Annal:2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
March: A Novel
- 2006 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- Score: 10.56
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. Riveting and elegant as it is meticulously researched, March is an extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history.
From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war, leaving his wife and…
The March: A Novel
- 2006 PEN-faulkner winner
- 2005 NBCC–Fiction winner
- 2006 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- 2005 LATimes–Fiction finalist
- 2005 NBA–Fiction finalist
- Score: 38.56
In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and…
The Bright Forever: A Novel
- 2006 Pulitzer–fiction finalist
- Score: 6.56
On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.
This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a suspenseful, deeply affecting novel about the choices people make that change their lives forever. Keeping fact, speculation, and contradiction playing off one another as the details unfold, author Lee Martin creates a fast-paced story that is as gripping as it is richly human. His beautiful, clear-eyed prose…
