Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

1998 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerAmerican PastoralPhilip RothA former athletic star, devoted family man, and owner of a thriving glove factory, Seymour "Swede" Levov finds his life coming apart during the social disorder of the 1960s, when his beloved daughter turns revolutionary terrorist out to destroy her father'...Amazon1998 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistBear and His Daughter: StoriesRobert StoneAmazonUnderworldDon DeLilloAmazon

1999 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe HoursMichael CunninghamIn The Hours, Michael Cunningham—widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation—draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of l...Amazon1999 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistCloudsplitterRussell BanksAmazonThe Poisonwood BibleBarbara KingsolverAmazon

2000 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerInterpreter of MaladiesJhumpa LahiriNavigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorke...Amazon2000 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistClose Range: Wyoming StoriesAnnie ProulxAmazonWaitingHa JinAmazon

2001 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayMichael ChabonSpanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America’s finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award...Amazon2001 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistBlondeJoyce Carol OatesAmazonThe Quick and the DeadJoy WilliamsAmazon

2002 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerEmpire FallsRichard RussoMiles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self- respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving high sch...Amazon2002 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistJohn Henry DaysColson WhiteheadAmazonThe CorrectionsJonathan FranzenAmazon

2003 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerMiddlesexJeffrey EugenidesIn the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girl's school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting....Amazon2003 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistServants of the Map: StoriesAndrea BarrettAmazonYou Are Not a Stranger HereAdam HaslettAmazon

2004 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Known WorldEdward P. JonesFrom Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave...Amazon2004 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAmerican WomanSusan ChoiAmazonEvidence of Things UnseenMarianne WigginsAmazon

2005 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerGileadMarilynne RobinsonIn 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was o...Amazon2005 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAn Unfinished SeasonWard JustAmazonWar TrashHa JinAmazon

2006 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerMarchGeraldine BrooksBrooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr March. An idealistic abolitionist, March has gone to serve the Union cause as chaplain to the troops. But the war tests his faith, not only in ...Amazon2006 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistThe Bright ForeverLee MartinAmazonThe MarchE. L. DoctorowAmazon

2007 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe RoadCormac McCarthyWith an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves s...Amazon2007 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistAfter ThisAlice McDermottAmazonThe Echo MakerRichard PowersAmazon