This list of Pulitzer Prize winners is provided purely for reference. If any of the titles are reviewed on booklit then the appropriate link to the review will be added.
- 1948: Tales Of The South Pacific, James Michener
- 1949: Guard Of Honor, James Gould Cozzens
- 1950: The Way West, A.B. Guthrie Jr.
- 1951: The Town, Conrad Richter
- 1952: The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
- 1953: The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- 1954: (no award given)
- 1955: A Fable, William Faulkner
- 1956: Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor
- 1957: (no award given)
- 1958: A Death In The Family, James Agee
- 1959: The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters, Robert Lewis Taylor
- 1960: Advise And Consent, Allen Drury
- 1961: To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- 1962: The Edge Of Sadness, Edwin O’Connor
- 1963: The Reivers, William Faulkner
- 1964: (no award given)
- 1965: The Keepers Of The House, Shirley Ann Grau
- 1966: The Collected Stories Of…, Katherine Anne Porter
- 1967: The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
- 1968: The Confessions Of Nat Turner, William Styron
- 1969: House Made Of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
- 1970: The Collected Stories Of…, Jean Stafford
- 1971: (no award given)
- 1972: Angle Of Repose, Wallace Stegner
- 1973: The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
- 1974: (no award given)
- 1975: The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
- 1976: Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow
- 1977: (no award given)
- 1978: Elbow Room, James Alan McPherson
- 1979: The Stories Of…, John Cheever
- 1980: The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer
- 1981: A Confederacy Of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- 1982: Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
- 1983: The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- 1984: Ironweed, William Kennedy
- 1985: Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
- 1986: Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
- 1987: A Summons To Memphis, Peter Taylor
- 1988: Beloved, Toni Morrison
- 1989: Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
- 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love, Oscar Hijuelos
- 1991: Rabbt At Rest, John Updike
- 1992: A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
- 1993: A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler
- 1994: The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
- 1995: The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
- 1996: Independence Day, Richard Ford
- 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale Of An American Dreamer, Steven Millhauser
- 1998: American Pastoral, Philip Roth
- 1999: The Hours, Michael Cunningham
- 2000: Interpreter Of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
- 2001: The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
- 2002: Empire Falls, Richard Russo
- 2003: Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2004: The Known World, Edward P. Jones
- 2005: Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
- 2006: March, Geraldine Brooks
- 2007: The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
- 2009: Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
- 2010: Tinkers, Paul Harding
- 2011: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan