Pulitzer Prize Update

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:

2017) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (read)
2016) The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2014) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2013) The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2012) No award... Finalists:

          Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (read it and love it!)

          Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
          The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

2011) A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (read)
2010) Tinkers by Paul Harding (read)
2009) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2008) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (read it and love it)
2007) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006) March by Geraldine Brooks
2005) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson  (read it and love it!)
2004) The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (read)
2002) Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2000) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (read)
1998) American Pastoral by Philip Roth (read)
1974) Did not get the prize but: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (read)
1961) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (read)
1957) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (read)

Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:

2017) Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
2016) Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
2015) The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (read)
2014) Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
2013) Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
2012) The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
2011) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (read)
2010) The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
2005) Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden ... by Steve Coll (read)
1998) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (read)
1974) The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (read)


Other Pulitizer Prizes:
2010) Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (read)
2002) John Adams by David McCullough (read)
1998) Personal History by Katharine Graham (read)
1992) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (read)
1957) Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (read)