Novel and Fiction Pulitzer Prize Winners

Books I have read are in bold.  

[Novel: 1917 – 1947] [Fiction: 1948 – present]

1918
His Family by Ernest Poole

1919
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

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
Laughter Boy by Oliver Lafarge

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 Phillips Marquand

1939
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1940
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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 Hersey

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

1951
The Town by Conrad Richter

1952
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

1953
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1955
A Fable by William Faulkner

1956
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

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

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

1972
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

1973
The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty

1975
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

1976
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow

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

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

1998
American Pastoral by Philip Roth

1999
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

2000
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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 Diaz

2009
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2010
Tinkers by Paul Harding

2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2012
No winner selected