Note Late in 2017, I discovered that the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded in 1918. To celebrate the centennial of the prize, and also just because, I’ve decided to read all of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels. Not in any particular order, though.
William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
Mary Gaitskill – Bad Behavior
William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
Beverly Cleary – A Girl from Yamhill
Beverly Cleary – My Own Two Feet
Elizabeth Wein – Code Name Verity (twice!)
Jesse Andrews – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Lois Lowry – The Giver
Ralph Ellison – The Invisible Man
Jo Knowles – Lessons from a Dead Girl
Tennessee Williams – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Mackenzi Lee – The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
David Sedaris – Theft by Finding
Georg Rauch – Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army
Barbara J. Taylor – Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night
William Ritter – Jackaby
William Ritter – Beastly Bones
William Ritter – Ghostly Echoes
William Ritter – The Dire King
Bill Bryson – Notes from a Small Island
Willa Cather – One of Ours (PP 1923)
Sara Gruen – Water for Elephants
Ernest Poole – His Family (PP 1918)
David Rakoff – Don’t Get Too Comfortable
Jenny Lawson – Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (this book had me literally laughing out loud, over and over again. including on airplanes.)
Booth Tarkington – The Magnificent Ambersons (PP 1919)
Booth Tarkington – Alice Adams (PP 1922)
Sam Torode – The Dirty Parts of the Bible
J. D. Vance – Hillbilly Elegy