Started by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer. It is awarded each year for books published the previous year, though there have been several years in which no award was given. In 1948 the name of the category was changed from Novel to Fiction. The books in green are the ones that I have already read.
- My Reading Stats
- 2013: 12 of 86 read (13.9%)
- 2014: 18 of 87 read (20%)
- 2015: 18 of 88 read (20%)
- 2016: 22 of 89 read (25%)
- 2017: 28 of 90 read (31%)
- 2018: 29 of 91 read (31%)
- 2019: 30 of 92 read (32%)
- 2020: 30 of 93 read (3.2%)
- 2021: 30 of 94 read (32%)
- 2022: 31 of 95 read (32%)
- 1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
- 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
- 1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- 1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
- 1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather
- 1924: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
- 1925: So Big by Edna Ferber
- 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
- 1927: Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Louis Bromfield
- 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- 1929: Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
- 1930: Laughing Boy by Oliver LA Farge
- 1931: Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
- 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- 1933: The Store by T. S. Stribling
- 1934: Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
- 1935: Now in November by Josephine W. Johnson
- 1936: Honey in the Horn by Harold Lenoir Davis
- 1937: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- 1938: Late George Apley: a Novel in the form of a Memoir by John P. Marquand
- 1939: Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- 1940: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- 1942: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
- 1943: Dragon’s Teeth (World’s End) by Upton Sinclair
- 1944: Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
- 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
- 1947: All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
- 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
- 1950: The Way West by A. B. Guthrie
- 1951: Town: 3rd Book in Awakening Land Trilogy by Conrad Richter
- 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
- 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
- 1956: Andersonville by Mackinlay Kantor
- 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
- 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
- 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
- 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
- 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
- 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
- 1966: Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
- 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
- 1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
- 1970: Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
- 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- 1973: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eduora Welty
- 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- 1976: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
- 1978: Elbow Room: Stories by James Alan McPherson
- 1979: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- 1980: The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
- 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- 1982: Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
- 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- 1984: Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
- 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
- 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
- 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
- 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
- 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
- 1992: Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
- 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
- 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
- 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
- 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
- 2011: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- 2013: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
- 2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- 2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- 2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- 2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- 2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- 2019: The Overstory by Richard Powers
- 2020: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
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