Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction
Submitted by dashforcover on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 02:37
- SLCO 2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- 2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
- 2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- 2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- SLCO 2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- SLCO 2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks -- Tried, but could not finish it, hated it, try again
- 2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- 2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- SLCO 2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- 2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- SLCO 2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- SLCO 1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- 1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- 1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
- SLCL 1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford
- 1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- 1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- SLCO 1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- SLCO 1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- SLCO 1991 - Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
- 1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos - Unfinished. Too much sex.
- SLCO 1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- 1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison
- SLCO 1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
- 1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- SLCL 1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
- SLCO 1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy
- SLCO 1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- SLCO 1982 - Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
- 1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- 1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
- SLCO 1979 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- SLCL 1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
- 1977 No Award
- SLCO1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow -- Tried, but could not finish it, try again
- 1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- 1974 No Award
- SLCO 1973 - The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
- 1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- 1971 No Award
- SLCL 1970 - Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
- SLCO 1969 - House Made of Dawn by Scott Momaday
- SLCO 1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
- SLCO 1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- SLCO 1966 - Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
- 1965 - The Keepers Of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
- 1964 No Award
- 1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
- SLCO 1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
- 1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
- SLCO 1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
- 1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee
- 1957 No Award
- SLCO 1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
- SLCO 1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner
- 1954 No Award
- 1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- 1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
- SLCO 1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
- 1950 - The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
- SLCL 1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
- SLCO 1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
- Prior to 1948, the Pulitzer Prize of Fiction was known as Novel
- 1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
- 1946 No Award
- 1945 - A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
- 1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
- SLCL (2 vols) 1943 - Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
- 1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
- 1941 No Award
- 1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- SLCL 1938 - The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
- 1937 - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- SLCL 1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
- 1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
- 1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
- 1933 - The Store by T. S. Stribling
- 1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- 1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
- 1930 - Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge
- 1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
- 1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- 1927 - Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
- 1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
- 1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber
- 1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
- 1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather
- 1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
- 1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- 1920 No Award
- 1919 - Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
- 1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole
- 1917 No Award
Author Comments:
Pulitzer prize winners are announced in late May for the current year. 86 titles as of the 2011 prize.
Ones I really liked (I'm considering reading them again), not in any particular order:
Empire Falls
The Shipping News
The Killer Angels
To Kill a Mockingbird
Advise and Consent
All the King's Men
I'll add to this as I read more.
Those I didn't finish, I'll try again later. I could not do Beloved the first time because the movie was too fresh in my mind.
Cloned From:
It's interesting to see you put a couple of these down without finishing. I was tempted to do so with a couple of them myself. However, I hardly ever put a book down without finishing it, hoping to find some redeeming value there. (I had to set John Cheever's stories aside and come back to them before I could finish.) Once I complete this particular reading list, I will be including in my comment section those I found to be my favorites. I would be interested to see yours as well.
For the ones I put down I may try again if I can find them as audiobooks from a library. I'm able to read Jane Austen that way. Otherwise, I can't stand it. Got through Emma that way and actually enjoyed it a bit.
"Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" I could not finish. Too many sex scenes in it that were too lengthy descriptions for me. I understand that's core to the character so do not dismiss the book, I just choose to not read it. Not my "cup o'", if you will.