Pulitzer Prize - Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author, typically dealing with American life.
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All the light we cannot see : a novel2014
Summary: "From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both... more »- place hold (0)
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Gone with the wind1964
Summary: Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels... more »- place hold (1)
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The color purple1992
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author.
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Staff PickLonesome Dove : a novel2000
Summary: A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever... more »- place hold (0)
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The killer angels : a novel of the Civil War2004
Summary: A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil... more »- place hold (0)
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Angle of repose2000
Summary: Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery -- personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe road2006
Summary: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky... more »- place hold (0)
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Middlesex2002
Summary: A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of... more »- place hold (0)
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Middlesex2003
Summary: Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickBeloved : a novel1987
Summary: Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional... more »- place hold (0)
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For whom the bell tolls1995
Summary: In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight,"... more »- place hold (0)
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The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao2007
Summary: GREAT CONDITION, LIGHT SHELF WEAR, WILL SHIP FAST!Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: It's been 11 years since Junot Da'aaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on... more »- place hold (0)
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Princess diaries2008
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickOlive Kitteridge2008
Summary: At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.- place hold (0)
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The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel2000
Summary: With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic... more »- place hold (0)
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The shipping news1993
Summary: When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and... more »- place hold (0)
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The overstory : a novel2018
Summary: A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.EBOOK
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The overstory : a novel2018
Summary: A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.- place hold (0)
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The hours1998
Summary: A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickEmpire Falls2001
Summary: "Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and... more »- place hold (0)
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Gilead2004
Summary: "Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe sympathizer2015
Summary: Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.- place hold (0)
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The orphan master's son : a novel2012
Summary: "Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of... more »- place hold (0)
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American pastoral1998
Summary: An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history when, in 1968 his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickA thousand acres1991
Summary: A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth... more »- place hold (0)
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The sixth extinction : an unnatural history2014
Summary: Over the last half billion years , there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth... more »- place hold (0)
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March2005
Summary: As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his... more »- place hold (0)
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The bridge of San Luis Rey2004
Summary: "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge... more »- place hold (0)
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The yearling2002
Summary: A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.- place hold (0)
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Independence day1995
Summary: Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and... more »- place hold (0)
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The confessions of Nat Turner1992
Summary: In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery. The revolt was led by a... more »- place hold (0)
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A visit from the Goon Squad2010
Summary: Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages,... more »- place hold (0)
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Less : a novel2018
Summary: You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too... more »- place hold (0)
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Less : a novel2018
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his... more »- place hold (0)
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Less : a novel2017
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his... more »E-AUDIOBOOK
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Less : a novel2017
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his... more »EBOOK
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Staff PickLess : a novel2017
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his... more »- place hold (0)
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Less : a novel2018
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his... more »- place hold (0)
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Tinkers2009
Summary: Pulitzer Prize Winner and New York Times Bestseller "There are few perfect debut American novels. . . . To this list ought to be added Paul Harding's devastating first book, Tinkers. . . .... more »- place hold (0)
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Breathing lessons1998
Summary: The triumphant Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller from the author of Ladder of Years and The Accidental Tourist..".More powerful and moving than anything she has done". --... more »- place hold (0)
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