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Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiction

This list contains Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction since the Fiction Prize's inception in 1948. The Pulitzer Prizes and Fellowships were established in Columbia University by Joseph Pulitzer. Prizes are awarded by the University on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board and are announced in Spring. Nominees are organized into 22 categories across journalism, books, drama and music.

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces
ByJohn Kennedy Toole

1978 • 721 Readers • 338 pages 3.8

A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text

2007 • 66 Readers • 615 pages 3.8

Advise and Consent

#1 of 3 in Advise and Consent

Advise and Consent
ByAllen Drury

1959 • 24 Readers • 616 pages 4.2

A Fable

A Fable
ByWilliam Faulkner

1954 • 30 Readers • 384 pages 2

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

1992 • 52 Readers • 195 pages 3.8

All the Light We Cannot See

2014 • 2,045 Readers • 544 pages 4.2

American Pastoral

#6 of 9 in Complete Nathan Zuckerman

American Pastoral
ByPhilip Roth

1997 • 249 Readers • 434 pages 3.6

Andersonville

Andersonville
ByMacKinlay Kantor

1955 • 25 Readers • 767 pages 4.3

Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose
ByWallace Stegner

1971 • 123 Readers • 482 pages 4.3

A Summons to Memphis

A Summons to Memphis
ByPeter Taylor

1986 • 26 Readers • 209 pages 2.3

A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres
ByJane Smiley

1991 • 100 Readers • 384 pages 3.5

A Visit from the Goon Squad

#1 of 11 in Goon Squad

2010 • 627 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

Beloved

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

Beloved
ByToni Morrison

1987 • 1,096 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

Collected Stories

Collected Stories
ByJohn Cheever

1990 • 63 Readers • 912 pages 4.2

Elbow Room

Elbow Room
ByJames Alan McPherson

28 Readers 3.7

Empire Falls

Empire Falls
ByRichard Russo

2001 • 160 Readers • 496 pages 4.1

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs
ByAlison Lurie

1984 • 43 Readers • 292 pages 3.9

Gilead

#1 of 4 in Gilead

Gilead
ByMarilynne Robinson

37 Readers 4.8

Guard of Honor

Guard of Honor
ByJames Gould Cozzens

1948 • 12 Readers • 614 pages

House Made of Dawn

House Made of Dawn
ByN. Scott Momaday

1968 • 63 Readers • 208 pages 3.4

Humboldt's Gift

Humboldt's Gift
BySaul Bellow

1975 • 59 Readers • 468 pages 3.8

Independence Day

Independence Day
ByRichard Ford

2001 • 2 Readers • 451 pages

Interpreter of Maladies

1999 • 346 Readers • 200 pages 3.9

Ironweed

#3 of 6 in The Albany Cycle

Ironweed
ByWilliam Kennedy

1983 • 56 Readers • 260 pages 3.8

Less

#1 of 2 in Arthur Less

Less
ByAndrew Sean Greer,Elena Dal Pra(Translator)

2017 • 603 Readers • 292 pages 3.7

Lonesome Dove

#1 of 4 in Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove
ByLarry McMurtry

1985 • 793 Readers • 858 pages 4.6

March

March
ByGeraldine Brooks

2005 • 111 Readers • 304 pages 3.8

Martin Dressler

Martin Dressler
BySteven Millhauser

1997 • 21 Readers • 293 pages 2.8

Middlesex

Middlesex
ByJeffrey Eugenides

2002 • 807 Readers • 548 pages 4.1

Olive Kitteridge

#1 of 2 in Olive Kitteridge

Olive Kitteridge
ByElizabeth Strout

2008 • 323 Readers • 385 pages 4

Rabbit at Rest

#4 of 6 in Rabbit Angstrom

Rabbit at Rest
ByJohn Updike

1990 • 32 Readers • 608 pages 3.8

Rabbit Is Rich

#3 of 6 in Rabbit Angstrom

Rabbit Is Rich
ByJohn Updike

1981 • 43 Readers • 467 pages 2.9

Tales of the South Pacific

Tales of the South Pacific
ByJames A. Michener

1947 • 28 Readers • 351 pages 3.8

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2000 • 640 Readers • 706 pages 4.2

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2007 • 596 Readers • 360 pages 3.7

The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny
ByHerman Wouk

1951 • 63 Readers • 537 pages 4.4

The Collected Stories

The Collected Stories
ByKatherine Anne Porter

1965 • 3 Readers • 536 pages 3.5

Cover 7

2005 • 2 Readers • 512 pages

The Color Purple

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

The Color Purple
ByAlice Walker

1976 • 1,198 Readers • 288 pages 4.2

The Confessions of Nat Turner

1920 • 43 Readers • 454 pages 2.3

The Edge of Sadness

The Edge of Sadness
ByEdwin O'Connor

1961 • 18 Readers • 646 pages 5

The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song
ByNorman Mailer

1979 • 124 Readers • 1,103 pages 3.6

The Fixer

The Fixer
ByBernard Malamud

1966 • 52 Readers • 356 pages 4.2

The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch
ByDonna Tartt

1993 • 1,546 Readers • 1,006 pages 4

The Hours

The Hours
ByMichael Cunningham

1998 • 243 Readers • 244 pages 4

The Keepers of the House

The Keepers of the House
ByShirley Ann Grau

1964 • 39 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War

#2 of 3 in The Civil War Trilogy

1974 • 135 Readers • 369 pages 4.2

The Known World

The Known World
ByEdward P. Jones

2003 • 134 Readers • 388 pages 3.6

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

#1 of 2 in Mambo Kings

1989 • 35 Readers • 416 pages 3.9

The Nickel Boys

The Nickel Boys
ByColson Whitehead

2019 • 659 Readers • 224 pages 4.3

The Night Watchman

The Night Watchman
ByLouise Erdrich

2020 • 298 Readers • 464 pages 4.1

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea
ByErnest Hemingway

1952 • 1,974 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

The Optimist's Daughter

1972 • 54 Readers • 182 pages 3.9

The Orphan Master's Son

2012 • 239 Readers • 465 pages 4.2

The Overstory

The Overstory
ByRichard Powers

2018 • 860 Readers • 502 pages 4.1

The Reivers

The Reivers
ByWilliam Faulkner

1962 • 31 Readers • 416 pages 3.9

The Road

The Road
ByCormac McCarthy

1974 • 2,494 Readers • 287 pages 4

The Shipping News

The Shipping News
ByAnnie Proulx

1993 • 218 Readers • 360 pages 3.8

The Stone Diaries

The Stone Diaries
ByCarol Shields

1993 • 88 Readers • 404 pages 3.5

The Sympathizer

#1 of 2 in The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer
ByViet Thanh Nguyen

2015 • 565 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

The Town

#3 of 3 in The Awakening Land

The Town
ByConrad Richter

1950 • 21 Readers • 309 pages 3

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

1958 • 17 Readers • 544 pages 5

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad
ByColson Whitehead

2016 • 955 Readers • 306 pages 4

The Way West

#2 of 2 in The Big Sky

The Way West
ByA.B. Guthrie Jr.

1949 • 27 Readers 5

Tinkers

Tinkers
ByPaul Harding

2009 • 125 Readers • 206 pages 3.4

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 4,559 Readers • 323 pages 4.2