Complete List of Books to be Read
Here follows the complete list of books to be read. We go chronologically.
Pulitzer Winners
Notes: No award was given in 1917, 1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1964, 1971, 1974, and 1977. The images below are of first edition covers where possible.
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (read Feb. 28 – March 5)
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (read March 14 – March 18 )
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1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (read March 19 – April 6 )
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1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (April 6 – 12 )
1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Read April 13 – May 9)
1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Read May 10 – August 28)
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1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Read August 29-Oct 7th.)
1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Read Oct. 8-Dec. 1)
1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Read March 1-March 18th)
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1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (read April 1-April 30)
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1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Read June 1 – June 30)
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1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Read July 1 — August 31)
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1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Read Sept. 23 to October 28th)
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Wiki Page for Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Read Nov. 1 to Nov. 15)
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1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Read Feb. 25 to – March 28)
1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (read April 2010)
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1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (read April-May 2010)
Summary
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Josephine Winslow Johnson’s Wiki Page
1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (read March 13 – April 14 2011)
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1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (read April 25 – )
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1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
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John Philip’s Marquand’s Wiki Page
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Wiki Page
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
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1943 Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair
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1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
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1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
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1947 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
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1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
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1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
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James Gould Cozzens’ Wiki Page
1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
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(This is entirely out of order, but I would like to quote the second line of the wiki page: “The author’s full name was Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr., but he called himself ‘Bud’ because he felt that Alfred Bertram ‘was a sissy name.’”)
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter
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1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
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1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
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1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
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1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee
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1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
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Robert Lewis Taylor’s Wiki Page
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
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1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
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1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner
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1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau
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1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Ann Porter’s Wiki Page
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
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1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
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1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
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1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
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1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
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1973 The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
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1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
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1976 Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
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1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
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1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
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1980 The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
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1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole
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John Kennedy Toole’s Wiki Page
1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
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1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy
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1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
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1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
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1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
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1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
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1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
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1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
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1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
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1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
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Robert Olen Butler’s Wiki Page
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
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1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
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1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford
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1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
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1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham’s Wiki Page
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
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2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
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2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
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2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
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2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson’s Wiki Page
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
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2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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April 1, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Complete list of books, I view you with a sense of comingled trepidation and resolve that mirrors that of Frodo and Sam at the foot of Mt. Doom.
April 1, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Hey, at least it ends on an upper. Right, Cormac McCarthy?
April 2, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I’m NOT rereading The Road. I needed therapy after the first time around. All of my posts will just be transcriptions of the sound of me crying, huddled in a corner.
December 5, 2008 at 4:31 pm
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