Pulitzer Prize

Award-Winning Books: The Best Novels Worth Reading

There has never been a worse time to choose what to read, only because there has never been more to choose from. This is the quiet use of the literary prize: a century of juries, doing a first pass of the sorting on our behalf.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners: The Complete List

Once a year a committee in New York names the finest American novel of the year and prints a single title where a whole literature might go. A century of those choices, read together, is one of the most revealing documents American letters possesses.

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