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 ★★☆☆☆☆