This year marks the 100th year of Pulitzer Prizes. Over the past century Pulitzer Prizes awards have honored excellence in journalism and the arts. If you’re looking to discover some excellent reads check out these Pulitzer Prize winners.
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Category: Fiction
Year: 2014
According to the Pulitzer Prize: “A beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn characters that follows a grieving boy’s entanglement with a small famous painting that has eluded destruction, a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart.”
Reading Challenge Category: A book over 500 pages
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Other work by Donna Tartt:
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Category: Fiction
Year: 2013
According to the Pulitzer Prize: “An exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.”
Reading Challenge Category: Books set on each continent
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Other work by Adam Johnson:
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Category: Fiction
Year: 2011
According to the Pulitzer Prize: “An inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.”
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Other work by Jennifer Egan:
The Best of It by Kay Ryan
Category: Poetry
Year: 2011
According to the Pulitzer Prize: “A body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.”
Reading Challenge Category: A book of poetry
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Other work by Kay Ryan
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Category: Fiction
Year: 2010
According to the Pulitzer Prize: “A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.”
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Other work by Paul Harding
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Versed by Rae Armantrout
Category: Poetry
Year: 2010
According to the Pulitzer Prize: “A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.”
Reading Challenge Category: A book of poetry
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Other work by Rae Armantrout
Margaret Fuller by Megan Marshall
Category: Biography
Year: 2014
According to the Pulitzer Prize: “A richly researched book that tells the remarkable story of a 19th century author, journalist, critic and pioneering advocate of women’s rights who died in a shipwreck.”
Reading Challenge Category: A book by a female author with a female protagonist
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Other work by Megan Marshall
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