Read The Road

The Glanton gang scalp their way across the border in 1849 and the Judge dances; McCarthy's violent Bible.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

Celie's letters to God and to her sister in 1930s Georgia; Alice Walker's Pulitzer.

Swede Levov, the perfect Newark athlete, and the daughter who bombs a post office; Roth's Pulitzer.

A dying Iowa preacher writes to his seven-year-old son; the quietest Pulitzer.

A boy walks out of a bombed museum with a Dutch painting; 800 pages and a Pulitzer.

David Copperfield retold in opioid Appalachia; Kingsolver's Pulitzer.

Nine strangers and the trees that change their lives; Powers' Pulitzer.