| 1918 |
Poole, Ernest |
His Family |
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| 1919 |
Tarkington, Booth |
The Magnificent Ambersons |
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| 1921 |
Wharton, Edith |
The Age of Innocence |
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| 1922 |
Tarkington, Booth |
Alice Adams |
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| 1923 |
Cather, Willa |
One of Ours |
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| 1924 |
Wilson, Margaret |
The Able McLaughlins |
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| 1925 |
Ferber, Edna |
So Big |
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| 1926 PRIZE DECLINED |
Lewis, Sinclair |
Arrowsmith |
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| 1927 |
Bromfield, Louis |
Early Autumn |
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| 1928 |
Wilder, Thornton |
The Bridge at San Luis Rey |
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| 1929 |
Peterkin, Julia M. |
Scarlet Sister Mary |
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| 1930 |
LaFarge, Oliver |
Laughing Boy |
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| 1931 |
Barnes, Margaret Ayer |
Years of Grace |
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| 1932 |
Buck, Pearl S. |
The Good Earth |
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| 1933 |
Stribling, T.S. |
The Store |
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| 1934 |
Miller, Caroline |
Lamb in His Bosom |
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| 1935 |
Johnson, Josephine W. |
Now in November |
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| 1936 |
Davis, Harold L. |
Honey in the Horn |
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| 1937 |
Mitchell, Margaret |
Gone With the Wind |
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| 1938 |
Marquand, John P. |
The Late George Apley |
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| 1939 |
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan |
The Yearling |
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| 1940 |
Steinbeck, John |
The Grapes of Wrath |
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| 1942 |
Glasgow, Ellen |
In This Our Life |
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| 1943 |
Sinclair, Upton |
Dragon's Teeth |
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| 1944 |
Flavin, Martin |
Journey in the Dark |
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| 1945 |
Hersey, John |
A Bell for Adano |
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| 1947 |
Warren, Robert Penn |
All the King's Men |
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| 1948 |
Michener, James A. |
Tales of the South Pacific |
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| 1949 |
Cozzens, James Gould |
Guard of Honor |
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| 1950 |
Guthrie, A.B. Jr. |
The Way West |
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| 1951 |
Richter, Conrad |
The Town |
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| 1952 |
Wouk, Herman |
The Caine Mutiny |
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| 1953 |
Hemingway, Ernest |
The Old Man and the Sea |
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| 1955 |
Faulkner, William |
A Fable |
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| 1956 |
Kantor, MacKinlay |
Andersonville |
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| 1958 |
Agee, James |
A Death in the Family |
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| 1959 |
Taylor, Robert Lewis |
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters |
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| 1960 |
Drury, Allen |
Advise and Consent |
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| 1961 |
Lee, Harper |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
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| 1962 |
O'Connor, Edwin |
The Edge of Sadness |
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| 1963 |
Faulkner, William |
The Reivers |
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| 1965 |
Grau, Shirley Ann |
The Keepers of the House |
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| 1966 |
Porter, Katherine Anne |
Collected Stories |
|
| 1967 |
Malamud, Bernard |
The Fixer |
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| 1968 |
Styron, William |
The Confessions of Nat Turner |
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| 1969 |
Momaday, N. Scott |
House Made of Dawn |
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| 1970 |
Stafford, Jean |
Collected Stories |
|
| 1972 |
Stegner, Wallace |
Angle of Repose |
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| 1973 |
Welty, Eudora |
The Optimist's Daughter |
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| 1975 |
Shaara, Michael |
The Killer Angels |
|
| 1976 |
Bellow, Saul |
Humboldt's Gift |
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| 1978 |
McPherson, James Alan |
Elbow Room |
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| 1979 |
Cheever, John |
The Stories of John Cheever |
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| 1980 |
Mailer, Norman |
The Executioner's Song |
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| 1981 |
Toole, John Kennedy |
A Confederacy of Dunces |
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| 1982 |
Updike, John |
Rabbit is Rich |
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| 1983 |
Walker, Alice |
The Color Purple |
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| 1984 |
Kennedy, William |
Ironweed |
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| 1985 |
Lurie, Alison |
Foreign Affairs |
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| 1986 |
McMurtry, Larry |
Lonesome Dove |
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| 1987 |
Taylor, Peter |
A Summons To Memphis |
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| 1988 |
Morrison, Toni |
Beloved |
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| 1989 |
Tyler, Anne |
Breathing Lessons |
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| 1990 |
Hijuelos, Oscar |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
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| 1991 |
Updike, John |
Rabbit at Rest |
0394588150 |
| 1992 |
Smiley, Jane |
A Thousand Acres |
0394577736 |
| 1993 |
Butler, Robert Olen |
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain |
0805019863 |
| 1994 |
Proulx, E. Annie |
The Shipping News |
068419337X |
| 1995 |
Shields, Carol |
The Stone Diaries |
0670853097 |
| 1996 |
Ford, Richard |
Independence Day |
0679492658 |
| 1997 |
Millhauser, Steven |
Martin Dressler : The Tale of an American Dreamer |
051770319X |
| 1998 |
Roth, Philip |
American Pastoral |
0395860210 |
| 1999 |
Cunningham, Michael |
The Hours |
0374172897 |
| 2000 |
Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies |
039592720X |
| 2001 |
Chabon, Michael |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
0679450041 |
| 2002 |
Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
0679432477 |
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