Has your book club read a Pulitzer Prize award winner?

Recently, the Pulitzer Prize committee made headlines when they did not select a winner for the fiction category.  This award has a long and storied history “honoring excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917.” First things first, how do you properly pronounce the name of this award? According to the Pulitzer FAQ the correct pronunciation is “PULL it  sir.” Now, how about selecting one of the Pulitzer titles for your book club to read? Here are the titles we have in our collection with the year they were awarded the prestigious honor: 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 6 copies 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks, 8 copies, 1 audio 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo, 11 copies, 1 audio 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham, 15 copies 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 5 copies 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, 21 copies 1947 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, 13 copies 1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 10 copies Please use this request form to let us know if you’d like to borrow any of these titles!
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