2015: All the Light We Cannot See
Similar to The Goldfinch, the 2015 winner, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, was another mega-popular novel before it ever won the Pulitzer. A National Book Award finalist and an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction winner, the book was an instant New York Times best-seller and spent an impressive two and a half years on the list. “Every piece of back story reveals information that charges the emerging narrative with significance, until at last the puzzle-box of the plot slides open to reveal the treasure hidden inside,” wrote the Washington Post.
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