Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (through 1947), and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (after 1947).
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Public
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The killer angels by Michael Shaara
4 stars
The Killer Angels (1974) is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in …
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2 stars
His Family tells the story of a middle-class family in New York City in the 1910s. The family's patriarch, widower …
Phil in SF says: 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner in Novel
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
5 stars
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy …
Phil in SF says: 1920 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Novel
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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the …
Phil in SF says: 1923 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Novel
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Phil in SF says: 2000 winner
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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
5 stars
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major noel at last …
Phil in SF says: 1986 winner
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American pastoral by Philip Roth
American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and …
Phil in SF says: 1998 winner
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The Known World by Edward P. Jones
5 stars
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- …
Phil in SF says: 2004 winner
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4 stars
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
4 stars
The novel begins in 1939 with the arrival of 19-year-old Josef "Joe" Kavalier as a refugee in New York City, …
Phil in SF says: 2001 winner
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
3 stars
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
4 stars
Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. The book is a bestseller, with more than …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
4 stars
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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The Overstory by Richard Powers
4 stars
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways …
Phil in SF says: 2019 winner
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
4 stars
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. Although a …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner
