Pulitzer Prizes — Fiction

• James by Percival Everett

  2025PulitzerFiction
• Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

  2024PulitzerFiction
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  Trust by Hernan Diaz

  2023PulitzerFiction
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  Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

  2023PulitzerFiction
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  The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen

  2022PulitzerFiction
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

  2021PulitzerFiction
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  The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

  2020PulitzerFiction
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  The Overstory by Richard Powers

  2019PulitzerFiction
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer

  2018PulitzerFiction
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  The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

  2017PulitzerFiction
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  The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  2016PulitzerFiction
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  All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

  2015PulitzerFiction
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  The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

  2014PulitzerFiction
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  The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

  2013PulitzerFiction
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  No Award by No Award

  2012PulitzerFiction
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  A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

  2011PulitzerFiction
• Tinkers by Paul Harding

  2010PulitzerFiction
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  Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

  2009PulitzerFiction
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  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

  2008PulitzerFiction
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

  2007PulitzerFiction
• March by Geraldine Brooks

  2006PulitzerFiction
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  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

  2005PulitzerFiction
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  The Known World by Edward P. Jones

  2004PulitzerFiction
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

  2003PulitzerFiction
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  Empire Falls by Richard Russo

  2002PulitzerFiction
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  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

  2001PulitzerFiction
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

  2000PulitzerFiction
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  The Hours by Michael Cunningham

  1999PulitzerFiction
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  American Pastoral by Philip Roth

  1998PulitzerFiction
• Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

  1997PulitzerFiction
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  Independence Day by Richard Ford

  1996PulitzerFiction
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

  1995PulitzerFiction
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

  1994PulitzerFiction
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  A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

  1993PulitzerFiction
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  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

  1992PulitzerFiction
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  Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

  1991PulitzerFiction
• The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

  1990PulitzerFiction
• Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

  1989PulitzerFiction
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  Beloved by Toni Morrison

  1988PulitzerFiction
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  A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

  1987PulitzerFiction
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  Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

  1986PulitzerFiction
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  Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

  1985PulitzerFiction
• Ironweed by William Kennedy

  1984PulitzerFiction
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  The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  1983PulitzerFiction
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  Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

  1982PulitzerFiction
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  A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

  1981PulitzerFiction
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  The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

  1980PulitzerFiction
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  The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

  1979PulitzerFiction
• Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

  1978PulitzerFiction
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  Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

  1976PulitzerFiction
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

  1975PulitzerFiction
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  The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

  1973PulitzerFiction
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

  1972PulitzerFiction
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  Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

  1970PulitzerFiction
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  House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

  1969PulitzerFiction
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  The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

  1968PulitzerFiction
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  The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

  1967PulitzerFiction
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  Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

  1966PulitzerFiction
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  The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau

  1965PulitzerFiction
• No award given by No award given

  1964PulitzerFiction
• The Reivers by William Faulkner

  1963PulitzerFiction
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  The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor

  1962PulitzerFiction
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  1961PulitzerFiction
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  Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

  1960PulitzerFiction
• The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

  1959PulitzerFiction
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  A Death In The Family by James Agee

  1958PulitzerFiction
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  Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

  1956PulitzerFiction
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  A Fable by William Faulkner

  1955PulitzerFiction
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

  1953PulitzerFiction
• The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

  1952PulitzerFiction
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  The Town by Conrad Richter

  1951PulitzerFiction
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  The Way West by A. B. Guthrie

  1950PulitzerFiction
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  Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

  1949PulitzerFiction
• Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

  1948PulitzerFiction