The Color Purple (1982)
0.1441Canon Score · ranked #159 all time
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About the book
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
Why it ranks #159
Every list on which The Color Purple appears, with its position as published.
| List | Authority | Position |
|---|---|---|
| PBS Great American Read (2018) | Editorial list | #26 / 100 |
| OCLC/WorldCat Top 500 Novels (2019) | Editorial list | #114 / 500 |
| BBC Big Read Top 200 (2003) | Editorial list | #136 / 200 |
| Guardian 1000 Novels (2009) | Critics' canon | Selected |
| 1001 Books You Must Read (union) | Critics' canon | Selected |