Pulitzer Reading Challenge

An update:

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

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

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

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

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

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

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

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

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

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

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

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

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

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

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

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

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

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

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


Done about 1/3, I think.

I've read 4 so far:

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

An update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

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

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

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

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

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

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

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

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

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

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

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

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

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

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

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

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

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

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

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


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

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

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Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset

Have you always been able to get through books so quickly? Or do you just devote most of your spare time to reading?

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The latter. I have no life. :D

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

One can still try, right?

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

The latter. I have no life. :D

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

One can still try, right?

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Hehehe.

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

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




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

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

An update:


2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

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

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

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

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

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

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

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

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

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

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

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

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

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

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

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

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

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

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

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

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

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

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


37/86

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

Does this count?

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

An update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

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

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

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

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

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

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

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

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

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

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

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

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

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

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

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

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

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

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

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

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

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

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

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

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


41/86!

2015 All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

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

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

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

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

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

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

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

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

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

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

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

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

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

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

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

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

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

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)

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

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)

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

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

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

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

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

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

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

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

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

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

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

46 / 88

What would be your favourite read so far Scheherazade?

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

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What would be your favourite read so far Scheherazade?

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I really don't think that I can pick just one... I am grateful that this list introduced me to many authors that I may not have read otherwise.