My new goal in life is to read all the award winners of the Pultizer Prize for Fiction. Why this award list? Because the ones I've read thus far have been among my favorites, so I trust their judgment.

So far I've read:
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Probably my favorite book EVER)
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The award dates back to 1918, with only eight years missing, so I've got a ways to go. I'm in the middle of 1999's The Hours by Michael Cunningham, and I have on my shelf 1983's The Color Purple by Alice Walker. At least this is my plan of the moment, until I get sidetracked with a million other books I want to read. :)