Poetry Month!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Featured Titles


spacer

Featured Titles
Pulitzer Prize Winners


There are 89 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.

Featured Titles in Featured Titles - Pulitzer Prize Winners
Page 1 of 5 next

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
Publisher Comments
The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister,... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $8.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
Staff Pick
Jennifer Egan's new novel is a fantastically inventive, intelligent, and fully realized exploration of music, art, and life. It even includes a chapter written in PowerPoint, which is actually a pleasure to read. A Visit from the Goon Squad is Egan's... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Orphan Master's Son
The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson
Publisher Comments
An epic novel that elevates its acclaimed author to a whole new level, The Orphan Master’s Son is a stunning work of fiction that follows a young man’s undercover journey in the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun... (read more)

Your price: $15.00
New - Trade Paper

add to wish list


A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
Publisher Comments
When a true genius appears in the world, You may know him by this sign, that the dunces Are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting" "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Staff Pick
We didn't read this in high school. The assigned book was The Scarlet Letter, which was already a favorite of mine. Recently, however, I decided that I'd ignored To Kill a Mockingbird for too long. If you haven't read it, or if it's been awhile since you... (read more)

List Price $7.99
Your price: $2.50
Used - Mass Market

add to wish list


The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
Staff Pick
The story of two young comic book artists in 1940s New York City, Jewish boys, one of whom fled the German steamroller heading toward his home in Czechoslovakia in a coffin, Chabon's third and best novel is utterly original, a generous fictional addition... (read more)

List Price $17.00
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


March: A Novel
March: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Staff Pick
In her follow-up to Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has taken historical fiction to another dimension altogether. Using America's Civil War as her frame, she plants a famous (but deeply mysterious) literary figure at its center: Mr. March, the absent... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Tinkers
Tinkers
by Paul Harding
Staff Pick
Tinkers is a haunting little book that weaves together the story of George Crosby, who is dying, with the story of his father, Howard Crosby. As George lies hallucinating, he tries to untangle the threads of his youth and finally come to grips with the... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Gilead
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
Staff Pick
This is one of the few books I have read that has made me actively slow down my reading pace. Every sentence, every word feels purely distilled into its most emotionally resonant core. Robinson's prose conjures up that curious feeling you get sometimes... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $3.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
Staff Pick
Set on the coast of Maine, this fantastic Pulitzer Prize winner (2009) is a terrific character study.  Olive is an irascible, crabby old lady who is difficult to like.  Yet, as her life, marriage, and story play out, her character changes in ways that... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $1.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Known World
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
Publisher Comments
In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $2.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher Comments
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in the New... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $4.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Killer Angels
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
Publisher Comments
Michael Shaara reinvented the war novel with his Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels. Jeff Shaara continued his father’s legacy with a series of centuries-spanning New York Times bestsellers. This volume... (read more)

List Price $16.00
Your price: $6.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


American Pastoral
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Publisher Comments
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $3.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Road
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Publisher Comments
NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $5.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Movie Tie-In)
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Movie Tie-In)
by Frank McCourt
From Powells.com
Even before Angela's Ashes won the Pulitzer Prize for autobiography, it was the most talked about memoir of the nineties. In fact, Angela's Ashes was one of the most highly acclaimed books of the decade, winning also the National Book Critics Circle... (read more)

List Price $14.00
Your price: $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Angle of Repose
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
Publisher Comments
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent... (read more)

List Price $17.00
Your price: $3.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Killer Angels
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
Publisher Comments
“My favorite historical novel . . . a superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.”—James M. McPherson   In the four most bloody and... (read more)

List Price $7.99
Your price: $3.95
Used - Mass Market

add to wish list


To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Staff Pick
This is a book that still resonates more than 45 years after being published. After reading it again and again, I am still moved by the power and humanity of the story. Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer, is one of those quiet heroes who fights for the... (read more)

Your price: $16.99
New - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
Publisher Comments
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."... (read more)

List Price $14.99
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


1 3 4 5 next»


Browse the entire aisle:
by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
There are 89 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Featured Titles
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.