Off the top of my head, Pulitzers for Hemingway (Old Man and the Sea), Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath), and McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) are some of my very favorites.

John Williams also won a National Book Award for Augustus which admittedly I haven’t read but his Stoner is my favorite book of all time.

In short, I don’t read books because they have awards, but my interest in a book is influenced by them provided I already had an interest in the book.