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