | 2006 | Geraldine Brooks | March |
| X | 2007 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road |
| X | 2008 | Junot Diaz | The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao |
For you folks out there who don't have the time to read all the books (And who would want to?), here is my top ten list.
You didn't really think that the list was all that I read this year? If nothing else, I am a voracious and onmivorous reader. I never keep track, but below is a sampling of other random things.
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