The Award Tally
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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.

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

    Terry Pratchett

    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

    Frank M. Robinson

    Shortlisted