Connie D's ongoing Pulitzer, Man Booker, and Newbery Prize Lists

[Connie]

My list of Pulitzer Prize books is further down, but here are the books I've read in 2017 and 2018. I'm continuing.

I'm not doing well, but want to keep working on this.

Pulitzer Prize Books Read since 2017

1. 1988: Beloved. by Toni Morrison. 5 stars. 7/2/17
2. 1962: The Grapes of Wrat h by John Steinbeck. 4 stars. 9/16/17
3. 2003: Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenides. 4.5 stars. 5/14/18
4. 2016: Barbarian Days (autobiography) William Finnegan. 4.5 stars. 12/26/18
5. 2013: Devil in the Grove (general non-fiction) Gilbert King. 4 stars. 12/24/18
6. 1971: Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner. 11/13/18. 4 stars.
7. 2017- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Read 1/14/20
8. 2017 - NF - Evicted. Matthew Desmond. Read 8/17/19
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I'm adding a few more lists:

Man Booker Prize Books Read:

1. 2008: The White Tiger Aravind Adiga. 4.5 stars. 6/14/17
2. Exit West by Mohsin Hahid. 7/16/17. 4.5 stars.
3. 2000: The Blind Assassin. Margaret Atwood. 4 stars. 11/3/17.
4. 2017: Lincoln in the Bardo. George Saunders. Read 4/19/17
5. 2018: Milkman.. Anna Burns. Read 7/3/19
6. 2009: Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel. Read.
7. 2006: The Inheritance of Loss. Kiran Desai. Read.
8. 1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle. Read.




1001 Books to Read list

1.. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. 4 stars. 1/16/17
2. A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute. 5 stars. 2/20/17
3. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison. 4 stars.
4. The White Tiger Man Booker Prize by Aravind Adiga. 6/14/17 4.5 stars
5. Beloved by Toni Morrison. Pulitzer5 stars. 7/13/17
6. Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker. 4 stars. 7/21/17
7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin. 3 stars. 8/4/17
8. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. 4 stars.
9. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace MCoy. 7/28/17. 3.5 stars.
10. Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes. 3.5 stars. 8/27/17
11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Pulitzer 4 stars. 9/16/17
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Classics, including Children's Liteature read since 2017
1. Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter. 5/17/18
2. My Family and Other Animals. Gerald Durrell. 5/17/18
3. Aesop's Fables. 12/2/18
4. The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde. 7/2/17
5. The Portrait of an Artist Oscar Wilde 3/20
6. Cannery Row John Steinbeck. 4/20
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Other Award Winners
1. 2017: American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land Monica Hesse. 5/26/18
2. 2017: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay. 6/5/18. 4 stars.
3. 2017: Be Frank with Me. (narrator audie) Julia Claiborne Johnson. 4 stars.
4. 2017: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir Alexandira Marzano-Lesnevich. 2/3/18
5. 2017: The Dry. Jane Harper. 5 stars. 2/12/18
6. 2013: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Benjamin Alire Saenz. 5 stars. 3/18/18
7. 2013: The Dog Stars Peter Heller. 12/23/17. 4 stars.
8.2014: The One I Left Behind Jennifer McMahon. 9/26/17
9. 2014/2015: This One Summer Mariko and Jillian Tamako. 9/30/17
10. 2016: The Hired Girl. Laura Amy Schlitz. 5 stars.
10/14/17
11. 2015: Rain, Reign. Ann M. Martin. 4 stars.
12. 2010-: Magician's Elephant Kate DiCamillo. 9/23/17.
13. 2017/2018: The Hate U Give Angie Thomas. 7/27/17. 5 stars.
14. 2017/2018: Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann. 5 stars. 8/1/17
15. 2006/2007: Looking for Alaska John Green. 11/30/18. 4 stars.
16. 1995: Whitbread: Behind the Scene at the Museum . Kate Atkinson. 11/18/18. 5 stars.
17. 2007: Edgar: Before the Fall Noah Hawley. 11/12/18. 4.5 stars
18. 2016 Coyote America. Dan Flores. 11/10/18. 4 stars
19. 2018: Children of the Blood and Bone Tom Adeyemi. 11/4/18. 4 stars
20. 2017: The 57 Bus Dashka Slater. 11/3/18. 4 stars
21. 2017: A Piece of the World Christina Baker Kline. 5 stars. 11/31/18
22. 2002: Mystic River Dennis Lehane. 5 stars. 11/13/18
23. 2018: I'll be Gone in the Dark Michelle McNamara. 5 stars. 9/9/18
24. 1990: Hatchet Gary Paulsen. 4 stars. 9/2/18
25. 2015: Not My Father's Son Alan Cumming. 4 stars. 8/25/18
26. 2004/2005: Truth and Beauty Ann Patchett. 4.5 stars. 8/22/18
27. 2009/2010: The Big Burn Timothy Egan. 4 stars. 8/21/18
28. 2015/2016: March: Book 2 John Lewis et al 8/20/18
29. 2011/2012: Anya's Ghost Vera Brosgol. 4 stars. 8/18/18
30. 2017: Behind Her Eyes Sarah Pinborough. 4 stars. 8/6/18
31. 1990: Doc: Rape of the Town of Lovell. Greg Olsen. 7/30/18. 4 stars.
32. 2018: The Great Alone Kristin Hannah. 8/8/18. 4 stars.
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[Pink]

Good luck!

[Brina]

Good luck. I have a similar plan with a different list of books. I am glad to have someone to compare notes with.

[Julie]

great idea - I'm trying to read more from both those lists

[Connie]

Thanks, Pink, Brina, and Julie! I enjoy seeing what other people are reading and challenging themselves with.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Nice list and great idea.

[Terris]

Nice list! But I can't believe how many I've never heard of! :-0

[Brina]

Connie, the only book that is the same on my list is So, Big. I don't have it planned until December but if you'd like to buddy read it, let me know.

[Connie]

Brina wrote: "Connie, the only book that is the same on my list is So, Big. I don't have it planned until December but if you'd like to buddy read it, let me know."

Please remind me in December and I'll read it then!

[Sarah]

Connie wrote: "Brina wrote: "Connie, the only book that is the same on my list is So, Big. I don't have it planned until December but if you'd like to buddy read it, let me know."

Please remind me in December an..."

If you end up doing a buddy read at some point, Connie and Brina, I'd love to join in too! I just stumbled across and purchased an old used copy of So Big earlier this week, so I hope to get around to reading it...eventually. :)

[Connie]

Sarah wrote: "Connie wrote: "Brina wrote: "Connie, the only book that is the same on my list is So, Big. I don't have it planned until December but if you'd like to buddy read it, let me know."

Please remind me..."

Sounds good, Sarah!

[Graham]

Middlesex is incredible. Jeffrey Eugenides is a genius.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Connie wrote: "Brina wrote: "Connie, the only book that is the same on my list is So, Big. I don't have it planned until December but if you'd like to buddy read it, let me know."

Please remind me in December an..."

I've had this one a my physical shelf for a long time. I need an excuse to read it.

[Connie]

Graham wrote: "Middlesex is incredible. Jeffrey Eugenides is a genius."

I've heard that and still mean to read it, but it is quite hefty...Is it a dense, slow read, or does it read relatively quickly?

[Brina]

Great, Connie and Sarah. I'm looking forward to it :-)

[Graham]

It actually is both a complex read and an easy read. It is so well written that it makes difficult topics easy to comprehend. It is a part of its genius!

[Connie]

PULITZER LIST (those in bold have been read)

1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
X 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
1927 - Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Lewis Bromfield
X 1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1930 - Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
X 1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1933 - The Store by Thomas S. 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
X 1937 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1938 - The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
X 1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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
1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
X 1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1948 (drama) A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams.
1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1950 - The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
X 1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
X 1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1954 - The Spirit of St. Louis (autobiography) . Charles Lindbergh.
1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner
1955 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (drama) Tennessee Williams.
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
X 1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
NF- The Guns of August. Barbara Tuchman.
1965 - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1969 - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday. Read.
1970 - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner/ Read Oct 2018
1973 -The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
NF - Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek. Annie Dillard.
1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981 -A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1982 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
Hist - Mary Chesnut's Civil War. C. Vann Woodward
X 1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Read.
1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy
1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
NF - The Good War. Studs Terkel
X 1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
X 1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison
X 1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1990 - And Their Children After Them (non-fiction). Dale Maharidge and Michael S. Williamson.
1991 - Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
Hist - A Midwife's Tale. Laurel Thatcher.
1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
Bio- Truman. David McCullough.
X 1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Prolux
NF - Lenin's Tomb. David Remnick
1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
NF - The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. Jonathan Weiner.
Bio- Harriet Beecher Stowe. Joan D. Hedrick.
HIst - No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor...Doris Kearns Goodwin.
1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford
NF- The Haunted Land. Tina Rosenberg
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
Bio - Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt. Read.
1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth
NF- Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Diamond.
Bio - Personal History. Katherine Graham.
Hist - Summer for the Gods. The Scopes Trial...Edward J. Larson
1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham
NF - Annals of the Former World. John McPhee
Hist - Gotham. Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace.
X 2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri . Read.
NF - Embracing Defeat. John W. Dower.
Hist - Freedom from Fear: the American People in the Depression and War. David M. Kennedy.
2001 -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
NF- Hirohito. Herbert P. Bix
Bio - WEB Du Bois. David Levering Lewis
2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2002 - John Adams. David McCullough
2002 - NF -Carry Me Home, Birmingham, Alabama by Diane McWhorter. (Also Man Booker)
X 2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
NF- A Problem from Hell. Samantha Power
2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
NF - Gulag. Anne Applebaum.
Hist - A Nation Under Our Feet. Steve Hahn
2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
NF- Ghost Wars. Steve Coll.
X 2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks. Read.
2006 - Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion (autobiography)
2006 - NF - Polio. David M. Oshinsky
NF - Imperial Reckoning. Caroline Elkins.
Bio - American Prometheus...Oppenheimer. Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin.
2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2007 - NF -The Looming Tower. Lawrence Wright
Bio - The Most Famous Man in America. (Henry Beecher Stowe). Debby Applegate.
X 2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Read
2008 - Drama - August: Osage County. Tracy Letts. Seen live
July 2017
NF - The Years of Extermination. Saul Friedlander.
Bio - Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. John Matteson.
X 2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Read 1/27/16
2009 - Hist - The Hemingses of Monticello. Annette Gordon-Reed.
NF- Slavery by Another Name. Douglas A. Blackmon
Bio- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Jon Meacham.
X 2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
NF -The Dead Hand. David E. Hoffman
2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2011- Bio - Washington: A Life. Ron Chernow.
2011 - NF - The Emperor of All Maladies. Siddhartha Murkherjee
2012 - Hist- Malcolm X by Manning Marable
2012 - NF - The Swerve. Stephen Greenblatt
2013 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2013 - Bio - The Black Count. Tom Reiss.
X 2013 - NF - Devil in the Grove. Gilbert King. Read Dec 2018
X 2014 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2014 - NF - Toms River. Don Fagin.
2014 - Bio - Margaret Fuller. Megan Marshall
Hist - An Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia. Alan Taylor.
X 2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Read 23/1/16
2015 - Hist - Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People. Elizabeth A. Fenn
X 2015- NF - The Sixth Extinction. Elizabeth Kolbert. Read 2/1/16
2016 - The Sympathizer by Nguyen
2016 - Drama - Hamilton. Lin-Manuel Miranda
X2016 - Bio - Barbarian Days. William Finnegan. Read Dec 2018
2016 - Hist - Custer's Trials. TJ Stiles.
2016 - NF - Black Flags, The Rise of ISIS. Joby Warrick.
2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Read 1/14/20
2017 - NF - Evicted. Matthew Desmond. Read 8/17/19
2017 - Bio - The Return. Hisham Matar
Hist - Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising. Heather Ann Thompson.
2018 - Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2018-Bio- Prairie Fires. Caroline Fraser.
2018 - NF - Locking Up Our Own. James Forman, Jr.
Hist - The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. James E. Davis.
2019 The Overstory. Richard Powers. Reading 4/20
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. David W. Blight.
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. Eliza Griswold.





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[Candi]

Good luck, Connie! I like the idea of adding some non-fiction too!

[Connie]

I've read more non-fiction this year too.

[Connie]

I've decided to make a separate post for my Newbery Award books. These have all been read.

Newbery Award Winners Read
1. 1978: Bridge to Terabithia. Katherine Patterson. 6/25/18. 5 stars.
2. 2018: Hello, Universe Erin Entrada Kelly. 5 stars. 12/3/17
3. 1942 Newbery Honor: Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison. Lois Lenski. 12/11/17
4. 1973: Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead. 4 stars. 8/24/18
5. 2016 honor: The War that Saved My Life Kimberley Brubaker Bradley.
6. 2013: The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate. Read 6/2/19
7. 2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Kelly Barnhill.
8. 2017 honor: Wolf Hollow. Lauren Wolk.
9. 2016 honor: Echo. Pam Munoz Ryan.
10. 2015 honor: Brown Girl Dreaming. Jacqueline Woodson.
11. 2014: Flora & Ulysses . Kate DiCamillo.
12. 2012 honor: Inside Out and Back Again. Thanhhai Lai.
12. 2012 honor: Breaking Stalin's Nose. Eugene Yelchin.
13. 2011: Moon over Manifest . Claire Vanderpool.
14. 2011 honor: Turtle in Paradise . Jennifer Holm. 4/10/17
15. 2011 honor: One Crazy Summer. Rita Williams-Garcia
16. 2010: When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead. 8/29/16.
17. 2010 honor: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate . Jacqueline Kelly.
18. 2007 honor: Hattie Big Sky Kirby Larson.
19. 2004: The Tale of Desperaux Kate DiCamillo.
20. 2003 honor: The House of the Scorpion. . Nancy Farmer.
21. 2003 honor: Hoot. Carl Hiaasen. 1/26/16
22. 2001: A Year Down Yonder. Richard Peck.
23. 2001 honor: Because of Winn-Dixie. Kate DiCamillo.
24. 2000: Bud, Not Buddy. Christopher Paul Curtis.
25. 2000 honor: Our Only May Amelia . Jennifer L. Holm.
26. 1999: Holes. Louis Sachar.
27. 1999 honor: A Long Way from Chicago. Richard Peck.
28. 1998: Out of the Dust . Karen Hesse.
29. 1998 honor: Ella Enchanted. Gail Carson Levine.
30. 1998 honor: Lily's Crossing. Patricia Reilly Giff.
31. 1996: MIdwife's Apprentice. Karen Cushman.
32. 1995: Walk Two Moons. Sharon Creech.
33. 1995 honor: Catherine, Called Birdy. Karen Cushman.
34. 1994 The Giver. Lois Lowry.
35. 1991 honor: The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle. Avi.
36. 1988 honor: Hatchet. Gary Paulsen.
37. 1987: The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman.
38. 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall. Patricia McLaughlan.
39. 1982: Ramona Quimby, Age 8 . Beverly Cleary.
40. 1979 honor: The Great Gilly Hopkins. Katherine Paterson.
41. 1978 honor: Ramona and her FatherBeverly Cleary
42. 1976 The Grey King. Susan Cooper.
43. 1974 honor: The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper.
44. 1973 honor: Frog and Toad Together. Arnold Lobel
45. 1972: Mrs.Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O'Brien.
46. 1969: The High King. Lloyd Alexander.

[Philina]

Graham wrote: "Middlesex is incredible. Jeffrey Eugenides is a genius."

Oh yes! I read it this year for my Old & New Challenge (based on Pulitzer winners and female authors) and absolutely loved it.

[Connie]

Philina wrote: "Graham wrote: "Middlesex is incredible. Jeffrey Eugenides is a genius."

Oh yes! I read it this year for my Old & New Challenge (based on Pulitzer winners and female authors) and absolutely loved it."

It was an amazing book!