Pulitzer Prize Winners for Novel/Fiction on Lists of Bests
1918
His Family - Ernest Poole
1919
The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
1921
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
1922
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
1923
One of Ours - Willa Cather
1924
The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson
1925
So Big - Edna Ferber
1926
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
1927
Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady - Louis Bromfield
1928
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
1929
Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin
1930
Laughing Boy - Oliver LA Farge
1931
Years of Grace - Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
1933
The Store - T. S. Stribling
1935
Now in November - Josephine W. Johnson
1936
Honey in the Horn - Harold Lenoir Davis
1938
The Late George Apley - John P. Marquand
1940
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
1939
Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1942
In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow
1943
Dragon's Teeth II (World's End) - Upton Sinclair
1944
Journey in the Dark - Martin Flavin
1945
A Bell for Adano - John Hersey
1947
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
1948
Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener
1949
Guard of Honor - James Gould Cozzens
1950
The Way West - A. B. Guthrie
1951
The Town: Third Book In Awakening Land Trilogy - Conrad Richter
1952
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
1953
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
1955
A Fable - William Faulkner
1956
Andersonville (Plume) - MacKinlay Kantor
1958
A Death in the Family - James Agee
1959
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters - Robert Lewis Taylor
1960
Advise and Consent - Allen Drury
1961
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1962
The edge of sadness - Edwin O'Connor
1963
The Reivers - William Faulkner
1965
The Keepers of the House - Shirley Ann Grau
1966
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter
1967
The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
1968
The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
1969
House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday
1970
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford - Jean Stafford
1972
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
1973
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
1975
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
1976
Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
1978
Elbow Room: Stories - James Alan McPherson
1979
The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
1980
The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
1981
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
1982
Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike
1983
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1984
Ironweed - William J. Kennedy
1985
Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
1986
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
1987
A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
1988
Beloved - Toni Morrison
1989
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
1990
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
1991
Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
1992
A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
1993
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories - Robert Olen Butler
1994
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
1995
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
1996
Independence Day - Richard Ford
1997
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser
1998
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
1999
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
2000
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
2001
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - MICHAEL CHABON
2002
Empire Falls - RICHARD RUSSO
2003
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
2004
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
2005
Gilead: A Novel - Marilynne Robinson
2006
March - Geraldine Brooks
2007
The Road - Cormac Mccarthy