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.
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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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Good look with this! It seems like a really hard challenge! Can't wait to see how you do!
ReplyDeleteLisa, I know. I am a bit worried about it but I figure I only actually HAVE TO READ one book for sure every year. I can catch up at my own pace, no hurry. I figure that makes the challenge doable. Now I am worried the winner will be 800 pages or some crazy-long book which will seem like a mountain to conquer. Ha!
ReplyDeleteI read more than I thought. I loved Lonesome Dove and Middlesex. I enjoyed most of the Goldfinch, although I thought it was about 100 pages too long.
ReplyDeleteYes, Goldfinch WAS long, but so good. Now I want to go and read Tartt's book The Little Friend. It has very good reviews, too.
DeleteYes, Goldfinch WAS long, but so good. Now I want to go and read Tartt's book The Little Friend. It has very good reviews, too.
DeleteOoh, I love this.
ReplyDeleteI tried to read Confederacy of Dunces when I was about twelve, because my big sister kept raving about it, and I hated it. I guess maybe I should try again! Also, while I loved both Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, I was disturbed to learn recently about charges of plagiarism and paternalism brought to Stegner for appropriating not just the life, but the words of Mary Hallock Foote in his writing. http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/23/magazine/tm-stegner12
Of the ones I've read that you have not, my favorites are Visit from the Goon Squad and Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Clay. Middlesex, Beloved, and TKAM are so deserving of this and every prize. I'm afraid to read The Road--it sounds so grim. I wish you great luck in this undertaking!
If you like audiobooks at all, listen to A Confederacy of Dunces. It is brilliant!
DeleteI am not sure I want to know anything bad about Stegner. I love his books so much i don't want them wrecked in my memory.
what a cool thing to do, going through the Pulitzers! I didn't read To Kill a Mockingbird until way late as well. I haven't read the newly published book, have you?
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