Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Pulitzer Reading Update This morning I finished reading Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I think it is my favorite Pulitzer book so far. A very entertaining and engrossing story with excellent character development. Scarlett O'Hara is a manipulative, shallow, selfish, and ultimately tragic character but you can't help feeling for her. Rhett Butler is probably the most colorful and interesting book character I have ever encountered.
I understand the author used to write historical articles on the Civil War so i would guess her background knowledge is very accurate. I was fascinated by the society in the South at the time, especially how the interaction between the slaves and their owners, as well as the social hierarchy for both whites and blacks.

My next read will be Alica Adams by Booth Tarkington.

If anyone wants to obtain my copy of Gone With The Wind, I have it listed on Bookmooch: http://www.bookmooch.com/m/detail/1125516755 but you'd better hurry as it is on 2 wishlists so will probably be gone very quickly.

Here is my rating list:

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
His Family by Ernest Poole
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder *

...and here is the updated full list with those read in bold.

# 1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
# 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
# 1920: no award given
# 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
# 1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
# 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
# 1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
# 1925: So Big by Edna Ferber
# 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined prize)
# 1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
# 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
# 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
# 1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
# 1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
# 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
# 1933: The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling
# 1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
# 1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
# 1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
# 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
# 1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
# 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
# 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
# 1941: no award given
# 1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
# 1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
# 1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
# 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
# 1946: no award given
# 1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
* 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
* 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
* 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
* 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
* 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
* 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
* 1954: No award given
* 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
* 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
* 1957: No award given
* 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
* 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
* 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
* 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
* 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
* 1964: No award given
* 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
* 1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
* 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
* 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
* 1971: No award given
* 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
* 1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
* 1974: No award given [1]
* 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
* 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
* 1977: No award given
* 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
* 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
* 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
* 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
* 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
* 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
* 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
* 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
* 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
* 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
* 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
* 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
* 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
* 1991: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
* 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
* 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
* 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
* 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
* 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
* 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
* 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
* 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
* 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
* 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
* 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
* 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
* 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
* 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout