Like the Oscars, the Pulitzer Prize has many award categories, and most of these categories are journalistic – Breaking News Reporting, Investigative Reporting, Feature Writing, Commentary, etc. There are also a few book categories – Fiction, General Non-Fiction, History, Biography, and Poetry. But when people talk about collecting Pulitzer Prize books, they are generally talking about the Fiction Category.
With that in mind, here is the top ten most popular Pulitzer Prize for Fiction books:
1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
4. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
7. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
8. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
9. Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
10. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
In addition, there are few books in the other categories that have particularly popular. They are:
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (For Biography)
The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles Lindbergh (For Autobiography)
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (for General Non-Fiction)
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