Pulitzer

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction


2020 Winner
  • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (4.5 stars)
2020 Finalists
  • The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (4.5 stars)
  • The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
2019 Winner
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers
2019 Finalists
2018 Winner
  • Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2018 Finalists
  • In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
  • The Idiot by Elif Batuman
2017 Winner
  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2017 Finalists
  • Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
  • The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
2016 Winner
  • The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2016 Finalists
  • Get In Trouble by Kelly Link
  • Maud's Line by Margaret Verble
2015 Winner
2015 Finalists
  • Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
  • The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami (3.5 stars)
  • Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
2014 Winner
  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2014 Finalists
  • The Son by Philipp Meyer
  • The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
2013 Winner
  • The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2013 Finalists
  • The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Drank by Nathan Englander
2012 Winner
  • None
2012 Finalists
  • Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (3 stars)
  • Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (4 stars)
  • The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
2011 Winner 
2011 Finalists
  • The Privileges by Jonathan Dee (4.5 stars)
  • The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
2010 Winner
2010 Finalists
2009 Winner
2009 Finalists
  • All Souls by Christine Schutt
  • The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
2008 Winner
2008 Finalists
  • Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
  • Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal 
2007 Winner
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2007 Finalists
  • After This by Alice McDermott
  • The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2006 Winner
  • March by Geraldine Brooks
2006 Finalists
  • The March by E.L. Doctorow
  • The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
2005 Winner
  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2.5 stars)
2005 Finalists
  • War Trash by Ha Jin
  • An Unfinished Season by Ward Just
2004 Winner
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2004 Finalists
  • American Woman by Susan Choi
  • Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
2003 Winner
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2003 Finalists
  • Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett
  • You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
2002 Winner
  • Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2002 Finalists
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  • John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
2001 Winner
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2001 Finalists
  • Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
2000 Winner
  • Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2000 Finalists
  • Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
  • Waiting by Ha Jin
1999 Winner
  • The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1999 Finalists
  • Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
1998 Winner
  • American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1998 Finalists
  • Underworld by Don DeLillo
  • Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone
1997 Winner
  • Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1997 Finalists
  • Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • The Manikin by Joanna Scott
1996 Winner
  • Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995 Winner
  • The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1994 Winner
  • The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1961 Winner

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