Pulitzer Reading Challenge

[Scheherazade]

Starting from next month, I am hoping to read all the Pulitzer winners (fiction) by 2015 (yes, yes... 6 whole years).

If anyone would like to join me, they are more than welcome.

Here is a list of the winners so far:

2013 Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

2012 No awards

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little)

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)

1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)

1971 (No Award)

1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)

1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)

1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)

1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)

1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)

1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

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

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)

1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)

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

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)

1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)

1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)

1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)

1941 (No Award)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)

1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)

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

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)


I have read only 10 books from this list; all I can is that "Hurray for "No-award years!" :p

[book_jones]

I've read 8 of them so far. Not bad considering I haven't really been trying. I would join in but I'm still reading all of those modern library 100 books. Maybe after I'm done with that, which will probably be a couple years from now if I'm lucky.

[Zee.]

I'll join you :]

[papayahed]

Your lists crack me up!!! What about the big read??? I'll come along for the ride as well.

[LitNetIsGreat]

No time for that lot I'm afraid, but would anyone recommend The Road by Cormac McCarthy it's a book that I seem to be hearing a lot about?

[shortstoryfan]

I have begun reading The Road, and really want to finish it, but for me it is too emotionally upsetting.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I have begun reading The Road, and really want to finish it, but for me it is too emotionally upsetting.

Yes, I've heard it is quite heavy in some respects, but that doesn't put me of too much as long as it is well writen.

[JBI]

Yuk. You'd do better with Nobel prize winners in 20 years, at least then you would read something that isn't American. Though, Carol Shields seems more Canadian than American.

[mortalterror]

I'm doing something similar but I'm on a drama kick. I made a list of all the Pulitzer, Tony, and Olivier winners. Since the beginning of February I've gotten:

1.A Delicate Balance
2.Luther
3.Doubt: A Parable
4.The History Boys
5.Broken Glass
6.The Teahouse of the August Moon
7.M. Butterfly
8.Proof
11.Wit
12.The Heidi Chronicles
13.I'm Not Rappaport
14.The Desperate Hours
15.Sunday in the Park With George
16.Death of a Salesman
17.Three Tall Women

As well as a few things by Lope De Vega, Eugene O'Neill, and Gorky. Sometimes I get a little sick of the twentieth century novel and I want something different.

[Scheherazade]

I'll join you :]
Your lists crack me up!!! What about the big read??? I'll come along for the ride as well.Great! We can report here every 3-4 months and share how things are going. I think I will start from the oldest in the list and read my way through to the more recent ones (though there might be some exceptions).

Papaya> I am still working on that too, which is why I have given myself 6 years to complete this list. It is just that I am getting a little tired of reading classic British literature.
No time for that lot I'm afraid, but would anyone recommend The Road by Cormac McCarthy it's a book that I seem to be hearing a lot about?
I have begun reading The Road, and really want to finish it, but for me it is too emotionally upsetting.The Book Club read this last summer and they seemed to agree that it was emotionally loaded. I could not take part because I could not get hold of a copy (from the library).
Yuk. You'd do better with Nobel prize winners in 20 years, at least then you would read something that isn't American. Though, Carol Shields seems more Canadian than American.Interestingly enouglh, I would like to read something "American" because recently all my reading has been British and Indian. I have always felt that I am lacking when it comes to American literature.

I'm doing something similar but I'm on a drama kick. I made a list of all the Pulitzer, Tony, and Olivier winners. That's a great idea, Mortal. Maybe I might give drama a try once I have consumed this list.

[Hank Stamper]

i'll take '74 and '77

[Schokokeks]

Starting from next month, I am hoping to read all the Pulitzer winners (fiction) by 2015

:eek: Wow, what an impressive task! I hope you intended this to be some sort of joint operation with each volunteer reading through his/her part of the list? :p

A friend and I once tried to watch all the movies that had won the Oscar for "Best Picture"; we got about half through the list until we broke :D.

[Scheherazade]

i'll take '74 and '77Excellent choices! :p


:eek: Wow, what an impressive task! I hope you intended this to be some sort of joint operation with each volunteer reading through his/her part of the list? :pDarn! Why didn't I think of the joint operation idea! :D

[kidvisions]

Starting from next month, I am hoping to read all the Pulitzer winners (fiction) by 2015 (yes, yes... 6 whole years).

If anyone would like to join me, they are more than welcome.

Here is a list of the winners so far:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little)

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)

1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)

1971 (No Award)

1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)

1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)

1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)

1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)

1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)

1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

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

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)

1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)

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

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)

1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)

1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)

1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)

1941 (No Award)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)

1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)

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

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)


I have read only 10 books from this list; all I can is that "Hurray for "No-award years!" :p

I think it's a geat idea, although I have a little list to finish first, then I'll be more than glad to join you.:thumbs_up

[subterranean]

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

I'll see if I can finish this next month


1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)


I can re-read. Good I brought it with me from Indonesia.


1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)


I think I saw this few days ago when I visited the Antiquarian with Chava. I'll come back and see if I actually saw the same book.

[PabloQ]

What an ambitious endeavor. I've actually read 12 of these already. I wish you luck. I'll be interested to know if you can find them all. Some of the olders ones are not the best known works by those authors and not even the Pulitzer is enought to keep them on modern book shelves, either in shops or in librariess. I'm looking at stuff like Alice Adams, So Big, and Dragon's Teeth. I'd say you're more likely to have success from 1950 through today, but it's going to be catch as catch can before that. GWTW is enough to chase me off this list.

[papayahed]

Wow, I've only read 4 on the list. Between this and the litnet top 100 I'm going to be pretty busy.

I did get partly through All the Kings Men as my intro to LA maybe I'll pick that up again.

[semi-fly]

As silly of question as it might seem are all of these books actually available in English? If not are you planning on reading these books in their original language?

[bouquin]

It would be good if we could discuss these books here. I have read 13 of them. For this year The Stone Diaries and The Confessions of Nat Turner are on my TBR list.

[thomas212]

As silly of question as it might seem are all of these books actually available in English? If not are you planning on reading these books in their original language?

I don't think they translate Americain into English,but with an effort it might be ok.:D

[Scheherazade]

I think it's a geat idea, although I have a little list to finish first, then I'll be more than glad to join you.:thumbs_up Take your time... We have six years, give or take couple! :D


I'll see if I can finish this next monthI could not put it down while reading it couple of years ago. It is a great book in my opinion (there should be review of it in the Reviews section as well).


I'll be interested to know if you can find them all. Some of the olders ones are not the best known works by those authors and not even the Pulitzer is enought to keep them on modern book shelves, either in shops or in librariess. Hmph. To be honest, the possibility that I may not be able to find them did not occur to me. I usually get my books from the library so I will try different counties (as well as the College and university libraries).


I did get partly through All the Kings Men as my intro to LA maybe I'll pick that up again.I remember you wanting to read this a lot. If you like, I will get it and we can read it together like we did that Chinese book?
As silly of question as it might seem are all of these books actually available in English? If not are you planning on reading these books in their original language?Semi-fly,

The Pulitzer novel prize is given to works by American authors only so they are all in English.
It would be good if we could discuss these books here. I have read 13 of them. For this year The Stone Diaries and The Confessions of Nat Turner are on my TBR list.That would be great. I try to post a review of the book I have read so we can exchange our views in those threads as well.

[semi-fly]

For some reason I was thinking Nobel prize when I wrote that post, my mistake.

[The Comedian]

Starting from next month, I am hoping to read all the Pulitzer winners (fiction) by 2015 (yes, yes... 6 whole years).

If anyone would like to join me, they are more than welcome.

Here is a list of the winners so far:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little)

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)

1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)

1971 (No Award)

1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)

1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)

1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)

1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)

1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)

1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

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

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)

1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)

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

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)

1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)

1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)

1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)

1941 (No Award)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)

1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)

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

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)


I have read only 10 books from this list; all I can is that "Hurray for "No-award years!" :p

This sounds like a great project. I'd like to read updates of your progress. Are you going to tackle this list in some kind of order?

Just of kicks I highlighted the ones that I have read. No many, I'm afraid.

[Scheherazade]

I am slightly panicking now; I checked about 35 titles today and my library branch did not have even one of them (though most are available somewhere in the county; it is a matter of time to get them delivered to my branch).

[subterranean]

Ok, I'm ready now. I bought The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder today.

So it's going to be 3 books for me:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[optimisticnad]

I thought I was obsessed with lists! BUt this is a great idea, another list I can do! Thanks! And i've read only a handful from the list like 'the age of innocence' and 'the colour purple'. If I'm honest I prefer JBI's idea of reading Nobel Prize Winners - there's more variety there.

[Niamh]

I dont know how you do it Scher! I would probably give up after a while! no patience for lists!, But in saying that there are a lot of books on that i want to read so i might join you for some of it anyway!

[Scheherazade]

OK, before starting, here are the ones I have read so far:

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)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

If I'm honest I prefer JBI's idea of reading Nobel Prize Winners - there's more variety there.The thing is that the Nobel Prize is given to an author, not to a particular work; so it is a little hard to read all the works of those authors.
I dont know how you do it Scher! I would probably give up after a while! no patience for lists!, But in saying that there are a lot of books on that i want to read so i might join you for some of it anyway!If you are interested, Papaya and I will be reading All the King's Men soon (I will start a thread); why don't you join us?

Meanwhile, I am reading Laughing Boy and I am enjoying it very much. For more info, wait for my review! :D

[Virgil]

Interestingly enouglh, I would like to read something "American" because recently all my reading has been British and Indian. I have always felt that I am lacking when it comes to American literature.
I'm with JBI. That list is not that great. But then there is a lot on that list I've never heard of.

[Scheherazade]

I'm with JBI. That list is not that great. But then there is a lot on that list I've never heard of.I don't think any lists will ever be complete or perfect.

I just would like to read a worthy portion of American Literature and this list will do the trick for me.

If anyone is interested, we will be having a group reading soon:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42434

[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 :D

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/forums/showthread.php?t=40711

[sofia82]

Here is the link:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40711

Thank you very much Scher! :wave:

[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. :D

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 :D

[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 :DThanks :)

[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 :)

[bouquin]

I have just finished reading William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968 winner).

[sixsmith]

I have started reading American Pastoral,

Hey, let me know what you think. One of my favourite novels

[kelby_lake]

I'm doing something similar but I'm on a drama kick. I made a list of all the Pulitzer, Tony, and Olivier winners. Since the beginning of February I've gotten:

1.A Delicate Balance
2.Luther
3.Doubt: A Parable
4.The History Boys
5.Broken Glass
6.The Teahouse of the August Moon
7.M. Butterfly
8.Proof
11.Wit
12.The Heidi Chronicles
13.I'm Not Rappaport
14.The Desperate Hours
15.Sunday in the Park With George
16.Death of a Salesman
17.Three Tall Women

As well as a few things by Lope De Vega, Eugene O'Neill, and Gorky. Sometimes I get a little sick of the twentieth century novel and I want something different.

I read 2 of the Pulitzer Prize novels but probably more of the drama ones :)

[Scheherazade]

I have just finished reading William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968 winner).Would you like to post a review?
Hey, let me know what you think. One of my favourite novelsWill probably post a review. I am half-way through. So far I have mixed feelings because reading about American history (20th century) is beginning to bore me a little.

However, Roth's writing style is very good.

[Don Quixote Jr]

Starting from next month, I am hoping to read all the Pulitzer winners (fiction) by 2015 (yes, yes... 6 whole years).
If anyone would like to join me, they are more than welcome.

I'm a pretty prolific (and fast) reader, but this project is too mammoth even for me! Seeing all of the Pulitzer Prize Winners may inspire me to read some of them, especially The Magnificent Ambersons, The Color Purple & others that were made into movies I like. I'm also interested in checking out the works of well-known & respected writers I'm unfamiliar or barely familiar with such as Cheever, Mailer & Updike.
I'm kinda curious Scheherazade - will you force yourself to read EVERY single book, even the ones you can't stand? I'm asking because I tried reading the 2001 winner on a friend's advice & couldn't get through it. It's hard for me to imagine anyone liking every single book on this list!
Anyways, good luck and thanks for posting a very interesting booklist!

[Scheherazade]

I'm kinda curious Scheherazade - will you force yourself to read EVERY single book, even the ones you can't stand? I'm asking because I tried reading the 2001 winner on a friend's advice & couldn't get through it. It's hard for me to imagine anyone liking every single book on this list!
Anyways, good luck and thanks for posting a very interesting booklist!Probably I will try to read every book on the list... I very rarely give up on a book... I don't expect to like every single book in the list but how do I know whether I like them or not unless I have read them?

;)

I will give it a go... Let's see.

[kasie]

Inspired by your dedication, Scher, and, like you, feeling a certain lack of reading experience in American authors, I thought I would also begin reading titles from the list. I had already read eight titles and now have just finished The Colour Purple and The Age of Innocence - enjoyed both immensely and will be returning to the list from time to time. Thanks for the pointer.

[Scheherazade]

Inspired by your dedication, Scher, and, like you, feeling a certain lack of reading experience in American authors, I thought I would also begin reading titles from the list. I had already read eight titles and now have just finished The Colour Purple and The Age of Innocence - enjoyed both immensely and will be returning to the list from time to time. Thanks for the pointer.I really enjoyed those two books as well, Kasie.

You might find this thread interesting as well :)

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43502

[Don Quixote Jr]

Probably I will try to read every book on the list... I very rarely give up on a book... I don't expect to like every single book in the list but how do I know whether I like them or not unless I have read them? ;) I will give it a go... Let's see.

Well, to be more specific, I meant would you continue to read a book after totally hating it (or lets say being totally bored by it) after 100-200pp?

[Scheherazade]

Well, to be more specific, I meant would you continue to read a book after totally hating it (or lets say being totally bored by it) after 100-200pp?Yes, I probably would. I usually do read and finish a book even though I am bored with it (though there are couple of exceptions in my reading past).

[Uberzensch]

I'm asking because I tried reading the 2001 winner on a friend's advice & couldn't get through it.

I was wondering when someone would talk about Kavalier and Clay and amazed it wasn't positive. I urge everyone to give this book a chance. It's fantastic!

[kasie]

Scherherazade - thanks for the link - I'm not much of a one for awarding grades, too much like returning to a Past Life and marking homework! But I notice high gradings for The Hours - can't remember being that impressed by it but it is still downstairs on the Maybe I'll Read This Again shelf, so I will give it another go and remind myself of it.

Uberzensch - I have Kavalier and Clay on the To Be Read shelf, so will make a start on it and answer your comment later, if I may?

[Scheherazade]

An update on my list:

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

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)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)


Don't forget to visit the Rating thread! :)

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43502

[kasie]

I am about a third of the way through Kavalier and Clay and am enjoying it so far, though have not had a lot of time for reading lately. I like the fast pace of the narrative, the way it reflects the comic book subject, then the contrast when one of the characters becomes introspective and style becomes slower and convoluted, as his thoughts evolve and meander.

[Scheherazade]

Please post a review when you are done, Kasie, because I have no idea that book is about. I read American Pastoral, towards which I have some confused feelings. Mostly I found it a drag but the last 100 pages might have just saved it for me.

Now, I am onto The Stone Diaries but I have less than one month to hand in my assignments for this term so I will have to put my pleasure reading aside for a while :-/

[PoeknowsProse]

I think I've only read four:
The brief and wondrous life of Oscar Wao
The Road
The Hours
The Old Man and the Sea

I liked them all, but The Hours is my least favorite of the group.

[LadyWentworth]

Hmm...I have actually seen more of the film adaptations of these than read the books.

My list is probably embarassingly short, but I have read some of these. I guess I will rate them in the other thread.

There are a lot of these that I have wanted to read. So I suppose now is as good a time as any to start some of those. :)

[Scheherazade]

I liked them all, but The Hours is my least favorite of the group.:D

I really loved reading The Hours!


There are a lot of these that I have wanted to read. So I suppose now is as good a time as any to start some of those. :)Great! The more, the merrier! :)

[Dark Lady]

I really loved reading The Hours!

Oooh I picked that up in a second-hand bookshop a couple of years ago but haven't had chance to read it. Good to hear something positive about it, though, makes me more keen to read it.

I've only read three of the books on this list! That's even worse than on the Lit Net top 100. I've read The Age of Innocence, Gone With the Wind, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Scheherazade]

Update:

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

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)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

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)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

[kasie]

You're doing well, Scher! (Stands back and gasps in admiration! :nod:) I looked back and your list was nine titles long at the start and now it's nineteen - dedication!

I'd rather forgotten the enterprise, having got waylaid by Somerset Maughan and the Summer Reading Challenge (What Summer Reading Challenge? I hear you ask....) but here's my updated list:

2006 March

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

1999 The Hours

1994 The Shipping News

1983 The Color Purple

1967 The Fixer

1961 To Kill a Mockingbird

1953 The Old Man and the Sea

1940 The Grapes of Wrath

1932 The Good Earth

1921 The Age of Innocence

Now I remember why I bought Beloved ; I bought My Antonia - should have plumped for One of Ours instead.

[Scheherazade]

Kasie, I am so glad that you are doing this as well. :)

I am mostly a regular reader; don't get to read lots and lots but I read a little every day so it helps me keep going. Also, I place my library requests on the internet so when I get there, I do not get distracted and pick up only those books that are in my list.

I have nominated Beloved for our October reading so maybe we can read it then :D

While looking that my own list, I realised that I have not done much reading from 1950s 1960s and 1970s. I am hoping to remedy that soon. The trouble is that the library doesn't seem to keep most of those books.

At the moment, I am reading Foreign Affairs, though.

[Scheherazade]

An update:

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

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

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

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)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

[Scheherazade]

Now that the assignments are out of the way, I am hoping to go back to my regular reading.

So, an update:

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

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)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

[Scheherazade]

I am having a hard time finding some of these titles :-/

[Scheherazade]

I have neglected this long enough so I will try to concentrate on the list again. At the moment:

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

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)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

[_Shannon_]

I've read a bunch of those.

Reading Junot Diaz right now..I really like it..the style is a good fit for me for my times of lesser concentration. Oscar Hijuelos is coming up next for me on there. (Mr. Ives' Christmas is one of the best books I've ever read, so I'm excited to see how Mambo Kings stacks up)

[RobinoftheMoor]

Are you going to start from the beginning, reverse, or jump around?

[Scheherazade]

Are you going to start from the beginning, reverse, or jump around?Jumping around. I was hoping to read them in chronological order but some of the books are rather hard to find so I started skipping and ended up reading randomly.

I especially love the books up to the WWII. I think I should have lived then (might be already doing so in some ways).

[Scheherazade]

Update on the progress:

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

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)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

[Scheherazade]

An update:

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

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)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


Done about 1/3, I think.

[coluta]

I've read 4 so far:

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

[Scheherazade]

An update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

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)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


Need to read more books from the third quarter of the 20th century.

[TurquoiseSunset]

Have you always been able to get through books so quickly? Or do you just devote most of your spare time to reading? I am in awe :D

[Scheherazade]

Have you always been able to get through books so quickly? Or do you just devote most of your spare time to reading? The latter. I have no life. :D

And I have managed to read about 25 books in 3 years so not doing so well actually. It looks unlikely that I will manage to complete the challenge by 2015.

One can still try, right?

[TurquoiseSunset]

The latter. I have no life. :D

And I have managed to read about 25 books in 3 years so not doing so well actually. It looks unlikely that I will manage to complete the challenge by 2015.

One can still try, right?

Hehehe.

Yes, but this is not the only challenge you are part of, so don't be so hard on yourself! ;)

[bouquin]

I have read 16 of them, so far. It's a good list, I think.




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Currently reading: A Heart So White (Javier Marias)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003jhsk

[Bibliophile79]

I've read 15 so far. I try to read at least one a year. I read 3 last year (The Reivers, March, Oscar Wao)

[Scheherazade]

An update:


2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

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)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


37/86

Will be very happy if I reach half-way point this year.

[Ecurb]

Does this count?

http://www.amazon.com/The-Prize-Pulitzer-Roxanne/dp/0394557611

[Scheherazade]

An update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

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)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


41/86!

[Scheherazade]

2015 All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

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)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

46 / 88

[Pierre Menard]

What would be your favourite read so far Scheherazade?

[CWolfieVan]

The Road and Beloved are my two favorite from that list. As much as I love Hemingway, I don't think Old Man and the Sea is among his better books. I can't get into Marilynn Robinson so far. I'm eager to start American Pastoral by Roth.

[Scheherazade]

What would be your favourite read so far Scheherazade?I really don't think that I can pick just one... I am grateful that this list introduced me to many authors that I may not have read otherwise.

[kev67]

I have read four of those: Lonesome Dove, Humboldt's Gift, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Grapes of Wrath. Lonesome Dove was good.

[Scheherazade]

Those are just the ones I have read so far, of course. The complete list is on the first page of this thread.

[Dark Muse]

Here is my current list for what I have read

2013 Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (I read this one before it became a Pulitzer)

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2013 Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)

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

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)

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)

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

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

[PeachSodaLover]

Id try Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge, of everything on the list.

[Scheherazade]

Some of these older books are so difficult to find. I am at 58/89 at the moment. Will post the updated list soon.

[Scheherazade]

Another update... 68/90, I believe.

2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

2015 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2013 Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)

1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)

1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)

1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)

1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)

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

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)

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

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)

1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

[Scheherazade]

These are the ones I need to read yet... By the end of this year. Some of them are either too experience or not available at all, unfortunately.

1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)

1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)

1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)

1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)

1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)

[Whiskeyclone]

My list isn't too impressive, but I haven't ever read with this list in mind (though it has turned me on to a couple I've read/want to read).

I've read, as an engaged adult:

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (liked it)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (loved it)
Ironweed by William Kennedy (loved it)
A Confederacy of Dunces (really liked it)
The Old Man and the Sea (loved it)

I read in high school but that was a long time ago and I didn't pay them proper attention; I'd like to go back and re-read both in the next two or three years:

Beloved
The Grapes of Wrath

I've never read but have a genuine interest in reading in the next few years:

The Sympathizer
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
American Pastoral
To Kill a Mockingbird