The Best Pulitzer Prize Winning Novels
Next on your reading list: something from this list of the best Pulitzer Prize-winning novels. These are essentially the greatest books of fiction in the history of literature. Are you looking to buy a collection of the best novels of all time? According to the most prestigious prize out there, this list contains every single book deserving of such a title. Men and women can read these Pulitzer Prize winners to bed every night. Some of them are even appropriate for young adults or even younger, such as Harper Lee's famed To Kill A Mockingbird.
Speaking of Mockingbird, you will notice something interesting as you peruse this list of the best Pulitzer Prize-winning novels of all time. So many of these winners for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction have been turned, or are currently being turned into, major motion pictures. It is clear that movie producers in Hollywood know when there is a good story that could garner critical claim with an adapted screenplay.
This list of all novels that won the Pulitzer Prize includes beloved classes like The Color Purple, The Old Man and the Sea, and Lonesome Dove. Other newer titles on the list, like Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Jerry Eugenides's Middlesex are prime examples of modern literature that you should add to your book collection - if you haven't already. This Pulitzer Prize fiction list is guaranteed to keep your turning pages all day long.- Harper Lee
First Published:Â 1960-07-11
Subjects:Â Monarch, Literary, Literature, Classics, Drama
Genres (Book):Â Fiction
Original Language:Â English Language
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and ...more - John Steinbeck
First Published:Â 1939
Subjects:Â California, Great Depression in the United States, Dust Bowl, Oklahoma
Genres (Book):Â Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently ...more - Alice Walker
First Published:Â 1982
Subjects:Â Feminism
Genres (Book):Â Fiction, Epistolary novel
Original Language:Â English Language
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and ...more - Ernest Hemingway
First Published:Â 1952
Subjects:Â Ocean, Fishing, Friendship, Cuba
Genres (Book):Â Children's literature, Fiction, Novella, Sea story
Original Language:Â English Language
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and ...more - Cormac McCarthy
First Published:Â 2006-09-26
Subjects:Â Survival skills, Literary, Adventure, United States of America
Genres (Book):Â Speculative fiction, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Fiction, Literary fiction, Science Fiction
Original Language:Â English Language
The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an ...more - Herman Wouk
First Published:Â 1951
Subjects:Â Literature, Classics, Military, United States of America, World War II
Genres (Book):Â Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
The Caine Mutiny is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, ...more - Larry McMurtry
First Published:Â 1985
Genres (Book):Â Fiction, Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel written by Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series, but the third installment in the series ...more - Toni Morrison
First Published:Â 1987-01
Subjects:Â Literary, Ohio, 19th century, Slavery, Spanish Language
Genres (Book):Â Speculative fiction, Children's literature, Historical fiction, Fiction, Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Sethe, who escaped slavery during 1856 in ...more - Michael Shaara
First Published:Â 1974
Subjects:Â Literary, Pennsylvania, Literature, Classics, Battle of Gettysburg
Genres (Book):Â War novel, Historical fiction, Fiction, Historical novel
Original Language:Â English Language
The Killer Angels is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The book tells the story of the four days of the Battle of Gettysburg in the ...more - E. Annie Proulx
First Published:Â 1993
Subjects:Â Tragedy, Death, Love, Newfoundland
Genres (Book):Â Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won both the Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other ...more - Robert Penn Warren
First Published:Â 1946
Subjects:Â Politician, Election, Political corruption
Genres (Book):Â Political fiction
Original Language:Â American English, English Language
All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men. It ...more - Anthony Doerr
- Jeffrey Eugenides
First Published:Â 2002-10-07
Subjects:Â Literary
Genres (Book):Â Transgender and transsexual fiction, Fiction, Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. The book is a bestseller, with more than three million copies sold by May 2011. Its characters and events are ...more - Michael Chabon
First Published:Â 2000-09-19
Subjects:Â Literary
Genres (Book):Â Speculative fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction
Original Language:Â English Language
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by Jewish American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. The novel follows the lives of two Jewish cousins ...more - John Kennedy Toole
First Published:Â 1980
Subjects:Â Popular literature, Literary, Classics, French Quarter, New Orleans
Genres (Book):Â Tragicomedy, Fiction, Comedy
Original Language:Â English Language
A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which appeared in 1980, eleven years after Toole's suicide. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy ...more - Margaret Mitchell
First Published:Â 1936-06-30
Subjects:Â Women, Plantations in the American South, United States of America, American Civil War, History
Genres (Book):Â Historical fiction, Fiction, Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
Gone with the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It ...more - Edith Wharton
First Published:Â 1920
Subjects:Â Literary, Upper class, Marriage, Education, Literature
Genres (Book):Â Romance novel, Fiction, Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York ...more - Michael Cunningham
First Published:Â 1998
Subjects:Â Women
Genres (Book):Â Drama, Parallel novel, Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of ...more - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
First Published:Â 1938
Subjects:Â Literature, Young adult, Classics, Florida, United States of America
Genres (Book):Â Children's literature, Historical fiction, Fiction, Young adult literature, Reference
Original Language:Â English Language
The Yearling is the 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It was published in March 1938. It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938. It was the number one best ...more - Donna Tartt
First Published:Â Oct 22 2013
The Goldfinch is the third novel from Donna Tartt, her first in 11 years. In February 2013, the New York Observer announced that Tartt's long-awaited third novel, titled The Goldfinch, was set for ...more - Richard Russo
First Published:Â 2001-05-08
Subjects:Â Working class, Adventure, Fathers and Daughters, Maine
Genres (Book):Â Fiction, Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
Empire Falls is a 2001 novel written by Richard Russo. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002, and follows the story of Miles Roby in a fictional, small blue-collar town in Maine and the ...more - Wallace Stegner
First Published:Â 1971
Subjects:Â California, Adultery
Genres (Book):Â Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era ...more - Jhumpa Lahiri
First Published:Â 1999
Subjects:Â Literary, Indian American, Self-help, Culture of India
Genres (Book):Â Anthology, Fiction, Short story
Original Language:Â English Language
Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PENÂ ...more - James A. Michener
First Published:Â 1947-01-28
Genres (Book):Â Short story
Original Language:Â English Language
Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, which is a collection of sequentially related short stories about World War II, written by James A. Michener in 1946 and published in ...more - Philip Roth
First Published:Â 1997-05-12
Subjects:Â Literary, Family, United States of America, History
Genres (Book):Â Fiction, Novel
Original Language:Â English Language
American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. ...more
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