1.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. It won the Pulitzer in 2001.
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2.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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3.
MIddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
This book spans 80 years of a stained family history and won the Pulitzer in 2003.
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4.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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5.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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6.
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
This book is a bestselling novel that explores the tragicomic realities of small-town life with poignancy and humor. It won the Pulitzer in 2002.
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7.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
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8.
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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9.
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
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10.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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11.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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12.
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
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13.
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
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14.
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
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15.
A Death in the Family by James Agee
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16.
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
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17.
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
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18.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
This 1999 winner focuses on three interwoven novellas in varying degrees connected to Virginia Woolf.
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19.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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20.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The 1988 winner is set in the troubled years following the Civil War, when the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave.
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