Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

•    1920: No award given

•    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 (declined prize)

•    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 Thomas Sigismund 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

•    1941: For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

•    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

•    1946: No award given

•    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 given

•    1955: A Fable by William Faulkner

•    1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

•    1957: The Voice At The Back Door by Elizabeth Spencer

•    1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee (posthumous win)

•    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 (posthumous win)

•    1964: No award given

•    1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

•    1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter 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: The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford

•    1971: No award given

•    1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

•    1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

•    1974: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

•    1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

•    1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

•    1977: A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean

•    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 Díaz

•    2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

•    2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding

•    2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

•    2013: The Orphan Masters Son by Adam Johnson

•    2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

•    2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

•    2016: The Sympathiser by Viet Thanh Nguyen

•    2017: The Underground Railroad by Coulston Whitehead

•    2018: Less by Andrew Greer

•    2019: The Overstory by Richard Powers

•    2020: The Nickel Boys by Coulston Whitehead

•    2021: The Night Watchmen by Louise Erdrich

•    2022: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

•    2023: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingslover

•    2024: Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips