I have this problem; as soon as I walk into a book or music store, all the new, wonderful things I plan to look for fly straight out of my head. I thought that if I try reading all the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novels, I’ll never have to walk out of a bookstore empty-handed due to my tendency to crumble under pressure.
I do have a head start on this though.Through the years, I’ve read:
1940 The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
1953 The Old Man and the Sea, John Steinbeck
1961 To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee
1972 Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
1983 The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1988 Beloved, Toni Morrison
1992 A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
1994 The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
1995 The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
2003 Middlesex, Jeffery Eugenides
So that leaves me 68 books to read, plus however many books are awarded the prize between now and whenever I finish.
