I am new to 43things, and I’m excited to have a place to deposit so many of my goals. I am surrounded by lists of book awards that I got at Powell’s bookstore in Portland. I realized that off them all, I have read the most Pulitzer’s, so I’m going to try and finish reading these before I go on to National, Nobel, etc.
Here are the books I have read so far:
2004 The Known World, Edward P. Jones
2002 Empire Falls, Richard Russo
2001 The Amazing Adventure of Cavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
1998 American Pastoral, Philip Roth
1996 Independence Day, Richard Ford
1994 The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
1988 Beloved, Toni Morrison
1983 The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
1940 The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
1937 Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
1932 The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Next I shall read A THousand Acres, by Jane Smiley. I have the book already, but I didn’t finish it the first time.
