05 July 2009

Pulitzer

Here's a list of all the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels -- the ones colored and in bold are the ones I have read, and the others are ones that I have yet to get to. Unfortunately (or fortunately), the list grows by one every year. They are in reverse chronological order.

2009 : Olive Kitteridge : Elizabeth Stout
2008 : The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao : Junot Diaz
2007 : The Road : Cormac McCarthy
2006 : March : Geraldine Brooks
2005 : Gilead : Marilynne Robinson
2004 : The Known World : Edward P. Jones
2003 : Middlesex : Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 : Empire Falls : Richard Russo
2001 : The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay : Michael Chabon
2000 : Interpreter of Maladies : Jhumpa Lahiri
1999 : The Hours : Michael Cunningham
1998 : American Pastoral : Philip Roth
1997 : Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer : Steven Millhauser
1996 : Independence Day : Richard Ford
1995 : The Stone Diaries : Carol Shields
1994 : The Shipping News : E. Annie Proulx
1993 : A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain : Robert Olen Butler
1992 : A Thousand Acres : Jane Smiley
1991 : Rabbit at Rest : John Updike
1990 : The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love : Oscar Hijuelos
1989 : Breathing Lessons : Anne Tyler
1988 : Beloved : Toni Morrison
1987 : A Summons to Memphis : Peter Taylor
1986 : Lonesome Dove : Larry McMurtry
1985 : Foreign Affairs : Alison Lurie
1984 : Ironweed : William Kennedy
1983 : The Color Purple : Alice Walker
1982 : Rabbit is Rich : John Updike
1981 : A Confederacy of Dunces : the late John Kennedy Toole
1980 : The Executioner's Song : Norman Mailer
1979 : The Stories of John Cheever : John Cheever
1978 : Elbow Room : James Alan McPherson
1977 : (no award)
1976 : Humboldt's Gift : Saul Bellow
1975 : The Killer Angels : Jeff Shaara
1974 : (no award)
1973 : The Optimist's Daughter : Eudora Welty
1972 : Angle of Repose : Wallace Stegner
1971 : (no award)
1970 : Collected Stories : Jean Stafford
1969 : House Made of Dawn : M. Scott Momaday
1968 : The Confessions of Nat Turner : William Styron
1967 : The Fixer : Bernard Malamud
1966 : Collected Stories : Katherine Anne Porter
1965 : The Keepers of the House : Shirley Ann Grau
1964 : (no award)
1963 : The Reivers : William Faulkner
1962 : The Edge of Sadness : Edwin O'Connor
1961 : To Kill a Mockingbird : Harper Lee
1960 : Advise and Consent : Allen Drury
1959 : The Travels of Jamie McPheeters : Robert Lewis Taylor
1958 : A Death in the Family : the late James Agee
1957 : (no award)
1956 : Andersonville : MacKinlay Kantor
1955 : A Fable : William Faulkner
1954 : (no award)
1953 : The Old Man and the Sea : Ernest Hemingway
1952 : The Caine Mutiny : Herman Wouk
1951 : The Town : Conrad Richter
1950 : The Way West : A.B. Guthrie
1949 : Guard of Honor : James Gould Cozzens
1948 : Tales of the South Pacific : James A. Michener
1947 : All the King's Men : Robert Penn Lewis
1946 : (no award)
1945 : A Bell for Adano : John Hersey
1944 : Journey in the Dark : Martin Flavin
1943 : Dragon's Teeth : Upton Sinclair
1942 : In This Our Life : Ellen Glasgow
1941 : (no award)
1940 : The Grapes of Wrath : John Steinbeck
1939 : The Yearling : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938 : The Late George Apley : John Phillips Marquand
1937 : Gone With the Wind : Margaret Mitchell
1936 : Honey in the Horn : Harold L. Davis
1935 : Now in November : Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934 : Lamb in His Bosom : Caroline Miller
1933 : The Store : T.S. Stribling
1932 : The Good Earth : Pearl S. Buck
1931 : Years of Grace : Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930 : Laughing Boy : Oliver Lafarge
1929 : Scarlet Sister Mary : Julia Peterkin
1928 : The Bridge of San Luis Rey : Thornton Wilder
1927 : Early Autumn : Louis Bromfield
1926 : Arrowsmith : Sinclair Lewis
1925 : So Big : Edna Ferber
1924 : The Able McLaughlins : Margaret Wilson
1923 : One of Ours : Willa Cather
1922 : Alice Adams : Booth Tarkington
1921 : The Age of Innocence : Edith Wharton
1920 : (no award)
1919 : The Magnificent Ambersons : Booth Tarkington
1918 : His Family : Ernest Poole
1917 : (no award)