#2023 Pulitzer Prize Fiction Challenge

1. Here is the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list.

2. This is a well-known and well-respected prize  for American literature.

3. I cannot say I am enthusiastic with all of the choices that I’ve read.

4. Target: read  12  books from this listin 2023.

 

List:

2022:   The Netanyahus – Joshua Cohen

2021: The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich  

2020: The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead 

2019: The Overstory – Richard Powers 

2018: Less – Andrew Sean Greer 

2017: The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead 

2016: The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen – REVIEW

2015: All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doer 

2014: The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt 

2013: The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson 

2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan 

2010: Tinkers – Paul Harding

2009: Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout – READ – excellent

2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz 

2007: The Road – Cormack McCarthy

2006: March – Geraldine Brooks 

2005: Gilead – Marilynne Robinson – READ – excellent

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 – READ – excellent

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 – READ – excellent

1994: The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx – READ – excellent

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 – READ – excellent 

1983: The Color Purple – Alice Walker – READ – excellent

1982: Rabbit Is Rich – John Updike 

1981: A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy O’Toole 

1980: The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer 

1979: The Stories of John Cheever – John Cheever   0/61

1978: Elbow Room – James Alan McPherson

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 – READ

1970: Collected Stories – Jean Stafford – READ  30/30    (5 excellent/6 good/7 average/12 NO!)

1969: House Made of Dawn – N. Scott Momaday 

1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner – William Styron 

1967: The Fixer – Bernard Malamud – READ – excellent

1966: Collected Stories – Katherine Anne Porter   0/28

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  – READ – excellent

1960: Advise and Consent – Allen Drury  – READ – excellent

1959: The Travels of Jaimie 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 – READ

1952: The Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk 

1951: The Town – Conrad Richter

1950: The Way West – A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

1949: Guard of Honor – James Gould Cozzens 

1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener 

1947: All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren  – READ – excellent

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

1940: The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck  – READ – excellent

1939: The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1938: The Late George Apley – John Phillips Marquand 

1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – READ – excellent

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  – READ

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  – READ

1927: Early Autumn – Louis Bromfield 

1926: Arrowsmith – Sinclair Lewis  – READ – excellent

1925: So Big – Edna Ferber – READ – excellent

1924: The Able McLaughlins – Margaret Wilson

1923: One of Ours – Willa Cather 

1922: Alice Adams – Booth Tarkington 

1921: The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton – READ – excellent

1919: The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington – READ

1918: His Family – Ernest Poole