Pulitzer Prize Adaptations - Fiction (Winners and Finalists)
1917
No Award
1918
No Award
1919
The Magnificent Ambersons (winner)
1920
No Award
1921
The Age of Innocence (winner)
1922
Alice Adams (winner)
1923
One of Ours (winner)
1924
The Able McLaughlins (winner)
1925
So Big (winner)
1926
Arrowsmith (winner)
1927
Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady (winner)
1928
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (winner)
1929
Scarlet Sister Mary (winner)
1930
Laughing Boy (winner)
1931
Years of Grace (winner)
1932
The Good Earth (winner)
1933
The Store (winner)
1934
Lamb in His Bosom (winner)
1935
Now in November (winner)
1936
Honey in the Horn (winner)
1937
Gone with the Wind (winner)
1938
The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir (winner)
1939
The Yearling (winner)
1940
The Grapes of Wrath (winner)
1941
No Award
1942
In This Our Life (winner)
1943
Dragon's Teeth (winner)
1944
Journey in the Dark (winner)
1945
A Bell for Adano (winner)
1946
No Award
1947
All the King's Men (winner)
1948
Tales of the South Pacific (winner)
1949
Guard of Honor (winner)
1950
The Way West (winner)
1951
The Town (winner)
1952
The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II (winner)
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1953
The Old Man and the Sea (winner)
1954
No Award
1955
A Fable (winner)
1956
Andersonville (winner)
1957
No Award
The Voice At The Back Door (Elizabeth Spencer) - recommended
1958
A Death in the Family (winner)
1959
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (winner)
1960
Advise and Consent (winner)
1961
To Kill a Mockingbird (winner)
1962
The Edge of Sadness (winner)
1963
The Reivers: A Reminiscence (winner)
1964
No Award
Coat Upon a Stick (Norman Fruchter) - considered
Joanna and Ulysses (May Sarton) - considered
Careful, He Might Hear You (Sumner Locke Elliott) - considered
And Then We Heard the Thunder (John Killens) - considered
1965
The Keepers of the House (winner)
1966
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (winner)
1967
The Fixer (winner)
1968
The Confessions of Nat Turner (winner)
1969
House Made of Dawn (winner)
1970
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (winner)
1971
No Award
Losing Battles (Eudora Welty) - finalist
Mr. Sammler's Planet (Saul Bellow) - finalist
The Wheel of Love (Joyce Carol Oates) - finalist
1972
Angle of Repose (winner)
1973
The Optimist's Daughter (winner)
1974
No Award
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon) - recommended
1975
The Killer Angels (winner)
1976
Humboldt's Gift (winner)
1977
No Award
A River Runs Through It (Norman MacLean) - recommended
Roots (Alex Haley) - special Pulitzer Prize
1978
Elbow Room (winner)
1979
The Stories of John Cheever (winner)
1980
The Executioner's Song (winner)
Birdy by William Wharton
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
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1981
A Confederacy of Dunces (winner)
Godric by Frederick Buechner
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
1982
Rabbit Is Rich (winner)
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1983
The Color Purple (winner)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Rabbis and Wives by Chaim Grade
1984
Ironweed (winner)
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
The Feud by Thomas Berger
1985
Foreign Affairs (winner)
I Wish This War Were Over by Diana O'Hehir
Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
1986
Lonesome Dove (winner)
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
1987
A Summons to Memphis (winner)
Paradise by Donald Barthelme
Whites by Norman Rush
1988
Beloved (winner)
Persian Nights by Diane Johnson
That Night by Alice McDermott
1989
Breathing Lessons (winner)
Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
1990
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (winner)
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
1991
Rabbit at Rest (winner)
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
1992
A Thousand Acres (winner)
Jernigan by David Gates
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
Mao II by Don DeLillo
1993
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories (winner)
At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
1994
The Shipping News (winner)
The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price by Reynolds Price
Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth
1995
The Stone Diaries (winner)
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley by Grace Paley
What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
1996
Independence Day (winner)
Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
1997
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
The Manikin by Joanna Scott
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
1998
American Pastoral (winner)
Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone
Underworld by Don DeLillo |
1999
The Hours (winner)
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
2000
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories (winner)
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Waiting by Ha Jin
2001
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (winner)
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
2002
Empire Falls (winner)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
2003
Middlesex (winner)
Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
2004
The Known World (winner)
American Woman by Susan Choi
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
2005
Gilead (winner)
An Unfinished Season by Ward Just
War Trash by Ha Jin
2006
March (winner)
The Bright Forever by Lee Martin
The March by E. L. Doctorow
2007
The Road (winner)
After This by Alice McDermott
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (winner)
Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
2009
Olive Kitteridge (winner)
All Souls by Christine Schutt
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
2010
Tinkers (winner)
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad (winner)
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee
2012
No Award
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (posthumous nominee)
2013
The Orphan Master's Son (winner)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
2014
The Goldfinch (winner)
The Son by Philipp Meyer
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
2015
All the Light We Cannot See (winner)
Let Me Be Frank with You by Richard Ford
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates
2016
The Sympathizer (winner)
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
Maud's Line by Margaret Verble
2017
The Underground Railroad (winner)
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
2018
Less (winner)
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
2019
The Overstory (winner)
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
There There by Tommy Orange
2020
The Nickel Boys (winner)
The Dutch House
The Topeka School
2021
The Night Watchman (winner)
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
Telephone
2022
The Netanyahus (winner)
Monkey Boy
Palmares
2023
Trust (winner)
Demon Copperhead (winner)
The Immortal King Rao |