Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (through 1947), and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (after 1947).
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Public
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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
4 stars
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major noel at last …
Phil in SF says: 1986 winner
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
3 stars
The last of his novels Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be …
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The scene of A Fable is France, the time 1918. World War I is flaming; there is a mutiny in …
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Andersonville. by MacKinlay Kantor
"The greatest of our Civil War novels." - The New York Times
The 1955 Pulitzer Prize winning story of …
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A death in the family. by James Agee
4 stars
Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his …
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is the sweeping, romance-warmed story of the journey of a father and his son answering …
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Advise and consent. by Allen Drury
Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent is one of the high points of 20th Century literature, a seminal work of political …
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The edge of sadness. by Edwin O'Connor
Beautifully written . Very human, deeply spiritual. A book that resonates with life, it's struggles, its day to day routine …
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The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
4 stars
In this continuously absorbing narrative of the lives of Negroes and whites, intermingling violence and tenderness, love and vengeance, Shirley …
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter's recent novel Ship of Fools was an enormous popular and critical success. But it is for her …
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4 stars
The Fixer is the story of a little man, a handy-man, who becomes a hero before our eyes. Yakov Bok …
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The confessions of Nat Turner. by William Styron
3 stars
This is a controversial historical novel purporting to tell the story of Nat Turner, a black American slave who led …
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The optimist's daughter. by Eudora Welty
4 stars
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel, a widow who returns to Mississippi when her father is ill and …
