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.
The prize is named after its founder, legendary American publisher Joseph Pulitzer. No prize was awarded in several years, most recently in 2012. The prize is currently $15,000.
This is one of my favorite books lists, but I am not going to update the winners after 2021. My enthusiasm for prize-winners is waning with the 2020s. I may focus my efforts on reading the winners up to 2020 then declare victory and move on to other bookish projects.
So far, I've read 65 of the winners. The list of the winners through 2021 is below, with notes about whether I've finished it, it is currently on my TBR shelf, or if it is available as an audiobook from my library.
The Prize winners since 1918 are:
2021: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich ON OVERDRIVE
2020: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead FINISHED
2019: The Overstory by Richard Powers FINISHED
2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer FINISHED
2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead FINISHED
2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen FINISHED
2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer FINISHED
2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt FINISHED
2013: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson FINISHED
2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan FINISHED
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding (reviewed here) FINISHED
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (reviewed here) FINISHED
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz FINISHED
2007: The Road by Cormack McCarthy
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks (reviewed here) FINISHED
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (reviewed here) FINISHED
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones FINISHED
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides FINISHED
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo (reviewed here) FINISHED
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon FINISHED
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri FINISHED
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham FINISHED
1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth FINISHED
1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (reviewed here) FINISHED
1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford FINISHED
1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields FINISHED
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx FINISHED
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler TBR SHELF
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley FINISHED
1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike FINISHED
1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos FINISHED
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (reviewed here) FINISHED
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison FINISHED
1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (short review here) FINISHED
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry FINISHED
1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie FINISHED
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy FINISHED
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker FINISHED
1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike FINISHED
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole FINISHED
1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer ON OVERDRIVE
1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (reviewed here) FINISHED
1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson TBR SHELF
1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (reviewed here) FINISHED
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara ON OVERDRIVE
1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty TBR SHELF
1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner FINISHED
1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday FINISHED
1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron FINISHED
1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (reviewed here) FINISHED
1966: Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau FINISHED
1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner TBR SHELF
1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee FINISHED
1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (reviewed here) FINISHED
1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor FINISHED
1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee FINISHED
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway FINISHED
1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk ON OVERDRIVE
1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens FINISHED
1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener FINISHED
1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (reviewed here) FINISHED
1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (reviewed here) FINISHED
1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin TBR SHELF
1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair TBR SHELF
1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck FINISHED
1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand FINISHED
1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell FINISHED
1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis TBR SHELF
1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1933: The Store by T. S. Stribling TBR SHELF
1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck FINISHED
1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes TBR SHELF
1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge TBR SHELF
1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder FINISHED
1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield FINISHED
1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis FINISHED
1925: So Big by Edna Ferber FINISHED
1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather FINISHED
1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (reviewed here) FINISHED
1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton FINISHED
1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington FINISHED
1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
NOTE
Updated October 26, 2023.
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.
So far, I've read 65 of the winners. The list of the winners through 2021 is below, with notes about whether I've finished it, it is currently on my TBR shelf, or if it is available as an audiobook from my library.
The Prize winners since 1918 are:
2021: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich ON OVERDRIVE
2020: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead FINISHED
2019: The Overstory by Richard Powers FINISHED
2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer FINISHED
2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead FINISHED
2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen FINISHED
2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer FINISHED
2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt FINISHED
2013: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson FINISHED
2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan FINISHED
2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding (reviewed here) FINISHED
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (reviewed here) FINISHED
2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz FINISHED
2007: The Road by Cormack McCarthy
2006: March by Geraldine Brooks (reviewed here) FINISHED
2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (reviewed here) FINISHED
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones FINISHED
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides FINISHED
2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo (reviewed here) FINISHED
2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon FINISHED
2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri FINISHED
1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham FINISHED
1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth FINISHED
1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (reviewed here) FINISHED
1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford FINISHED
1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields FINISHED
1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx FINISHED
1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler TBR SHELF
1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley FINISHED
1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike FINISHED
1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos FINISHED
1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (reviewed here) FINISHED
1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison FINISHED
1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (short review here) FINISHED
1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry FINISHED
1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie FINISHED
1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy FINISHED
1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker FINISHED
1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike FINISHED
1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole FINISHED
1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer ON OVERDRIVE
1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (reviewed here) FINISHED
1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson TBR SHELF
1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (reviewed here) FINISHED
1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara ON OVERDRIVE
1973: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty TBR SHELF
1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner FINISHED
1970: Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday FINISHED
1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron FINISHED
1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (reviewed here) FINISHED
1966: Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau FINISHED
1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner TBR SHELF
1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee FINISHED
1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (reviewed here) FINISHED
1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor FINISHED
1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee FINISHED
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway FINISHED
1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk ON OVERDRIVE
1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens FINISHED
1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener FINISHED
1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (reviewed here) FINISHED
1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (reviewed here) FINISHED
1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin TBR SHELF
1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair TBR SHELF
1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck FINISHED
1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938: The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand FINISHED
1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell FINISHED
1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis TBR SHELF
1935: Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1933: The Store by T. S. Stribling TBR SHELF
1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck FINISHED
1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes TBR SHELF
1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge TBR SHELF
1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder FINISHED
1927: Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield FINISHED
1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis FINISHED
1925: So Big by Edna Ferber FINISHED
1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather FINISHED
1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (reviewed here) FINISHED
1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton FINISHED
1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington FINISHED
1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
NOTE
Updated October 26, 2023.
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.
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