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