Personal Pulitzer Project
I’ve had this crazy goal for years now to read all of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Novel) winners. Along with reading them, I also want to own them. It’s crazy, I know, but it’s important to have goals.
| 2011 | Jennifer Egan | A Visit from the Goon Squad |
| 2010 | Paul Harding | Tinkers |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge |
| 2008 | Junot Diaz | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
| 2007 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road |
| 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 |
| 1991 | 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 Taylor | A Summons to Memphis |
| 1986 | Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove |
| 1985 | Alison Lurie | Foreign Affairs |
| 1984 | William J. 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 |
| 1977 | No award | |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | Humboldt’s Gift |
| 1975 | Michael Shaara | The Killer Angels |
| 1974 | No award | |
| 1973 | Eudora Welty | The Optimist’s Daughter |
| 1972 | Wallace Stegner | Angle of Repose |
| 1971 | No award | |
| 1970 | Jean Stafford | Collected Stories by 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 Ann Porter | Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1965 | Shirley Ann Grau | The Keepers Of the House |
| 1964 | No award | |
| 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 | |
| 1956 | MacKinley Kantor | Andersonville |
| 1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable |
| 1954 | No award | |
| 1953 | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea |
| 1952 | Herman Wouk | The Caine Mutiny |
| 1951 | Conrad Richter | The Town |
| 1950 | A. B. Guthrie | 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 | |
| 1945 | John Hersey | 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 | |
| 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 | Harold Lenoir Davis | Honey in the Horn |
| 1935 | Josephine W. 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 LaFarge | 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 McLauglins |
| 1923 | Willa Cather | One of Ours |
| 1922 | Booth Tarkington | Alice Adams |
| 1921 | Edith Wharton | The Age of Innocence |
| 1920 | No award | |
| 1919 | Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons |
| 1918 | Ernest Poole | His Family |
Blue = own
Red = read
Purple = own & read
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Another interesting project. I prefer to read SciFi & Fantasy books, so I would probably go through and read either Hugo or Nebula winners before Pulitzer Prize winners.