I've decided that in addition to the a million other reading goals I have, and the general time-suck that is fanfic reading and writing, what I really needed was another challenge... :P

Basically, I really want to read all of the Pulitzer Prize winning novels. Because, why not?

I've only read about 12% of the books on the list, so it will probably take me a while to get through these. My goal is to finish by Sept 2018, which would mean reading 3-4 books per month. I've gone through and marked the ones my library doesn't have available on audio/ebook (since those will be more inconvenient to track down), and I've also marked the shorter audiobooks for when I want to knock something out quickly on my work commute. I've currently got the most recent winner on hold at the library, but after that, I'm wide open in terms of what to read next.

Any suggestions? Any books on here that I HAVE to read ASAP? How many of these books have you all read?

Pulitzer Prize Winners (novels/fiction)

Including date read, star rating, and link to review. Right now I am counting books as "read" even if I read them 5+ years ago, though ideally I'd like to reread those books as well.

complete: (18/89)

1918: His Family by Ernest Poole [not on library overdrive]
1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton read 11/2016, 4 stars
1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington read 12/2016, 2 stars
1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson [not on library overdrive]
1925: So Big by Edna Ferber read in 09/2016, 3.5 stars
1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined prize) [not on library overdrive]
1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield [not available at library]
1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder read in 09/2016, 4 stars
1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin [not on library overdrive]
1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge [not on library overdrive]
1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes [not available at library]
1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck [audiobook = 10 hrs] currently reading
1933: The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling [not on library overdrive]
1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller [not available at library]
1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson [not on library overdrive]
1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis [not available at library]
1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell read 2005, 5 stars (one of my all time favorite books)
1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand [not on library overdrive]
1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings [not on library overdrive]
1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck read 2007, 3 stars
1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow [not on library overdrive]
1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair [not on library overdrive]
1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin [not available at library]
1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey [not on library overdrive]
1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener [not on library overdrive]
1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens [not on library overdrive]
1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. [not the first in the series]
1951: The Town by Conrad Richter [not on library overdrive]
1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk currently checked out
1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway read in 2006, 3 stars
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee [audiobook = 10 hrs]
1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor [not on library overdrive]
1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury [not available at library]
1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee read most recently in college, 4 stars
1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor [not on library overdrive]
1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau [audiobook less than 10 hrs]
1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter [not on library overdrive]
1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud [audiobook less than 10 hrs]
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 [not on library overdrive]
1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara [not the first in the series]
1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson [not on library overdrive]
1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever [not on library overdrive]
1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike [not the first in the series]
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker katmarajade recs!
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy [not on library overdrive]
1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie [not on library overdrive]
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry lq_traintracks recs!
1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor [not on library overdrive]
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison read 08/2016, 3 stars
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos [not on library overdrive]
1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike [not the first in the series]
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler read 08/2016, 4.5 stars
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx vaysh recs!
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 theimpossiblegl recs!
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri [audiobook less than 10 hrs + lq_traintracks recs!]
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon katmarajade recs!
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides nia_kantorka recs!
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson [audiobook less than 10 hrs]
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy read 09/2016, 2.5 stars
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz read 2008, 5 stars
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding read 09/2016, 3.5 stars
2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Read 07/2015, 4 stars
2013: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt read 11/2014, 3 stars
2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr read 05/2015, 5 stars
2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen read 11/2016, 4 stars