Pulitzer Reading Challenge

[sofia82]

I join, too. This is one of my missions in life to read Pulitzer prize winners, and i think i read 8 of them. Moreover I like to read Booker prize too. But it is better to do it one by one else it ends in nothingness

may ask a question. I cannot find the list of litnet top 100 books. If anybody knows where is it, is it possible to give me the link. i remember I saw it but now I cannot find.

[Scheherazade]

may ask a question. I cannot find the list of litnet top 100 books. If anybody knows where is it, is it possible to give me the link. i remember I saw it but now I cannot find.

Here is the link:

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=40711

[sofia82]

Here is the link:

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=40711

Thank you very much Scher!

[Scheherazade]

Finished reading Laughing Boy and now starting Good Earth.

[Scheherazade]

After finishing All the King's Men, an update on my list:

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)


Next on my lists are American Pastoral, The Stone Diaries, A Thousand Acres, The Cane Mutiny and Lonesome Dove. If anyone is interested in reading any of these, please let me know so we can arrange a group reading.

[MissScarlett]

I think I've only read three of those, though I have some I haven't read. I tend to read the Booker winner (and nominees) more.

Great reading, though.

[wessexgirl]

I love lists, but I don't think I could tackle this one. I have so many good intentions but not the time. I only fancy a handful of these, so would prefer to go with one of the many other lists I have, like The Big Read, The Guardian, the Telegraph, and the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. I haven't checked out the list from this site yet, so I have to go and look that one up. I've also got lists of the Booker, the Orange, the Costa, (formerly the Whitbread) etc. to look at too, although I have to fancy the book to read it. I should also read all the Childrens and YA prizes too, (as a school librarian), but there's not enough hours in the day unfortunately. But good luck to you all who are attempting it. Incidentally Scher, are you UK based, (I'm sorry if I've asked before, I can't remember ), it's just that with The Big Read being from the Beeb, I just wondered?

[Scheherazade]

I think I've only read three of those, though I have some I haven't read. I tend to read the Booker winner (and nominees) more.

Great reading, though.

I have read only couple of the Booker winners but they were not exactly my cup of tea. I will probably have a go at that one too at some point (when my mind improves a little to appreciate them )

Incidentally Scher, are you UK based, (I'm sorry if I've asked before, I can't remember ), it's just that with The Big Read being from the Beeb, I just wondered?

Yes, I live in the UK. When they had the Big Read campaign, I was sort of new in this country so thought it was a good idea to get a taste of British people's reading taste. I have completed 3/4 of the list but most of the books remaining are Pratchett etc so not sure if I will be able to read them all.

I agree with you that there are too many lists out there but the good thing is that most of the good books make it to all these lists.

I have started reading American Pastoral, btw. I was going to read Lonesome Dove, expecting it to be romantic novel (how sweet is the title!) but it seems like it is a Western! So, I put it aside for the timebeing.

[PabloQ]

Scher,
Lonesome Dove is a Western, but it is a very good one. It's about a couple of old Texas Rangers who decide to drive a bunch of cattle from the Rio Grande River to Montana, but first they have to steal the cattle. It's comical, it's romantic, and it's extremely well-written. Definitely worth it once you get to it.

[Sapphire]

Wow... You plan 6 years into the future - I have trouble planning tomorrow already!

I do think it's a wonderful idea though. I wish everybody who's gonna do this all the luck to make it through. I think it will be quite the achievement! And I do hope everybody will enjoy it

[Scheherazade]

Scher,
Lonesome Dove is a Western, but it is a very good one. It's about a couple of old Texas Rangers who decide to drive a bunch of cattle from the Rio Grande River to Montana, but first they have to steal the cattle. It's comical, it's romantic, and it's extremely well-written. Definitely worth it once you get to it.

It is sitting on my bedside table. I might start reading after American Pastoral.

Thanks for the reply!

Wow... You plan 6 years into the future - I have trouble planning tomorrow already!

I do think it's a wonderful idea though. I wish everybody who's gonna do this all the luck to make it through. I think it will be quite the achievement! And I do hope everybody will enjoy it

Thanks

[motherhubbard]

I made a list of what I have read and it's very short.

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

Bailey and I were talking about working on the list, but there are some I'm just not interested. We were also looking at the Newberry books.

[Scheherazade]

Bailey and I were talking about working on the list, but there are some I'm just not interested. We were also looking at the Newberry books.

Newberry books?

[motherhubbard]

"This award is presented annually by the Association for Library Service for Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."

http://lib.mansfield.edu/newbery.cfm

[Scheherazade]

Oh, thanks