Winners I've read

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Winners I've read

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1BookDoc16
okt 24, 2008, 8:00 pm

I just found & joined this group. So far (that is, in the years preceding my joining), I've read 16 of the Pulitzer winners, to whit:
Tales of the South Pacific - Michener,
Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest - Updike,
The Killer Angels - Shaara,
The Reivers - Faulkner,
House Made of Dawn - Momaday,
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee,
A Death in the Family - Agee,
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway,
The Caine Mutiny - Wouk,
Laughing Boy - LaFarge,
Gone with the Wind - Mitchell,
The Bridge at San Luis Rey - Wilder,
The Yearling - Rawlings,
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck,
and A Thousand Acres - Smiley

I plan to read many more in future -- I already own copies of Advise and Consent, The Hours, A Confederacy of Dunces, and The Optimist's Daughter, so those are the next winners on my "to-read" list!

2actonbell
Redigeret: okt 26, 2008, 4:39 pm

Hi! I've just discovered this group, too. I think some of the recent Pulitzers have been fabulous. Here's my list, going backwards in time:

The Known World, by Edward P Jones
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
The shipping News by Annie Proulx
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

I will soon read a couple of the most recent ones, since I've fallen behind.

3Nickelini
Redigeret: nov 30, 2008, 12:29 am

Reading the Pulitzers has never been a "thing" for me, but I've managed to read a few without trying:

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Tales of the South Pacific, James Michner
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (no available touchstone for this one. How curious is that!)
The Color Purple, Alice Walker (touchstone?)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

in my TBR pile:

The Stone Diaries
The Shipping News

and high on my TBR list:

The Confessions of Nat Turner

4leslie.holm
dec 31, 2008, 11:28 am

Thank you, SocialPages, for giving me the heads up about this group! Pulitzer Prize winners are indeed on my 999. I've read a few, but mostly the older ones. My parents were avid book buyers who never got rid of one, and I raided their shelves constantly as a child.

Fiction winners I've read:

1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx