PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction Winners — Complete List (1981–2026) Home › PEN/Faulkner Award › Fiction Small Scale Sinners by Mahreen Sohail 2026PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Small Rain by Garth Greenwell 2025PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez 2024PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li 2023PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine 2022PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw 2021PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis 2020PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Call Me Zebra by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 2019PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Improvement by Joan Silber 2018PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue 2017PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Delicious Foods by James Hannaham 2016PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish 2015PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler 2014PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2013PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka 2012PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg 2011PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop War Dances by Sherman Alexie 2010PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Netherland by Joseph O'Neill 2009PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Great Man by Kate Christensen 2008PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Everyman by Philip Roth 2007PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The March by E. L. Doctorow 2006PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop War Trash by Ha Jin 2005PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike 2004PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Caprices by Sabina Murray 2003PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 2002PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Human Stain by Philip Roth 2001PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Waiting by Ha Jin 2000PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1999PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor 1998PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault 1997PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Independence Day by Richard Ford 1996PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 1995PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Operation Shylock by Philip Roth 1994PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Postcards by E. Annie Proulx 1993PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Mao II by Don DeLillo 1992PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman 1991PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow 1990PEN/FaulknerFiction Amazon Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter 1989PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop World's End by T. C. Boyle 1988PEN/FaulknerFiction Amazon Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley 1987PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor 1986PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff 1985PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman 1984PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop Seaview by Toby Olson 1983PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley 1982PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop How German Is It by Walter Abish 1981PEN/FaulknerFiction AmazonBookshop
