Search - Pulitzer Prize Winning Books

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition. The Pulitzer was established by and named after the Hungarian-American publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The awards are administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. We've sorted our books by the six subcategories in the "letters and drama" category.

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2009

Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge
Author: Elizabeth Strout
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 680

2008

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Author: Junot Diaz
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 209

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2007

The Road
The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 1786

2006

March
March
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 440

2005

Gilead
Gilead
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 176

2004

The Known World
The Known World
Author: Edward P. Jones
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Substores
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 126

2003

Middlesex
Middlesex
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 253

2002

Empire Falls
Empire Falls
Author: Richard Russo
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 132

2001

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2000

Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 636

1999

The Hours
The Hours
Author: Michael Cunningham
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 362

1998

American Pastoral
American Pastoral
Author: Philip Roth
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Substores
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 116

1997

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

1996

Independence Day
Independence Day
Author: Richard Ford
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 25

1995

The Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries
Author: Carol Shields
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 269

1994

The Shipping News
The Shipping News
Author: Annie Proulx
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 617

1993

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

1992

A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres
Author: Jane Smiley
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 238

1991

Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest
Author: John Updike
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 26

1990

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

1989

Breathing Lessons
Breathing Lessons
Author: Anne Tyler
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 248

1988

Beloved
Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 448

1987

A Summons to Memphis
A Summons to Memphis
Author: Peter Taylor
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 33

1986

Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove
Author: Larry McMurtry
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 95

1985

Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs
Author: Alison Lurie
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 41

1984

Ironweed
Ironweed
Author: William J. Kennedy
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Substores
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 94

1983

The Color Purple
The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 336

1982

Rabbit Is Rich
Rabbit Is Rich
Author: John Updike
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 21

1981

A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces
Author: John Kennedy Toole
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 507

1980

The Executioner's Song (Vintage International)

1979

The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
Author: John Cheever
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 17

1978

Elbow Room
Elbow Room
Author: James Alan Mcpherson
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 7

1977

No Award Given

1976

Humboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift
Author: Saul Bellow
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 16

1975

The Killer Angels
The Killer Angels
Author: Michael Shaara
Genres: History, Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 351

1974

No Award Given

1973

The Optimist's Daughter
The Optimist's Daughter
Author: Eudora Welty
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 65

1972

Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)
Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)
Author: Wallace Stegner
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Substores
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 113

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1971

No Award Given

1970

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

1969

House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)

1968

The Confessions of Nat Turner

1967

The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

1966

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

1965

The Keepers of the House (Voices of the South)