Classics-old and new
- The Poisonwood Bible-Barbara Kingsolver
- Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden
- The Virgin Suicides-Jeffrey Eugenides
- Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel
- A Prayer for Owen Meany-John Irving
- The Cider House Rules-John Irving
- The Name of the Rose-Umberto Eco
- Interview with a Vampire-Anne Rice
- Fear of Flying-Erica Jong
- Breakfast of Champions-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-Hunter Thompson
- Slaughterhouse 5- Kurt Vonnegut
- The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
- The Once and Future King-TH White
- Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak
- The Talented Mr. Ripley-Patricia Highsmith
- Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
- The Hobbitt-JRR Tolkien
- Out of Africa-Isak Dineson
- Cold Comfort Farm-Stella Gibbons
- The Hours-Virginia Woolfe
- Look Homeward, Angel-Thomas Wolfe
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
- Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
- Walden-Henry David Thoreau
- Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
- The House of 7 Gables-Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
- Lord of the Flies-William Golding
- On the Road—Jack Kerouac
- Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad
- Night-Ellie Wiesal
- The Hiding Place-Corrie Ten Boom
- The Golden Bough-James Frazer
- Valley of the Dolls-Jacqueline Susann
- The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand
The Pulitzer List-
- 1918 His Family-Ernest Poole
- 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons-Booth Tarkington
- 1920 No award
- 1921 The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton 2/28/10
- 1922 Alice Adams-Booth Tarkington
- 1923 One of Ours-Willa Cather
- 1924 The Able McLaughins-Margaret Wilson
- 1925 So Big-Edna Ferber
- 1926 Arrowsmith-Sinclair Lewis
- 1927 Early Autumn-Louis Bromfield
- 1928 The Bridge of San Luis Ray-Thorton Wilder
- 1929 Scarlet Sister-Julia Peterkin
- 1930 Laughing Boy-Oliver Lafarge
- 1931 Years of Grace-Margaret Ayer Barnes
- 1932 The Good Earth-Pearl S. Buck
- 1933 The Store-TS Stribling
- 1934 Lamb in His Bosom-Caroline Miller
- 1935 Now in November-Josephine Winslow Johnson
- 1936 Honey in the Horn-by Harold L Davis
- 1937 Gone with the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
- 1938 The Late George Apley-John Phillips Marquand
- 1939 The Yearling-Marjorie Rawlings
- 1940 The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
- 1941 No award
- 1942 In this Our Life-Ellen Glasgow
- 1943 Dragon’s Teeth-Upton Sinclair
- 1944 Journey in the Dark-Martin Flavin
- 1945 A Bell for Adano-John Hersey
- 1946 No award
- 1947 All the King’s Men-Robert Penn Warren
- 1948 Tales of the South Pacific-James A Michener 6/15/09
- 1949 Guards of Honor-James Cozzens
- 1950 The Way West-AB Guthrie
- 1951 The Town- Conrad Richter
- 1952 The Caine Mutiny-Herman Wouk
- 1953 The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemmingway
- 1954 No award
- 1955 A Fable-William Faulkner
- 1956 Andersonville-MacKinlay Kantor
- 1957 No award
- 1958 A Death in the Family-James Agee
- 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters-Robert Taylor
- 1960 Advise and Consent-Allen Drury
- 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
- 1962 The Edge of Sadness-Edwin O’Connor
- 1963 The Reiver-William Faulkner
- 1964 No award
- 1965 The Keepers of the House-Shirley Ann Grau
- 1966 Collected Stories-Katherine Anne Porter
- 1967 The Fixer-Bernard Malamud
- 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner-William Styron
- 1969 House Made of Dawn-N Scott Momaday
- 1970 Collected Stories-Jean Stafford
- 1971 No award
- 1972 Angle of Repose-Wallace Stegner
- 1973 The Optimist’s Daughter-Eudora Welty
- 1974 No award
- 1975 The Killer Angels-Michael Shaara
- 1976 Humboldt’s Gift-Saul Bellow
- 1977 No award
- 1978 Elbow Room-James Alan McPherson
- 1979 The Stories of John Cheever-John Cheever
- 1980 The Executioner’s Song-Norman Mailer
- 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
- 1982 Rabbit is Rich-John Updike
- 1983 The Color Purple-Alice Walker
- 1984 Ironweed-William Kennedy
- 1985 Foreign Affairs-Alison Lurie
- 1986 Lonesome Dove-Larry McMurtry
- 1987 A Summons to Memphis-Peter Taylor
- 1988 Beloved-Toni Morrison
- 1989 Breathing Lesson-Anne Tyler
- 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love-Oscar Hijuelos
- 1991 Rabbit at Rest-John Updike
- 1992 A Thousand Acres-Jane Smiley
- 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain-Robert Olen Butler
- 1994 The Shipping News-E. Annie Proulx
- 1995 The Stone Diaries-Carol Shields
- 1996 Independence Day-Richard Ford
- 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer-Steven Millhauser
- 1998 American Pastoral-Philip Roth
- 1999 The Hours-Michael Cunningham
- 2000 Interpreter of Maladies-Jhumpa Lahiri
- 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay-Michael Chabon
- 2002 Empire Falls-Richard Russo
- 2003 Middlesex-Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2004 The Known World-Edward Jones
- 2005 Gilead-Marilynne Robinson
- 2006 March-Geraldine Brooks
- 2007 The Road-Cormac McCarthy
- 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz
- 2009 Olive Kitteridge-Elizabeth Strout 12/12/09
Already Read-
- Emma-Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey-Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
- A Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
- The Awakening-Kate Chopin
- Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
- Lord of the Rings-JRR Tolkien
- Kidnapped-Robert Lewis Stevenson
- The Call of the Wild-Jack London
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
- The Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger
- The Scarlett Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Diary of Anne Frank-Anne Frank
- The Adventures of Huck Finn-Mark Twain
- Little Women-Louisa May Alcott
- Rebecca-Daphne Morey
- Little House on the Prairie-Laura Ingells Wilder
- Anne of Green Gables-LM Montgomery
- Matilda- Ronald Dahl
- Animal Farm-George Orwell