The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list
- 1948: Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
- 1949: Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
- 1950: The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
- 1951: The Town by Conrad Richter
- 1952: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
- 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- 1954: (no award given)
- 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
- 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
- 1957: (no award given)
- 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
- 1959: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
- 1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
- 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- 1962: The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor
- 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
- 1964: (no award given)
- 1965: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
- 1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
- 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
- 1969: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
- 1970: The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
- 1971: (no award given)
- 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- 1973: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
- 1974: (no award given)
- 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- 1976: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
- 1977: (no award given)
- 1978: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
- 1979: The Stories John Cheever of by John Cheever
- 1980: The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
- 1981: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- 1982: Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
- 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
- 1985: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
- 1986: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- 1987: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
- 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
- 1989: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
- 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
- 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
- 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
- 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- 2000: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
- 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
The Man Booker Prize
(The Lost Man Booker Prize included)
- 1969: Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby
- 1970: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
- 1970: Troubles by J.G. Farrell (The Lost Man Booker Prize)
- 1971: In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
- 1972: G by John Berger
- 1973: The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
- 1974: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
- 1974: Holiday by Stanley Middleton
- 1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- 1976: Saville by David Storey
- 1977: Staying On by Paul Scott
- 1978: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
- 1979: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
- 1980: Rites of Passage by William Golding
- 1981: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- 1982: Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
- 1983: Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee
- 1984: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
- 1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- 1986: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
- 1987: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
- 1988: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
- 1989: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1990: Possession by A.S. Byatt
- 1991: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- 1992: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- 1992: Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
- 1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
- 1994: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
- 1995: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
- 1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift
- 1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- 1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- 1999: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- 2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- 2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- 2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- 2003: Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
- 2004: The Life of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- 2005: The Sea by John Banville
- 2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- 2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright
- 2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- 2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- 2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
- 1975: Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
- 1976: October Light by John Gardner
- 1977: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- 1978: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- 1979: The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
- 1980: The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
- 1981: Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
- 1982: George Mills by Stanley Elkin
- 1983: Ironweed by William Kennedy
- 1984: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
- 1985: The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
- 1986: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
- 1987: The Counterlife by Philip Roth
- 1988: The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
- 1989: Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
- 1990: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
- 1991: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- 1992: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- 1993: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
- 1994: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- 1995: Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin
- 1996: Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
- 1997: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
- 1998: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
- 1999: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- 2000: Being Dead by Jim Crace
- 2001: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
- 2002: Atonement by Ian McEwan
- 2003: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- 2004: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- 2005: The March by E.L. Doctorow
- 2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- 2007: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- 2008: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
- 2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
National Book Award for Fiction
- 1950: The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
- 1951: The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner
- 1952: From Here to Eternity by James Jones
- 1953: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- 1954: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- 1955: A Fable by William Faulkner
- 1956: Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
- 1957: The Field of Vision by Wright Morris
- 1958: The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
- 1959: The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
- 1960: Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
- 1961: The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter
- 1962: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- 1963: Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
- 1964: The Centaur by John Updike
- 1965: Herzog by Saul Bellow
- 1966: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
- 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- 1968: The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
- 1969: Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
- 1970: Them by Joyce Carol Oates
- 1971: Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
- 1972: The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
- 1973: Chimera by John Barth
- 1973: Augustus by John Williams
- 1974: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- 1974: A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1975: Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
- 1975: The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams
- 1976: JR by William Gaddis
- 1977: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
- 1978: Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
- 1979: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
- 1980: Sophie's Choice by William Styron (hardcover)
- 1980: The World According to Garp by John Irving (paperback)
- 1981: Plains Song by Wright Morris (hardcover)
- 1981: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (paperback)
- 1982: Rabbit is Rich by John Updike (hardcover)
- 1982: So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (paperback)
- 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker (hardcover)
- 1983: Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (paperback)
- 1984: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
- 1985: White Noise by Don DeLillo
- 1986: World's Fair by E. L. Doctorow
- 1987: Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
- 1988: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
- 1989: Spartina by John Casey
- 1990: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
- 1991: Mating by Norman Rush
- 1992: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- 1993: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- 1994: A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
- 1995: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
- 1996: Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett
- 1997: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- 1998: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
- 1999: Waiting by Ha Jin
- 2000: In America by Susan Sontag
- 2001: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- 2002: Three Junes by Julia Glass
- 2003: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
- 2004: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
- 2005: Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
- 2006: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
- 2007: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
- 2008: Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
- 2009: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- 2009: A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias
- 2008: Home by Marilynne Robinson
- 2007: Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
- 2006: A Woman in Jerusalem by A.B. Yehoshua [translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin]
- 2005: Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez [translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman]
- 2004: The Master by Colm Tóibín
- 2003: Train by Pete Dexter
- 2002: Atonement by Ian McEwan
- 2001: Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison
- 2000: Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means
- 1999: Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri
- 1998: The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald [Translated from the German by Michael Hulse]
- 1997: In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake
- 1996: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- 1995: The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
- 1994: Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
- 1993: Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
- 1992: Maus II, A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
- 1991: White People by Allan Gurganus
- 1990: Lantern Slides by Edna O’Brien
- 1989: The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon
- 1988: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez
- 1987: Fools Crow by James Welch
- 1986: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- 1985: Love Medicine by Louis Erdrich
- 1984: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- 1983: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
- 1982: A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
- 1981: The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
- 1980: The Second Coming by Walker Percy
5 Under 35 (National Book Foundation)
2010
- The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein
- The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
- The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
- How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique
- Once the Shore by Paul Yoon
2009
- Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
- All the Living by C. E. Morgan
- Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
- St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
- The New Valley by Josh Weil
2008
- The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck
- All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
- One More Year: Stories by Sana Krasikov
- The Boat by Nam Le
- Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel
2007
- Garner by Kirstin Allio
- The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Menges
- Get Down: Stories by Asali Solomon
- Petropolis by Anya Ulinich
- Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
2006
- O My Darling by Amity Gaige
- The Seas by Samantha Hunt
- Corpus Christi: Stories by Bret Anthony Johnston
- Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
