Pulitzer Prize List for the past 15 years and beyond
(no award was issued for fiction in 2012)
Have you read any Pulitzer Prize books? What are your favorites? Do you have other suggestions of books I should add to this list? Here is the actual Pulitzer list for fiction.
Year
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Title
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Author
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Read
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Comments
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2016
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2015
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Doerr, Anthony
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Aug '15
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My favorite book of 2015.
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2014
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Goldfinch, The
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Tartt, Donna
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Dec '14
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One of my favorite books of 2014.
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2013
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Orphan Master's Son
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Johnson, Adam
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2011
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Visit from the Goon Squad, A
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Egan, Jennifer
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2010
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Tinkers
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Harding, Paul
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2009
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Olive Kitteridge
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Strout, Elizabeth
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Mar '10
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I discovered I can like a book and not like the main character.
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2008
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Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, A
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Diaz, Junot
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I started this one. Why didn’t I finish?
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2007
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Road, The
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McCarthy, Cormac
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2006
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March, The
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Brooks, Geraldine
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Apr '08
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Made me want to re-read Little Women
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2005
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Gilead
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Robinson, Marianne
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2004
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Known World, The
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Jones, Edward
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2003
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Middlesex
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Eugenides, Jeffrey
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Oct '06
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Indescribably good.
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2002
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Empire Falls
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Russo, Richard
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Apr '05
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2001
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Amazing Kavalier and Clay, The
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Charbon, Micahel
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2000
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Interpreter of Maladies
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Lahiri, Jhumpa
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1999
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Hours, The
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Cunningham, Michael
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1995
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Stone Diaries
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Shields, Carol
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1996
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1994
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Shipping News
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Proulx, Annie
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1997
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I’ve long thought of this as one of my top ten favorite books.
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1992
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Thousand Acres, A
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Smiley, Jane
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1993
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Demands to be discussed!
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1988
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Beloved
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Morrison, Toni
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2010
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The Gold Standard!
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1986
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Lonesome Dove
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McMurty, Larry
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1983
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Color Purple, The
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Walker, Alice
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2009
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Listen to this on audiobooks.
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1981
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Confederacy of Dunces, A
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Toole, John Kennedy
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2013
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This book is in a category of its own. Love it!
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1972
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Angle of Repose
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Stegner, Wallace
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1995
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1961
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Lee, Harper
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2008
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Can you believe I waited so long to read this classic?
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1953
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Old Man and the Sea, The
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Hemingway, Ernest
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1972
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