The Pulitzers

These are the novels that I will be reading. 

The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917.  The first Pulitzer Prize for a Novel was given in 1918 to Ernest Poole’s His Family.  The name of the award was changed to Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948.  

Have read

 

2024 Winner

The Night Watch

by Jayne Anne Phillips

2023 Winner

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

2023 winner

TRUST

by hernan diaz

2022 Winner

The Netanyahus

by Joshua Cohen

2021 Winner

The Night Watchman

by Louise Erdrich

2020 Winner

The Nickel Boys

by Colson Whitehead

2019 Winner

The Overstory

by Richard Powers

2018 winner

Less

by Andrew Sean Greer

2017 Winner

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

2016 Winner

The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

2015 winner

All the light we cannot see

by Anthony Doerr

2014 Winner

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt 

2013 Winner

The Orphan Master’s Son

by Adam Johnson

2011 winner

A visit from the goon squad

by Jennifer egan

2010 Winner

Tinkers

by paul harding

2009 Winner

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

2008 Winner

The brief wondrous life of oscar wao

by junot diaz

2007 winner

the road

by cormac mccarthy

2006 Winner

march

by geraldine brooks

2005 Winner

gilead

by marilynne robinson

2004 winner

The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

2003 Winner

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

2002 Winner

Empire Falls

by Richard Russo

2001 winner

The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

2000 Winner

interpreter of maladies

by Thumpa Lahiri

1999 Winner

the hours

by michael cunningham

1998 winner

American pastoral

by philip roth

1997 Winner

Martin Dressler: the tale of an American Dreamer

by steven millhauser

1996 Winner

independence day

by richard ford

1995 winner

The stone diaries

by carol shields

1994 Winner

the shipping news

by E. Annie proulx

1993 Winner

A Good Scent from a strange mountain

by robert olen butler

1992 winner

a thousand acres

by jane smiley

1991 Winner

Rabbit at Rest

by john updike

1990Winner

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

by Oscar Hijuelos

1989 winner

Breathing Lessons

by Anne Tyler

1988 Winner

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

1987 Winner

A Summon to Memphis

by Peter Tyler

1986 winner

Lonesome Dove

by Larry McMurty

1985 Winner

Foreign Affairs

by Alison Lurie

1984 Winner

ironweed

by William Kennedy

1983 winner

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

1982 Winner

Rabbit is Rich

by John Updike

1981 Winner

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

1980 winner

The Executioner’s Song

by Norman Mailer

1979 Winner

The Stories of John Cheever

by John Cheever

1978 Winner

Elbow Room

by James Alan McPherson

1976 winner

Humboldt’s Gift

by Saul Bellow

1975 Winner

The Killer Angels

by Michael Shaara

1973 Winner

The Optimist’s Daughter

by Eudora Welty

1972 winner

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

1970 Winner

Collected Stories

by Jean Stafford

1969 Winner

House Made of Dawn

by N. Scott Momaday

1968 winner

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

1967 Winner

The Fixer

by Bernard Malamud

1966 Winner

Collected Stories

by Katherine Anne Porter

1965 winner

The Keepers of The House

by Shirley Ann Grau

1963 Winner

The Reivers

by William Faulkner

1962 Winner

The Edge of Sadness

by Edwin O’Connor

1961 winner

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

1960 Winner

Advise and Consent

by Allen Drury

1959 Winner

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

by Robert Lewis Taylor

1958 winner

A Death in The Family

by James Agee

1956 Winner

Andersonville

by MacKinlay Kantor

1955 Winner

A Fable

by William Faulkner

1953 winner

The Old Man and The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

1952 Winner

The Caine Mutiny

by Herman Wouk

1951 Winner

The Town

by Conrad Richter

1950 winner

The Way West

by A. B. Gutherie

1948 Winner

Tales of The South Pacific

by James A. Michener

1949 Winner

Guard of Honor

by James Gould Cozzens

1947 winner

All The King’s Men

by Robert Penn Warren

1945 Winner

A Bell for Adano

by John Hersey

1944 Winner

Journey in The Dark

by Martin Flavin

1943 winner

Dragon’s Teeth

by Upton Sinclair

1942 Winner

In this our life

by Ellen Glasgow

1940 Winner

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

1939 winner

The Yearling

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1937 Winner

Gone with The Wind

by Margaret MItchell

1938 Winner

The Late George Apley

by John P. Marquand

1936 winner

Honey in The Horn

by H. L. Davis

1935 Winner

Now In November

by Josephine W. Johnson

1934 Winner

Lamb in His Bosom

by Caroline Miller

1933 winner

The Store

by T. S. Stribling

1932 Winner

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

1931 Winner

Years of Grace

by Margaret Ayer Barnes

1930 winner

Laughing Boy

by Oliver La Farge

1929 Winner

Scarlet Sister Mary

by Julia Peterkin

1928 Winner

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

1927 winner

Early Autumn

by Louis Bromfield

1926 Winner

Arrowsmith

by Sinclair Lewis

1925 Winner

So Big

by Edna Ferber

1924 winner

The Able McLaughlins

by Margaret Wilson

1923 Winner

One of Ours

by Willa Sibert Cather

1922 Winner

Alice Adams

by Booth Tarkington

1921 winner

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

1919 Winner

The Magnificent Ambersons

by Booth Tarkington

1918 Winner

His Family

by Ernest Poole