Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize in Fiction (American)

Blue = Read (48)

  1. 2021 The Night Watchman — Louise Erdrich
  2. 2020 The Nickel Boys — Colson Whtehead
  3. 2019 The Overstory Richard Powers
  4. 2018 Less Andrew Sean Greer
  5. 2017 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
  6. 2016 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
  7. 2015 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
  8. 2014 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
  9. 2013 The Orphan Master’s Son Adam Johnson
  10. 2012 No Award
  11. 2011 A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
  12. 2010 Tinkers Paul Harding
  13. 2009 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
  14. 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz
  15. 2007 The Road Cormac McCarthy
  16. 2006 March Geraldine Brooks
  17. 2005 Gilead Marilynne Robinson
  18. 2004 The Known World Edward P. Jones
  19. 2003 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
  20. 2002 Empire Falls Richard Russo
  21. 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
  22. 2000 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
  23. 1999 The Hours Michael Cunningham
  24. 1998 American Pastoral  Philip Roth
  25. 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer  Stephen Millhauser
  26. 1996 Independence Day  Richard Ford
  27. 1995 The Stone Diaries  Carol Shields
  28. 1994 The Shipping News  E. Annie Proulx
  29. 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain  Robert Olen Butler
  30. 1992 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
  31. 1991 Rabbit at Rest  John Updike
  32. 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love  Oscar Hijuelos
  33. 1989 Breathing Lessons  Anne Tyler
  34. 1988 Beloved  Toni Morrison
  35. 1987 A Summons to Memphis  Peter Taylor
  36. 1986 Lonesome Dove  Larry McMurtry
  37. 1985 Foreign Affairs  Alison Lurie
  38. 1984 Ironweed  William Kennedy
  39. 1983 The Color Purple  Alice Walker
  40. 1982 Rabbit is Rich  John Updike
  41. 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces  John Kennedy O’Toole
  42. 1980 The Executioner’s Song  Norman Mailer
  43. 1979 The Stories of John Cheever  John Cheever
  44. 1978 Elbow Room  James Alan McPherson
  45. 1977 No Award
  46. 1976 Humboldt’s Gift  Saul Bellow
  47. 1975 The Killer Angels  Michael Shaara
  48. 1974 No Award
  49. 1973 The Optimist’s Daughter  Eudora Welty
  50. 1972 Angle of Repose  Wallace Stegner
  51. 1971 No Award
  52. 1970 Collected Stories  Jean Stafford
  53. 1969 House Made of Dawn  N. Scott Momaday
  54. 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner  William Styron
  55. 1967 The Fixer  Bernard Malamud
  56. 1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter
  57. 1965 The Keepers of the House  Shirley Ann Grau
  58. 1964 No Award
  59. 1963 The Reivers   William Faulkner
  60. 1962 The Edge of Sadness  Edwin O’Connor
  61. 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird  Harper Lee  
  62. 1960 Advise and Consent  Allen Drury
  63. 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters  Robert Lewis Taylor
  64. 1958 A Death in the Family  James Agee
  65. 1957 No Award
  66. 1956 Andersonville  MacKinlay Kantor
  67. 1955 A Fable   William Faulkner
  68. 1954 No Award
  69. 1953 The Old Man and the Sea  Ernest Hemingway
  70. 1952 The Caine Mutiny  Herman Wouk
  71. 1951 The Town  Conrad Richter
  72. 1950 The Way West  A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
  73. 1949 Guard of Honor  James Gould Cozzens
  74. 1948 Tales of the South Pacific  James A. Michener
  75. 1947 All the King’s Men  Robert Penn Warren
  76. 1946 No Award
  77. 1945 A Bell for Adano  John Hersey
  78. 1944 Journey in the Dark  Martin Flavin
  79. 1943 Dragon’s Teeth  Upton Sinclair
  80. 1942 In This Our Life  Ellen Glasgow
  81. 1941 No Award
  82. 1940 The Grapes of Wrath  John Steinbeck
  83. 1939 The Yearling  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  84. 1938 The Late George Apley  John Phillips Marquand
  85. 1937 Gone With the Wind  Margaret Mitchell
  86. 1936 Honey in the Horn  Harold L. Davis
  87. 1935 Now in November  Josephine Winslow Johnson
  88. 1934 Lamb in His Bosom  Caroline Miller
  89. 1933 The Store  T. S. Stribling
  90. 1932 The Good Earth  Pearl S. Buck  
  91. 1931 Years of Grace  Margaret Ayer Barnes
  92. 1930 Laughing Boy  Oliver La Farge
  93. 1929 Scarlet Sister Mary  Julia Peterkin
  94. 1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey  Thornton Wilder
  95. 1927 Early Autumn  Louis Bromfield
  96. 1926 Arrowsmith  Sinclair Lewis
  97. 1925 So Big  Edna Ferber
  98. 1924 The Able McLaughlins  Margaret Wilson
  99. 1923 One of Ours  Willa Cather
  100. 1922 Alice Adams  Booth Tarkington
  101. 1921 The Age of Innocence  Edith Wharton
  102. 1920 No Award
  103. 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons  Booth Tarkington
  104. 1918 His Family  Ernest Poole

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