Alice Adams
By: Booth Tarkington
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "…
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1. The Yearling
By: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4.03
Format: 513 pages, Paperback
No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts … read more
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"Words began fights and words ended them."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
"I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
"He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
"Well, son, you cain’t go thru life chunkin’ things at all the ugly women you meet."-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
2. His Family
By: Ernest Poole
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this 1918 Pulitzer Prize winning story, widower Roger Gale struggles to deal with the way his ch… read more
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- american
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3. Years of Grace
By: Margaret Ayer Barnes
3.70
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
She fought the battle of the generations victoriously because she understood both the years of grac… read more
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4. One of Ours
By: Willa Cather
3.95
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
One of Ours is Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American sol… read more
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"As he looked out and saw the grey landscape through the gently falling snow, he could not help thinking how much better it would be if people could go to sleep like the fields; could be blanketed dow…"-Willa Cather, One of Ours
"He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes; of making exc…"-Willa Cather, One of Ours
5. The Late George Apley
By: John P. Marquand
0.00
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
A modern classic restored to print -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that charts the diminishing … read more
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6. Scarlet Sister Mary
By: Julia Peterkin , A.J. Verdelle
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the Afri… read more
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7. Arrowsmith
By: E.L. Doctorow , Sinclair Lewis
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Originally published in 1925, after three years of anticipation, the book follows the life of Marti… read more
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8. Tales of the South Pacific
By: James A. Michener
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the… read more
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9. A Bell for Adano
By: John Hersey
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople whe… read more
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10. Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
By: Oliver La Farge , Wanden Lafarge Gomez
4.04
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first nove… read more
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11. In This Our Life
By: Ellen Glasgow
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This novel is an analytical study of the feeling of kinship as it is manifested in the Timberlake f… read more
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12. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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13. Alice Adams
By: Booth Tarkington
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "… read more
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14. The Able McLaughlins (The McLaughlins, #1)
By: Margaret Wilson
3.65
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
This neglected novel tells the story of Wully McLaughlin coming home from the Civil War to find his… read more
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15. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more
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16. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
By: Robert Olen Butler
3.68
Format: None pages,
Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam … read more
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17. So Big
By: Edna Ferber
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Author Edna Ferber described the story of So Big as being about a "material man, son of his earth-g… read more
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"I want you to see all kinds,"-Edna Ferber, So Big
"Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?"-Edna Ferber, So Big
"You just go until you come to a closed door. And you say "Open Sesame!" and there you are."-Edna Ferber, So Big
"About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad."-Edna Ferber, So Big
18. Now in November
By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more
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19. Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady
By: Louis Bromfield
4.14
Format: 438 pages,
Bromfield takes a close look at the Pentlands- a fictional rich family in New England- exposing the… read more
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20. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
By: Steven Millhauser
3.56
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In th… read more
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"Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric elevators and street-car ads, of the city pressing its way no…"-Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
21. Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd, #3)
By: Upton Sinclair
4.05
Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize Winner: An American in Germany fights against the rising tide of Nazi terror in this… read more
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