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