Read all pulitzer prize winning novels

I just bought Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Added it to my still enormous stack of unread pulitzers. I think I am going to have some time this summer to get some good reading done. I’ll really try to read at least 6 over June July and August.

I have finally made it to 39 pulitzers read. I am not listing them though. Too much aggravation. I do still plan to finish out the books :)

Since I posted last, I have read:

Now in November by Josephine Johnson, 1936
Gone WIth the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1937
The Late George Apley by John Marquand, 1938

I have read 3 more since my last entry!
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, Pulitzer winner 1932. I liked it alot. Poor Chinese farmer makes good by perseverence and living right. Excellent.

The Store by T.S. Stribling, Pulitzer winner 1933. A little dull, but not bad over-all. The center book in a trilogy. I may have liked it better if I had read the first book. The end was abrupt, totally open for the third book.

Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller, Pulitzer winner 1934. Very good. 20 years in the life of a small poor Georgia farming family leading up to the Civil War time. These people were really interesting characters. Full of faults and virtues. Way to poor to be affected by slavery or the events leadng to the War, but not to poor to lose a son in it.

I finally got a copy of The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson and read it. Winner in 1924. I also read Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge, winner in 1930. I do not own a copy of the 13th winner, Years of Grace, 1931. I guess I’ll be reading it out of order as well. I am taking off tomorrow and starting the next next one on Wednesday.

I have now added Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder ANDEarly Autumn by Louis Bromfield. They go a lot slower than stuff I read more for fun.

I had to seriously slog through this one by Sinclair Lewis. It was a 430 page paperback! It was probably a hugely wonderful social commentary or something, but it really wasn’t my thing. I was mostly bored. I didn’t care for Martin and had very little sympathy for the way he trudged through life. eh I will be glad to get on to the next one. I have read 7 so far.

I have now also read One of Ours by Willa Cather and So Big by Edna Ferber. I am not stopping yet :) I have a bunch more.

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I have now also read The Age of Innocence (winner 1921) by Edith Wharton and Alice Adams (winner 1922) by Booth Tarkington.

I have read His Family by Ernest Poole, which won in 1918 and The Magnificent Ambersons, which won in 1919. I already have a total of 55 Pulitzer winners, so I am definitely going to read that many :)