Pen Faulkner Award

 Awarded since 1981 for the best work of fiction by a living American, Green Card holder or permanent resident.

1981:

• How German Is It by Walter Abish (winner)
• The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
• The Second Coming by Walter Percy
• Aberration of Starlight by Gilbert Sorrentino
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole

1982:

• The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley (winner)
• Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
• Take Me Back by Richard Bausch
• Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
• A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone

1983:

• Seaview by Toby Olson (winner)
• Grace Abounding by Maureen Howard
• Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
• The Portage to San Cristobal of A H by George Steiner
• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
• Birthplace by William S Wilson

1984:

• Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman (winner)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
• The Stories by Benjamin Malamud
• The Cannibal Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick

1985:

• The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff (winner)
• Stines for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
• The Dixie Association by Donald Hays
• Family Dancing by David Leavitt
• On Glory's Course by James Purdy

1986:

• The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor (winner)
• Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• The Tree of Life by Hugh Nissenson
• The Christmas Wife: Stories by Helen Norris
• Later the Same Day by Grace Paley

1987:

• Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley (winner)
• The Sportswriter by Richard Ford 
• Expensive Habits by Maureen Howard
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Charles R Johnson
• Collaborators by Janet Kauffman

1988:

• World's End by T C Boyle (winner)
• Spirits, And Other Stories by Richard Bausch
• That Night by Alice McDermott
• The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick
• Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton

1989:

• Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter (winner)
• Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris
• The Corner of Rife and Pacific by Thomas Savage
• The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1990:

• Billy Bathgate by E L Doctorow (winner)
• Affliction by Russell Banks
• The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss
• On the Island: New and Selected Stories  by Josephine Jacobsen
• Leaving Brooklyn by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

1991:

• Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman (winner)
• The Music of Chance by Paul Auster 
• A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier by Joanne Meschery
• The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser
• Arrogance by Joanna Scott

1992:

• Mao II by Don DeLillo (winner)
• Frog by Stephen Dixon
• Extraordinary People by Paul Gervais
• White People by Allan Gurganus

1993:

• Postcards by E Annie Proulx (winner)
• The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman
• Natural History by Maureen Howard
• A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Tobert Olen Butler
• Talking to the Dead by Sylvia Watanabe

1994:

• Operation Shylock by Philip Roth (winner)
• Van Gogh's Room at Arles by Stanley Elkin
• The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb
• Bone by Fae Myenne Ng
• Not Where I Started From by Kate Wheeler

1995:

• Snow Falling on  Cedars by David Guterson (winner)
• The Children in the Woods by Frederick Busch
• What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
• Various Antidotes by Joanna Scott

1996:

• Independence Day by Richard Ford (winner)
• The Tunnel by William H Gass
• When the World Was Steady by Claire Messud
• All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
• The Good Negress by A J Verdelle

1997:

• Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault (winner)
• St Burl's Obituary by Daniel Akst
• The Book of Mercy by Kathleen Cambor
• Atticus by Ron Hansen
• The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid

1998:

• The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zaboor (winner)
• The Hundred Brothers by Donald Antrim
• The Mercy Seat by Rilla Askew
• Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskell
• The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman

1999:

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (winner)
• Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
• The Doctor Stories by Richard Selzer

2000:

• Waiting by Ha Jin (winner)
• The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
• Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies by Ken Kalfus
• Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
• Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man by Lily Tuck

2001:

• The Human Stain by Philip Roth (winner)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• Harry Gold by Millicent Dillon
• The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
• Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson

2002:

• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (winner)
• Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• The Hunters by Claire Messud
• The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

2003: 

• The Caprices by Sabina Murray (winner)
• The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
• Roscoe by William Kennedy
• The Ecstatic by Victor LaValle
• Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentino

2004:

• The Early Stories: 1953 - 1975 by John Updike (winner)
• Elroy Nights by Frederick Barthelme
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z Z Packer
• A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips
• Old School by Tobias Wolff

2005:

• War Trash by Ha Jin (winner)
• The Green Lantern by Jerome Charyn
• The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• Prisoners of War by Steve Yarborough

2006:

• The March by E L Doctorow (winner)
• A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
• I Got Somebody in Staunton by William Henry Lewis
• Last Night by James Salter
• The Chrysanthemum Palace by Bruce Wagner

2007:

• Everyman by Philip Roth (winner)
• The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio
• Twilight of the Sperheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
• The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
• All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P Jones

2008:

• The Great Man by Kate Christensen (winner)
• The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
• The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
• The Gateway by T P McNally
• Chemistry and Other Stories by Ron Rash

2009:

• Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (winner)
• Ms Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
• A Person of Interest by Susan Choi
• Lush Life by Richard Price
• Serena by Ron Rash

2010:

• War Dances by Sherman Alexie (winner)
• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
• Homicide Survivors Picnic by Lorraine Lopez
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
• Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

2011:

• The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg (winner)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
• Model Home by Eric Puchner
• Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson

2012:

• The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (winner)
• Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
• The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillio
• The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
• We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser

2013:

• Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz (winner)
• THREATS by Amelia Gray
• Kind One by Laird Hunt
• Hold It 'Til It Hurts by T Geronimo Johnson
• Watergate by Thomas Mallon

2014:

• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (winner)
• At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcon
• Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
• Fools by Joan Silber
• Search Party: Stories of Rescue by Valerie Trueblood

2015:

• Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish (winner)
• Song of the Shark by Jeffrey Renard Allen
• Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
• Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offil
• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

2016:

• Delicious Foods by James Hannaham (winner)
• Mr and Mrs Doctor by Julie Iromuanya
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Mendocino Fire: Stories by Elizabeth Tallent
• The Water Museum: Stories by Luis Alberto Urrea

2017:

• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (winner)
• After Disasters by Viet Dinh
• LaRose by Louise Edrich
• What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
• Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa

2018:

• Improvement by Joan Silber (winner)
• In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
• The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
• The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

2019:

• Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (winner)
• Tomb of the Unknown Racist by Blanche McCrary Boyd
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodriguez
• Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin

2020:

• Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis (winner)
• Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
• The Night Swimmers by Peter Rock
• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• On  Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

2021:

• The Secret lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (winner)
• Disappear Doppelganger Disappear by Matthew Salesses
• The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
• Mother Daughter Widon Wife by Robin Wasserman
• Scattered Lights by Steve Wiegenstein

2022:

• The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine (winner)
• Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed
• Dear Miss Metropolitan  by Carolyn Ferrell
• How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
• The President and the Frog by Carolina de Robertis

2023:

• The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li (winner)
• If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
• Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell
• The Islands by Dionne Irving
• Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan

2024:

• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez (winner)
• Witness by Jamel Brinkley
• Open Throat by Henry Hoke
• Absolution by Alice McDermott
• Users by Colin Winette