Books Mentioned in This Episode

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Episode: The Pulitzer Prize: A major award! | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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Less

by Andrew Sean Greer

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"Um, I picked this book because that's sometimes when I'm after a novel and it's been a while, I will go to the Pulitzer list and that's exactly what I did. And I'm reading Less by Andrew Sean Greer, which won in 2018, and it is so funny and great!"
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1491

by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann

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"But apparently the Pulitzer committee is not interested in that kind of thing! He won, which was yours, 1491! And then the follow-up was 1493!"
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1493

by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann

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"He won, which was yours, 1491! And then the follow-up was 1493! He won a big award for that, but not the Pulitzer!"
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A million little pieces

by James Frey

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"I think the sad thing is that apparently it's sort of like a million little pieces book that that guy wrote. I read that book, and it was great with a capital G! In my mind, I always thought, 'Dude, why didn’t you just call it a novel?'"