The Pulitzers
These are the novels that I will be reading.Â
The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917. The first Pulitzer Prize for a Novel was given in 1918 to Ernest Poole’s His Family. The name of the award was changed to Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948. Â
2024 Winner
The Night Watch
by Jayne Anne Phillips
2023 Winner
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
2023 winner
TRUST
by hernan diaz
2022 Winner
The Netanyahus
by Joshua Cohen
2021 Winner
The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
2020 Winner
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
2019 Winner
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
2018 winner
Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
2017 Winner
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
2016 Winner
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 winner
All the light we cannot see
by Anthony Doerr
2014 Winner
The Goldfinch
by Donna TarttÂ
2013 Winner
The Orphan Master’s Son
by Adam Johnson
2011 winner
A visit from the goon squad
by Jennifer egan
2010 Winner
Tinkers
by paul harding
2009 Winner
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
2008 Winner
The brief wondrous life of oscar wao
by junot diaz
2007 winner
the road
by cormac mccarthy
2006 Winner
march
by geraldine brooks
2005 Winner
gilead
by marilynne robinson
2004 winner
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
2003 Winner
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 Winner
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
2001 winner
The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
2000 Winner
interpreter of maladies
by Thumpa Lahiri
1999 Winner
the hours
by michael cunningham
1998 winner
American pastoral
by philip roth
1997 Winner
Martin Dressler: the tale of an American Dreamer
by steven millhauser
1996 Winner
independence day
by richard ford
1995 winner
The stone diaries
by carol shields
1994 Winner
the shipping news
by E. Annie proulx
1993 Winner
A Good Scent from a strange mountain
by robert olen butler
1992 winner
a thousand acres
by jane smiley
1991 Winner
Rabbit at Rest
by john updike
1990Winner
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
by Oscar Hijuelos
1989 winner
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
1988 Winner
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
1987 Winner
A Summon to Memphis
by Peter Tyler
1986 winner
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurty
1985 Winner
Foreign Affairs
by Alison Lurie
1984 Winner
ironweed
by William Kennedy
1983 winner
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
1982 Winner
Rabbit is Rich
by John Updike
1981 Winner
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
1980 winner
The Executioner’s Song
by Norman Mailer
1979 Winner
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
1978 Winner
Elbow Room
by James Alan McPherson
1976 winner
Humboldt’s Gift
by Saul Bellow
1975 Winner
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
1973 Winner
The Optimist’s Daughter
by Eudora Welty
1972 winner
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
1970 Winner
Collected Stories
by Jean Stafford
1969 Winner
House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
1968 winner
The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
1967 Winner
The Fixer
by Bernard Malamud
1966 Winner
Collected Stories
by Katherine Anne Porter
1965 winner
The Keepers of The House
by Shirley Ann Grau
1963 Winner
The Reivers
by William Faulkner
1962 Winner
The Edge of Sadness
by Edwin O’Connor
1961 winner
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
1960 Winner
Advise and Consent
by Allen Drury
1959 Winner
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
by Robert Lewis Taylor
1958 winner
A Death in The Family
by James Agee
1956 Winner
Andersonville
by MacKinlay Kantor
1955 Winner
A Fable
by William Faulkner
1953 winner
The Old Man and The Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
1952 Winner
The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk
1951 Winner
The Town
by Conrad Richter
1950 winner
The Way West
by A. B. Gutherie
1948 Winner
Tales of The South Pacific
by James A. Michener
1949 Winner
Guard of Honor
by James Gould Cozzens
1947 winner
All The King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren
1945 Winner
A Bell for Adano
by John Hersey
1944 Winner
Journey in The Dark
by Martin Flavin
1943 winner
Dragon’s Teeth
by Upton Sinclair
1942 Winner
In this our life
by Ellen Glasgow
1940 Winner
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
1939 winner
The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1937 Winner
Gone with The Wind
by Margaret MItchell
1938 Winner
The Late George Apley
by John P. Marquand
1936 winner
Honey in The Horn
by H. L. Davis
1935 Winner
Now In November
by Josephine W. Johnson
1934 Winner
Lamb in His Bosom
by Caroline Miller
1933 winner
The Store
by T. S. Stribling
1932 Winner
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
1931 Winner
Years of Grace
by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930 winner
Laughing Boy
by Oliver La Farge
1929 Winner
Scarlet Sister Mary
by Julia Peterkin
1928 Winner
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
1927 winner
Early Autumn
by Louis Bromfield
1926 Winner
Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis
1925 Winner
So Big
by Edna Ferber
1924 winner
The Able McLaughlins
by Margaret Wilson
1923 Winner
One of Ours
by Willa Sibert Cather
1922 Winner
Alice Adams
by Booth Tarkington
1921 winner
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
1919 Winner
The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington
1918 Winner
His Family
by Ernest Poole