Pulitzer Prize Books

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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 820 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,772,732 ratings — published 1960
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All the Light We Cannot See All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 691 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,935,858 ratings — published 2014
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The Road The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 636 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,017,676 ratings — published 2006
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The Goldfinch The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 617 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,024,911 ratings — published 2013
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Middlesex Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 562 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.04 — 660,245 ratings — published 2002
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The Color Purple The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.28 — 744,533 ratings — published 1982
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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 500 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 263,988 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 — 483,123 ratings — published 1987
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The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 478 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,286,680 ratings — published 1952
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 469 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 276,827 ratings — published 2007
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Gilead (Gilead, #1) Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 453 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.85 — 122,670 ratings — published 2004
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Interpreter of Maladies Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.18 — 204,655 ratings — published 1999
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The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.02 — 982,032 ratings — published 1939
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A Visit from the Goon Squad A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 437 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.70 — 246,852 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 — 439,242 ratings — published 2016
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Less (Arthur Less, #1) Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 381 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.62 — 221,328 ratings — published 2017
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,246 ratings — published 2000
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A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 294,763 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 — 151,699 ratings — published 1993
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The Orphan Master's Son The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 354 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.07 — 103,523 ratings — published 2012
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Empire Falls Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.94 — 125,504 ratings — published 2001
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The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 192,920 ratings — published 1920
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The Hours The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 147,787 ratings — published 1998
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 345 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 135,391 ratings — published 2015
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Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,250,531 ratings — published 1936
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March March (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.82 — 77,294 ratings — published 2005
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 334 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.57 — 230,450 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 — 300,466 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 — 259,194 ratings — published 1931
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The Overstory The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.11 — 191,243 ratings — published 2018
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Tinkers Tinkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 304 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.41 — 38,331 ratings — published 2009
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American Pastoral American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,248 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 — 71,908 ratings — published 1991
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Demon Copperhead Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 275 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.47 — 751,028 ratings — published 2022
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The Known World The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.84 — 44,757 ratings — published 2003
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The Stone Diaries The Stone Diaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 41,745 ratings — published 1993
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Angle of Repose Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.24 — 61,694 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 — 32,837 ratings — published 1988
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The Night Watchman The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 223 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.09 — 91,169 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 — 91,143 ratings — published 1974
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.79 — 38,120 ratings — published 1927
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Trust Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.80 — 163,419 ratings — published 2022
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.15 — 654,401 ratings — published 1996
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The Optimist's Daughter The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.52 — 15,302 ratings — published 1972
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The Executioner's Song The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,063 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 — 66,203 ratings — published 1946
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A Death in the Family A Death in the Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 17,511 ratings — published 1957
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Ironweed Ironweed (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,549 ratings — published 1983
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Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.76 — 12,908 ratings — published 1984
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The Caine Mutiny The Caine Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.29 — 26,716 ratings — published 1951
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“*Poem: Washington D.C. (The District)*

I love it
In this square
of columns and obelisks…
and monuments designed
to align
with constellations:
To symbolize our protection.
Serius. Virgo. Sun.

Washington,
Here where Virginia and Maryland meet, and greet.

Streets and corner-stones laid
In the glorious shapes
of Pentagrams and Christian crosses
And cubes and pyramids,
And the Blazing Star set on a ley line,
And the temple in the eye.

Homes, made
of red-brick, and granite
Stones.

Laus Deo!

Answers
May be somewhere
Off the shores
Of the Potomac;
Where my father
Once baptized me,

And the waters
Of the district
Touched my skin.

And the consciousness of America
Was rebirthed in me.”
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values

Andrew Sean Greer
“A stroke. Robert has never been kind to his body . . . It is only the carrier of that wonderful mind, after all. A case for the crown. And Robert has cared for that mind like a tiger with her young: he has given up drinking and drugs, kept a strict schedule of sleep. He is good, he is careful. And to steal that--to steal his mind--burglar Life!Like cutting a Rembrandt from its frame.”
Andrew Sean Greer, Less

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