Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Public

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Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (through 1947), and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (after 1947).

  1. The Age of Innocence by 

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    Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy …

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    1920 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Novel

  2. His Family by 

    2 stars

    His Family tells the story of a middle-class family in New York City in the 1910s. The family's patriarch, widower …

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    1918 Pulitzer Prize winner in Novel

  3. Lonesome Dove by 

    5 stars

    Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major noel at last …

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    1986 winner

  4. American pastoral by 

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    American Pastoral takes a look at the 1960's in America from the perspective of Philip Roth's alter-ego main character, Nathan …

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    1998 winner

  5. Interpreter of maladies by 

    4 stars

    Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published …

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    2000 winner

  6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by 

    5 stars

    The novel begins in 1939 with the arrival of 19-year-old Josef "Joe" Kavalier as a refugee in New York City, …

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    2001 winner

  7. The known world by 

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    Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- …

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    2004 winner

  8. Middlesex by 

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    A unique coming of age story. While the main character in this novel is dealing with gender identity issues the …

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    2003 winner

  9. The Road by 

    4 stars

    A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.

    A father and his son walk alone through burned America. …

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    2007 winner

  10. A Visit from the Goon Squad by 

    4 stars

    Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …

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    2011 winner

  11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by 

    4 stars

    Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet …

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    2008 winner

  12. All the Light We Cannot See by 

    5 stars

    From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and …

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    2015 winner

  13. The Overstory by 

    5 stars

    The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' …

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    2019 winner

  14. The Underground Railroad by 

    5 stars

    Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad …

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    2017 winner

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    2023 co-winner

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