2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy**** 2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks 2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson* 2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo* 2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth 1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser* 1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford 1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley***** 1991 - Rabbit At Rest by John Updike 1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos 1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison*** 1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor 1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy 1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker 1982 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole* 1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 1979 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson 1977 - (No Award) 1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 1974 - (No Award) 1973 - The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty 1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 1971 - (No Award) 1970 - Collected Stories by Jean Stafford 1969 - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday 1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron 1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 1966 - Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter 1965 - The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau 1964 - (No Award) 1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner 1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor 1961 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee***** 1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor 1958 - A Death In The Family by James Agee 1957 - (No Award) 1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor 1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner** 1954 - (No Award) 1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway***** 1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter 1950 - The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. 1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens 1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Category changes from "Novel" to "Fiction", opening it to short story collections) 1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 1946 - (No Award) 1945 - A Bell for Adano by John Hersey 1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin 1943 - Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair 1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow 1941 - (No Award) 1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1938 - The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand 1937 - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis 1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson 1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller 1933 - The Store by T. S. Stribling 1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930 - Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge 1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin 1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 1927 - Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield 1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis 1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber 1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson 1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather 1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington 1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton** 1920 - (No Award) 1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington*** 1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole 1917 - (No Award) |
**='yeah-ok' ***=not bad, could have been better. ****=well done, a fine book *****=excellent (rare) |