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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Phil in SF says: 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner in Novel
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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
4 stars
American Pastoral takes a look at the 1960's in America from the perspective of Philip Roth's alter-ego main character, Nathan …
Phil in SF says: 1998 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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Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
4 stars
Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by American author of Indian origin Jhumpa Lahiri published …
Phil in SF says: 2000 winner
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The Known World by Edward P. Jones
4 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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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Jeffrey Eugenides
4 stars
A unique coming of age story. While the main character in this novel is dealing with gender identity issues the …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
4 stars
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in …
Phil in SF says: 2008 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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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
4 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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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
4 stars
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad …
Phil in SF says: 2017 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 L. Powers, 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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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver
4 stars
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single …
Phil in SF says: 2023 co-winner
