The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)
By: Booth Tarkington
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl…
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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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3. The Way West (The Big Sky, #2)
By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The sequel to The Big Sky, The Way West is the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the American West by… read more
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4. The Ginger Man
By: J.P. Donleavy
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is … read more
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5. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)
By: Booth Tarkington
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more
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6. 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
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. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. The Reivers
By: William Faulkner
4.21
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car … read more
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12. Tobacco Road (Brown Thrasher Books)
By: Lewis Nordan , Erskine Caldwell
4.38
Format: None pages,
Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Roadwas f… read more
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13. An American Tragedy
By: Richard R. Lingeman , Theodore Dreiser
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
On one level, An American Tragedyis the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde G… read more
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14. A Fable
By: William Faulkner
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Lamb in His Bosom
By: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese , Caroline Miller
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
In 1934, Caroline Miller's novel Lamb in His Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It was th… read more
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18. 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
19. 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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20. 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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21. Ironweed
By: William Kennedy
3.68
Format: 336 pages,
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he… read more
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