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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

10 best books like The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (Katherine Anne Porter): The Confessions of Nat Turner, A Summons to Memphis, The Stories of John Cheever, House Made of Dawn, Alice Adams, One of Ours, The Way West, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, The Late George Apley, Ironweed

The Confessions of Nat Turner
AuthorWilliam Styron
ISBN0679736638
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession,...
A Summons to Memphis
AuthorPeter Taylor
ISBN0375701176
One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphis introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville, residents, with the exception of Phillip, of Memphis, Tennessee.

During the twilight of a Sunday afternoon in March, New York book editor Phillip...
The Stories of John Cheever
AuthorJohn Cheever
ISBN0375724427
Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" and "The Swimmer,"...
House Made of Dawn
AuthorN. Scott Momaday
ISBN0072434201
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a proud stranger in his native land.

He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The...
Alice Adams
AuthorBooth Tarkington
ISBN1434100243
Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style. Alice's resiliency of spirit makes her one...
One of Ours
AuthorWilla Cather
ISBN1600969798
One of Ours is Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive but aspiring protagonist, has ready access to his family's fortune but refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his uncaring father and pious mother, and rejected...
The Way West
AuthorA.B. Guthrie Jr.
ISBN0618154620
An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers...
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
AuthorRobert Lewis Taylor
ISBN0385422229
Dr. Sardius McPheeters, is a dreamer always chasing the elusive beautiful rainbow, but never quite fully grasping it in his hands, the gambler and imbiber of strong drinks, is a capable physician in Louisville, Kentucky, his family suffers though, but his creditors want their money...The time, during...
The Late George Apley
AuthorJohn P. Marquand
ISBN0316735671
A modern classic restored to print -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that charts the diminishing fortunes of a distinguished Boston family in the early years of the 20th century. Sweeping us into the inner sanctum of Boston society, into the Beacon Hill town houses and exclusive private clubs where...
Ironweed
AuthorWilliam Kennedy
ISBN0743263065
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son.

Now, in 1938, Francis is back in...
A Bell for Adano
AuthorJohn Hersey
ISBN0394756959
3.5 stars rounded up.

It’s 1943 and Victor Joppolo, an American Major, is assigned to oversee the town of Adano in occupied Italy. Joppolo passionately believes in the American system, and through his idealism—which reminded me a little bit of the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington—he...
Advise and Consent
AuthorAllen Drury
ISBN0380010070
ADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally recognized as THE Washington novel. It begins with Senate confirmation hearings for a liberal Secretary of State and concludes two weeks later, after debate and controversy have exploded this issue into...
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
AuthorJean Stafford
ISBN0374529930
These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day.

Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate...
The Edge of Sadness
AuthorEdwin O'Connor
ISBN0829421238
“A realistic Christian novel of hope in a non-Christian age.”—New England Quarterly

“A deeply felt and eloquently expressed work . . . A quiet, gentle novel of considerable insight and charm . . .”—Library Journal
“O’Connor succeeds in delineating poignantly the...
A Fable
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
ISBN0394724135
This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as...
The Town
AuthorConrad Richter
ISBN0821409808
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1951


The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy earned Richter immediate acclaim as a historical novelist....
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