Book prize winners

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners

47 winners and 4 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

Winners

  1. 2023 Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver First edition not yet identified
  2. 2023 Trust by Hernán Díaz First edition not yet identified
  3. 2021 The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich First edition: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins 2020
  4. 2019 The Overstory by Richard Powers First edition not yet identified
  5. 2018 Less by Andrew Sean Greer First edition: A Lee Boudreaux Book, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2017
  6. 2016 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen First edition: Grove Atlantic 2015
  7. 2015 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr First edition not yet identified
  8. 2014 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt First edition: Little, Brown 2013
  9. 2013 The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson First edition not yet identified
  10. 2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan First edition: Knopf 2010
  11. 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout First edition not yet identified
  12. 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy First edition not yet identified
  13. 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson First edition not yet identified
  14. 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Kent Eugenides First edition not yet identified
  15. 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo First edition: Knopf 2001
  16. 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon First edition not yet identified
  17. 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth First edition: Houghton Mifflin 1997
  18. 1997 Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser First edition: Crown 1996
  19. 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields First edition not yet identified
  20. 1994 The Shipping News by Annie Proulx First edition not yet identified
  21. 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler First edition: H. Holt 1992
  22. 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley First edition: Knopf 1991
  23. 1991 Rabbit at Rest by John Updike First edition not yet identified
  24. 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler First edition: Knopf 1988
  25. 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison First edition not yet identified
  26. 1987 Summons to Memphis by Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor First edition: Knopf 1986
  27. 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry First edition: Simon & Schuster 1985
  28. 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie First edition: Random House 1984
  29. 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy First edition: Viking 1983
  30. 1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike First edition: Knopf 1981
  31. 1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer First edition not yet identified
  32. 1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever First edition: Knopf 1978
  33. 1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow First edition not yet identified
  34. 1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara First edition: Random House 1974
  35. 1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty First edition: Random House 1972
  36. 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner First edition not yet identified
  37. 1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday First edition: Harper & Row 1968
  38. 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron First edition: Random House 1966
  39. 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud First edition not yet identified
  40. 1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner First edition not yet identified
  41. 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor First edition not yet identified
  42. 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury First edition: Doubleday 1959
  43. 1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee First edition: McDowell, Obolensky 1957
  44. 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor First edition: World Pub. Co 1955
  45. 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway First edition not yet identified
  46. 1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr. First edition: W. Sloane Associates 1949
  47. 1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey First edition not yet identified

Shortlisted and nominated

  1. 2019 There There by Tommy Orange First edition not yet identified
  2. 2012 Train Dreams by Denis Johnson First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
  3. 2008 Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson First edition not yet identified
  4. 2007 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006

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