Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

After 1980 the runners-up are also shown, indented
  • 1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
  • 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
  • 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • 1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
  • 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
  • 1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
  • 1925: So Big by Edna Ferber
  • 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
  • 1927 Early Autumn by Louis Broomfield
  • 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  • 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
  • 1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
  • 1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
  • 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
  • 1933: The Store by T S Stribling
  • 1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
  • 1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
  • 1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L Davis
  • 1937: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • 1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
  • 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • 1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
  • 1943: Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair
  • 1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flave
  • 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
  • 1947: All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A Michener
  • 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozens
  • 1950: The Way West by A B Guthrie
  • 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
  • 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
  • 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
  • 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
  • 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
  • 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
  • 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
  • 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
  • 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
  • 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
  • 1966: Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
  • 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
  • 1968: The Confession of Nat Turner by William Styron
  • 1969: House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday
  • 1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
  • 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
  • 1973: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
  • 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  • 1976: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
  • 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  • 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
  • 1980:The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
    • Birdy by William Wharton
    • The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
  • 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O’Toole
    • Godric by Ferederick Buechener
    • So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
  • 1982: Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
    • A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
    • Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson
  • 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
    • Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
    • Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade
  • 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
    • Cathedral by Raymond Carver
    • The Feud by Thomas Berger
  • 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alsion Lurie
    • I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O’Hehir
    • Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
  • 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
    • Continental Drift by Russell Banks
    • The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
  • 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
    • Paradise by Donald Barthelme
    • Whites by Norman Rush
  • 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
    • Persian Nights by Diane Hohnson
    • That Night by Alice McDermott
  • 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
    • Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver
  • 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
    • Billy Bathgate by E L Doctorow
  • 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
    • Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
    • The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
  • 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
    • Jerrigan by David Gates
    • Lila by Robert M Pirsig
    • Mao II by Don DeLillo
  • 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
    • At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
    • Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
  • 1994: The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
    • Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth
    • The Collected Stories by Reynolds Price
  • 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
    • The Collected Stories by Grace Paley
    • What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
  • 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
    • Mr Ives’ Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
    • Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
  • 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
    • The Manikin by Joanna Scott
    • Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K LeGuin
  • 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
    • Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone
    • Underworld by Don DeLillo
  • 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  • 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
    • Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
    • Waiting by Ha Jin
  • 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
    • Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
    • The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
  • 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
    • John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
    • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  • 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
    • Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett
    • You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
  • 2004: The Known World by Edward P Jones
    • American Woman by Susan Choi
    • Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
  • 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
    • An Unfinished Season by Ward Just
    • War Trash by Ha Jin
  • 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
    • The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
    • The March by E L Doctorw
  • 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    • After This by Alice McDermott
    • The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
  • 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    • Shakespeare’s Kitchen by Lore Segal
    • Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
  • 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
    • All Souls by Christine Schutt
    • The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
  • 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
    • In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Dariyal Mueenuddin
    • Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
  • 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egab
    • The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
    • The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
  • 2012: No winner
    • Swamplandial by Karen Russell
    • The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
    • Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
  • 2013: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
    • The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
    • What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
  • 2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
    • The Son by Philipp Meyer
    • The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
  • 2015: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
    • Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
    • Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
    • The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
  • 2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
    • Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
    • Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble
  • 2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
    • Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
    • The Sport of Kings by C E Morgan
  • 2018: Less by Andrew Scott Greer
    • In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
    • The Idiot by Elif Batuman
  • 2019: The Overstory by Richard Powers
    • The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
    • There There by Tommy Orange
  • 2020: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
    • The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
    • The Topeka School by Ben Lemer
  • 2021: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
    • A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason
    • Telephone by Percival Everett
  • 2022: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
    • Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman
    • Palmares by Gayl Jones
  • 2023: Trust by Hernan Diaz
    • The Immortal Ki by Vauhini Vara
  • 2024: Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips 
    • Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park
    • Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li

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