Which Pulitzer winning novels have you read?

[unKeMPt]

In years deemed to have no novels worthy of the prize, no prize is given. Even in 1974, when those who nominated fictional work unanimously granted the prize to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the jury disagreed and, calling the work bloated and overwritten, gave no award that year.

The only two I've read are
To Kill a Mockingbird
American Pastoral

The Known World, Middlesex, A Confederacy of Dunces, and countless Updike and Bellow works are on my to-read list, however.

 

[-Carlos-]

The Known World, Middlesex, A Confederacy of Dunces, and countless Updike and Bellow works are on my to-read list

I am currently reading The Known World and so far it is superb.

 

[Balmy Westwind]

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Good Earth
The Colour Purple
Gone with the Wind
Middlesex

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

In years deemed to have no novels worthy of the prize, no prize is given. Even in 1974, when those who nominated fictional work unanimously granted the prize to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the jury disagreed and, calling the work bloated and overwritten, gave no award that year.

Ah, thanks for the explination. Just who makes up the jury?

 

[DiscoDan]

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.

I can now add A Death in the Family by James Agee. Absolutely superb, one of the best books I've read for sure.

 

[Zooie]

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy

 

[ions]

Fiction:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Old Man and the Sea
Beloved

I own Middlesex

Non-Fiction:
Guns, Germs and Steel

 

[jaynebosco]

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

 

[Caffeina]

To Kill A Mockingbird
Empire Falls
Gone with the Wind
The Color Purple
The Grapes of Wrath
Beloved
The Yearling

 

[Ell]

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

I liked all of them, some more than others, but was most disappointed by A Confederacy of Dunces. My favourites from the above list are The Age of Innocence, Gone With the Wind (read when I was a teen, so may be a bit tinted by over-romanticism), The Color Purple, and The Shipping News.

On my shelves:/hoping to get to soon:

Middlesex
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Lonesome Dove

 

[Justin91]

1953 The Old Man and the Sea - Loved it. Read many times
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird - Great story, I love the POV.
1983 The Color Purple - Read after I watched movie - I really liked it.
1986 Lonesome Dove - One of the only Westerns I have read and really liked.
2002 Empire Falls - Pretty good.
2003 - Middlesex - Read as a book of the month here at B&R. Really great till last 1/4.

 

[Flor]

One of Ours (very, very good)
Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Good Earth
All The King's Men (very, very good)
The Old Man & The Sea
A Death in the Family
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Optimist's Daughter (very good)
The Killer Angels
A Confederacy of Dunces
Breathing Lessons (hated this more than words can say)
A Thousand Acres
The Shipping News
Empire Falls (hated this as well- could just feel the movie slithering up from the page)
Gilead
March

Also from winning Bios:
Truman
Growing Up
Angela's Ashes
Personal History

 

[-Carlos-]

Can't remember the winners, click here.

Here is another list: click here.

 

[Flowerdk4]

To kill a mockingbird Harper Lee
The color purple Alice walker
Beloved Toni Morrison
The hours Michael Cunningham

 

[-Carlos-]

Gilead and The Old Man and the Sea.

 

[Heteronym]

Only Philip Roth's American Pastoral.

 

[-Carlos-]

Also...Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler.

 

[SFG75]

Finished American Pastoral lately. This was a great book and it was very tought to put down at the end of the evening. I enjoyed how

Spoiler

Swede Levenov's perfect life wasn't so perfect and how his daughter took him through the ringer through her actions.

The ending is by far, the finest part of the novel and it ends on such a strong and prominent note, which is very refreshing as many fail to.

 

[Oklahoma]

Lonesome Dove --Larry McMurtry

The Color Purple--Alice Walker

Bridge of San Luis Rey--Thornton Wilder

Now in November-Josephine Johnson

Gone with the Wind-Margaret Mitchell

The Yearling-The Yearling

The Way West-A.B. Guthrie

To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee

The Reievers-William Faulkner

 

[Flowerdk4]

I just got "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson!