The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners

American award honouring excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year.

Discover the selection of winning titles we have in our collection.

2024

Night Watch
by Jayne Anne Phillips

2023

Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver

2023

Trust
by Hernan Diaz

2022

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
by Joshua Cohen

2021

The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich

2020

The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead

2019

The Overstory
by Richard Powers

2018

Less
by Andrew Sean Greer

2017

The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead

2016

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

2015

All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr

2014

The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt

2013

The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson

2009

Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout

2007

The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

2006

March
by Geraldine Brooks

2005

Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson

2003

Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides

2002

Empire Falls
by Richard Russo

2000

Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri

1999

The Hours
by Michael Cunningham

1998

American Pastoral
by Philip Roth

1996

Independence Day
by Richard Ford

1995

The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields

1994

The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx

1992

A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley

1991

Rabbit At Rest
by John Updike

1989

Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler

1988

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

1986

Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry

1983

The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

1982

Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike

1981

A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole

1968

The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron

1961

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

1953

The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway

1940

The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck

1937

Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

1932

The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck

1921

The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton