Pulitzer Project -- Matt's list

A listing of the Pulitzer Prize winning books for "the Novel" (1918-1947) and continuing through with "Fiction" (1948-on).

The Pulitzer Project

Those read in blue... (9 read as of Oct.2008)

2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007 - The Road (McCarthy)
2006 - March (Brooks)
2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004 - The Known World (Jones)
2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 - Empire Falls (Russo)
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon)
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

1999 - The Hours (Cunningham)
1998 - American Pastoral (Roth)
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser)
1996 - Independence Day (Ford)
1995 - The Stone Diaries (Shields)
1994 - The Shipping News (Proulx)
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Butler)
1992 - A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
1991 - Rabbit at Rest (Updike)
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Hijuelos)

1989 - Breathing Lessons (Tyler)
1988 - Beloved (Morrison)
1987 - A Summons to Memphis (Taylor)
1986 - Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
1985 - Foreign Affairs (Lurie)
1984 - Ironweed (Kennedy)
1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982 - Rabbit is Rich (Updike)
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
1980 - The Executioner’s Song (Mailer)

1979 - The Stories of John Cheever (Cheever)
1978 - Elbow Room (McPherson)
1977 - no award
1976 - Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)
1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara)
1974 - no award
1973 - The Optimist’s Daughter (Welty)
1972 - Angle of Repose (Stegner)
1971 - no award
1970 - Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Stafford)

1969 - House Made of Dawn (Momaday)
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron)
1967 - The Fixer (Malamud)
1966 - Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Porter)
1965 - The Keepers of the House (Grau)
1964 - no award
1963 - The Reivers (Faulkner)
1962 - The Edge of Sadness (Edwin O’Connor)
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1960 - Advise and Consent (Drury)

1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Taylor)
1958 - A Death in the Family (Agee)
1957 - no award
1956 - Andersonville (Kantor)
1955 - A Fable (Faulkner)
1954 - no award
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1952 - The Caine Mutiny (Wouk)
1951 - The Town (Richter)
1950 - The Way West (Guthrie)

1949 - Guard of Honor (Cozzens)
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
1947 - All the King’s Men (Warren)
1946 - no award
1945 - Bell for Adano (Hersey)
1944 - Journey in the Dark (Flavin)
1943 - Dragon’s Teeth I (Sinclair)
1942 - In This Our Life (Glasgow)
1941 - no award
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

1939 - The Yearling (Rawlings)
1938 - The Late George Apley (Marquand)
1937 - Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
1936 - Honey in the Horn (Davis)
1935 - Now in November (Johnson)
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom (Miller)
1933 - The Store (Stribling)
1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
1931 - Years of Grace (Barnes)
1930 - Laughing Boy (Lafarge)

1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin)
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)
1927 - Early Autumn (Bromfield)
1926 - Arrowsmith (Lewis)
1925 - So Big (Ferber)
1924 - The Able McLauglins (Wilson)
1923 - One of Ours (Cather)
1922 - Alice Adams (Tarkington)
1921 - The Age of Innocence (Wharton)
1920 - no award

1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons (Tarkington)
1918 - His Family (Poole)