Rating the Pulitzer Prize Winners

[Don Quixote Jr]

Scheherazade posted this list along with a reading challenge. I'm curious to see how you guys and gals who have read any of these books would rate them, on a scale of 1-10. I've rated the few I've read in boldface below.
BTW, can anyone tell me why there were no awards made in several years?

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) 8.5

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) 9

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) 8

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) 7

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 8

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) 7.5

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) 8.2

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)

[Scheherazade]

I'll play...

To make it more interesting, I am going to add my scored to yours so we see how the total looks like.

(Those who post after this can do the same)

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) 9

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) 10

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) 9

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) 9

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) 8.5

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) 9

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) 8+9= 17

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) 7+8=15

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 8

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

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) 7.5+9=16.5
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) 8

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) 8.2+8=16.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

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) 8

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[kelby_lake]

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 6

[JohnMelmoth]

Colour Purple (Alice Walker) 6
To Kill a Mocking Bird (Harper Lee) 8
Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) 7.5
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) 9

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

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) 9

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) 10

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) 9

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

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) 9

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) 8.5

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) 9

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) 31

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) 22.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 8

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

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) 25.5

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) 8

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) 16.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

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) 8

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)[/QUOTE]

[MissScarlett]

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

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) - 4

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) - 4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - 10

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) - 8

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) - 8

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) - 8

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) - 9

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

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) - 9

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) - 10

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) - 10

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) - 9

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) - 9

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) - 9

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) - 10

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) - 7

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) - 9

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) - 7

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) - 7

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) - 8

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) - 9.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[Lynne50]

2008- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 8
1994- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx- 9
1988- Beloved by Toni Morrison 8

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 4

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) 9

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)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 8

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

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) 26

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 18

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) 19

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 8.5

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) 9

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

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) 9

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) 31

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) 10

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) 29.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 8

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 25.5

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) 8

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) 23.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 8

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 17.

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[kelby_lake]

Shouldn't we try and do averages? Most people have read To Kill A Mockingbird, but not everyone thinks it's a great book.

[Don Quixote Jr]

Shouldn't we try and do averages? Most people have read To Kill A Mockingbird, but not everyone thinks it's a great book.

This is a good idea - I don't suppose we could talk you into doing it? If not, maybe I will...in the meantime, Scheherazade is certainly doing us a service by keeping track of total scores even if it's not necessarily the most accurate way to rate the books
BTW, I'm normally not very pushy (ie suggesting someone I don't know do something) but what the hey, all you can do is say no & pont the ball back in my court...

[Scheherazade]

Kelby> It would have been a good idea but considering the number of the books in the list and the number of members we have, it is near to impossible taskl; however, like Jr said, if you are feeling up to it, you are more than welcome.

On another note, the fact that a book is more read than the others is sort of a credit to it (at least to its popularity) and is an indicator that it is liked by more people.

Even though there might be few exceptions, I think we will have a good idea about the books and how they are liked by our members.

[Mariamosis]

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5


1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)9


1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking) 10


1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 4

Unfortunately those are the only 4 I have read out of that huge list!

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 4

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) 9

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)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 8

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

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) 26

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 18

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) 19

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 8.5

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) 9

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 40

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) 10

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) 29.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 8

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 35.5

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) 8

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) 23.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 8

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 21.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[Uberzensch]

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 9

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 7

(I'm saddened by how few I've read!)

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 4

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 9

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 8

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

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) 26

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 18

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) 19

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 17.5

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) 9

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 47

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) 10

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) 29.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 8

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 35.5

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) 8

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) 23.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 8

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 21.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[kelby_lake]

Kelby> It would have been a good idea but considering the number of the books in the list and the number of members we have, it is near to impossible taskl; however, like Jr said, if you are feeling up to it, you are more than welcome.

On another note, the fact that a book is more read than the others is sort of a credit to it (at least to its popularity) and is an indicator that it is liked by more people.

Even though there might be few exceptions, I think we will have a good idea about the books and how they are liked by our members.

:) I might do that at a certain point- maybe after a certain amount of time as like a review...

I say averages because some books on there are generally the sort of ones you'd have to study or they are so mainstream that you have to have read them.

[sixsmith]

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth 8.75

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 9

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 5

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 5

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 7

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 3

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking) 6

[Scheherazade]

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington 8

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 4

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 9

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 16.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 18

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) 19

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 22.5

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

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 9

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 47

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) 10

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) 32.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 8

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 41.5

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) 8

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) 23.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 16

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 21.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)[/QUOTE]

[LadyWentworth]

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 7
1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 9
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 10
1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor 9.75
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 7
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 9.75
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington 9.5
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 9
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 9

[Scheherazade]

American Pastoral by Roth 7

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 4

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 9

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 18

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) 26

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 22.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 19

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 47

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) 10

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 32.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 8

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 48.5

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) 17.75

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) 23.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 30.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 9

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

[LitNetIsGreat]

I really don't get the The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I can't get passed his really obvious and annoying prose to even get to the story.

This has to be a personal irritation because he is obviously well received by a number of people and by some friends of mine who highly recommend this book. I have made three or four attempts and can't get passed about page 20 without being deeply annoyed by his constant use of clunky similes and amateurish prose.

Is there something I am missing?

[Scheherazade]

Stone Diaries 8

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 4

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 9

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 18

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) 26

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 22.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 19

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 47

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) 10

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 32.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 8

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 48.5

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) 17.75

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) 23.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 30.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 9

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[PeterL]

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 7

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 4

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 9

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking) 5


1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day) 2

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 5

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 4

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 9

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 18

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) 26

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 29.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 19

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 47

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) 10

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 36.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 17

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 53.5

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) 17.75

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) 25.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 30.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 14

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[mona amon]

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 7

1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky) 7

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 7

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 7

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking) 4

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 6

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day) 6

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 4

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 9

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 25

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) 26

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 29.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 19

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 54

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) 17

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 43.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 8

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 57.5

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) 23.75

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) 31.2

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 30.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 14

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[JimmyRow]

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 5

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 8

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 9

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 9

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 8

1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky) 10

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 9

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day) 7.5

[March Hare]

[QUOTE=Don Quixote Jr;704977]
BTW, can anyone tell me why there were no awards made in several years?

In some years the Pulitzer board rejected all the finalists that were offered to it by the selection jury.

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 9

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 25

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

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 8

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 26

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 38.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 28

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 62

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 43.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 17

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 57.5

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) 23.75

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) 38.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 30.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 14

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)[/QUOTE]

[EPluribusUnus]

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon - 10
A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole - 8.5
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 10
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - 7
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - 6

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 25

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

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 8

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 26

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 46.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 28

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 72

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 50.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8.8

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) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 17

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 57.5

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) 29.75

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) 38.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 30.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 14

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[PabloQ]

[QUOTE=Scheherazade;736317]

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 8.5

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 7

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 5

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 8.5

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 9

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 10

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking) 9

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day) 9

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 8

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 8.5/QUOTE]

Really some of these numbers from some of the voters. But I guess we're not here to start an argument.

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 20

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

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) 25

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 16.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 26

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 9

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 53.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 80.5

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 9

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 60.5

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 16.8

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) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 17

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 66.5

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) 29.75

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) 47.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 38.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[tractatus]

2007 -8
1999 -8
1992 -7
1991 -7
1982 -8
1981 -9
1961 -7
1953 -8,5
1940 -8

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 17

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 28

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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) 25

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 16.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 26

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 62.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 9

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 87.5

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 9

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 69

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 16.8

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) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 17

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 74.5

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) 29.75

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) 47.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 38.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[Scheherazade]

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley - 7

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - 8

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 8

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 17

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) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 28

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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) 25

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 16.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 26

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 62.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 87.5

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 9

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 69

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 16.8

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) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 17

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 74.5

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) 29.75

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) 47.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 38.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[motherhubbard]

I’ve decided to try to read through all of them as well. Here is where I stand.

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 7

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 6

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 8.5

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 10

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 9

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking) 10

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day) 10

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

[mal4mac]

It's no use just adding the scores! You need to average them...

[motherhubbard]

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 9

I thought about 8.5, but it really was a good read.

[Scheherazade]

It's no use just adding the scores! You need to average them...Be my guest! :D

Yearling - 7

Breathing Lessons - 8

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 15

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 23

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 9

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 28

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 25

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 16.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 34.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 62.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 97.5

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 9

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 78

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 16.8

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) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 17

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 84.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 29.75

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) 57.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 38.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)[/QUOTE]

[Cailin]

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 5

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 7

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 6

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 8

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 6

[Scheherazade]

Foreign Affairs - 6

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 15

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 23

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 9

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 33

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 25

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 16.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 41.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 62.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 103.5

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 9

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 86

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 16.8

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) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 17

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 84.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 29.75

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) 57.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 44.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[Scheherazade]

Now in November - 9

A Confederacy of Dunces - 9

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 15

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 23

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 9

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 33

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 25

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 16.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 41.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 71.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 7

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) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 5

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) 9

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) 103.5

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 9

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 86

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 16.8

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) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 17

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 84.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 29.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 57.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 7

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) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 44.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[chaplin]

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 4
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 6
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 3
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 5
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner 3 (The final nail in my Faulkner-reading coffin.)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 6
1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 5
1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 7
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy 5

[slobone]

As with any prize there are a lot of books on that list that have faded into oblivion, and just as many classics that didn't make it.

But that said, I'm still kind of embarrassed that I've read so few of them. And some of them I read a long time ago. I guess I'd have to say:

The Age of Innocence 8
Arrowsmith 6
Bridge of San Luis Rey 6
Guard of Honor 10 (practically my favorite book)
The Old Man and the Sea 5
Advise and Consent 5
To Kill a Mockingbird 6
Angle of Repose 4
Lonesome Dove 7
Humboldt's Gift 8

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 15

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 23

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 9

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 9

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 33

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 25

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 23.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 41.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 71.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 14

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 9

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) 115.5

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 96

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 19.8

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) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 17

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 90.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 29.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 61.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 13

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 52.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[Dark Muse]

I have not read many of the Pulizer's but here are my current ratings

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: 10

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole:9 (It is still a work in progress, but I feel pretty confidaunt in my rating of this on.)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee: 7.5

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren: 2

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck: 6

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: 8.5

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 15

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 23

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 9

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 19

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 33

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 25

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 23.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 41.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 80.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 14

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 9

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) 123

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 96

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 19.8

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) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 19

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 96.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 29.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 61.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 13

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 63

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[mal4mac]

What use is it just to add the scores? Surely averages are more helpful...

[Scheherazade]

It's no use just adding the scores! You need to average them...
Be my guest! :D
What use is it just to add the scores? Surely averages are more helpful...(This seems to be becoming a monthly theme! :D)

Agreed! It would be grand if someone kept adding the scores up and kept updating the averages.

Are you volunteering for the job? :p

I might do that sometime at the end of the year when there are enough votes cast and also when I have a break.

[Scheherazade]

Yay! Another one bites the dust!

Beloved 7

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 15

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 23

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 9

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 19

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 19

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 33

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 32

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 23.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 41.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 80.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 14

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 9

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) 123

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 96

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 19.8

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) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 19

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 96.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 29.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 61.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 13

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 63

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[Modest Proposal]

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 8
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 6
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 7
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 8
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 9
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 7
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 9
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking) 8
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 8

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 15

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 31

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 9

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 19

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 25

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 40

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 40

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 23.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 41.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 80.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 14

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 9

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) 132

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 103

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 19.8

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) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 28

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 104.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 29.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 61.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 21

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 63

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[Scheherazade]

The Known World by Edward P. Jones - 6

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 15

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 31

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 15

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 19

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

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 25

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 40

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 40

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 23.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 41.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 80.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 14

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 9

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) 132

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 103

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 19.8

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) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 28

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 104.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 29.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 61.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 21

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 25.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 63

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)[/QUOTE]

[OrphanPip]

The Good Earth - 8
To Kill a Mocking Bird - 7
The Old Man and The Sea -8

[Stella Mica]

08 - Oscar Wao - 1 (hated it)
03 - Middlesex - 9
02 - Empire falls - 7
99 - The Hours - 8
88 - Beloved - 10
83 - The Color Purple - 10
61 - To Kill a Mockingbird - 8
53 - Old Man and the Sea - 9
37 - Gone with the Wind - 10
25 - So Big - 9
22 - Alice Adams - 9
21 - Age of Innocence - 10

[Scheherazade]

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 16

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 31

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 15

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 28

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 25

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)4

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 48

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 8

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 31

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 22

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 8

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 50

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 23.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 51.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 80.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 14

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 33

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 9

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) 147

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 120

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 19.8

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) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 24

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 28

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 9

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) 104.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 39.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 69.7

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 21

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 73

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[eyemaker]

Mine:
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) 8.9

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) 7.9

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) 6.7

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 8

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

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 7.9

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) 7

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 8.9

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

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 8

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 9

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) 9.2

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) 9

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 9.1

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) 8

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) 8.7

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 9.6

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) 7.8

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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) 8

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

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 7

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) 8.9

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) 8.9

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) 8

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


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[Scheherazade]

Interpreter of Maladies 9

Score update:

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 16

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 31

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 15

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 37

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 25

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 56

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 23.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 59

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 31.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 60.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 89.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 9

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 9

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 157

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 128

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 19.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 28

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 113.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 7

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 39.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 21

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 81

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 22.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)

[perico]

First post, I found the different inputs and what some have read as opposed to others interesting


2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 10

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 6

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 5
HBO series was better than the book, but it has been awhile and I may need to reread it to see if I just didn't get it.

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 6

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 10

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 7

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 10

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 7

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 8

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 8

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 9

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking) 10

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) 10

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 4

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 8

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 6.5

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 10

[Dark Muse]

I have not read many of the Pulizer's but here are my current ratings

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: 10

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole:9 (It is still a work in progress, but I feel pretty confidaunt in my rating of this on.)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee: 7.5

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren: 2

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck: 6

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: 8.5

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison: 5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy: 9.5

[caspian]

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole 10

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 9

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 7

[ajax090]

ok, so 2009 book has been award many months ago, can it get added

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge 9

[Scheherazade]

A Summons to Memphis - 8

Score Update:

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 9

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 16

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 50.5

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 16

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 43

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 12

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 25

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 62

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 33.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 73

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 38.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 60.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 99.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 19

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 9

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 173

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 141

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 27.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 37

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 123.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 17

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 43.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 29

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 88.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 32.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

1917 (No Award)[/QUOTE]

[Scheherazade]

His Family - 8

Score Update:

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 9

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 16

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 50.5

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 16

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 43

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 12

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 25

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 62

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 33.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

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

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 73

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 38.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 60.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 99.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 19

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 9

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 173

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 141

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 27.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 37

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 123.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 17

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 43.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 29

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 88.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 32.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan) - 8

1917 (No Award)

[Dark Muse]

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: 10

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole:9

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee: 7.5

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren: 2

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck: 6

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: 8.5

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison: 5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy: 9.5

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon : 9

[Scheherazade]

Score Update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf)

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding(Bellevue Literary Press)

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 9

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 16

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 50.5

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 16

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 43

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 12

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 34

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 62

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 33.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) 5

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 73

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 38.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 60.5

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 99.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 19

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 9

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 173

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 141

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 27.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 37

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 123.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 17

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 43.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 29

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 88.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 32.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan) - 8

1917 (No Award)

[Dark Muse]

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: 10

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole:9

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee: 7.5

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren: 2

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck: 6

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: 8.5

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison: 5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy: 9.5

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon : 9

2009 Oliver Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout: 8.5

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker: 9.5

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway: 10

[Scheherazade]

Score Update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf)

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding(Bellevue Literary Press)

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 17.5

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 16

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 50.5

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 16

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 43

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 12

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 34

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 62

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 33.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) 5

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 73

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 38.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 70

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 99.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 19

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 9

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 173

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 141

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 27.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 37

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 123.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 17

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 43.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 29

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 88.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 32.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan) - 8

1917 (No Award)

[ChicagoReader]

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 7.5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 8.5

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 8

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 9

[Scheherazade]

The Road 9/10.

Score Update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf)

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding(Bellevue Literary Press)

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 17.5

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 23.5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 68

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 16

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 51

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 12

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 34

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 62

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 33.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) 5

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 73

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 38.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 70

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 99.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 19

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 9

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 182

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 14

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 141

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 27.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 37

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 123.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 17

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 43.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 29

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 88.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 32.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan) - 8

1917 (No Award)

[Scheherazade]

March by Geraldine Brooks - 7/10

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - 8/10

Advise and Consent by Allen Drury - 8/10

Score Update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf)

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding(Bellevue Literary Press)

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 17.5

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 23.5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 68

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) 7

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar) 8

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 16

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 51

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 12

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 34

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 62

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 33.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) 5

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 73

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 38.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 70

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 99.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 19

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 9

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 182

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 22

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 141

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 27.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 37

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 123.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 17

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 43.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 29

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 88.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 32.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan) - 8

1917 (No Award)

[Motherof8]

I read Gone With the Wind: on a scale of 1 to 10 I would rate it a 9.

[Chris 73]

The Road. Cormac MCcarthy-7/10

The Old Man And The Sea. Ernest Hemingway-9/10

[Scheherazade]

A Visit from the Goon Squad 7/10

Score Update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf) 7

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding(Bellevue Literary Press)

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 17.5

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 23.5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 75

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) 7

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar) 8

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 16

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 51

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 12

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 34

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 62

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 33.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) 5

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 73

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 38.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 70

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 99.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 19

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 9

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 182

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 22

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 150

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 27.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 37

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 123.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 17

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 52.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 29

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 8.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 88.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 32.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan) - 8

1917 (No Award)[/QUOTE]

[Dark Muse]

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: 10

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole:9

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee: 7.5

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren: 2

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck: 6

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: 8.5

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison: 5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy: 9.5

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon : 9

2009 Oliver Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout: 8.5

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker: 9.5

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway: 10


1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington: 7

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry: 9.5

[Scheherazade]

One of Ours by Willa Cather: 4/10

Score Update:

2013 Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

2012 No award.

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf) 7

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding(Bellevue Literary Press)

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 17.5

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 23.5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 75

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) 7

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar) 8

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 16

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 51

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 12

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 34

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 62

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 33.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 8

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 9

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) 5

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 24.5

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 73

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 38.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 70

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 99.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 19

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 9

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 182

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 22

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 150

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 27.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 37

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 123.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 17

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 52.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 29

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 12.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 88.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 39.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan) - 8

1917 (No Award)

[Scheherazade]

The Reivers by Faulkner (P) ~ 9/10

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (P/N13) ~ 7/10

Tinkers by Paul Harding (N11) ~ 9/10

A Good Scent from A Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (P/N9) ~ 9/10

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (P/N7) ~ 7/10

Score Update:

2013 Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

2012 No award.

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A.. Knopf) 7

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding(Bellevue Literary Press) 9/10

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 17.5

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 30.5

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 75

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) 7

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar) 8

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) 16

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar) 51

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) 12

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) 34

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)13

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 62

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) 33.75

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) 15

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) 9

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) 14.5

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) 39

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) 18

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) 30

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) 16

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar) 5

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) 24.5

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) 73

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) 15

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) 38.5

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) 6

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) 3

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) 70

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf) 17

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) 99.5

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little) 19

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) 14

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

1977 (No Award)

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) 23

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) 42

1974 (No Award)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) 17

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) 9

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) 8

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) 9

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

1964 (No Award)

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) 18

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) 182

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) 22

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) 27

1957 (No Award)

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World) 9.75

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) 3

1954 (No Award)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) 150

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) 27.8

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) 7

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

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) 10

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) 32

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt) 37

1946 (No Award)

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf) 16

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) 123.5

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner) - 17

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

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan) 52.75

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

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster) 9

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) 79

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)7

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) 29

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) 6

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) 9

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) 12.5

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 34.5

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) 88.5

1920 (No Award)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) 39.5

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan) - 8

1917 (No Award)[/QUOTE]