Thanks to a good friend of mine, I have decided to
read through all of the Pulitzer Prize Winner's for Fiction. The list
below, was found here.
The first winner was in 1948 and there have been 7
years with no awards. That means, in 2013, this list has 58 books.
The goal is to complete this list by the end of 2015. That's two years
to read 60 books (if there is a winner in 2014 and 2015). Feel free to
join in the challenge with me. If you have already read some of these,
feel free to count them and move on to another book (unless you really
want to re-read them). I'll leave a link at the bottom in case
you want to join in. If not, wish me luck!
2013 The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (Random House)
2012 No award
2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred
A.. Knopf)
2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)
2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
(Riverhead Books)
2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/
HarperCollins)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by
Michael Chabon (Random House)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner
Books/Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by
Steven Millhauser (Crown)
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles
Scribner's Sons)
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen
Butler (Henry Holt)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
(Farrar)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon &
Schuster)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole
(a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little)
1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)
1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly
Press)
1977 (No Award)
1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)
1974 (No Award)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)
1971 (No Award)
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
(Random)
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)
1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)
1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)
1964 (No Award)
1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)
1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
(Doubleday)
1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a
posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)
1957 (No Award)
1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)
1954 (No Award)
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)
1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)
1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)
1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
(Macmillan)
I'm in! I'm not reading them in any particular order, but next up is Lonesome Dove.
ReplyDeleteI have only read two of these books before. One of them I loved and have read several times since(To Kill a Mockingbird); the other I use when I have really bad insomnia because just a few lines and I am out like a light (The Old Man and The Sea). I had to read it in high school and I remember sitting down to read and waking up hours later, still on the same page. So this list is going to be very very interesting.
DeleteTiffany,
ReplyDeleteI have also given myself this challenge a couple of years ago. I have been hit and miss on actually getting it done, but it has become more of a priority for me this year. I am nearly halfway through the list. I have also been working on Newberry Award winners and Nobel Prize winners.
That's awesome Cheryl! Of the awards lists, is there one you have noticed you tend to like the books more? I am hit or miss with the Pulitzer Prize Winners.
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