Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

1988 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerBelovedToni MorrisonNew York Times Bestseller Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eightee...Amazon1988 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistPersian NightsDiane JohnsonAmazonThat NightAlice McDermottAmazon

1989 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerBreathing LessonsAnne Tyler...Amazon1989 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistWhere I'm Calling FromRaymond CarverAmazon

1990 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of LoveOscar HijuelosIn late 1940s New York City, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, two young Cuban musicians, are dubbed the "Mambo Kings" for their talent and rise to superstardom. Reissue. (Tie in to the Broadway musical production, produced by Daryl Roth, opening August 2005) (Hi...Amazon1990 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistBilly BathgateE. L. DoctorowAmazon

1991 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerRabbit at RestJohn UpdikeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart....Amazon1991 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistMean SpiritLinda HoganAmazonThe Things They CarriedTim O'BrienAmazon

1992 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerA Thousand AcresJane SmileyThis powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that ...Amazon1992 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistJerniganDavid GatesAmazonLila: An Inquiry into MoralsRobert M. PirsigAmazonMao IIDon DeLilloAmazon

1993 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerA Good Scent from a Strange MountainRobert Olen ButlerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Written in a soari...Amazon1993 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAt Weddings and WakesAlice McDermottAmazonBlack WaterJoyce Carol OatesAmazon

1994 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Shipping NewsE. Annie ProulxWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish ...Amazon1994 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistOperation Shylock: A ConfessionPhilip RothAmazonThe Collected Stories of Reynolds PriceReynolds PriceAmazon

1995 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Stone DiariesCarol ShieldsThe Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhoo...Amazon1995 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe Collected Stories of Grace PaleyGrace PaleyAmazonWhat I Lived ForJoyce Carol OatesAmazon

1996 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerIndependence DayRichard FordIndependence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of extraordinary empathy and perception....Amazon1996 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistMr. Ives' ChristmasOscar HijuelosAmazonSabbath's TheaterPhilip RothAmazon

1997 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Tale of an American DreamerSteven Millhauser Martin DresslerYoung Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldl...Amazon1997 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe ManikinJoanna ScottAmazonUnlocking the Air and Other StoriesUrsula K. Le GuinAmazon