Sunday, March 8, 2009

Pulitzer Prize Winners




I thought I'd post this list of novels that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction since its inception in 1948. I've highlighted the winners I've read to date (look for the color red) and some are links to my review on GoodReads.  Putting this blog post together has given me the goal to significantly improve my percentage. Hope remains that something I write ends up on this list one day. Which of these titles have you read, and did you love them as much as the Pulitzer Prize committee did?

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1948  Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

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1949  Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

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1950  The Way West by A.B. Guthrie

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1951  The Town by Conrad Richter

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1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

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1953  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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1954 (no award)

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1955  A Fable by William Faulkner

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1956  Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

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1957 (no award)

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1958  A Death in The Family by James Agee (posthumous publication)

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1959  The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

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1960  Advice and Consent by Allen Drury

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1961  To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I discuss the "sequel / first draft" at Roy's Book Reviews. Check out my thoughts on Go Set a Watchman

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1962  The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor

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1963  The Reivers by William Faulkner

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1964 (no award)

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1965  The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

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1966  Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

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1967  The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

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1968  The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

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1969  House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

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1970  Collected Stores by Jean Stafford

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1971 (no award)

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1972  Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

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1973  The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty

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1974 (no award)

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1975  The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

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1976  Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow

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1977 (no award)

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1978  Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

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1979  The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

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1980  The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

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1982  Rabbit is Rich by John Updike

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1983  The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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1984  Ironweed by William Kennedy

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1985  Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

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1986  Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

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1987  A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

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1988  Beloved by Toni Morrison

I express my adoration for Toni Morrison in one of the videos recorded for Roy's Book Reviews

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1989  Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

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1990  The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

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1992  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

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1993  A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

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1994  The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

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1995  The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

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1996  Independence Day by Richard Ford

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1997  Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

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1999  The Hours by Michael Cunningham

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2000  Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

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2001  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
          Discussed at Roy's Book Reviews
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2002  Empire Falls by Richard Russo

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2003  Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides


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2004  The Known World by Edward P. Jones

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2005  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

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2006  March by Geraldine Brooks

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2007  The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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2008  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

I also discuss The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao at my booktube channel Roy's Book Reviews

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2009  Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

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2010  Tinkers by Paul Harding

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2011  A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

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2012 (no award)

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2013  The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

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2014  The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

I also discuss The Goldfinch at my booktube channel Roy's Book Reviews

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2015  All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

I also discuss All the Light We Cannot See at my booktube channel Roy's Book Reviews

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2016  The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

I also discuss The Sympathizer at my booktube channel Roy's Book Reviews

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2017  The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

I also discuss The Underground Railroad at my booktube channel Roy's Book Reviews

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2018  Less by Andrew Sean Greer


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2019  The Overstory by Richard Powers

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2020  The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

I also discuss The Nickel Boys at my booktube channel Roy's Book Reviews


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2021  The Nightwatchman by Louise Erdrich

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2022  The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

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2023  It's a tie!  Trust by Hernan Diaz / Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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NOTE: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction originated as the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, which was awarded between 1918 and 1947. I’ve read two of those winners to date.

· 1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
· 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
· 1920: no award given
· 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
· 1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
· 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 (declined prize)
· 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 La Farge
· 1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
· 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
· 1933: The Store by Thomas Sigismund 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
· 1941: no award given
· 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
· 1946: no award given
· 1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

4 comments:

  1. I'm rereading 1000 Acres right now as part of my MA in Creative Writing. It holds up so very well.

    Make sure to read Breathing Lessons as well. Brilliant.

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  2. Not as many as I thought. Only 4. But this gives me a great reading list to work on. thanks.

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  3. The prize has been around since 1917; the first winner was in 1918. Your reading list just got longer!

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