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Pulitzer Prize Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,642
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 847 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,065,216 ratings — published 1960
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 719 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,049,422 ratings — published 2014
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 663 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,075,697 ratings — published 2006
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 646 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,073,024 ratings — published 2013
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 580 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.04 — 670,779 ratings — published 2002
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.28 — 768,256 ratings — published 1982
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,395 ratings — published 1987
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 508 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.86 — 277,505 ratings — published 2008
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 496 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,358,738 ratings — published 1952
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 484 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,354 ratings — published 2007
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 470 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,018,658 ratings — published 1939
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 468 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.85 — 129,019 ratings — published 2004
Interpreter of Maladies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.18 — 210,049 ratings — published 1999
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.06 — 455,969 ratings — published 2016
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 450 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.70 — 254,653 ratings — published 2010
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 395 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.62 — 229,746 ratings — published 2017
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.19 — 215,900 ratings — published 2000
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 305,727 ratings — published 1980
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 371 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.00 — 143,105 ratings — published 2015
The Shipping News (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.88 — 154,572 ratings — published 1993
The Hours (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.96 — 150,866 ratings — published 1998
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 367 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.60 — 273,763 ratings — published 1985
The Age of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.97 — 202,160 ratings — published 1920
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 366 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.07 — 105,749 ratings — published 2012
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 362 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 127,397 ratings — published 2001
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,268,127 ratings — published 1936
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 352 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.25 — 320,966 ratings — published 2019
March (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.82 — 80,982 ratings — published 2005
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.11 — 206,256 ratings — published 2018
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 325 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.01 — 263,865 ratings — published 1931
Tinkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 319 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.42 — 39,885 ratings — published 2009
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.46 — 877,701 ratings — published 2022
American Pastoral (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.95 — 90,568 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Acres (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.83 — 73,595 ratings — published 1991
The Known World (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.84 — 46,089 ratings — published 2003
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,943 ratings — published 1971
The Stone Diaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.89 — 42,594 ratings — published 1993
Breathing Lessons (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,192 ratings — published 1988
The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 245 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.08 — 98,482 ratings — published 2020
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.79 — 188,296 ratings — published 2022
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.79 — 39,480 ratings — published 1927
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 221 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.34 — 93,738 ratings — published 1974
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.52 — 16,042 ratings — published 1972
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 194 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.16 — 666,053 ratings — published 1996
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.05 — 24,154 ratings — published 1979
A Death in the Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.88 — 18,162 ratings — published 1957
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,590 ratings — published 1946
Ironweed (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,912 ratings — published 1983
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 4.41 — 582,137 ratings — published 2024
Foreign Affairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as pulitzer-prize)
avg rating 3.76 — 13,188 ratings — published 1984
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned an American poetic style as innovative and imaginative as the new nation itself. He created a persona narrator whose ambition it was to embrace all the ideals and spirit of rebellion and revolutionary zeal of its history, while creating a language free of old world formalists constraints. His new music was influenced by the Hebraic bible in its use of incantation and rhythmic repetition, and his stories were also both biblical and innovative in nature.”
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“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
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