Earlier this week, the Pulitzer prize for fiction went to “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf).
Back in 2007, One-Minute Book Reviews’ Janice Harayda put up a list of 10 great novels that didn’t win and which books beat them.
Among the losers: Main Street, The Great Gatsby and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Other losers and the books that defeated them appears here.