Living Canon

PEN/Faulkner Award

The PEN/Faulkner Award is the largest peer-juried prize for American fiction. Chosen by a panel of writers, it honors excellence in novels, short story collections, and other works of fiction.

• Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

  2025PEN/FaulknerFiction
• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

  2024PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

  2023PEN/FaulknerFiction
• The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine

  2022PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

  2021PEN/FaulknerFiction
• Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis

  2020PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

  2019PEN/FaulknerFiction
• Improvement by Joan Silber

  2018PEN/FaulknerFiction
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

  2017PEN/FaulknerFiction
• Delicious Foods by James Hannaham

  2016PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish

  2015PEN/FaulknerFiction
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

  2014PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

  2013PEN/FaulknerFiction
• The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

  2012PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg

  2011PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  War Dances by Sherman Alexie

  2010PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

  2009PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Great Man by Kate Christensen

  2008PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Everyman by Philip Roth

  2007PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The March by E. L. Doctorow

  2006PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  War Trash by Ha Jin

  2005PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike

  2004PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Caprices by Sabina Murray

  2003PEN/FaulknerFiction
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

  2002PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Human Stain by Philip Roth

  2001PEN/FaulknerFiction
• Waiting by Ha Jin

  2000PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Hours by Michael Cunningham

  1999PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor

  1998PEN/FaulknerFiction
• Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault

  1997PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Independence Day by Richard Ford

  1996PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

  1995PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Operation Shylock by Philip Roth

  1994PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Postcards by E. Annie Proulx

  1993PEN/FaulknerFiction
• Mao II by Don DeLillo

  1992PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman

  1991PEN/FaulknerFiction
• Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow

  1990PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter

  1989PEN/FaulknerFiction
• World's End by T. C. Boyle

  1988PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley

  1987PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor

  1986PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff

  1985PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman

  1984PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  Seaview by Toby Olson

  1983PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley

  1982PEN/FaulknerFiction
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  How German Is It by Walter Abish

  1981PEN/FaulknerFiction

• Fiction

See also

• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Booker Prize
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Costa Book Awards
• Edgar Awards
• Giller Prize
• Hugo Awards
• International Booker Prize
• Kirkus Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• Locus Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Nebula Awards
• Newbery Medal
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• PEN/Hemingway Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Women’s Prize for Fiction
• World Fantasy Awards