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The Pulitzer Novels

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The goal: read the entire list of novels that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in a single year.

Here is the list of winners on the official Pulitzer website.

Update: Jan 3, 2012
I didn't make it in a single year. But I should be able to finish the list in 2012.


ReviewYearAuthorTitle
 1917no award 
X1918Ernest Poole His Family
X1919Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons
 1920no award 
X1921Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
X1922Booth Tarkington Alice Adams
X1923Willa Cather One of Ours
 1924Margaret Wilson The Able McLaughlins
X1925Edna Ferber So Big
X1926Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith
X1927Louis Bromfield Early Autumn
X1928Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey
 1929Julia Peterkin Scarlet Sister Mary
X1930Oliver LaFarge Laughing Boy
 1931Margaret Ayer Barnes Years of Grace
X1932Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth
 1933T. S. Stribling The Store
 1934Caroline Miller Lamb in His Bosom
X1935Josephine Winslow Johnson Now in November
X1936Harold L. Davis Honey in the Horn
X1937Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind
X1938John Phillips Marquand The Late George Apley
X1939Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling
X1940John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
 1941no award.
 1942Ellen Glasgow In This Our Life
X1943Upton Sinclair Dragon's Teeth
 1944Martin Flavin Journey in the Dark
X1945John Hersey A Bell for Adano
 1946no award.
X1947Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men
X1948James A. Michener Tales of the South Pacific
X1949James Gould Cozzens Guard of Honor
X1950A. B. GuthrieThe Way West
X1951Conrad Richter The Town
X1952Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny
X1953Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
 1954no award.
X1955William Faulkner A Fable
X1956MacKinlay Kantor Andersonville
 1957no award.
X1958the late James Agee A Death In The Family
X1959Robert Lewis Taylor The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
X1960Allen Drury Advise and Consent
X1961Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird
X1962Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness
X1963William Faulkner The Reivers
 1964no award.
X1965Shirley Ann Grau The Keepers Of The House
X1966Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories
X1967Bernard Malamud The Fixer
X1968William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner
X1969N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn
X1970Jean Stafford Collected Stories
 1971no award.
X1972Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose
X1973Eudora Welty The Optimists Daughter
.1974no award.
.1975Michael Shaara The Killer Angels
X1976Saul Bellow Humboldt's Gift
.1977no award.
X1978James Alan McPherson Elbow Room
X1979John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
.1980Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song
X1981John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
.1982John Updike Rabbit Is Rich
.1983Alice Walker The Color Purple
.1984William Kennedy Ironweed
.1985Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs
X1986Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
.1987Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis
.1988Toni Morrison Beloved
.1989Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons
X1990Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
.1991John Updike Rabbit At Rest
.1992Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
.1993Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
X1994E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
.1995Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
.1996Richard Ford Independence Day
.1997Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
.1998Philip Roth American Pastoral
.1999Michael Cunningham The Hours
.2000Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
X2001Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
.2002Richard Russo Empire Falls
.2003Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
.2004Edward P. Jones The Known World
.2005Marilynne Robinson Gilead
.2006Geraldine Brooks March
X2007Cormac McCarthy The Road
X2008Junot Diaz The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
.2009Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge

The Best of the Best

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.

  1. The Old Man and the Sea
  2. A Bell for Adano
  3. Gone With the Wind
  4. Laughing Boy
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird
  6. The Caine Mutiny
  7. All the Kings Men
  8. The Good Earth
  9. ?
  10. ?

Other Readings

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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