The list:
8 months ago
- 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
* 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
* 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
* 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
* 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
* 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
* 1954: No award given
* 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
* 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
* 1957: No award given1
* 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
* 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
* 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
* 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
* 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
* 1964: No award given
* 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
* 1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
* 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
* 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
* 1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
* 1970: The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
* 1971: No award given2
* 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
* 1973: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
* 1974: No award given [3]
* 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
* 1976: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
* 1977: No award given [4]
* 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
* 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
* 1980: The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
* 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
* 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
* 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
* 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
* 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
* 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
* 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
* 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
* 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
* 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
* 1991: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
* 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
* 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
* 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
* 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
* 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
* 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
* 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
* 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
* 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
* 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
* 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
* 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
* 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
* 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
* 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
* 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
* 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
* 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
I’ll start this weekend. I have to go to the library first to stock up on books. I hope there aren’t any terrible ones that I have to force myself to read. I’d like to be able to say I’ve read them all. Then I can move on to Nobel Prize winners…
