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Women Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction

This month we will be celebrating women authors who have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Here is a list of authors and book titles that won them the prize.

You may choose to read the prize winning titles or any other books written by these authors.

1921 Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence
1923 Willa Cather for One of Ours
1924 Margaret Wilson for The Able McLaughlins
1925 Edna Ferber for So Big
1929 Julia Peterkin for Scarlet Sister
1931 Margaret Ayer Barnes for Years of Grace
1932 Pearl Buck for The Good Earth
1934 Caroline Miller for Lamb in His Bosom
1935 Josephine Winslow Johnson for Now in November
1937 Margaret Mitchell for Gone with the Wind
1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for The Yearling
1942 Ellen Glasgow for In This Our Life
1961 Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird
1965 Shirley Ann Grau for The Keepers of the House
1966 Katherine Anne Porter for The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1970 Jean Stafford for Collected Stories
1973 Eudora Welty for The Optimist's Daughter
1983 Alice Walker for The Color Purple
1985 Alison Lurie for Foreign Affairs
1988 Toni Morrison for Beloved
1989 Anne Tyler for Breathing Lessons
1992 Jane Smiley for A Thousand Acres
1994 E. Annie Proulx for The Shipping News
1995 Carol Shields for The Stone Diaries
2000 Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
2005 Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
2006 March, Geraldine Brooks
2009 Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

Post your thoughts on your choices in this thread.

I've read 6 of them already - possibly seven. Edit - make that 5 finished, one unfinished.

I was intending to read a Willa Cather this month - could read One of Ours if I can get my kindle connected

I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird.

I'm going to read by Edith Wharton

I've not read any of hers! Seen the movies/tv series of various books she's written, but not this one.

I have read the first five chapters of The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton in which we meet the main character Undine Spragg, self-absorbed, vain, snobbish young lady that is horribly indulged by her parents. So much so, that, even though they can't afford to, she has persuaded them to move to New York so she can break into the social scene.

Not read any Edith Wharton before, but liking her writing style in this book anyway.

I've read three but also have March and Gone with the Wind on my bookshelf. I'm a bit behind in my yearly challenges though so may have to focus my reading on that.

I also have a copy of March on my bookshelf. Unlikely to read it this month tho, as I have a chunky historical waiting at the library.

tehehe I haven't read any of these books and I don't think any are on my TBR... how Uncivilised of me! Will let you know if I read something from this list but it's not likely.

Sharlene wrote: "tehehe I haven't read any of these books and I don't think any are on my TBR... how Uncivilised of me! Will let you know if I read something from this list but it's not likely."

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Sharlene, feeling a bit uncivilized myself, haven't heard of the majority of these books and/or authors!

Just finished To Kill A Mockingbird and reading The Color Purple in the next few months. I think I will give The Age of Innocence a go, but probably not till next year...

5* reads for me Age of Innocence, Gone With the Wind, The Colour Purple, Beloved
4* The Shipping News
DNF The Good Earth.

Other than Age of Innocence all read a long time ago. Other than planning to read the Willa Cather, I'm pretty sure I have The Stone Diaries in the house somewhere. I have put Message From the Goon Squad on one of my to-read lists, but won't be before Dec - so outside the time .this challenge.

Ace I haven't heard of quite a few of those authors either. I'm expecting they haven't worn well.

I've now acquired Breathing Lessons, but unlikely to get read this month.

I very much enjoyed The Custom of the Country. I don't know much about Edith Wharton nor am I familiar with her works, but after reading this I certainly intend reading more and finding out about her.

This book was very much a satire, and possibly like Kathleen, I wasn't meant to find it so humorous but several times I laughed out loud. Except at her treatment of her son Paul - ugh. Undine managed to marry four times, although had only three husbands, in her quest to better her social standing (in her eyes). She never changed much from the vain, self-serving, despicable woman she started as. She was a truly wonderful character with a marvellous supporting cast, and I'm sure in the period it was written it was a story ahead of its time.
4 stars