How many of these Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners have YOU read?

Columbia University announced this year’s round of Pulitzer Prize winners yesterday, and a number of outstanding books brought home top honors this year.

"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other finalists for that award this year included “The Son” by Philipp Meyer and “The Woman Who Lost Her Soul” by Bob Shacochis.

Other winners this year included "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832" by Alan Taylor, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Other nominees in the history category were “A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America” by Jacqueline Jones and “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety” by Eric Schlosser.

"Margaret Fuller: A New American Life" by Megan Marshall won the Pulitzer for Biography.

Other nominees in the biography category included “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World” by Leo Damrosch and “Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life” by Jonathan Sperber.

"Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation" by Dan Fagin won for General Nonfiction.

Other nominees in the general nonfiction category were “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide” by Gary J. Bass and “The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War” by Fred Kaplan.

Before I wrap this thing up, I leave you with a complete list of the all-time winners in the Fiction category. If you’re looking for a good book, you won’t go wrong with any of these. Without further ado, here’s the list:

1917 – No Award.
1918 – “His Family” by Ernest Poole
1919 – “The Magnificant Ambersons” by Booth Tarkington
1920 - No Award

1921 – “The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton
1922 – “Alice Adams” by Booth Tarkington
1923 – “One of Ours” by Willa Cather
1924 – “The Able McLaughlins” by Margaret Wilson
1925 – “So Big” by Edna Ferber

1926 – “Arrowsmith” by Sinclair Lewis
1927 – “Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady” by Louis Bromfield
1928 – “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder
1929 – “Scarlet Sister Mary” by Julia Peterkin
1930 – “Laughing Boy” by Oliver LaFarge

1931 – “Years of Grace” by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 – “The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck
1933 – “The Store” by T.S. Stribling
1934 – “Lamb in His Bosom” by Caroline
1935 – “Now in November” by Josephine Winslow Johnson

1936 – “Honey in the Horn” by Horld Davis
1937 – “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
1938 – “The Late George Apley” by John Phillips Marquand
1939 – “The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 – “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck*

1941 - No Award
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

1946 - No Award
1947 – “All the King's Men” by Robert Penn Warren
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*
1954 - No Award
1955 – “A Fable” by William Faulkner

1956 – “Andersonville” by Mackinlay Kantor
1957 - No Award
1958 – “A Death in the Family” by James Agee
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*
1962 – “The Edge of Sadness” by Edwin O'Connor
1963 – “The Reivers” by William Faulkner
1964 - No Award
1965 – “The Keepers of the House” by Shirley Ann Grau

1966 – “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
1969 – “House Made of Dawn” by N. Scott Momaday
1970 – “Collected Stories” by Jean Stafford

1971 - No Award
1972 – “Angle of Repose” by Wallace Stegner
1973 – “The Optimist's Daughter” by Eudora Welty
1974 - No Award
1975 – “The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara*

1976 - Humboldt's Gift” by Saul Bellow
1977 - No Award
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
1983 – “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker*
1984 – “Ironweed” by William Kennedy
1985 – “Foreign Affairs” by Alison Lurie

1986 – “Lonesome Dove” by Larry McMurtry
1987 – “A Summons to Memphis” by Peter Taylor
1988 – “Beloved” by Toni Morrison
1989 – “Breathing Lessons” by Anne Tyler
1990 – “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” by Oscar Hijuelos

1991 – “Rabbit at Rest” by John Updike
1992 – “A Thousand Acres” by Jane Smiley
1993 – “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain” by Robert Olen Butler
1994 – “The Shipping News” by Annie E. Proulx
1995 – “The Stone Diaries” by Carol Shields

1996 – “Independence Day” by Richard Ford
1997 – “Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer” by Steven Millhauser
1998 – “American Pastoral” by Philip Roth
1999 – “The Hours” by Michael Cunningham
2000 – “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri

2001 – “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” by Michael Chabon
2002 – “Empire Falls” by Richard Russo
2003 – “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 – “The Known World” by Edward P. Jones
2005 – “Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson

2006 – “March” by Gerladine Brooks
2007 – “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy*
2008 – “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz
2009 – “Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth Strout
2010 – “The Tinkers” by Paul Harding

2011 – “A Visit From the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan*
2012 – No Award

2013 – “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson

2014 – “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt

In the end, how many of the books mentioned above have you had a chance to read? What did you think about them? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.

Pulitzers were awarded in a number of other categories yesterday, including drama, poetry and music as well as a slate of journalism awards. For more information about the winners and finalists in these categories, visit www.pulitzer.org.