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Pulitzer Prize Master List

 

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (49/98) + (9 finalists)

Highlighted: Books read. Updated: October 16, 2024. Titles hyperlinked if I published a review.

 

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

1920 (No Award)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather

1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson

1925 So Big by Edna Ferber

1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield

1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge

1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling

1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson

1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

1938 The Late George Apley by John Philips Marquand

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

1941 (No Award)

1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow

1943 Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair

1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin

1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hershey

1946 (No Award)

1947 All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener

1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens

1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

1951 The Town by Conrad Richter

1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1954 (No Award)

1955 A Fable by William Faulkner

1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

1957 (No Award)

1958 A Death In the Family by James Agee

1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor

1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner

1964 (No Award)

1965 The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

1971 (No Award)

1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

1974 (No Award)

1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

1977 (Special Award) Roots by Alex Haley

1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike

    1991 Finalist: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford

1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

    1997 Finalist: Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula LeGuin

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham

     1999 Finalist: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

     2000 Finalist: Close Range: Wyoming Stories by E. Annie Proulx

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones

    2004 Finalist: Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins 

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

    2009 Finalist: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2012 (No Award)

    2012 Finalist: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

2013 The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

    2013 Finalist: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey 

2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

2015 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2016 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
2017 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2018 Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2019 The Overstory by Richard Powers
    2019 Finalist: There There by Tommy Orange
    2019 Finalist: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 
2020 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
    2020 Finalist: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 
2021 The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
2022 The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
co-2023 Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
co-2023 Trust by Hernan Diaz
2024 Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

 


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