Which Pulitzer winning novels have you read?

[-Carlos-]

Can't remember the winners, click here.

 

[beer good]

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (loved it)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (liked it)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (hated it)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (liked it)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (loved it)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (loved it)

Several titles in my long-term TBR pile, too.

 

[DiscoDan]

I have several in my to-read stack, too, but here are the ones I have read:

To Kill A Mockingbird - really good, this is definately just one of those books everyone should read, though it's not my all-time favorite or anything.

The Old Man and the Sea - Short, but powerful. It has a deep message that I loved.

..and I guess that's it. Hmm, I could have sworn I've read more. Here's a few that are really high on my TR list: A Death in the Family, Lonesome Dove, The Shipping News, Middlesex, and The Yearling.

 

[Prairie_Girl]

To Kill a Mockingbird (1961)
The Colour Purple (1983)
The Stone Diaries (1995)
The Hours (1999)
Middlesex (2003)

 

[Thursday_Next]

2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (loved it!)
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison (liked it)
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy (liked it)
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (liked it)

 

[pink shadow]

The ones I can remember right now:

To kill a mockingbird - really great, I agree with DiscoDan that everyone should read it. It's both serious and innocent at the same time. For everyone who's read The Secret Life of Bees, this book is kind of similar only better and more multifacetted.

Gilead - beautifully written with great imagery but a little too slow for me. It's really more the musings of an old man than an actual story.

 

[Baddie]

This is my short list:
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) (Loved it)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) (Loved it)

 

[Prairie_Girl]

oh! I read Gone With the Wind too!

 

[Gem]

1921, The age of innocence, Edith Wharton
1932 The good earth, Pearl S Buck
1937 Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell
1961 To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee
1983 The color purple, Alice Walker
2003 Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

 

[Anamnesis]

Only three, I'm afraid:

Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

 

[bren]

Ironweed
The Color Purple
To Kill a Mockingbird
Angle of Repose
Interpreter of Maladies
Confederacy of Dunces

That's all I could find, but then, I couldn't figure out an easy way to view the list so I may (probably) have missed one or two.

 

[direstraits]

Only one, To Kill A Mockingbird. The first novel that I have read that really made me understand how reading a truly well crafted book feels like.

I've seen The Color Purple. Does that count?

ds

 

[SFG75]

My list is from the fiction and non-fiction categories. Here it is in chronological order.

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather; I enjoyed it, but didn't think it any better than O Pioneers! which is clearly the better book.

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis; Haven't read it, though I do own a copy. Hope to start it soon.

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; I absolutely love Steinbeck. I have one of those "reader" books that contains a ton of short stories and a few of the larger novels in them. Being a history buff, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. The writing was very good as well. The whole part featuring the used car salesman was truly something else.

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway; One of the few books that I actually read and cared about in high school.

1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter;Read this in colege, very thought provoking and persuasive. Hofstadter carefully constructed his arguments using historical and contemporary examples to provide his point.

1974 The Denial of Death by the late Ernest Becker;Another good college read. This one really got me out of my la-la land thinking of just ignoring death as a whole.

2001 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis; An excellent book, told through an exciting narrative rather than a "just the facts ma'am" approach.

 

[Stewart]

3½

The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway;
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson;
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides;
and half of Interpreter Of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri.

 

[nightwalker]

Just two

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Dragons of Eden, Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan

 

[Stewart]

Of course, novels perhaps is the wrong word for such a thread since short story collections are eligible to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

AquaBlue, since it's your topic, which have you read?

 

[-Carlos-]

Just one actually: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos. A great read. I am currently reading The Known World.

I have many Pulitzer winning books on my to read list.

 

[Occlith]

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Have but have not yet read Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Herper Lee (1961)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)

Does anyone know why there are some years where no novel was awarded the prize?

 

[bren]

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; I absolutely love Steinbeck. I have one of those "reader" books that contains a ton of short stories and a few of the larger novels in them. Being a history buff, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. The writing was very good as well. The whole part featuring the used car salesman was truly something else.

Right there is one that belonged on my list - what will I have missed next?