Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Winners

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