Pulitzer prize for fiction
Awarded for distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/219
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 · 33 lists
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939 · 32 lists
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Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · 31 lists
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Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1936 · 22 lists
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982 · 20 lists
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 1920 · 17 lists
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952 · 15 lists
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · 2007 · 14 lists
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · 14 lists
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1980 · 13 lists
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson · 2004 · 12 lists
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Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002 · 12 lists
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones · 2003 · 11 lists
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All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren · 1946 · 10 lists
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth · 1997 · 10 lists
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon · 2000 · 10 lists
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan · 2010 · 9 lists
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013 · 9 lists
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The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever · 1978 · 9 lists
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Rabbit is Rich
John Updike · 1981 · 8 lists
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · 2016 · 8 lists
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014 · 7 lists
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Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry · 1985 · 7 lists
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The Shipping News
Annie Proulx · 1993 · 7 lists
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Rabbit At Rest
John Updike · 1990 · 6 lists
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The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015 · 6 lists
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Trust
Hernan Diaz · 2022 · 6 lists
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A Death in the Family
James Agee · 1957 · 5 lists
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Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner · 1971 · 5 lists
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Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout · 2007 · 5 lists
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder · 1927 · 5 lists
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The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck · 1548 · 5 lists
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The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara · 1974 · 5 lists
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The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields · 1993 · 5 lists
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A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley · 1991 · 4 lists
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Ironweed
William Kennedy · 1983 · 4 lists
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron · 1920 · 4 lists
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The Hours
Michael Cunningham · 1998 · 4 lists
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The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead · 2019 · 4 lists
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The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018 · 4 lists
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A Fable
William Faulkner · 2022 · 3 lists
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Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor · 1879 · 3 lists
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Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis · 1925 · 3 lists
- 44
Collected Stories
Katherine Anne Porter · 1900 · 3 lists
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Empire Falls
Richard Russo · 1776 · 3 lists
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Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow · 1975 · 3 lists
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Independence Day
Richard Ford · 1995 · 3 lists
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Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri · 1999 · 3 lists
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington · 1918 · 3 lists
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The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty · 1972 · 3 lists
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The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson · 2012 · 3 lists
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The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 1938 · 3 lists
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A Bell for Adano
John Hersey · 1944 · 2 lists
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Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler · 1988 · 2 lists
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House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday · 1968 · 2 lists
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Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips · 2002 · 2 lists
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Tales of the South Pacific
James A. Michener · 1947 · 2 lists
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The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk · 1951 · 2 lists
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The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer · 1979 · 2 lists
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The Fixer
Bernard Malamud · 1966 · 2 lists
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Oscar Hijuelos · 1989 · 2 lists
- 62
The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich · 2020 · 2 lists
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler · 1992 · 1 list
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A Summons to Memphis
Peter Taylor · 1989 · 1 list
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Advise and Consent
Allen Drury · 1959 · 1 list
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Alice Adams
Booth Tarkington · 1921 · 1 list
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Dragon's Teeth
Upton Sinclair · 1942 · 1 list
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Early Autumn
Louis Bromfield · 1981 · 1 list
- 69
Elbow Room
James Alan McPherson · 1876 · 1 list
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Foreign Affairs
Alison Lurie · 2004 · 1 list
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Guard of Honor
James Gould Cozzens · 1948 · 1 list
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His Family
Ernest Poole · 1917 · 1 list
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Honey in the Horn
Harold L. Davis · 1935 · 1 list
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In This Our Life
Ellen Glasgow · 1941 · 1 list
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Journey in the Dark
Martin Flavin · 1943 · 1 list
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Karen Russell, Swamplandia!David Foster Wallace, The Pale KingDenis Johnson, Train Dreams
#VALUE! · 1 list
- 78
Lamb in His Bosom
Caroline Miller · 1933 · 1 list
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Laughing Boy
Oliver La Farge · 1929 · 1 list
- 80
Less
Andrew Sean Greer · 2001 · 1 list
- 81
March
Geraldine Brooks · 2013 · 1 list
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Now in November
Josephine Winslow Johnson · 1934 · 1 list
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One of Ours
Willa Cather · 1922 · 1 list
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Scarlet Sister Mary
Julia Peterkin · 1928 · 1 list
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So Big
Edna Ferber · 1920 · 1 list
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The Able McLaughlins
Margaret Wilson · 1923 · 1 list
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The Edge of Sadness
Edwin O'Connor · 1961 · 1 list
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The Keepers of the House
Shirley Ann Grau · 1964 · 1 list
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The Late George Apley
John Phillips Marquand · 1937 · 1 list
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The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen · 2021 · 1 list
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The Reivers
William Faulkner · 1962 · 1 list
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The Store
T. S. Stribling · 2013 · 1 list
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The Town
Conrad Richter · 1941 · 1 list
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Robert Lewis Taylor · 1958 · 1 list
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The Way West
A. B. Guthrie · 1949 · 1 list
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Tinkers
Paul Harding · 1974 · 1 list
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Years of Grace
Margaret Ayer Barnes · 1930 · 1 list