Every winner, newest first

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners

1918 to 2026

Winners by year

Newest first. The year links to everything published or awarded that year.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners, newest first
Year	Book and author
2026	Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
2025	James by Percival Everett
2024	Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
2023	Trust by Hernan Diaz
2023	Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2022	The Netanyahus 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
2012	No Award
2011	A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2010	Tinkers by Paul Harding
2009	Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2008	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2007	The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006	March by Geraldine Brooks
2005	Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004	The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003	Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002	Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2000	Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999	The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998	American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997	Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1996	Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995	The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1994	The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1993	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1992	A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1991	Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1990	The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1989	Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1988	Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987	A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1986	Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1985	Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1984	Ironweed by William Kennedy
1983	The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982	Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1981	A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1980	The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1979	The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1978	Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1977	No Award
1976	Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1975	The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1974	No Award
1973	The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1972	Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1971	No Award
1970	The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
1969	House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1968	The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967	The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1965	The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1964	No Award
1963	The Reivers by William Faulkner
1962	The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1961	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1960	Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1959	The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1958	A Death in the Family by James Agee
1957	No Award
1956	Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1955	A Fable by William Faulkner
1954	No Award
1953	The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1952	The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1951	The Town by Conrad Richter
1950	The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
1949	Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1948	Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1947	All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
1946	No Award
1945	A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1944	Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1943	Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1942	In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1941	No Award
1940	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1939	The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938	The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
1937	Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1936	Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis
1935	Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934	Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1933	The Store by T. S. Stribling
1932	The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1931	Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930	Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
1929	Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1928	The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1927	Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
1926	Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1925	So Big by Edna Ferber
1924	The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
1923	One of Ours by Willa Cather
1922	Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1921	The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1920	No Award
1919	The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1918	His Family by Ernest Poole

About the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Browse Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners by year, including the earlier Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, first awarded in 1918. The prize honors fiction by American authors, and its winners include short story collections as well as novels. The list records shared winners and years when no prize was awarded. Open a book for its summary and the story of its award.

Awarded by: Columbia University
First awarded: 1917
Country: United States
Winner receives: $15,000

When it is announced

Winners and finalists in every category are announced together in early May. See the full announcement calendar.

How to enter

Anyone may enter a book, including the author, for a fee. Books published in the first half of the year are due by mid June and those published in the second half by mid October.

Official prize site. Checked August 2026. Dates move year to year, so confirm on the official site before entering.