The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year. For more information on the Pulitzer Prices be sure to visit their website.
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| Year | Winner | Finalists |
| 2023 | Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver | The Immortal King Rao, by Vauhini Vara |
| Trust, by Hernan Diaz | ||
| 2022 | The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, by Joshua Cohen | Palmares, by Gayl Jones |
| Monkey Boy, by Francisco Goldman | ||
| 2021 | The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich | A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, by Daniel Mason |
| Telephone, by Percival Everett | ||
| 2020 | The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead | The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett |
| The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner | ||
| 2019 | The Overstory, by Richard Powers | The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai |
| There There, by Tommy Orange | ||
| 2018 | Less, by Andrew Sean Greer | In the Distance, by Hernan Diaz |
| The Idiot, by Elif Batuman | ||
| 2017 | The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead | Imagine Me Gone, by Adam Haslett |
| The Sport of Kings, by C. E. Morgan | ||
| 2016 | The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen | Get in Trouble: Stories, by Kelly Link |
| Maud's Line, by Margaret Verble | ||
| 2015 | All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr | Let Me Be Frank With You, by Richard Ford |
| Lovely, Dark, Deep, by Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| The Moor's Account, by Laila Lalami | ||
| 2014 | The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt | The Son, by Philipp Meyer |
| The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, by Bob Shacochis | ||
| 2013 | The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson | The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, by Nathan Englander | ||
| 2012 | No award given | Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell |
| The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace | ||
| Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson | ||
| 2011 | A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan | The Privileges, by Jonathan Dee |
| The Surrendered, by Chang-rae Lee | ||
| 2010 | Tinkers, by Paul Harding | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin |
| Love in Infant Monkeys, by Lydia Millet | ||
| 2009 | Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout | All Souls, by Christine Schutt |
| The Plague of Doves, by Louise Erdrich | ||
| 2008 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz | Shakespeare's Kitchen, by Lore Segal |
| Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson | ||
| 2007 | The Road, by Cormac McCarthy | After This, by Alice McDermott |
| The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers | ||
| 2006 | March, by Geraldine Brooks | The Bright Forever, by Lee Martin |
| The March, by E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 2005 | Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson | An Unfinished Season, by Ward Just |
| War Trash, by Ha Jin | ||
| 2004 | The Known World, by Edward P. Jones | American Woman, by Susan Choi |
| Evidence of Things Unseen, by Marianne Wiggins | ||
| 2003 | Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides | Servants of the Map: Stories, by Andrea Barrett |
| You Are Not a Stranger Here, by Adam Haslett | ||
| 2002 | Empire Falls, by Richard Russo | John Henry Days, by Colson Whitehead |
| The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon | Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates |
| The Quick and the Dead, by Joy Williams | ||
| 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri | Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx |
| Waiting, by Ha Jin | ||
| 1999 | The Hours, by Michael Cunningham | Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks |
| The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1998 | American Pastoral, by Philip Roth | Bear and His Daughter: Stories, by Robert Stone |
| Underworld, by Don DeLillo | ||
| 1997 | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser | The Manikin, by Joanna Scott |
| Unlocking the Air and Other Stories, by Ursula K. LeGuin | ||
| 1996 | Independence Day, by Richard Ford | Mr. Ives' Christmas, by Oscar Hijuelos |
| Sabbath's Theater, by Philip Roth | ||
| 1995 | The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields | The Collected Stories, by Grace Paley |
| What I Lived For, by Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 1994 | The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx | Operation Shylock: A Confession, by Philip Roth |
| The Collected Stories, by Reynolds Price | ||
| 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler | At Weddings and Wakes, by Alice McDermott |
| Black Water, by Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 1992 | A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley | Jernigan, by David Gates |
| Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, by Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| Mao II, by Don DeLillo | ||
| 1991 | Rabbit At Rest, by John Updike | Mean Spirit, by Linda Hogan |
| The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien | ||
| 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos | Billy Bathgate, by E.L. Doctorow |
| 1989 | Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler | Where I'm Calling From, by Raymond Carver |
| 1988 | Beloved, by Toni Morrison | Persian Nights, by Diane Johnson |
| That Night, by Alice McDermott | ||
| 1987 | A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor | Paradise, by Donald Barthelme |
| Whites, by Norman Rush | ||
| 1986 | Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry | Continental Drift, by Russell Banks |
| The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler | ||
| 1985 | Foreign Affairs, by Alison Lurie | I Wish This War Were Over, by Diana O'Hehir |
| Leaving the Land, by Douglas Unger | ||
| 1984 | Ironweed, by William Kennedy | Cathedral, by Raymond Carver |
| The Feud, by Thomas Berger | ||
| 1983 | The Color Purple, by Alice Walker | Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler |
| Rabbis and Wives, by Chaim Grade | ||
| 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike | A Flag for Sunrise, by Robert Stone |
| Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole | Godric, by Frederick Buechner |
| So Long, See You Tomorrow, by William Maxwell | ||
| 1980 | The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer | Birdy, by William Wharton |
| The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth | ||
| 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever | |
| 1978 | Elbow Room, by James Alan McPherson | |
| 1976 | Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow | |
| 1975 | The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara | |
| 1973 | The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty | |
| 1972 | Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner | |
| 1970 | Collected Stories, by Jean Stafford | |
| 1969 | House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday | |
| 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron | |
| 1967 | The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud | |
| 1966 | Collected Stories, by Katherine Anne Porter | |
| 1965 | The Keepers Of The House, by Shirley Ann Grau | |
| 1964 | No award given | |
| 1963 | The Reivers, by William Faulkner | |
| 1962 | The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O'Connor | |
| 1961 | To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee | |
| 1960 | Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury | |
| 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, by Robert Lewis Taylor | |
| 1958 | A Death In The Family, by James Agee | |
| 1956 | Andersonville, by MacKinlay Kantor | |
| 1955 | A Fable, by William Faulkner | |
| 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway | |
| 1952 | The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk | |
| 1951 | The Town, by Conrad Richter | |
| 1950 | The Way West, by A. B. Guthrie | |
| 1949 | Guard of Honor, by James Gould Cozzens | |
| 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener | |
| 1947 | All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren | |
| 1945 | A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey | |
| 1944 | Journey in the Dark, by Martin Flavin | |
| 1943 | Dragon's Teeth, by Upton Sinclair | |
| 1942 | In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow | |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck | |
| 1939 | The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | |
| 1938 | The Late George Apley, by John Phillips Marquand | |
| 1937 | Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell | |
| 1936 | Honey in the Horn, by Harold L. Davis | |
| 1935 | Now in November, by Josephine Winslow Johnson | |
| 1934 | Lamb in His Bosom, by Caroline Miller | |
| 1933 | The Store, by T. S. Stribling | |
| 1932 | The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck | |
| 1931 | Years of Grace, by Margaret Ayer Barnes | |
| 1930 | Laughing Boy, by Oliver Lafarge | |
| 1929 | Scarlet Sister Mary, by Julia Peterkin | |
| 1928 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder | |
| 1927 | Early Autumn, by Louis Bromfield | |
| 1926 | Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis | |
| 1925 | So Big, by Edna Ferber | |
| 1924 | The Able McLaughlins, by Margaret Wilson | |
| 1923 | One of Ours, by Willa Cather | |
| 1922 | Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington | |
| 1921 | The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton | |
| 1919 | The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington | |
| 1918 | His Family, by Ernest Poole |
