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Posted by Miriam on 2006-06-27 15:20:29 +0000

Fiction

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)
1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)
1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane)
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1954 (No Award)
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)
1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)
1957 (No Award)
1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)
1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)
1964 (No Award)
1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)
1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)
1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
1971 (No Award)
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)
1973 The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1974 (No Award)
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)
1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)
1977 (No Award)
1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)
1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little, Brown)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf), the latest novel in a memorable sequence
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

Posted by MF DU on 2006-06-27 15:27:39 +0000

No <i>Infinite Jest</i>? Shocking.

I'm currently reading the Pulitzer Prize winning novel from 1957.

Posted by pchippy on 2006-06-27 15:55:36 +0000

What about the prizewinners from 1918 through 1947?

Posted by MF DU on 2006-06-27 16:10:19 +0000

oh - I meant to tell you - we burned all of those works to keep warm - you realize we are in an energy crisis right now.

Posted by Miriam on 2006-06-27 16:16:15 +0000

Whoopsie!

1917 (No Award)
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1920 (No Award)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)
1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)
1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)
1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)
1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)
1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)
1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1941 (No Award)
1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)
1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)
1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)
1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)
1946 (No Award)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

Posted by MF DU on 2006-06-27 16:21:32 +0000

Drat! Miriam got them all back in print again ;)

Posted by Miriam on 2006-06-27 16:32:20 +0000

Well, I was going to be in a stage production of "Farenheit 182" in college before the director had a nervous breakdown.

Posted by Miriam on 2006-06-27 16:33:15 +0000

I'm in the middle of reading a couple of books by Gregory Maguire first, but then I'm all over this!

Posted by MF DU on 2006-06-27 16:42:32 +0000

Bio Bio Bio:

the Buzz was telling me that the new bio on Roberto Clemente is good. - I think there is a good one on Babe Ruth as well.

anyone hear anything about the Beatles bio by Bob Spitz or the recent bio on John Belushi?

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Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-06-28 02:41:05 +0000

I have read eleven, with two currently sitting on the shelf.

Posted by bizquig3000 on 2006-06-28 10:29:10 +0000

Don't you mean "Fahrenheit 451?"

Posted by bizquig3000 on 2006-06-28 10:30:14 +0000

The only book nominated for the prize in 1974 was "Gravity's Rainbow." 11 of the 14 panelists couldn't finish it hence no award.

Posted by MF DU on 2006-06-28 10:36:42 +0000

I was about to say - I dont think paper burns at 182 degrees...

Posted by Miriam on 2006-06-28 10:48:10 +0000

Yes. I was confusing it with "Turk 182." Which has a different kind of firefighter.

Posted by Miriam on 2006-07-11 21:23:29 +0000

Okay, so do any of you own any of these books that you'd like to loan or send me? I figure there are 81 books to read. Of those, I've read 8, and own a 9th that I've half read (A Death in the Family). Either I need to get a job in a bookstore, or get a library card!

Posted by Miriam on 2006-07-19 16:05:29 +0000

I posted my need for the books on Craigslist and got a response from a local librarian! She may have a few for me, but also referred me to a great used bookstore in Madison (the town where I got my car fixed on Monday).

Hooray!

Posted by Miriam on 2006-07-22 18:46:05 +0000

Two women in "Fiddler on the Roof" with me (they have real parts...I've dubbed myself "third shtetl-dweller from the left") have decided to join in my reading challenge! Very cool. One's read 12, the other's read 16; we're going to trade books, too.

Posted by tgl on 2006-07-23 18:30:05 +0000

I've read 3; a majority of them by black women.

Posted by Miriam on 2006-07-25 20:38:25 +0000

Finished "A Death in the Family" last week, and currently engrossed in "American Pastoral." Can't remember if I read "Bridge of San Luis Rey," so yesterday I bought a very cool used copy, along with a little Faulkner.

Posted by tgl on 2006-07-25 20:46:44 +0000

"a little Faulkner" is an oxymoron.

Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-07-26 03:02:16 +0000

I've started reading Updike -- he's awesome. "Rabbit Is Rich" will be in the next five books I read.

Posted by Miriam on 2006-07-26 13:50:34 +0000

Can I borrow it when you're done?

Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-07-26 17:02:54 +0000

Sure -- the whole trilogy in one huge tome.

Posted by Miriam on 2006-07-26 18:10:46 +0000

rockin'! Will you be done by mid-September? I can pick it up in person then.

Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-07-26 19:58:42 +0000

I will -- it's a deal!

Posted by MF DU on 2006-07-27 13:34:09 +0000

Once there was a day when I could actually finish books.
Once there was a day that I could get back home -

Sleep Pretty Darling Do Not Cry and I will sing a lullaby...

Posted by Miriam on 2006-10-12 15:50:11 +0000

Finished "Age of Innocence" just over a week ago and am now loving "A Confederacy of Dunces." So happy about this reading project!