Pulitzer Prize Books

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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 819 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,732,457 ratings — published 1960
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All the Light We Cannot See All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 693 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,921,025 ratings — published 2014
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The Road The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 633 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,009,697 ratings — published 2006
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The Goldfinch The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 617 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,017,972 ratings — published 2013
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Middlesex Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 562 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.04 — 658,770 ratings — published 2002
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The Color Purple The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 503 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.28 — 740,986 ratings — published 1982
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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 498 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 261,913 ratings — published 2008
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 486 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 480,159 ratings — published 1987
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The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 477 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,276,980 ratings — published 1952
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 466 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 275,984 ratings — published 2007
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The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 452 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.02 — 976,783 ratings — published 1939
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Gilead (Gilead, #1) Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 450 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.85 — 121,891 ratings — published 2004
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Interpreter of Maladies Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 449 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.18 — 203,884 ratings — published 1999
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A Visit from the Goon Squad A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 433 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.70 — 245,596 ratings — published 2010
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The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 431 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.06 — 436,558 ratings — published 2016
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Less (Arthur Less, #1) Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 378 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.63 — 220,287 ratings — published 2017
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,544 ratings — published 2000
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A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 293,282 ratings — published 1980
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The Shipping News The Shipping News (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.88 — 151,262 ratings — published 1993
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The Orphan Master's Son The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 355 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,241 ratings — published 2012
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The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,405 ratings — published 1920
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Empire Falls Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.94 — 125,146 ratings — published 2001
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The Hours The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 147,391 ratings — published 1998
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Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,247,758 ratings — published 1936
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 343 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 134,243 ratings — published 2015
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March March (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.82 — 76,759 ratings — published 2005
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 329 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.57 — 226,276 ratings — published 1985
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The Nickel Boys The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 327 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.25 — 296,401 ratings — published 2019
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 312 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 258,537 ratings — published 1931
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The Overstory The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.11 — 188,813 ratings — published 2018
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Tinkers Tinkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 305 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.41 — 38,118 ratings — published 2009
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American Pastoral American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 86,656 ratings — published 1997
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A Thousand Acres A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.82 — 71,631 ratings — published 1991
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Demon Copperhead Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 268 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.47 — 729,800 ratings — published 2022
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The Known World The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.84 — 44,540 ratings — published 2003
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The Stone Diaries The Stone Diaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 41,634 ratings — published 1993
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Angle of Repose Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.24 — 61,486 ratings — published 1971
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Breathing Lessons Breathing Lessons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.66 — 32,590 ratings — published 1988
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The Night Watchman The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 219 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.09 — 89,766 ratings — published 2020
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 217 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.33 — 90,822 ratings — published 1974
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.79 — 37,901 ratings — published 1927
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Trust Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.81 — 158,442 ratings — published 2022
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 192 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.15 — 652,804 ratings — published 1996
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The Optimist's Daughter The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.52 — 15,161 ratings — published 1972
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The Executioner's Song The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,925 ratings — published 1979
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All the King's Men All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.09 — 65,985 ratings — published 1946
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A Death in the Family A Death in the Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 17,438 ratings — published 1957
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Ironweed Ironweed (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,491 ratings — published 1983
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Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.76 — 12,863 ratings — published 1984
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The Caine Mutiny The Caine Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.29 — 26,592 ratings — published 1951
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“You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl.” -- Benjamin East”
Jonathan Freedman

Kathryn Schulz
“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
Kathryn Schulz

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