Award Season is upon us!! Here is a sneak preview to this year’s Pulitzer front-runners. This list is the product of the never-ending “best of 2010″ lists, other awards, an author’s reputation, and many other predictor variables.
| 1. | Nemesis by Philip Roth |
| 2. | Sourland: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates |
| 3. | Freedom by Jonathan Franzen |
| 4. | Fun with Problems by Robert Stone |
| 5. | The Spot by David Means |
| 6. | The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine |
| 7. | Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler |
| 8. | Private Life by Jane Smiley |
| 9. | Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich |
| 10. | Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick |
| 11. | Great House by Nicole Krauss |
Here is an additional list of books that were singled-out by the PPrize.com community as deserving a nod for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
| 1. | The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse |
| 2. | Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart |
| 3. | Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes |
| 4. | A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan |
| 5. | The Privileges by Jonathan Dee |
| 6. | Walking to Gatlinburg by Howard Frank Mosher |
| 7. | The Surrendered by Chang Rae-Lee |
| 8. | Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch |
| 9. | How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique |
| 10. | The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer |
| 11. | I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita |
| 12. | Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon |
| 13. | Parrott and Olivier in America by Peter Carey |
| 14. | Wild Child by T.C. Boil |
| 15. | The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass |
| 16. | New York Stories by Ann Beattie |
So, what do you think? Which title is YOUR front-runner?
My guess is Egan’s Goon Squad – it’s the ultra-literary, slightly unusual, read-often-enough-but-not-over-exposed-like-Freedom choice. I actually haven’t read it, though. My favorite book of last year was probably Freedom. But it’d be awesome if Nemesis won, too – one last Pulitzer for our greatest living writer!
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