Title↕ | Author↕ | Year Won↕ | Published↕ | Subject↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 1921 | 1920 | Old New York society |
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1940 | 1939 | Great Depression / Dust Bowl |
A Bell for Adano | John Hersey | 1945 | 1944 | WWII occupation of Italy |
All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren | 1947 | 1946 | Southern politics |
The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 1953 | 1952 | Cuban fisherman |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1961 | 1960 | Racial injustice in the South |
The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron | 1968 | 1967 | Slave rebellion |
The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty | 1973 | 1972 | Southern family |
The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 1983 | 1982 | Black women in the South |
Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | 1986 | 1985 | Texas cattle drive |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1988 | 1987 | Slavery and memory |
Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler | 1989 | 1988 | Marriage / family |
The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | 1994 | 1993 | Newfoundland life |
Independence Day | Richard Ford | 1996 | 1995 | Suburban middle age |
American Pastoral | Philip Roth | 1998 | 1997 | 1960s America |
The Hours | Michael Cunningham | 1999 | 1998 | Three women, one day |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon | 2001 | 2000 | Golden age of comics |
Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 2003 | 2002 | Greek American intersex |
The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 2007 | 2006 | Post-apocalyptic America |
A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | 2011 | 2010 | Music industry / time |
The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 2014 | 2013 | Stolen painting / grief |
The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2016 | 2015 | Vietnam War / double agent |
The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | 2017 | 2016 | Slavery escape |
The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead | 2020 | 2019 | Reform school abuse |
The Netanyahus | Joshua Cohen | 2022 | 2021 | Academic satire |
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