Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiction

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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.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole	3.85	349 reads
A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text James Agee	3.85	17 reads
Advise and Consent Allen Drury	4.2	5 reads
A Fable William Faulkner	2	3 reads
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler	3.78	14 reads
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr	4.2	917 reads
American Pastoral Philip Roth	3.63	95 reads
Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor	4.33	3 reads
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner	4.27	39 reads
A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor	2.25	7 reads
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley	3.51	42 reads
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan	3.8	319 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.91	436 reads
Collected Stories John Cheever	4.17	16 reads
Elbow Room James Alan McPherson	3.67	4 reads
Empire Falls Richard Russo	4.13	79 reads
Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie	3.94	13 reads
Gilead Marilynne Robinson	4.75	13 reads
Guard of Honor James Gould Cozzens	0	0 reads
House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday	3.41	19 reads
Humboldt's Gift Saul Bellow	3.83	16 reads
Independence Day Richard Ford	0	0 reads
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri	3.92	174 reads
Ironweed William Kennedy	3.75	18 reads
Less Andrew Sean Greer Elena Dal Pra (Translator)	3.7	295 reads
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry	4.62	249 reads
March Geraldine Brooks	3.85	47 reads
Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser	2.75	6 reads
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.14	390 reads
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout	4.01	164 reads
Rabbit at Rest John Updike	3.8	15 reads
Rabbit Is Rich John Updike	2.88	19 reads
Tales of the South Pacific James A. Michener	3.75	8 reads
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon	4.22	324 reads
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	3.72	327 reads
The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk	4.35	22 reads
The Collected Stories Katherine Anne Porter	3.5	2 reads
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford	0	0 reads
The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.16	521 reads
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron	2.33	6 reads
The Edge of Sadness Edwin O'Connor	5	1 read
The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer	3.6	28 reads
The Fixer Bernard Malamud	4.2	7 reads
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.95	712 reads
The Hours Michael Cunningham	4	124 reads
The Keepers of the House Shirley Ann Grau	4.14	11 reads
The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War Michael Shaara	4.19	78 reads
The Known World Edward P. Jones	3.63	45 reads
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos	3.88	12 reads
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.27	315 reads
The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich	4.11	97 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway	3.69	1,365 reads
The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty	3.86	20 reads
The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson	4.17	102 reads
The Overstory Richard Powers	4.07	311 reads
The Reivers William Faulkner	3.86	9 reads
The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.03	1,471 reads
The Shipping News Annie Proulx	3.78	124 reads
The Stone Diaries Carol Shields	3.47	43 reads
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen	4.06	212 reads
The Town Conrad Richter	3	5 reads
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Robert Lewis Taylor	5	4 reads
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead	4.03	446 reads
The Way West A.B. Guthrie Jr.	5	5 reads
Tinkers Paul Harding	3.38	47 reads
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.17	3,275 reads