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Pulitzer Prize Books
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 820 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,791,357 ratings — published 1960
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 691 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,942,746 ratings — published 2014
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 635 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,021,509 ratings — published 2006
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 619 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,027,831 ratings — published 2013
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 560 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.04 — 660,950 ratings — published 2002
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.28 — 746,164 ratings — published 1982
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 497 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 264,978 ratings — published 2008
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 487 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.98 — 484,704 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 479 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,292,196 ratings — published 1952
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 469 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 277,253 ratings — published 2007
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 453 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.02 — 984,494 ratings — published 1939
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 452 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.85 — 123,071 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.18 — 204,986 ratings — published 1999
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 439 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.70 — 247,411 ratings — published 2010
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 431 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.06 — 440,507 ratings — published 2016
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 381 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.62 — 221,806 ratings — published 2017
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 372 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,574 ratings — published 2000
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 295,425 ratings — published 1980
The Shipping News (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.88 — 151,898 ratings — published 1993
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 355 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,668 ratings — published 2012
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 193,576 ratings — published 1920
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 125,644 ratings — published 2001
The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 148,015 ratings — published 1998
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,251,788 ratings — published 1936
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 345 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 135,925 ratings — published 2015
March (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.82 — 77,542 ratings — published 2005
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 335 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.57 — 232,466 ratings — published 1985
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 327 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.25 — 302,155 ratings — published 2019
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 314 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 259,483 ratings — published 1931
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.11 — 192,336 ratings — published 2018
Tinkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 304 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.41 — 38,441 ratings — published 2009
American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,461 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.82 — 72,030 ratings — published 1991
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.47 — 759,883 ratings — published 2022
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.84 — 44,838 ratings — published 2003
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.24 — 61,777 ratings — published 1971
The Stone Diaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 41,827 ratings — published 1993
Breathing Lessons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.66 — 32,944 ratings — published 1988
The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 224 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,790 ratings — published 2020
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 218 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.33 — 91,293 ratings — published 1974
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.79 — 38,221 ratings — published 1927
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.80 — 165,894 ratings — published 2022
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.15 — 655,203 ratings — published 1996
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.52 — 15,356 ratings — published 1972
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,107 ratings — published 1979
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,290 ratings — published 1946
A Death in the Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,573 ratings — published 1957
Ironweed (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,576 ratings — published 1983
Foreign Affairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.76 — 12,931 ratings — published 1984
The Caine Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.29 — 26,761 ratings — published 1951
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