The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (formerly called the Prize for the Novel) has been awarded since 1918 for distinguished works of fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. During some years (1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1957, 1964, 1971, 1974, and 1977) no award was given.
Those I have read are in red. I have read 37 of the 82 winners. Those currently on my TBR shelf are in blue, although I intend to read them all eventually. If anyone else is reading all the winners, I am happy to add a link to your progress reports. Please leave a comment with your link and I will add it.
The Prize winners since 1918 are:
1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (reviewed here)
1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
1925: So Big by Edna Ferber
1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge
1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1933: The Store by T. S. Stribling
1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (reviewed here)
1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1966: Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (reviewed here)
1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (reviewed here)
1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (reviewed here)
1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (short review here)
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1991: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (reviewed here)
1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo (reviewed here)
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (reviewed here)
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks (reviewed here)
2007: The Road by Cormack McCarthy
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
OTHERS READING THE PULITZER WINNERS
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Monday, May 19, 2008
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3 comments:
Great idea! I posted my list here: http://blog.chainreader.com/2009/04/pulitzer-prize-winners.html
I have a lot of reading to do!
I tried to read Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout a few months a go and just couldn't get into it. I'm going to go for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz which has been on my "to read" list for about a year :)
By the way, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon is one of my all time favorites.
Shelley -- I forgot to respond, but I did add your link to the list. Thanks!
Man -- I have Olive K on my iPod right now, but I haven't started listening yet. I know people rave about it, but the description of it doesn't draw me in.
I did listen to Oscar Wao, even though the book-book is supposed to have interesting visual aspects (or am I confused with another one). The audio book was really excellent. The story is much, much bigger than it seems from the first chapters, so hang in there.
I am definitely going to get to Kavalier & Clay very soon. Thanks for posting your review on the Battle of the Prizes page.
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