Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners Rankings
All Pulitzer Prize winning novels for Fiction/Novel, rankable by reader preference.
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The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson (1924)—
So Big - Edna Ferber (1925)—
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis (1926)—
Early Autumn - Louis Bromfield (1927)—
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder (1928)—
Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin (1929)—
Laughing Boy - Oliver La Farge (1930)—
Years of Grace - Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931)—
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (1932)—
The Store - T.S. Stribling (1933)—
Lamb in His Bosom - Caroline Miller (1934)—
Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson (1935)—
Honey in the Horn - Harold L. Davis (1936)—
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1937)—
The Late George Apley - John P. Marquand (1938)—
The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939)—
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1940)—
In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow (1942)—
Dragon's Teeth - Upton Sinclair (1943)—
Journey in the Dark - Martin Flavin (1944)—
A Bell for Adano - John Hersey (1945)—
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren (1947)—
Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener (1948)—
Guard of Honor - James Gould Cozzens (1949)—
The Way West - A.B. Guthrie Jr. (1950)—
The Town - Conrad Richter (1951)—
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk (1952)—
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1953)—
A Fable - William Faulkner (1955)—
Andersonville - MacKinlay Kantor (1956)—
A Death in the Family - James Agee (1958)—
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters - Robert Lewis Taylor (1959)—
Advise and Consent - Allen Drury (1960)—
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1961)—
The Edge of Sadness - Edwin O'Connor (1962)—
The Reivers - William Faulkner (1963)—
The Keepers of the House - Shirley Ann Grau (1965)—
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1966)—
The Fixer - Bernard Malamud (1967)—
The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron (1968)—
House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday (1969)—
The Collected Stories - Jean Stafford (1970)—
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner (1972)—
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty (1973)—
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara (1975)—
Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow (1976)—
Elbow Room - James Alan McPherson (1978)—
The Stories of John Cheever (1979)—
The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer (1980)—
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (1981)—
Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike (1982)—
The Color Purple - Alice Walker (1983)—
Ironweed - William Kennedy (1984)—
Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie (1985)—
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (1986)—
A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor (1987)—
Beloved - Toni Morrison (1988)—
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler (1989)—
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos (1990)—
Rabbit at Rest - John Updike (1991)—
A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley (1992)—
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler (1993)—
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx (1994)—
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (1995)—
Independence Day - Richard Ford (1996)—
Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser (1997)—
American Pastoral - Philip Roth (1998)—
The Hours - Michael Cunningham (1999)—
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)—
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon (2001)—
Empire Falls - Richard Russo (2002)—
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)—
The Known World - Edward P. Jones (2004)—
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson (2005)—
March - Geraldine Brooks (2006)—
The Road - Cormac McCarthy (2007)—
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz (2008)—
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (2009)—
Tinkers - Paul Harding (2010)—
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan (2011)—
No Award (2012)—
The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson (2013)—
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt (2014)—
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (2015)—
The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016)—
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (2017)—
Less - Andrew Sean Greer (2018)—
The Overstory - Richard Powers (2019)—
The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead (2020)—
The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich (2021)—
The Netanyahus - Joshua Cohen (2022)—
Trust - Hernan Diaz (2023)—
Night Watch - Jamel Brinkley (2024)—