Things To Do Before I Die #4

They announced the new winner of the Pulitzer Prize yesterday, and so I thought that this would be a good time to post my Pulitzer Prize book list. This should be my last reading list to post (thank goodness). It’s another one that I’m sort of stuck with since I made my little vow to read all of these back in junior high (or early high school—I’m too old to remember now). Still, several of these have become my favorite novels, so it’s not that bad a vow.

I’m not doing so good on this list. I’ve currently read 26 out of the 90 books on the list.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

2006 – March: A Novel – 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 & 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 - Stephen Millhauser

1996 – Independence Day – Richard Ford

1995 – 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 – John Kennedy Toole

1980 – The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer

1979 – The Stories of John Cheever – John Cheever

1978 – Elbow Room – James Alan MacPherson

1976 – Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow

1975 – The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara

1973 – The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty

1972 – Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner

1970 – Collected Stories – Jean Stafford

1969 – House Made of Dawn – N. 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

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 – James Agee

1956 – Andersonville – MacKinlay Kantor

1955 – A Fable – William Faulkner

1953 – The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

1952 – Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk

1951 – The Town – Conrad Richter

1950 – The Way West – William B. Guthrie

1949 – Guard of Honor – James Gould Cozzens

1948 – Tales of the South Pacific – James Michener

1947 – All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren

1945 – A Bell for Adano – James Hersey

1944 – Journey in the Dark – Martin Flavin

1943 – Dragon’s Teeth – Upton Sinclair

1942 – In this Our Life – Ellen Glasgow

1940 – The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

1939 – The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1938 – The Late George Apley – John P. Marquand

1937 – Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

1936 – Honey in the Horn – Harold L. Davis

1935 – Now in November – Josephine Johnson

1934 – Lamb in His Bosom – Caroline Miller

1933 – The Store – Thomas Stribling

1932 – The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck

1931 – Years of Grace – Margaret Barnes

1930 – Laughing Boy – Oliver La Farge

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

1919 – The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington

1918 – His Family – Ernest Poole