Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

1978 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerElbow RoomJames Alan McPherson...Amazon

1979 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Stories of John CheeverJohn CheeverNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic...Amazon

1980 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Executioner's SongNorman MailerReconstructs the crime and fate of Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer who sought his own execution in Utah, based on taped interviews with relatives, friends, lawyers, and law-enforcement officials....Amazon1980 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistBirdyWilliam WhartonAmazonThe Ghost WriterPhilip RothAmazon

1981 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerA Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole"A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhi...Amazon1981 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistGodricFrederick BuechnerAmazonSo Long, See You TomorrowWilliam MaxwellAmazon

1982 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerRabbit is RichJohn UpdikeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award The hero of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the events of Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as the chief sales representative...Amazon1982 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Flag for SunriseRobert StoneAmazonHousekeepingMarilynne RobinsonAmazon

1983 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Color PurpleAlice WalkerThe Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author....Amazon1983 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistDinner at the Homesick RestaurantAnne TylerAmazonRabbis and WivesChaim GradeAmazon

1984 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerIronweedWilliam KennedyThe beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after ...Amazon1984 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistCathedralRaymond CarverAmazonThe FeudThomas BergerAmazon

1985 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerForeign AffairsAlison LurieThis Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an...Amazon1985 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistI Wish This War Were OverDiana O'HehirAmazonLeaving the LandDouglas UngerAmazon

1986 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerLonesome DoveLarry McMurtryThe timeless, bestselling four-part epic that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove takes readers into the lives of Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, two tough-as-nails Texas Rangers in the heyday of the Old West. Dead Man’s Walk As young Tex...Amazon1986 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistContinental DriftRussell BanksAmazonThe Accidental TouristAnne TylerAmazon

1987 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerA Summons to MemphisPeter TaylorPhilip has a new life in New York but is returned to the petty meddling of his family when his two spinster sisters call upon him to help them ruin their eighty-one-year-old father's wedding plans...Amazon1987 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistParadiseDonald BarthelmeAmazonWhitesNorman RushAmazon