I love to read and will read almost any genre except romance. One of my personal goals is to read every book that has been awarded the Pulizter Prize in the fiction category. This page lists all the books which have received the award and whether or not I have read them. 6 of 61 completed.
1948 – Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener – Read. It was ok.
1949 – Guard of Honor by James Cozzens
1950 – The Way West by A. B. Guthrie
1951 – The Town by Conrad Richter
1952 – The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk – Read. One of my all time favorites.
1953 – The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – Read. Deep. Loved it.
1954 – no award
1955 – A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 – Andersonville by Mackinlay Kantor
1957 – no award
1958 – A Death in the Family by James Agee
1959 – The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Taylor
1960 – Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1961 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – Read – Classic. Loved it.
1962 – The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
1963 – The Reivers by William Faulkner
1964 – no award
1965 – The Keepers of the House by Shirley Grau
1966 – Collected Stories by Katherine 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
1971 – no award
1972 – Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1973 – The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
1974 – no award
1975 – The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976 – Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
1977 – no award
1978 – Elbow Room by James McPherson
1979 – The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980 – The Executioner’s Song by Normal Mailer – Read – It was ok.
1981 – A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1982 – Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
1983 – The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1984 – Ironweed by William Kennedy
1985 – Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1986 – Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1987 – A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1988 – Beloved by Toni Morrison
1989 – Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990 – The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1991 – Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1992 – A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley – Read – It was ok.
1993 – A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Butler
1994 – The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
1995 – The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1996 – Independence Day by Richard Ford
1997 – Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1998 – American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1999 – The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2000 – Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2001 – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2002 – Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2003 – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 – The Known World by Edward Jones
2005 – Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2006 – March by Geraldine Brooks
2007 – The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2008 – The Brief Wodnrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2009 – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010 – Tinkers by Paul Harding
2011 – A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2012 – no award
2013 – The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
2014 – The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2015 – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
AMERICAN DRUID 