77 books
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23 voters
Pulitzer Prize Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,538
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 820 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,772,695 ratings — published 1960
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 691 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,935,843 ratings — published 2014
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 636 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,017,663 ratings — published 2006
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 617 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,024,910 ratings — published 2013
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 562 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.04 — 660,245 ratings — published 2002
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.28 — 744,528 ratings — published 1982
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 500 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 263,987 ratings — published 2008
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 486 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 483,117 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 478 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,286,675 ratings — published 1952
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 469 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 276,827 ratings — published 2007
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 453 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.85 — 122,669 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.18 — 204,654 ratings — published 1999
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.02 — 982,032 ratings — published 1939
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 437 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.70 — 246,851 ratings — published 2010
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 431 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.06 — 439,237 ratings — published 2016
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 381 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.62 — 221,328 ratings — published 2017
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,245 ratings — published 2000
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 294,762 ratings — published 1980
The Shipping News (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.88 — 151,697 ratings — published 1993
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 354 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,523 ratings — published 2012
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.94 — 125,503 ratings — published 2001
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 192,920 ratings — published 1920
The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 147,787 ratings — published 1998
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 345 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 135,388 ratings — published 2015
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,250,529 ratings — published 1936
March (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.82 — 77,293 ratings — published 2005
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 334 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.57 — 230,446 ratings — published 1985
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 327 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.25 — 300,465 ratings — published 2019
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 312 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 259,193 ratings — published 1931
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.11 — 191,241 ratings — published 2018
Tinkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 304 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.41 — 38,331 ratings — published 2009
American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,248 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.82 — 71,908 ratings — published 1991
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 275 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.47 — 751,018 ratings — published 2022
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.84 — 44,757 ratings — published 2003
The Stone Diaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 41,745 ratings — published 1993
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.24 — 61,694 ratings — published 1971
Breathing Lessons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.66 — 32,837 ratings — published 1988
The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 223 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,169 ratings — published 2020
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 217 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.33 — 91,143 ratings — published 1974
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.79 — 38,120 ratings — published 1927
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.80 — 163,415 ratings — published 2022
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.15 — 654,400 ratings — published 1996
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.52 — 15,302 ratings — published 1972
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,063 ratings — published 1979
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,203 ratings — published 1946
A Death in the Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 17,511 ratings — published 1957
Ironweed (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,549 ratings — published 1983
Foreign Affairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.76 — 12,908 ratings — published 1984
The Caine Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.29 — 26,716 ratings — published 1951
“It’s like fitting a hand-me-down suit. It’s luck. Not love. Not that it isn’t nice to have luck. Maybe the only way to think of it is being at the center of all beauty. Just by chance, today we get to be in the center of all beauty.”
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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”
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