Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners

Another list of award-winning books, ordered by year the prize awarded. Known as the "Pulitzer Prize for the Novel" from 1918-1947. Originally awarded to the "American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood." Later adapted to be awarded "For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life."
Numbers in brackets mark order I read them in. 

1918 - His Family - Ernest Poole
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
1920 - not awarded
1921 - The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
1922 - Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
1923 - One of Ours - Willa Cather
1924 - The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson
1925 - So Big - Edna Ferber
1926 - Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
1927 - Early Autumn - Louis Bromfield
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin
1930 - Laughing Boy - Olivia La Farge
1931 - Years of Grace - Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 - The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck
1933 - The Store - TS Stribling
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom - Caroline Miller
1935 - Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936 - Honey in the Horn - Harold L Davis
1937 - Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
1938 - The Late George Apley - John Phillips Marquand
1939 - The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
1941 - not awarded
1942 - In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow
1943 - Dragons Teeth - Upton Sinclair
1944 - Journey in the Dark - Martin Flavin
1945 - A Bell for Adano - John Hersey
1946 - not awarded
1947 - All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific - James A Michener
1949 - Guard of Honour - James Gould Cozzens
1950 - The Way West - AB Guthrie
1951 - The Town - Conrad Richter
1952 - The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
1954 - not awarded
1955 - A Fable - William Faulkner
1956 - Andersonville - MacKinley Kantor
1957 - not awarded
1958 - A Death in the Family - James Agee
1959 - The Travels of Jamie McPheeters - Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 - Advise and Consent - Allen Drury
1962 - The Edge of Sadness - Edwin O'Connor
1963 - The Reivers - William Faulkner
1964 - not awarded
1965 - The Keepers of the House - Shirley Ann Grau
1966 - Collected Stories - Katherine Ann Porter
1967 - The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
1969 - House Made of Dawn - N Scott Momaday
1970 - Collected Stories - Jean Strafford
1971 - not awarded
1972 - Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
1974 - not awarded
1975 - The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
1976 - Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
1977 - not awarded
1978 - Elbow Room - James Alan McPherson
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
1980 - The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
1982 - Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
1983 - The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
1984 - Ironweed - William Kennedy
1985 - Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
1986 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty
1987 - A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
1988 - Beloved - Toni Morrison
1989 - Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
1991 - Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
1992 - A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
1993 - A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler
1994 - The Shipping News - E Annie Proulx
1995 - The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
1996 - Independence Day - Richard Ford
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser
1998 - American Pastoral - Philip Roth
1999 - The Hours - Michael Cunningham
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
2002 - Empire Falls - Richard Russo
2003 - Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 - The Known World - Edward P Jones
2005 - Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
2006 - March - Geraldine Brooks
2007 - The Road - Cormac McCarthy
2008 - The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
2009 - Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
2010 - Tinkers - Paul Harding
2011 - A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
2012 - not awarded
2013 - The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
2014 - The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
2015 - All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
2016 - The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
2017 - The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
2018 - Less - Andrew Sean Greer
2019 - The Overstory - Richard Powers
2020 - The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
2021 - The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
2022 - The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family - Joshua Cohen
2023 - (tie) - Trust - Hernan Diaz
         - (tie) Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
2024 - Night Watch - Jayne Ann Phillips
2025 - James - Percival Everett

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