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message 1: by Debbie (new)

Debbie (dashforcover) I'm wondering how many of the Pulitzer Prize Fiction/Novel books members have read and which ones.

I have read 49 so am finally more than half way through them.

The ones I've read are:

1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole
1919 - Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
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 by Louis Bromfield
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1930 - Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1933 - The Store by T. S. Stribling
1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1937 - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
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
1950 - The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee
1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
1965 - The Keepers Of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos - Unfinished. Too much sex.
1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding


message 2: by Snafuzled (new)

Snafuzled  (snafuzled) | 15 comments Wow! You are rocking along! My list is far shorter:

1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroine Miller
1937 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1961 - To Kill a Mockinbird by Harper Lee
1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

And that's it! I have just started the yearly reading plan (years ending in 1) this year. So I'm pretty well on track.


message 3: by Debbie (new)

Debbie (dashforcover) I started a project to read them all so long ago that I don't remember any more when I started! But its been longer than 5 years.


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