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After about 2 years, I have finished reading all the Pulitzer for Fiction winners and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. There are near-misses, guaranteed winners, and surprising works worthy of discovery (even if some I want to forget as well). Definitely an interesting way to make a survey of American literature of the 20th and early 21st century.
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message 1: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis Is this a closed list then? Can we enter other Pulitzer winners in order to vote for them, or do you prefer to be the only one to add books?


message 2: by 7jane (new)

7jane "Shipping News" is in there twice.


message 3: by Chris (new)

Chris Gager Gravity's Rainbow = no Pulitzer


message 4: by Kyle (new)

Kyle Wilkinson "All The King's Men" is in there twice too


message 5: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis The system found and resolved 8 duplicates.


message 6: by Michael (new)

Michael Finocchiaro Donna wrote: "Is this a closed list then? Can we enter other Pulitzer winners in order to vote for them, or do you prefer to be the only one to add books?"


message 7: by Michael (new)

Michael Finocchiaro Hi Donna,
All the winners are here now, you can vote on all of these. And I know, Gravity's Rainbow didn't win but shouldve. I removed it. I hope you guys enjoy the list and the reading as much as I did,
Thanks for the help maintaining it!


message 8: by Michael (new)

Michael Finocchiaro @everyone I just added books as I read them and sometimes did add 'em twice. I believe that folks corrected this and I apologize for the errors. In any case, I feel that there were several big misses here (like Gravity's Rainbow but also The Sun Also Rises, The Sound and The Fury, The Voice at the Back Door, In Cold Blood, On The Road, Blood Meridian...
in any case, I believe the list is now complete so please spread it around and let's get more votes!


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