Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Best Book Awards

2022
Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen (winner)
Palmares by Gayl Jones

2021
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (winner)
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth by Daniel Mason
Telephone by Percival Everett

2020
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (winner)
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner

2019
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Overstory by Richard Powers (winner)
There There by Tommy Orange

2018
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
In the Distance by Hernán Diaz
Less by Andrew Sean Greer (winner)

2017
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
The Sport of Kings by C E Morgan
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (winner)

2016
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Maud's Line by Margaret Verble
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (winner)

2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (winner)
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami

2014
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (winner)
The Son by Philipp Meyer
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis

2013
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (winner)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander

2012
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

2011
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (winner)

2010
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
Tinkers by Paul Harding (winner)

2009
All Souls by Christine Schutt
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (winner)
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (winner)
Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

2007
After This by Alice McDermott
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (winner)

2006
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
The March by E L Doctorow
March by Geraldine Brooks (winner)

2005
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (winner)
An Unfinished Season by Ward Just
War Trash by Ha Jin

2004
American Woman by Susan Choi
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
The Known World by Edward P Jones (winner)

2003
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (winner)
Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

2002
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Empire Falls by Richard Russo (winner)
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead

2001
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (winner)
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
The Quick & The Dead by Joy Williams

2000
Close Range by Annie Proulx
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (winner)
Waiting by Ha Jin

1999
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
The Hours by Michael Cunningham (winner)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

1998
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (winner)
Bear and His Daughter by Robert Stone
Underworld by Don DeLillo

1997
The Manikin by Joanna Scott
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser (winner)
Unlocking the Air by Ursula K Le Guin

1996
Independence Day by Richard Ford (winner)
Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

1995
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley by Grace Paley
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (winner)
What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates

1994
The Collected Stories by Reynolds Price
Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (winner)

1993
At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (winner)

1992
Jernigan by David Gates
Mao II by Don DeLillo
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (winner)

1991
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (winner)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

1990
Billy Bathgate by E L Doctorow
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (winner)

1989
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (winner)
Where I'm Calling from by Raymond Carver

1988
Beloved by Toni Morrison (winner)
Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
That Night by Alice McDermott

1987
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (winner)
Whites by Norman Rush

1986
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (winner)

1985
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (winner)
I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O'Hehir
Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger

1984
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
The Feud by Thomas Berger
Ironweed by William Kennedy (winner)

1983
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (winner)
Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

1982
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (winner)

1981
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (winner)
Godric by Frederick Buechner
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

1980
Birdy by William Wharton
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (winner)
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

1979
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (winner)

1978
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (winner)

1976
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (winner)

1975
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (winner)

1973
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (winner)

1972
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (winner)

1970
Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (winner)

1969
House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday (winner)

1968
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (winner)

1967
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (winner)

1966
Collected Short Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (winner)

1965
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau (winner)

1963
The Reivers by William Faulkner (winner)

1962
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (winner)

1961
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (winner)

1960
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (winner)

1959
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (winner)

1958
A Death in the Family by James Agee (winner)

1957
The Voice At the Back Door by Elizabeth Spencer

1956
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (winner)

1955
A Fable by William Faulkner (winner)

1953
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (winner)

1952
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (winner)

1951
The Town by Conrad Richter (winner)

1950
The Way West by A B Guthrie Jr (winner)

1949
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (winner)

1948
Tales of the South Pacific by James A Michener (winner)

1947
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (winner)

1945
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (winner)

1943
Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (winner)

1942
In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (winner)

1941
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (winner)

1940
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (winner)

1939
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (winner)

1937
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (winner)

1932
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck (winner)

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