The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (formerly called the Prize for the Novel) has been awarded since 1918 for distinguished works of fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. During some years (1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1957, 1964, 1971, 1974, 1977, and 2012) no award was given.
Those I have read are in red. Those currently on my TBR shelf are in blue, although I intend to read them all eventually. If anyone else is reading all the winners, I am happy to add a link to your progress reports. Please leave a comment with your link and I will add it.
The Prize winners since 1918 are:
2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2013: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding (reviewed here)
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (reviewed here)
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007: The Road by Cormack McCarthy
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks (reviewed here)
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (reviewed here)
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo (reviewed here)
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (reviewed here)
1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1991: Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (reviewed here)
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (short review here)
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole
1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (reviewed here)
1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (reviewed here)
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1970: Collected Storiesby 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 (reviewed here)
1966: Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
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 (reviewed here)
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, Jr.
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 (reviewed here)
1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (reviewed here)
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 (reviewed here)
1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
NOTE
Updated December 31, 2018.
OTHERS READING THE PULITZER WINNERS
If you are working on reading all the Pulitzer fiction winners and want to list your blog or related link here, please leave a comment with the link and I will add it.
The Pulitzer Project (a group blog)
Rebecca Reads
I'm amazed at how many of these I've read. Some were books I read many, many years ago but others more recently. Wasn't consciously doing this but it's a nice surprise.
ReplyDeleteThe Known World by Edward Jones is very good.
ReplyDeleteRV: It can be satisfying to cross of a list, even if you didn't realize you were keeping one!
ReplyDeleteTea: The Known World is on my TBR shelf. I really should get to it.
You're doing very well with the list. I especially liked "The Killer Angels" and "Keepers of the House."
ReplyDeleteHave a great 2011!
Malcolm
I want to thank you for listing these. I have only read 3 on the list. As I searched for them, it was amazing how many the library did not have! Even some of the more recent ones! While I am not trying to read these perse, they are all on my reading list now!!
ReplyDeleteHmm, ten for me. I better get cracking. Someday.
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