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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Administered by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University

An annual American award honoring a distinguished novel or short story collection by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, first published in book form during the preceding year.

Search through 6,630 awarded or nominated books

2026

  1. Angel Down

    Daniel Kraus

    Won
  2. Audition

    Katie Kitamura

    Shortlisted
  3. Stag Dance: A Quartet

    Torrey Peters

    Shortlisted

2025

  1. James

    Percival Everett

    Won
  2. Headshot: A Novel

    Rita Bullwinkel

    Shortlisted
  3. Mice 1961

    Stacey Levine

    Shortlisted
  4. The Unicorn Woman

    Gayl Jones

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. Night Watch

    Jayne Anne Phillips

    Won
  2. Same Bed Different Dreams

    Ed Park

    Shortlisted
  3. Wednesday's Child

    Yiyun Li

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. Demon Copperhead

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Won
  2. The Immortal King Rao

    Vauhini Vara

    Shortlisted
  3. Trust

    Hernán Díaz

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

    Joshua Cohen

    Won
  2. Monkey Boy

    Francisco Goldman

    Shortlisted
  3. Palmares

    Gayl Jones

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. The Night Watchman

    Louise Erdrich

    Won
  2. A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth

    Daniel Mason

    Shortlisted
  3. Telephone

    Percival Everett

    Shortlisted

2020

  1. The Nickel Boys

    Colson Whitehead

    Won
  2. The Dutch House

    Ann Patchett

    Shortlisted
  3. The Topeka School

    Ben Lerner

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. The Overstory

    Richard Powers

    Won
  2. The Great Believers

    Rebecca Makkai

    Shortlisted
  3. There There

    Tommy Orange

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. Less

    Andrew Sean Greer

    Won
  2. In the Distance

    Hernan Diaz

    Shortlisted
  3. The Idiot

    Elif Batuman

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. The Underground Railroad

    Colson Whitehead

    Won
  2. Imagine Me Gone

    Adam Haslett

    Shortlisted
  3. The Sport of Kings

    C. E. Morgan

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. The Sympathizer

    Viet Thanh Nguyen

    Won
  2. Get in Trouble: Stories

    Kelly Link

    Shortlisted
  3. Maud's Line

    Margaret Verble

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. All the Light We Cannot See

    Anthony Doerr

    Won
  2. Let Me Be Frank with You

    Richard Ford

    Shortlisted
  3. Lovely, Dark, Deep

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted
  4. The Moor's Account

    Laila Lalami

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. The Goldfinch

    Donna Tartt

    Won
  2. The Son

    Philipp Meyer

    Shortlisted
  3. The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

    Bob Shacochis

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. The Orphan Master's Son

    Adam Johnson

    Won
  2. The Snow Child

    Eowyn Ivey

    Shortlisted
  3. What We Talk About When We Talk about Anne Frank

    Nathan Englander

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. Swamplandia!

    Karen Russell

    Shortlisted
  2. The Pale King (posthumously)

    David Foster Wallace

    Shortlisted
  3. Train Dreams

    Denis Johnson

    Shortlisted

2011

  1. A Visit from the Goon Squad

    Jennifer Egan

    Won
  2. The Privileges

    Jonathan Dee

    Shortlisted
  3. The Surrendered

    Chang-rae Lee

    Shortlisted

2010

  1. Tinkers

    Paul Harding

    Won
  2. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

    Daniyal Mueenuddin

    Shortlisted
  3. Love in Infant Monkeys

    Lydia Millet

    Shortlisted

2009

  1. Olive Kitteridge

    Elizabeth Strout

    Won
  2. All Souls

    Christine Schutt

    Shortlisted
  3. The Plague of Doves

    Louise Erdrich

    Shortlisted

2008

  1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    Junot Díaz

    Won
  2. Shakespeare's Kitchen

    Lore Segal

    Shortlisted
  3. Tree of Smoke

    Denis Johnson

    Shortlisted

2007

  1. The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    Won
  2. After This

    Alice McDermott

    Shortlisted
  3. The Echo Maker

    Richard Powers

    Shortlisted

2006

  1. March

    Geraldine Brooks

    Won
  2. The Bright Forever

    Lee Martin

    Shortlisted
  3. The March

    E. L. Doctorow

    Shortlisted

2005

  1. Gilead

    Marilynne Robinson

    Won
  2. An Unfinished Season

    Ward Just

    Shortlisted
  3. War Trash

    Ha Jin

    Shortlisted

2004

  1. The Known World

    Edward P. Jones

    Won
  2. American Woman

    Susan Choi

    Shortlisted
  3. Evidence of Things Unseen

    Marianne Wiggins

    Shortlisted

2003

  1. Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    Won
  2. Servants of the Map: Stories

    Andrea Barrett

    Shortlisted
  3. You Are Not a Stranger Here

    Adam Haslett

    Shortlisted

2002

  1. Empire Falls

    Richard Russo

    Won
  2. John Henry Days

    Colson Whitehead

    Shortlisted
  3. The Corrections

    Jonathan Franzen

    Shortlisted

2001

  1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

    Michael Chabon

    Won
  2. Blonde

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted
  3. The Quick and the Dead

    Joy Williams

    Shortlisted

2000

  1. Interpreter of Maladies

    Jhumpa Lahiri

    Won
  2. Close Range: Wyoming Stories

    Annie Proulx

    Shortlisted
  3. Waiting

    Ha Jin

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. The Hours

    Michael Cunningham

    Won
  2. Cloudsplitter

    Russell Banks

    Shortlisted
  3. The Poisonwood Bible

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Shortlisted

1998

  1. American Pastoral

    Philip Roth

    Won
  2. Bear and His Daughter: Stories

    Robert Stone

    Shortlisted
  3. Underworld

    Don DeLillo

    Shortlisted

1997

  1. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

    Steven Millhauser

    Won
  2. The Manikin

    Joanna Scott

    Shortlisted
  3. Unlocking the Air and Other Stories

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. Independence Day

    Richard Ford

    Won
  2. Mr. Ives' Christmas

    Oscar Hijuelos

    Shortlisted
  3. Sabbath's Theater

    Philip Roth

    Shortlisted

1995

  1. The Stone Diaries

    Carol Shields

    Won
  2. The Collected Stories

    Grace Paley

    Shortlisted
  3. What I Lived For

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted

1994

  1. The Shipping News

    E. Annie Proulx

    Won
  2. Operation Shylock: A Confession

    Philip Roth

    Shortlisted
  3. The Collected Stories

    Reynolds Price

    Shortlisted

1993

  1. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

    Robert Olen Butler

    Won
  2. At Weddings and Wakes

    Alice McDermott

    Shortlisted
  3. Black Water

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Shortlisted

1992

  1. A Thousand Acres

    Jane Smiley

    Won
  2. Jernigan

    David Gates

    Shortlisted
  3. Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

    Robert M. Pirsig

    Shortlisted
  4. Mao II

    Don DeLillo

    Shortlisted

1991

  1. Rabbit at Rest

    John Updike

    Won
  2. Mean Spirit

    Linda Hogan

    Shortlisted
  3. The Things They Carried

    Tim O’Brien

    Shortlisted

1990

  1. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

    Oscar Hijuelos

    Won
  2. Billy Bathgate

    E. L. Doctorow

    Shortlisted

1989

  1. Breathing Lessons

    Anne Tyler

    Won
  2. Where I'm Calling From

    Raymond Carver

    Shortlisted

1988

  1. Beloved

    Toni Morrison

    Won
  2. Persian Nights

    Diane Johnson

    Shortlisted
  3. That Night

    Alice McDermott

    Shortlisted

1987

  1. A Summons to Memphis

    Peter Taylor

    Won
  2. Paradise

    Donald Barthelme

    Shortlisted
  3. Whites

    Norman Rush

    Shortlisted

1986

  1. Lonesome Dove

    Larry McMurtry

    Won
  2. Continental Drift

    Russell Banks

    Shortlisted
  3. The Accidental Tourist

    Anne Tyler

    Shortlisted

1985

  1. Foreign Affairs

    Alison Lurie

    Won
  2. I Wish This War Were Over

    Diana O'Hehir

    Shortlisted
  3. Leaving the Land

    Douglas Unger

    Shortlisted

1984

  1. Ironweed

    William Kennedy

    Won
  2. Cathedral

    Raymond Carver

    Shortlisted
  3. The Feud

    Thomas Berger

    Shortlisted

1983

  1. The Color Purple

    Alice Walker

    Won
  2. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

    Anne Tyler

    Shortlisted

  3. Rabbis and Wives

    Chaim Grade

    Shortlisted

1982

  1. Rabbit Is Rich

    John Updike

    Won
  2. A Flag for Sunrise

    Robert Stone

    Shortlisted
  3. Housekeeping

    Marilynne Robinson

    Shortlisted

1981

  1. A Confederacy of Dunces (posthumously)

    John Kennedy Toole

    Won
  2. Godric

    Frederick Buechner

    Shortlisted
  3. So Long, See You Tomorrow

    William Maxwell

    Shortlisted

1980

  1. The Executioner's Song

    Norman Mailer

    Won
  2. Birdy

    William Wharton

    Shortlisted
  3. The Ghost Writer

    Philip Roth

    Shortlisted

1979

  1. The Stories of John Cheever

    John Cheever

    Won

1978

  1. Elbow Room

    James Alan McPherson

    Won

1976

  1. Humboldt's Gift

    Saul Bellow

    Won

1975

  1. The Killer Angels

    Michael Shaara

    Won

1973

  1. The Optimist's Daughter

    Eudora Welty

    Won

1972

  1. Angle of Repose

    Wallace Stegner

    Won

1970

  1. Collected Stories

    Jean Stafford

    Won

1969

  1. House Made of Dawn

    N. Scott Momaday

    Won

1968

  1. The Confessions of Nat Turner

    William Styron

    Won

1967

  1. The Fixer

    Bernard Malamud

    Won

1966

  1. The Collected Stories

    Katherine Anne Porter

    Won

1965

  1. The Keepers of the House

    Shirley Ann Grau

    Won

1963

  1. The Reivers (posthumously)

    William Faulkner

    Won

1962

  1. The Edge of Sadness

    Edwin O'Connor

    Won

1961

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee

    Won

1960

  1. Advise and Consent

    Allen Drury

    Won

1959

  1. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

    Robert Lewis Taylor

    Won

1958

  1. A Death in the Family (posthumously)

    James Agee

    Won

1956

  1. Andersonville

    MacKinlay Kantor

    Won

1955

  1. A Fable

    William Faulkner

    Won

1953

  1. The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway

    Won

1952

  1. The Caine Mutiny

    Herman Wouk

    Won

1951

  1. The Town

    Conrad Richter

    Won

1950

  1. The Way West

    A. B. Guthrie

    Won

1949

  1. Guard of Honor

    James Gould Cozzens

    Won

1948

  1. Tales of the South Pacific

    James A. Michener

    Won

1947

  1. All the King's Men

    Robert Penn Warren

    Won

1945

  1. A Bell for Adano

    John Hersey

    Won

1944

  1. Journey in the Dark

    Martin Flavin

    Won

1943

  1. Dragon's Teeth

    Upton Sinclair

    Won

1942

  1. In This Our Life

    Ellen Glasgow

    Won

1940

  1. The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck

    Won

1939

  1. The Yearling

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

    Won

1938

  1. The Late George Apley

    John Phillips Marquand

    Won

1937

  1. Gone with the Wind

    Margaret Mitchell

    Won

1936

  1. Honey in the Horn

    Harold L. Davis

    Won

1935

  1. Now in November

    Josephine Winslow Johnson

    Won

1934

  1. Lamb in His Bosom

    Caroline Miller

    Won

1933

  1. The Store

    T. S. Stribling

    Won

1932

  1. The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Won

1931

  1. Years of Grace

    Margaret Ayer Barnes

    Won

1930

  1. Laughing Boy

    Oliver La Farge

    Won

1929

  1. Scarlet Sister Mary

    Julia Peterkin

    Won

1928

  1. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    Thornton Wilder

    Won

1927

  1. Early Autumn

    Louis Bromfield

    Won

1926

  1. Arrowsmith

    Sinclair Lewis

    Won

1925

  1. So Big

    Edna Ferber

    Won

1924

  1. The Able McLaughlins

    Margaret Wilson

    Won

1923

  1. One of Ours

    Willa Cather

    Won

1922

  1. Alice Adams

    Booth Tarkington

    Won

1921

  1. The Age of Innocence

    Edith Wharton

    Won

1919

  1. The Magnificent Ambersons

    Booth Tarkington

    Won

1918

  1. His Family

    Ernest Poole

    Won