read Pulitzer Prize-winning novels

I would like to get through the entire list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction

So far I’ve read The Color Purple by Alice Walker (when I was 19, I think), The Hours by Michael Cunningham a few years ago, and I just finished The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. At the moment I’m most looking forward to Empire Falls and least looking forward to Lonesome Dove.

I may have read To Kill A Mockingbird long, long ago, but if so, I don’t remember it, and it won’t kill me to read it twice.

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.

I want to read more, this seems like a good list to work from. I just need to find the list…and the time. I finished Oprah’s Book list a couple of years ago so I could do this.

i’m interested in reading the last 10 novels that won the Pulitzer in particular. I’ve read Interpreter of Maladies, The Stone Diaries, and The Shipping News.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction