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The People’s Pulitzer

Jeff O'Neal

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Jeff O'Neal is the executive editor of Book Riot and Panels. He also co-hosts The Book Riot Podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @thejeffoneal.

As most of you know, the Pulitzer board spit the bit this year and couldn’t pick a fiction winner. Apparently, none of the three finalists got a majority of the votes, and so no prize.

Can we do any better?

Here’s the task: let’s play Pulitzer Board. Vote for one of the three finalist below, and we’ll see who gets the most votes and whether we would have been able to name a winner, using the majority requirement.

Feel free to make a case for (or against) a book in the comments.

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