Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Winners

2025	James ★☆☆☆	Percival Everett ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
2024	Night Watch ☆	Jayne Anne Phillips ★☆
2022	The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family ☆	Joshua Cohen ★
2021	The Night Watchman ☆	Louise Erdrich ★★☆☆☆
2020	The Nickel Boys ☆☆	Colson Whitehead ★★★☆☆☆☆
2019	The Overstory ☆☆☆	Richard Powers ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2018	Less ☆	Andrew Sean Greer ★
2017	The Underground Railroad ★☆☆☆	Colson Whitehead ★★★☆☆☆☆
2016	The Sympathizer ☆☆	Viet Thanh Nguyen ★☆☆
2015	All the Light We Cannot See ☆☆	Anthony Doerr ★☆☆☆
2014	The Goldfinch ★☆	Donna Tartt ★☆☆
2013	The Orphan Master's Son ☆	Adam Johnson ★★
2011	A Visit from the Goon Squad ☆☆	Jennifer Egan ★☆☆
2010	Tinkers ☆	Paul Harding ★☆☆
2009	Olive Kitteridge ☆	Elizabeth Strout ★☆☆☆☆☆
2008	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ☆☆	Junot Díaz ★☆☆
2007	The Road ☆	Cormac McCarthy ★★☆
2006	March ☆	Geraldine Brooks ★
2005	Gilead ☆	Marilynne Robinson ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
2004	The Known World ★☆☆	Edward P. Jones ★★☆☆
2003	Middlesex ☆☆	Jeffrey Eugenides ★☆
2002	Empire Falls ☆	Richard Russo ★
2001	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ☆	Michael Chabon ★★
2000	Interpreter of Maladies ☆	Jhumpa Lahiri ★☆☆☆
1999	The Hours ☆☆	Michael Cunningham ★☆
1998	American Pastoral ☆	Philip Roth ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1997	Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer ☆☆	Steven Millhauser ★☆
1996	Independence Day ☆	Richard Ford ★☆
1995	The Stone Diaries ☆☆	Carol Shields ★★☆☆☆
1994	The Shipping News ★☆	E. Annie Proulx ★★
1993	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain ☆	Robert Olen Butler ★
1992	A Thousand Acres ☆	Jane Smiley ★☆
1991	Rabbit At Rest ☆	John Updike ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1990	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love ☆	Oscar Hijuelos ★☆
1989	Breathing Lessons ☆☆	Anne Tyler ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
1988	Beloved ☆☆	Toni Morrison ★★★☆☆☆☆
1987	A Summons to Memphis ☆☆	Peter Taylor ★☆
1986	Lonesome Dove ☆	Larry McMurtry ★
1985	Foreign Affairs ☆☆	Alison Lurie ★☆
1984	Ironweed ☆	William Kennedy ★
1983	The Color Purple ★☆	Alice Walker ★★
1982	Rabbit is Rich ★☆	John Updike ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
1981	A Confederacy of Dunces ☆	John Kennedy Toole ★
1980	The Executioner's Song ☆☆☆	Norman Mailer ★★☆☆☆☆