The Pulitzer prizes were announced this week, and fiction didn’t have a winner! Apparently, the board couldn’t reach a majority. This is the first time a winner hasn't been named since 1977 when A River Runs Through It
This year, I started thinking about how many of the fiction winners I’ve actually read, and discovered that I’ve been serious slacking in the 2000s. But why? When I go through past winners I’ve read, I loved every single one of them. In fact, To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite story of all time!
Here are my 16 – those I’ve read and the year each won:
2007 The Road
1999 The Hours
1995 The Stone Diaries
1994 Shipping News
1992 A Thousand Acres
1989 Breathing Lessons
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1986 Lonesome Dove
1983 The Color Purple
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces
1980 The Executioner's Song
1975 The Killer Angels
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird
1953 Old Man And The Sea
1952 The Caine Mutiny
1948 Tales of the South Pacific
If you Click here, you can check all the past fiction winners, but be sure to come back and tell us how many are on your read list.
Thanks to Amazon's book descriptions (I love using the site to preview books) and 554 reviews for this particular one (no, I didn't read them all), I think I'll start playing catch-up with Olive Kitteridge
Happy reading!