How many pulitzer prize books have you read?

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How many? For a little help here is the list of winners:
Year Author Title
2006 Geraldine Brooks March
2005 Marilynne Robinson Gilead
2004 Edward P. Jones The Known World
2003 Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
2002 Richard Russo Empire Falls
2001 Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2000 Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
1999 Michael Cunningham The Hours
1998 Philip Roth American Pastoral
1997 Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
1996 Richard Ford Independence Day
1995 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
1994 E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
1993 Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
1992 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
199 John Updike Rabbit at Rest
1990 Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1989 Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons
1988 Toni Morrison Beloved
1987 Peter Hillsman Taylor A Summons to Memphis
1986 Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
1985 Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs
1984 William Kennedy Ironweed
1983 Alice Walker The Color Purple
1982 John Updike Rabbit is Rich
1981 John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
1980 Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song
1979 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
1978 James Alan McPherson Elbow Room
1976 Saul Bellow Humboldt's Gift
1975 Michael Shaara The Killer Angels
1974 -- (No award given)
1973 Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter
1972 Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose
1971 -- (No award given)
1970 Jean Stafford Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
1969 N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn
1968 William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner
1967 Bernard Malamud The Fixer
1966 Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1965 Shirley Ann Grau The Keepers of the House
1964 -- (No award given)
1963 William Faulkner The Reivers
1962 Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness
1961 Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
1960 Allen Drury Advise and Consent
1959 Robert Lewis Taylor The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1958 James Agee A Death in the Family
1957 -- (No award given)
1956 MacKinlay Kantor Andersonville
1955 William Faulkner A Fable
1954 -- (No award given)
1953 Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
1952 Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny
1951 Conrad Richter The Town
1950 A. B. Guthrie, Jr. The Way West
1949 James Gould Cozzens Guard of Honor
1948 James A. Michener Tales of the South Pacific
1947 Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men
1946 -- (No award given)
1945 John Hersey A Bell for Adano
1944 Martin Flavin Journey in the Dark
1943 Upton Sinclair Dragon's Teeth
1942 Ellen Glasgow In This Our Life
1941 -- (No award given)
1940 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling
1938 John P. Marquand The Late George Apley
1937 Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
1936 H. L. Davis Honey in the Horn
1935 Josephine Winslow Johnson Now in November
1934 Caroline Miller Lamb in His Bosom
1933 T. S. Stribling The Store
1932 Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth
1931 Margaret Ayer Barnes Years of Grace
1930 Oliver La Farge Laughing Boy
1929 Julia Peterkin Scarlet Sister Mary
1928 Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1927 Louis Bromfield Early Autumn
1926 Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith
1925 Edna Ferber So Big
1924 Margaret Wilson The Able McLaughlins
1923 Willa Cather One of Ours
1922 Booth Tarkington Alice Adams
1921 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
1919 Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons
1918 Ernest Poole His Family

[[deleted user]]

I have only read three. But I want to make it a goal to read them all.

[[deleted user]]

I would like to read them all too! I think it could be done in about 5 years if you read a book a month but I didn't do the math.

[Silver]

I have read Middlesex, Grapes of Wrath, Age of Innocence, To Kill A Mockingbird and that is it. Though I have a few of the other books upon the list, just have not read them yet.

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Silver: I think your in the lead! Yeah. I do beleive that most of the Pulitzer Prize books are on the 1001 books to read before you die. I will hopefully read all the books on both lists!

[Beth A.]

I've read...

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Marilynne Robinson Gilead

My favorites are The Good Earth and Gilead.

[Leah]

Martin Dressler
A Thousand Acres
Beloved
Lonesome Dove
The Fixer
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Old Man and the Sea
Grapes of Wrath

Of those, my faves are TKaM and Lonesome Dove and Martin Dressler

[Stephanie]

The Hours
Shipping News
Beloved
TKaM
Grapes of Wrath
The Good Earth

Of these, the last three were amazing. Not enough people read The Good Earth. I hated The Shipping News and Beloved. And I always feel like I am supposed to love and obsess over Beloved because I majored in English. Well, I don't. I hate it.

I could not get through Gilead. (yawn)

I could not get through Foreign Affairs.

I got halfway through Gone with the Wind, and I don't know what happened. I really liked it. It's still a mystery to me why I never finished it. I liked the book better than the movie. Scarlett was a much more likable character, in my opinion, in the book.

I am currently reading the short stories of John Cheever. I am 3 in and I like it.

I really want to read Lonesome Dove. That is going to be a winter read for me.

[Stef]

First of all, most authors are unknown to me but that has probably to do with the fact that I live on the other side of the ocean...
Second, I am not bad with math, so should I start in Jan 09 to read the books from the list I would be done in March 2017!!! No way that I will ever read through that list.

[Kellie]

I've read three but I have four on Mount TBR!

[Vicky]

I've read:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Grapes of Wrath
The Good Earth
The Color Purple
The Yearling
The Old Man and the Sea

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Stef: My TBR list will keep me busy til I'm 84 or older. My life expectancy is 84 so I hope I can read all the books including the books on the Pulitzer prize list.

I love "Mount TBR" Kellie.

[Ann from S.C.]

I have read 7, but I also have several on my tbr pile.

[Christina Stind]

I've only read one: Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind. In the Danish translation, read it years ago...
But like Emilee, I think I'll get to read a lot of them by trying to read through the 1001 list ...

[Petra X]

I've read about five of them (gave up on Jhumpa Lahiri though) but there aren't any more I want to read either. However, I've read different books by 25 of the authors.

[Kathy]

I've read 10 of the fiction, but also like to read the non-fiction/biographies.
Gilead
The Known World
Empire Falls
Interpreter of Maladies
The Stone Diaries
A Thousand Acres
Breathing Lessons
The Color Purple
The Optimists' Daughter
To Kill A Mockingbird
I've liked them all; The Known World is a little troubling though.

[Catamorandi]

To Kill a Mockingbird
All the King's Men
Old Man in the Sea
Grapes of Wrath

[KrisT]

21 for me!

2006 Geraldine Brooks March
2005 Marilynne Robinson Gilead
2004 Edward P. Jones The Known World
2003 Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
2002 Richard Russo Empire Falls
2000 Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
1999 Michael Cunningham The Hours
1995 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
1992 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
1988 Toni Morrison Beloved
1983 Alice Walker The Color Purple
1973 Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter
1972 Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose
1961 Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
1956 MacKinlay Kantor Andersonville
1953 Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
1940 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling
1937 Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
1932 Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth
1921 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

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I want to read Andersonville. I had a Great Great Great Grandfather literally get off the boat from England and enlist in the Union. He was one of the first soidlers that was captured and taken to Andersonville. He died 6 months after Andersonville opened.

[KrisT]

Wow Emilee you should read it. I think it was a couple years ago when I finally picked it up. It was a good read but a long read. :)

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I need to go pick it up. I think I would like it. So many other people have recommended it too me!

[[deleted user]]

I think I could handle the trouble. My Grandfather had caught almost every disease known to man while he was there. I can't imagine the horror he lived up to his death.

I am going to get it! I should read it right away too!

[Laura]

That's just it, we should read everything right away. And esp. the Pulitzers!

[Laura]

Only 7 so far, but will read several this year (the good Lord willin and the crick don't rise, as my dad always said...)

[[deleted user]]

Thank you Ken. I really want to read a lot of nonfiction about Civil war especially Andersonville.

[Laura]

Ken, I am so glad you are here. Just really glad to have you back. I love picking your brain (or just gobbling up your random notes!) on books. And football. Oh, and I like that picture way better than the prev. one w/the shades.

[Lea]

I've read 17. But does anyone know why awards were not given out in a few years?

[Beth]

I've read 16 of them, quite a few of them in high school.

[[deleted user]]

I had found nominations for 2007 somewhere but couldn't see if they posted the winners. I think they would be doing 2008 now. I could be wrong.

[Dan]

I've read:
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Killer Angels
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Old Man and the Sea
The Caine Mutiny
The Grapes of Wrath
Gone With the Wind

[Shannon]

Amazing Adventures of Kalavalier and Clay
The Stone Diaries
The Shipping News
A 1000 Acres
The Color Purple
The Grapes of Wrath
The Good Earth

And all without realizing that they had won anything. I enjoyed them all but of that bunch the 1000 acres would be my least favourite.

[Kristie]

I've Read 3

To Kill Mockingbird
The Color Purple
Middlesex

[Veronica]

I have read ...
Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny
Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth
Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey

not bad for someone on the wrong side of the pond :) I haven't ever set out to read a book specifically because it won the Pulitzer (or any prize for that matter).

The only ones of those I really loved and would read again are 1000 Acres and The Shipping News (I love Proulx's work!). Given my tastes I should have liked The Stone Diaries, but I didn't.

[7]

I have only read one: Middlesex. But I'm planning to read To Kill a Mockingbird soon

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2005 Marilynne Robinson Gilead--Tried and tried, but I didn't like it.
2003 Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
2001 Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2000 Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
1992 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
1988 Toni Morrison Beloved
1986 Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
1985 Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs
1984 William Kennedy Ironweed
1983 Alice Walker The Color Purple
1969 N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn
1967 Bernard Malamud The Fixer
1961 Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
1937 Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
1921 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

[Epee]

I've read 5.

[[deleted user]]

I've read 9.
2004 Edward P. Jones The Known World
2002 Richard Russo Empire Falls
2001 Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2000 Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
1999 Michael Cunningham The Hours
1994 E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News
1983 Alice Walker The Color Purple
1961 Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
1960 Allen Drury Advise and Consent

Thanks for the list Emilee - a great place to find "new" reads!

[[deleted user]]

5 I think:

Micheal Cunningham- The Hours
Alice Walker- The Color Purple
Harper Lee- To Kill A Mockingbird
Margaret Mitchell- Gone With The Wind

I read A Problem from Hell America and the Age of Genocide, which won the non-fiction prize too.