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This reading challenge is for The Pulitzer Prizes - Memoir or Autobiography category, introduced in 2023.
I have added finalists as bonus books. I plan to keep updating the challenge as the winners are announced each year.
https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/650
I have added finalists as bonus books. I plan to keep updating the challenge as the winners are announced each year.
https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/650
Challenge Books
1
Stay True
Hua Hsu
2023 Winner
An elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives.
An elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives.
2
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza
2024 Winner
A genre-bending account of the author’s 20-year-old sister, murdered by a former boyfriend, that mixes memoir, feminist investigative journalism and poetic biography stitched together with a determination born of loss.
A genre-bending account of the author’s 20-year-old sister, murdered by a former boyfriend, that mixes memoir, feminist investigative journalism and poetic biography stitched together with a determination born of loss.
(bonus)
The Man Who Could Move Clouds
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
2023 Finalist
(bonus)
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen
2024 Finalist
(bonus)
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland
2024 Finalist