Year |
Title |
Author |
| 2001 |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
Michael Chabon |
| 2000 |
Interpreter of Maladies |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 1999 |
The Hours |
Michael Cunningham |
| 1998 |
American Pastoral |
Philip Roth |
| 1997 |
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer |
Steven Millhauser |
| 1996 |
Independence Day |
Richard Ford |
| 1995 |
The Stone Diaries |
Carol Shields |
| 1994 |
The Shipping News |
Annie E. Proulx |
| 1993 |
Good Scent from a Strange Mountain |
Robert Olen Butler |
| 1992 |
A Thousand Acres |
Jane Smiley |
| 1991 |
Rabbit at Rest |
John Updike |
| 1990 |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
Oscar Hijuelos |
| 1989 |
Breathing Lessons |
Anne Tyler |
| 1988 |
Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
| 1987 |
A Summons to Memphis |
Peter Taylor |
| 1986 |
Lonesome Dove |
Larry McMurty |
| 1985 |
Ironweed |
William Kennedy |
| 1984 |
Foreign Affairs |
Alisan Lurie |
| 1983 |
The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
| 1982 |
Rabbit is Rich |
John Updike |
| 1981 |
A Confederacy of Dunces |
John Kennedy Toole |
| 1980 |
The Executioner's Song |
Norman Mailer |
| 1979 |
The Stories of John Cheever |
John Cheever |
| 1978 |
Elbow Room |
James Alan McPherson |
| 1977 |
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| 1976 |
Humbodlt's Gift |
Saul Bellow |
| 1975 |
The Killer Angels |
Michael Shaara |
| 1974 |
No Award Given |
| 1973 |
The Optimist's Daughter |
Eudora Welty |
| 1972 |
The Angle of Repose |
Wallace Stegner |
| 1971 |
No Award Given |
| 1970 |
Collected Stories |
Jean Stafford |
| 1969 |
House Made of Dawn |
N. Scott Momaday |
| 1968 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner |
William Styron |
| 1967 |
The Fixer |
Bernard Malamud |
| 1966 |
Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
Katherine Anne Porter |
| 1965 |
The Keepers of the House |
Shirley Ann Grau |
| 1964 |
No Award Given |
| 1963 |
The Reivers |
William Faulkner |
| 1962 |
The Edge of Sadness |
Edwin O'Conner |
| 1961 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
| 1960 |
Advise and Consent |
Allen Drury |
| 1959 |
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters |
Robert Taylor Lewis |
| 1958 |
A Death in the Family |
James Agee |
| 1957 |
No Award Given |
| 1956 |
Andersonville |
MacKinlay Kantor |
| 1955 |
A Fable |
William Faulkner |
| 1954 |
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| 1953 |
The Old Man and the Sea |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 1952 |
The Caine Mutiny |
Herman Wouk |
| 1951 |
The Town |
Conrad Richter |
| 1950 |
The Way West |
A.B. Guthrie |
| 1949 |
Guard of Honor |
James Gould Cozzens |
| 1948 |
Tales of the South Pacific |
James A. Michener |
| 1947 |
All the King's Men |
Robert Penn Warren |
| 1946 |
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| 1945 |
A Bell for Adano |
John Hersey |
| 1944 |
Journey in the Dark |
Martin Flavin |
| 1943 |
Dragon's Teeth |
Upton Sinclair |
| 1942 |
In This Our Life |
Ellen Glasgow |
| 1941 |
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| 1940 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
| 1939 |
The Yearling |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
| 1938 |
The Late George Apley |
John Phillips Marquand |
| 1937 |
Gone With the Wind |
Margaret Mitchell |
| 1936 |
Honey in the Horn |
Harold Davis |
| 1935 |
Now In November |
Josephine Winslow Johnson |
| 1934 |
Lamb in His Bosom |
Caroline Miller |
| 1933 |
The Store |
T.S. Stribling |
| 1932 |
The Good Earth |
Pearl S. Buck |
| 1931 |
Years of Grace |
Margaret Ayer Barnes |
| 1930 |
Laughing Boy |
Oliver La Farge |
| 1929 |
Scarlet Sister Mary |
Julia Peterkin |
| 1928 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Thornton Wilder |
| 1927 |
Early Autumn |
Louis Bromfield |
| 1926 |
Arrowsmith |
Sinclair Lewis |
| 1925 |
So Big |
Edna Ferber |
| 1924 |
The Able McLaughlins |
Margaret Wilson |
| 1923 |
One of Ours |
Willa Cather |
| 1922 |
Alice Adams |
Booth Tarkington |
| 1921 |
The Age of Innocence |
Edith Wharton |
| 1920 |
No Award Given |
| 1919 |
The Magnificent Ambersons |
Booth Tarkington |
| 1918 |
His Family |
Ernest Poole |
| 1917 |
No Award Given |
| 1916 |
No Award Given |