The Best Pulitzer Prize Winning Novels
Next on your reading list: something from this list of the best Pulitzer Prize-winning novels. These are essentially the greatest books of fiction in the history of literature. Are you looking to buy a collection of the best novels of all time? According to the most prestigious prize out there, this list contains every single book deserving of such a title. Men and women can read these Pulitzer Prize winners to bed every night. Some of them are even appropriate for young adults or even younger, such as Harper Lee's famed To Kill A Mockingbird.
Speaking of Mockingbird, you will notice something interesting as you peruse this list of the best Pulitzer Prize-winning novels of all time. So many of these winners for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction have been turned, or are currently being turned into, major motion pictures. It is clear that movie producers in Hollywood know when there is a good story that could garner critical claim with an adapted screenplay.
This list of all novels that won the Pulitzer Prize includes beloved classes like The Color Purple, The Old Man and the Sea, and Lonesome Dove. Other newer titles on the list, like Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Jerry Eugenides's Middlesex are prime examples of modern literature that you should add to your book collection - if you haven't already. This Pulitzer Prize fiction list is guaranteed to keep your turning pages all day long.- 1Harper Lee
- First Published: 1960-07-11
- Subjects: Monarch, Literary, Literature, Classics, Drama
- Genres (Book): Fiction
- Original Language: English Language
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and ...more - 2John Steinbeck
- First Published: 1939
- Subjects: California, Great Depression in the United States, Dust Bowl, Oklahoma
- Genres (Book): Novel
- Original Language: English Language
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently ...more - 3Anthony Doerr
- 4Edith Wharton
- First Published: 1920
- Subjects: Literary, Upper class, Marriage, Education, Literature
- Genres (Book): Romance novel, Fiction, Novel
- Original Language: English Language
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York ...more - 5Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 1985
- Genres (Book): Fiction, Novel
- Original Language: English Language
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel written by Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series, but the third installment in the series ...more - 6Margaret Mitchell
- First Published: 1936-06-30
- Subjects: Women, Plantations in the American South, United States of America, American Civil War, History
- Genres (Book): Historical fiction, Fiction, Novel
- Original Language: English Language
Gone with the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It ...more
