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Pulitzer Prize Ficti
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1918 | His Family by Ernest Poole |
| 1919 | The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington |
| 1920 | None |
| 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 (declined prize) |
| 1927 | Early Autumn 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 Lafarge |
| 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 Winslow Johnson |
| 1936 | Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis |
| 1937 | Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
| 1938 | The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand |
| 1939 | The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
| 1941 | None |
| 1942 | In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow |
| 1943 | Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair |
| 1944 | Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin |
| 1945 | A Bell for Adano by John Hersey |
| 1946 | None |
| 1947 | All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren |
| 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener |
| 1949 | Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens |
| 1950 | The Way West by A. B. Guthrie |
| 1951 | The Town by Conrad Richter |
| 1952 | The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk |
| 1953 | The Old Mam and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway |
| 1954 | None |
| 1955 | A Fable by William Faulkner |
| 1956 | Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor |
| 1957 | None |
| 1958 | A Death In The Family by James Agee |
| 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor |
| 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 |
| 1964 | None |
| 1965 | The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau |
| 1966 | Collected Stories 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 by Jean Stafford |
| 1971 | None |
| 1972 | Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner |
| 1973 | The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty |
| 1974 | None |
| 1975 | The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara |
| 1976 | Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow |
| 1977 | None |
| 1978 | Elbow Room 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 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 Johm Updike |
| 1992 | A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley |
| 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 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 & 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 |
| 2012 | None |
| 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 |
| 2021 | The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich |
| 2022 | The Netanyahus |
| 2023 | Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver/Trust by Hernan Diaz |
| 2024 | Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips |
| 2025 | James by Percival Everett |