Booklist
I started some booklists because I felt like I wasn’t reading at all, and I wanted to prove to myself I was. Spoiler alert: I was! This led me to my book project: read all of the Pulitzer Prize winners for fiction. Keep scrolling down to see the ones I have read so far out of 103 winners.
2020
Untamed, Glennon Doyle
Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh
It’s Not Your Money, Tosha Silver
Who Stole My Bible, Jennifer Butler
Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss
No Ashes in the Fire, Darnell L. Moore
Attached, Levine & Heller
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby
December 2020
City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Sometimes You Have to Lie: Louise Fitzhugh bio, Leslie Brody
2021
Essential Ernest, Ernest Holmes
Broken, Jenny Lawson
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
The Culture Map, Erin Meyer
The Removed, Brandon Hobson
Queen of Dreams, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Prisoner, Jason Rezaian
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb
Crucial Conversations, various authors
400 Souls, Anthology
Clock Dance, Anne Tyler
Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri
Educated, Tara Westover
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Unbound, Tarana Burke
Atomic Habits, James Clear
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson (Pulitzer)
2022
Based on a True Story, Norm Macdonald
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes
We’re Speaking: The Life Lessons of Kamala Harris, Hitha Palepu
It’s About Damn Time, Arlan Hamilton
The Go-Giver, Bob Burg
Dream of Ding Village, Yan Lianke
The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker
The Myth of Perpetual Summer, Susan Crandall
Snow, Glass, Apples by Colleen Doran
Why Fish Don’t Exist, Lulu Miller
Discovering Dahlias, Erin Benzakein
Reading Pulitzer Prize Winners 20/103
1930 – Laughing Boy
1937 – Gone with the Wind
1940 – The Grapes of Wrath
1961 – To Kill a Mockingbird
1980 – The Executioner’s Song
1981 – A Confederacy of Dunces
1983 – The Color Purple
1994 – The Shipping News
1996 – Independence Day
2002 – Empire Falls
2003 – Middlesex
2006 – The Road
2009 – Olive Kitteridge
2010 – Tinkers
2011 – A Visit from the Goon Squad
2013 – The Orphan Master’s Son (ok, this one defeated me. I didn’t finish).
2014 – The Goldfinch
2016 – The Sympathizer
2018 – Less
2019 – The Overstory