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Monday, December 22, 2008
List of the Day: Pulitzer Prize (Redux)
This Snow Day has given me an opportunity to go back and fix some glitches in earlier posts. I have redone my Pulitzer Prize Winners list so that all the links work correctly.
With a new year looming, my book lists are clamoring for attention. Maybe 2009 will be the year I focus on finishing the books on the Pulitzer list, although there are other lists that are ticking my fancy more, or that I am closer to finishing so am antsy to turn to. We'll see how the next year of reading unfolds.
Many of the Pulitzer winners that I have not read yet are the older ones that are hard to find. Perhaps a good 2009 goal would be to read the ones already on my TBR shelf (those in red) and acquire some of the others for future reading. These are the Pulitzer winners that I have yet to read:
1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
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
1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge
1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1933: The Store by T. 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
1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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
1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1966: Collected Stories 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
1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
2007: The Road by Cormack McCarthy
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
I've read surprisingly few of the Pulitzers. I did read March, which I really enjoyed, although I wasn't very fond of Mr. March as a "person". On my shelves I have The Known World and The Road. I had made a half-hearted attempt to read The Known World but had a really hard time getting into it.
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