Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

My status on Pulitzer Reads with Star rating (# means read)

#1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole - 4
#1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington - 4
#1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - 5
#1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington - 3
#1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather - 4
#1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson - 3
#1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber - 4
#1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis - 4
1927 - Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Lewis Bromfield
#1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 3
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
#1930 - Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge - 3
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
#1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck - 3
1933 - The Store by Thomas S. Stribling
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
#1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson - 3
1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
1937 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1938 - The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
#1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - 4
#1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - 4
1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1943 - Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin - 4
1945 - A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
# 1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren - 3
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1950 - The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
#1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - 3
1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
#1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee - 4
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
#1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 4
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
#1965 - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau - 4
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
#1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron - 3
1969 - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970 - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
#1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner - 5
#1973 -The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - 4
1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981 -A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
#1982 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike - 4
#1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker - 3
#1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy - 3
1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
#1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - 4
#1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor - 3
#1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison - 3
1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
#1991 - Rabbit at Rest by John Updike - 4
1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
#1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Prolux - 3
#1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields - 4
#1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford - 4
#1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser - 5
#1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth - 3
#1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham - 3
#2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - 4
#2001 -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon - 4
#2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo - 4
#2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - 5
2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
#2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - 3
#2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks - 4
2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
#2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz - 4
#2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - 4
2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
#2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - 3
#2013 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson - 4
#2014 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 3
#2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 4
#2016 - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 3
2017 - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
#2018 - Less by Andrew Sean Greer - 3
#2019 - The Overstory by Richard Powers - 4
2020 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2021 - The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

1/28/21 - 47 read (added A Death in the Family & Laughing Boy)
4/1/21 - 48 read (added His Family - really, no April's Fool)
6/21/21 - 49 read (added The Sympathizer)
7/24/21 - 50 read (added Now in November)

You are doing great at this one :) I've only read 39 of them so far myself

Great to see another person doing this challenge. You are making great progress Brian

I am at 56 done.

I keep this list, but never seem to make progress. Looks like you have it well in hand.

You are well on your way to completing this. I was making pretty good progress and then slacked off--so, I can see it taking me a couple more years to finish. I love watching the progress others make on it, since it encourages me to keep pushing.

My 2021/2022 status on Pulitzer Reads with Star rating (# means read)
8/21/21 - 50 read:
7/30/22 - 53 read

#1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole - 4
#1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington - 4
#1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - 5
#1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington - 3
#1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather - 4
#1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson - 3
#1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber - 4
#1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis - 4
1927 - Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Lewis Bromfield
#1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 3
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
#1930 - Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge - 3
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
#1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck - 3
1933 - The Store by Thomas S. Stribling
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
#1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson - 3
1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
1937 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#1938 - The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand - 3
#1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - 4
#1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - 4
1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1943 - Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
#1945 - A Bell for Adano by John Hersey - 4
#1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren - 3
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1950 - The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
#1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk - 4
#1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - 3
1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
#1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee - 4
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
#1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 4
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
#1965 - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau - 4
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
#1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron - 3
1969 - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970 - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
#1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner - 5
#1973 -The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - 4
1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981 -A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
#1982 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike - 4
#1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker - 3
#1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy - 3
1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
#1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - 4
#1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor - 3
#1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison - 3
1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
#1991 - Rabbit at Rest by John Updike - 4
1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
#1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Prolux - 3
#1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields - 4
#1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford - 4
#1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser - 5
#1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth - 3
#1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham - 3
#2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - 4
#2001 -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon - 4
#2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo - 4
#2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - 5
2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
#2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - 3
#2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks - 4
2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
#2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz - 4
#2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - 4
2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
#2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - 3
#2013 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson - 4
#2014 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 3
#2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 4
#2016 - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 3
2017 - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
#2018 - Less by Andrew Sean Greer - 3
#2019 - The Overstory by Richard Powers - 4
2020 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2021 - The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

4/25/20 - 45 read
1/28/21 - 47 read (added A Death in the Family & Laughing Boy)
4/01/21 - 48 read (added His Family)
6/21/21 - 49 read (added The Sympathizer)
7/24/21 - 50 read (added Now in November)
12/28/21- 51 read (added A Bell for Adano)
6/11/22 - 52 read (added The Caine Mutiny)
6/24/22 - 53 read (added The Late George Apley)

Way to go, Brian! You and Sara are an inspiration and prompting me to set up my own Pulitzer challenge. I’ve read quit a few and a lot of others are on my TBR list. I appreciate that when you finish one you add your rating. Middlesex is on my list and I see you have it five stars. I should read that one soon!

Bravo, Brian! I also like the idea of putting your rating. The committee didn't always get it right, but in general I have enjoyed the ones I have read.

Thanks. I don't intend to ever complete the list. There is only one novel that was a DNF for me over the past 25 years and it's on this list - A Confederacy of Dunces. It's funny and kind of satisfying to see that several of you on this Group - Sara, Terry and Shirley - also disliked it.
My recollection from at least 20 years ago was that at about page 50 or so telling myself "I can't stand to spend another minute in the company of this Ignatius J. Reilly."
I normally can struggle through to the end of books I disliked. I've made it through many books with repulsive lead characters but for some reason, Mr. Reilly exceeded my tolerance limit. I failed to find any humor or interest in his behavior.

My updated July of 2023 status on Pulitzer Reads with Star rating (# means read)
At 3 read each year and 41 books left I should catch up on the Pulitzers in 21 years, as long as the Pulitzers STOP AWARDING THE PRIZE TO TWO BOOKS IN ONE YEAR.

8/21/21 - 50 read
7/30/22 - 53 read
7/15/23 - 56 read

#1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole - 4
#1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington - 4
#1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - 5
#1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington - 3
#1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather - 4
#1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson - 3
#1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber - 4
#1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis - 4
1927 - Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Lewis Bromfield
#1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 3
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
#1930 - Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge - 3
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
#1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck - 3
1933 - The Store by Thomas S. Stribling
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
#1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson - 3
1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
1937 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#1938 - The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand - 3
#1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - 4
#1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - 4
1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1943 - Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
#1945 - A Bell for Adano by John Hersey - 4
#1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren - 3
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
#1950 - The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. - 4+
#1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter - 5
#1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk - 4
#1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - 3
1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
#1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee - 4
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
#1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 4
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
#1965 - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau - 4
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
#1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron - 3
1969 - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970 - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
#1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner - 5
#1973 -The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty - 4
#1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara - 5
1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981 -A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
#1982 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike - 4
#1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker - 3
#1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy - 3
1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
#1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - 4
#1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor - 3
#1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison - 3
1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
#1991 - Rabbit at Rest by John Updike - 4
1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
#1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Prolux - 3
#1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields - 4
#1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford - 4
#1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser - 5
#1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth - 3
#1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham - 3
#2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - 4
#2001 -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon - 4
#2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo - 4
#2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - 5
2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
#2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - 3
#2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks - 4
2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
#2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz - 4
#2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - 4
2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
#2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - 3
#2013 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson - 4
#2014 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - 3
#2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 4
#2016 - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 3
2017 - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
#2018 - Less by Andrew Sean Greer - 3
#2019 - The Overstory by Richard Powers - 4
2020 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2021 - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
2022 - The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
2023 - Trust by Herman Diaz
2023 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

4/25/20 - 45 read
1/28/21 - 47 read (added A Death in the Family & Laughing Boy)
4/01/21 - 48 read (added His Family)
6/21/21 - 49 read (added The Sympathizer)
7/24/21 - 50 read (added Now in November)
12/28/21- 51 read (added A Bell for Adano)
6/11/22 - 52 read (added The Caine Mutiny)
6/24/22 - 53 read (added The Late George Apley)
7/15/23 - 56 read (added The Town, The Way West & The Killer Angels)

A wonderful challenge and good luck in completing it!. I have read about 40 of the titles but you have given me the inspiration to read more.

Coming right along, Brian! I'm glad you enjoyed The Killer Angels. I have been neglecting my Pulitzer challenge--the closer you get the harder it seems to be to tick them off.

I plan on reading The Killer Angel's this year as well
(doing 10 books a year means I'm only lacking about 20 books, but some of them are getting hard to come by...)

Julie wrote: "(doing 10 books a year means I'm only lacking about 20 books, but some of them are getting hard to come by...)"

Wow, 10 a year is a lot. Truthfully I don't expect to or plan to read some of them as there are some that look like a waste of time. As with reading Nobel winners, I just believe I need to read more of them in order for me to consider myself any kind of learned reader of literature.