Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Winners

2026Angel Down ★Daniel Kraus ★
2025James ★★☆☆Percival Everett ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
2024Night Watch ★Jayne Anne Phillips ★☆
2023Demon Copperhead ★★Barbara Kingsolver ★★★☆☆☆☆
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 and 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 ★★☆☆☆☆
1979The Stories of John Cheever ★★☆John Cheever ★★★☆☆
1978Elbow Room ★☆James Alan McPherson ★☆
1976Humboldt's Gift ★☆Saul Bellow ★★★★☆☆☆
1975The Killer Angels ★Michael Shaara ★
1973The Optimist's Daughter ★☆Eudora Welty ★★☆☆☆☆☆
1972Angle of Repose ★Wallace Stegner ★★☆
1970The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford ★☆Jean Stafford ★☆☆
1969House Made of Dawn ★N. Scott Momaday ★
1968The Confessions of Nat Turner ★☆William Styron ★★☆☆
1967The Fixer ★★Bernard Malamud ★★★☆☆☆
1966The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter ★★Katherine Anne Porter ★★☆
1965The Keepers of the House ★Shirley Ann Grau ★☆
1963The Reivers ★William Faulkner ★★★★☆☆
1962The Edge of Sadness ★Edwin O'Connor ★☆☆
1961To Kill a Mockingbird ★☆Harper Lee ★☆
1960Advise and Consent ★Allen Drury ★
1959The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters ★Robert Lewis Taylor ★
1958A Death in the Family ★☆James Agee ★☆☆☆
1956Andersonville ★☆MacKinlay Kantor ★☆
1955A Fable ★★William Faulkner ★★★★☆☆
1953The Old Man and the Sea ★☆Ernest Hemingway ★☆
1952The Caine Mutiny ★☆Herman Wouk ★☆☆☆
1951The Town ★Conrad Richter ★★
1950The Way West ★A. B. Guthrie ★☆
1949Guard of Honor ★James Gould Cozzens ★☆
1948Tales of the South Pacific ★James A. Michener ★
1947All the King's Men ★Robert Penn Warren ★☆☆
1945A Bell for Adano ★John Hersey ★☆☆☆
1944Journey in the Dark ★Martin Flavin ★
1943Dragon's Teeth ★Upton Sinclair ★
1942In This Our Life ★Ellen Glasgow ★
1940The Grapes of Wrath ★John Steinbeck ★☆☆☆
1939The Yearling ★Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ★
1938The Late George Apley ★John P. Marquand ★☆
1937Gone with the Wind ★Margaret Mitchell ★
1936Honey in the Horn ★H. L. Davis ★☆
1935Now in November ★Josephine Winslow Johnson ★
1934Lamb in His Bosom ★Caroline Miller ★
1933The Store ★T. S. Stribling ★
1932The Good Earth ★Pearl S. Buck ★
1931Years of Grace ★Margaret Ayer Barnes ★
1930Laughing Boy ★Oliver La Farge ★
1929Scarlet Sister Mary ★Julia Peterkin ★
1928The Bridge of San Luis Rey ★Thornton Wilder ★★
1927Early Autumn ★Louis Bromfield ★
1926Arrowsmith ★Sinclair Lewis ★
1925So Big ★Edna Ferber ★
1924The Able McLaughlins ★Margaret Wilson ★
1923One of Ours ★Willa Cather ★
1922Alice Adams ★Booth Tarkington ★★
1921The Age of Innocence ★Edith Wharton ★
1919The Magnificent Ambersons ★Booth Tarkington ★★
1918His Family ★Ernest Poole ★