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The Definitive Ranking of Pulitzer Prize Winning Novels

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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1993): Bad News From Huntsville
The Way West (1950) – The World’s Longest Paper Chain and Other Impossible Things
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1959): What We Bring Home
The Edge of Sadness (1962): The Long Afterlife of Kindness
Empire Falls (2002): Grace in Stoppage Time

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#51 Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988): As Yoda Would Say, Love or Hate. There is No Like. Hmm. (alternate title: I Did Not Love It. Controversy?)

June 5, 2016
#52 Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996): Mid-life, Motorcycles & Motorhead (but no aliens)

March 23, 2016
#53 How Shakespeare, Baby Names, and the Tower of Terror Provided Proper Perspective on A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992)

October 25, 2015
#55 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1995): Reality Bites, but that’s Totally OK

June 24, 2015
#56 – March by Geraldine Brooks (2006): The Road Yes Travelled

May 24, 2015
#57 – House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1969): When the Moon is in the Seventh House, Sometimes Peace Will Guide the Planets, but Sometimes You Just Need to Tone Down the Drug Use

March 27, 2015
#58 – “Breathing Lessons” by Anne Tyler (1989): Stop Me if You Think You’ve Heard This One Before, but nothing says the 80s like Journey, Anne Tyler, and bad marriages

February 8, 2015
#59 – The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (1973). More meh than boo-yah! But there’s something to be learned from meh.

January 8, 2015
#60 – Lighting the corners of my mind: Mem’ries of Led Zeppelin III and The Tinkers by Paul Harding (2010)

December 24, 2014
#61 – Let’s Give Credit Where Credit Is Due: How Parenting Taught Me Not to Totally Hate Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1997)

November 6, 2014

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