A couple of years ago, I decided to read every winner. The process has slowed down a bit because some of these books just aren't very good. But today I'm starting another: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey. How many have you read? This is a complete list:

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Posted on 6/2/18 at 2:48 pm to Adajax

These are the ones I've read so far:

His Family by Earnest Poole (1918)
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919)
no award given 1920
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921)
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (1922)
One of Ours by Willa Cather (1923)
The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (1924)
So Big by Edna Ferber (1925)
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1926)
Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (1927)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928)
Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1929)
Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1930)
Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931)
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck (1932)
The Store by T.S. Stribling (1933)
Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (1934)
Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (1935)
Honey in the Horn by Harold L Davis (1936)
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937)
The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand (1938)
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinan Rawlings (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1940)
no award given 1941
In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow(1942)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953)
Andersonville by MacKinley Kantor (1956)
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961)
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1986)
Empire Falls by Richard Russo (2002)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)
The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004)
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (2013)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2015

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Posted by Tigris

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Posted on 6/2/18 at 4:10 pm to Adajax

Interesting:

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2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

OK, not even top tier McCarthy. The process is suspect to be honest.

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2012: No award given.

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Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (posthumous nominee)"

I read the Pale King. About 3% was interesting. The rest was stunningly tedious. That was the intention.

And then DFW killed himself. I'm a huge fan of DFW but this was a pretty awesomely terrible experience.

If this award is some sort of posthumous award OK, but it's not for best literature.

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