Pulitzers

Posted on Sep 24, 2007 7:47 PM

We have had the opportunity to read two Pulitzer Prize winning novels with Oprah this year. Join us in reading our way back through the Pulitzers of the last 15+ years. Here is our reading schedule through December, 2008:

October March
by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

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November Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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December The
Known World
by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

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January Empire
Falls
by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)

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February The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon (Random House)

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March Interpreter
of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

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April The Hours
by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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May American
Pastoral
by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

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June Martin
Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
by Steven Millhauser (Crown)

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July Independence
Day
by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)

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August The Stone
Diaries
by Carol Shields (Viking)

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September The
Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

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October A Good
Scent from a Strange Mountain
by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)

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November A
Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf

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December Rabbit
At Rest
by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)

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Please let us know if you want to join us!
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Replies: 25
1. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 24, 2007 9:20 PM   |   In response to: mbkenned

Hey, is this Mary (Zorro) ? This is a coincidence because my face to face book club is reading March next month too! I'll pop in for the discussion. :) This is a great list of books. B-) Tea ( who posts at the 40s and Somedays)

2. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 24, 2007 11:21 PM   |   In response to: mbkenned

Hi Mary, I have a few of these books. I didn't know the Interpreter of Maladies won a Pulitzer. I never finished it, but liked it, I will jump in when I can on books ion the year. Jill

3. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 25, 2007 10:14 AM   |   In response to: bookwing

Hi Tea and Jill,

I hope we will have enough interest for a few good discussions. I am interested in seeing what makes these books award winners. Perhaps others will join us.

MaryZorro

4. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 26, 2007 5:31 AM   |   In response to: mbkenned

Hi Tea,Mary and others,
I am a reader whose read many classics and other books.I don't think I have ever been hip to new books or discussions but I'm interested in this.
I think that would be a great bookclub!I can't wait to get started in reading them.I will feel around on the site and see where I feel most comfortable.I think the Pulitzers would be a good place to start.Have a wonderful day if i can't get back on today.
Regards,Melinda

5. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 26, 2007 1:08 PM   |   In response to: ohcaptain

Hi Melinda,


So glad that you are considering joining us. Come on back and let us know that you have decided to start with our October book!


MaryZorro

6. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 27, 2007 1:32 AM   |   In response to: mbkenned

Hola Mary. Great idea for a reading group. I own a few of those and might jump in for them as long as I'm not reading too much that month. Good luck. I'll prolly be lurking in on your discussions (also to see why they are pulitzer winners).

Anne

7. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 27, 2007 6:35 AM   |   In response to: mbkenned

What a great idea. I am going to plan on joinging you on The Known World because I have it on my shelf and I couldn't get to it when other clubs were reading it.

Barb NY

8. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 27, 2007 12:08 PM   |   In response to: mbkenned

Who will be reading our October selection? Let me know if you are planning on joining us for this book.

MaryZorro

October ..... March
by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

9. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 27, 2007 8:25 PM   |   In response to: mbkenned

Raising my hand yes!! Tea

10. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 29, 2007 10:06 PM   |   In response to: mbkenned

October:

I am reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and Close Range. I guess I will sit March out.....

Jill

11. Re: Pulitzers
Sep 30, 2007 2:40 PM   |   In response to: jill188

I am reading Close Range now and then 100 Years for the second time; then Passion of Artemesia and something else? I can't remember....But Jill, I have a lot more time to read.

MaryZorro

12. Re: Pulitzers
Oct 1, 2007 1:07 PM   |   In response to: mbkenned

Hi!
ekk!I have been on the boards for a few days and have posted a few times.I am looking for the book about an Opera house that burnt down in 1996 with first hand accounts and history about it.It was on one of the discussion groups here in the book club and they even had an Oct.schedule for the chapters.Does anyone know what the name of the book is?I wish i would of wrote it down but I thought i would keep the group sience the book sounded fabalous and would remember the title later. Ohmygosh,that didn't work out so I thought maybe someone else saw it too.Thank you.
Regards,Melinda

13. Re: Pulitzers
Oct 5, 2007 6:25 AM   |   In response to: mbkenned

I give up!

I am having a very hard time posting on the Oprah
boards. I will be back to discuss Pulitzers when
the Oprah crew gets this new board working for us.

See you all then!

Mary

14. Re: Pulitzers
Oct 5, 2007 7:29 AM   |   In response to: mbkenned

HI, can you please email our Technical Help staff and explain what issues you are having this morning. If you don't report it to them, they are unable to assist in troubleshooting. To email Technical Help just click the Oprah.com drop down menu, then click EMAIL US. Scroll down the page til you see the Email Technical Help link.

Thanks so much for your assistance. :)

-HarpoBear, Oprah.com Community Producer

15. Re: Pulitzers
Oct 5, 2007 10:36 AM   |   In response to: harpobear

HarpoBear, I have emailed them over and over again...they don't even respond and the problem does not get fixed.

Mary

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