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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3 stars
In this superb novel — the longest Mr. Richter has written — Sayward, eldest daughter of Worth and Jary Luckett, …
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The Way West is a 1949 western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for …
Phil in SF says: 1950 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
5 stars
The Caine Mutiny is a sea yarn plus. It is a full, colorful novel of two main strands. One is …
Phil in SF says: 1952 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction
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American pastoral by Philip Roth
5 stars
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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Phil in SF says: 2000 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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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
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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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 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
3 stars
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. From the back cover: "Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New …
Phil in SF says: 2008 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 author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new …
Phil in SF says: 2014 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 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
