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2020
Winner
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Finalists
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
2019
Winner
The Overstory by Richard Powers
 
Finalists
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
There There by Tommy Orang
2018
Winner
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
 
Finalists
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
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2017
Winner
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
 
Finalists
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
The Sport of Kings by CE Morgan
 
2016
Winner
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
 
Finalists
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
Maud's Line by Margaret Verble
 
2015
Winner
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
 
Finalists
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
 
2014
Winner
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
 
Finalists
The Son by Phillip Meyer
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
 
2013
Winner
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
 
Finalists
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
 
2012
No prize awarded
 
Finalists
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
 
2011
Winner
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
 
Finalists
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
 
2010
Winner
Tinkers by Paul Harding
 
Finalists
Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
 
2009
Winner
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
 
Finalists
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
All Souls by Christine Schutt
 
2008
Winner
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
 
Finalists
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal
 
2007
Winner
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
 
Finalists
After This by Alice McDermott
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
 
2006
Winner
March by Geraldine Brooks
 
Finalists
The March by EL Doctorow
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
 
2005
Winner
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
 
Finalists
War Trash by Ha Jin
An Unfinished Season by Ward Just
 
2004
Winner
The Known World by Edward P Jones
 
Finalists
American Woman by Susan Choi
Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel by Marianne Wiggins
 
2003
Winner
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
 
Finalists
Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
 
2002
Winner
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
 
Finalists
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
 
2001
Winner
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
 
Finalists
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
 
2000
Winner
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
 
Finalists
Waiting by Ha Jin
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by E Annie Proulx
 
1999
Winner
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
 
Finalists
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
 
1998
Winner
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
 
Finalists
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone
 
1997
Winner
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
 
Finalists
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K Le Guin
The Manikin by Joanna Scott
 
1996
Winner
Independence Day by Richard Ford
 
Finalists
Mr. Ives’ Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
Sabbath's Theatre by Philip Roth
 
1995
Winner
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
 
Finalists
What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
The Collected Stories by Grace Paley
 
1994
Winner
The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
 
Finalists
The Collected Stories by Reynolds Price
Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
 
1993
Winner
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
 
Finalists
At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
 
1992
Winner
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
 
Finalists
Mao II by Don DeLillo
Jernigan by David Gates
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert Pirsig
 
1991
Winner
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
 
Finalists
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
 
1990
Winner
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
 
Finalist
Billy Bathgate by EL Doctorow
 
1989
Winner
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
 
Finalist
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
 
1988
Winner
Beloved by Toni Morrison
 
Finalists
Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
That Night by Alice McDermott
 
1987
Winner
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
 
Finalists
Paradise by Donald Barthelme
Whites by Norman Rush
 
1986
Winner
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
 
Finalists
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
 
1985
Winner
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
 
Finalists
I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O'Hehir
Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
 
1984
Winner
Ironweed by William Kennedy
 
Finalists
The Feud by Thomas Berger
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
 
1983
Winner
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
 
Finalists
Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
 
1982
Winner
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
 
Finalists
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
 
1981
Winner
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
 
Finalists
Godric by Frederick Buechner
So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
 
1980
Winner
The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer
 
Finalists
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
Birdy by William Wharton
 
Winners
1979
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
 
1978
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
 
1976
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
 
1975
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
 
1973
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
 
1972
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
 
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
 
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
 
1956
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
 
1955
A Fable by William Faulkner
 
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 AB Jr Guthrie
 
1949
Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
 
1948
Tales of the South Pacific by James A Michener
 
Pulitzer Prize for Novel
1947
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
 
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
 
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 Harold L Davis
 
1935
Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
 
1934
Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
 
1933
The Store by Thomas Sigismund 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
 
1919
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
 
1918
His Family by Ernest Poole
 
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