Award-Winning Fiction

Laura here: I was recently asked about how to find award winners among the books in our adult Fiction collection. Here is a selection of books we own that are winners of some of the more high-profile prizes. Remember, there are many more awards than listed here, and most fiction genres have one or more awards of their own. Additionally, while over time, these prizes have become more diverse by awarding women and people of color, there is still a ways to go. 

Continue reading for selections from among winners of: the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the National Book Award for Fiction, the Booker Prize, and the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Click Read More ------>>

Pulitzer Prize Winners, a selection, 1980-present
March, Geraldine Brooks, F BRO *ª
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon, F CHA *
The Hours, Michael Cunningham, F CUN
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, F DIA *ª
All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, F DOE *ª
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan, F EGA *ª
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, F EUG *ª
​Less, Andrew Sean Greer, F GRE *ª
Tinkers, Paul Harding, F HAR *
The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson, F JOH *ª
The Known World, Edward P. Jones, F JON *ª
Ironweed, William Kennedy, F KEN
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri, F LAH *ª
The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer, F MAI *
The Road, Cormac McCarthy, F MCC *ª
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, F MCM LON-1 *ª
Beloved, Toni Morrison, F MOR *ª
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, F NGU *
The Overstory, Richard Powers, F POW *
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx, F PRO *
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, F ROB GIL-1 *ª
The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields, F SHI *
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, F STR OLI-1 *ª
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, F TAR *ª
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, F TOO *ª
The Color Purple, Alice Walker, F WAL *
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead, F WHI *ª
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, F WHI *ª

---

Nobel Prize for Literature Winners*, a selection of novels and stories
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow, F BEL ª
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck, F BUC *ª
The Stranger, Albert Camus, F CAM *ª
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee, F COE
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner, F FAU *ª
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez, F GAR *ª
Lord of the Flies, William Golding, F GOL *ª
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, F HEM *ª
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse, F HES *ª
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, F ISH *ª
Kipling’s Tales of Horror and Fantasy, Rudyard Kipling, F KIP
Mara and Dann, Doris Lessing, F LES
Main Street & Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, F LEW *ª
Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, F MAN
Jazz, Toni Morrison, F MOR *
Runaway, Alice Munro, F MUN ª
A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul, F NAI *
Snow, Orhan Pamuk, F PAM *
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, F PAS *ª 
Blindness, Jose Saramago, F SAR ª
Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, F SIE ª
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, F SOL ª
East of Eden, John Steinbeck, F STE *ª
Flights, Olga Tokarczuk, F TOK *ª
Death in the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa, F VAR
​
*the Nobel is awarded to the author's full body of work, not any specific book.

---

 National Book Award Winners, a selection
Trust Exercise, Susan Choi, F CHO *ª
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, F ELL *ª
The Round House, Louise Erdrich, F ERD *ª
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen, F FRA ª
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier, F FRA *ª
Three Junes, Julia Glass, F GLA *
Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson, F JOH ª
Redeployment, Phil Klay, F KLA *ª
The Good Lord Bird, James McBride, F MCB *ª
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann, F MCC *
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy, F MCC BOR-1 *ª
Charming Billy, Alice McDermott, F MCD
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez, F NUN *ª
The Echo Maker, Richard Powers, F POW ª
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx, F PRO *
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, F PYN ª
Sophie’s Choice, William Styron, F STY *
The Color Purple, Alice Walker, F WAL *
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward, F WAR *
Sing Unburied Sing, Jesmyn Ward, F WAR *ª
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, F WHI *ª

---

Booker Prize Winners, a selection
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, F ADI ª
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood, F ATW *
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood, F ATW HAN-2 *ª
The Sea, John Banville, F BAN
The Ghost Road, Pat Barker, F BAR
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, F BAR *ª
The Sellout, Paul Beatty, F BEA *
Milkman, Anna Burns, F BUR *ª
Possession, A. S. Byatt, F BYA ª
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton, F CAT *
Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee, F COE
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo, F EVA *ª
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan, F FLA *ª
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, F ISH *ª
The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson, F JAC *
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James, F JAM *ª
Schindler’s List, Thomas Keneally, F KEN
Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively, F LIV
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, F MAN WOL-1 *ª
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, F MAN WOL-2 *ª
Life of Pi, Yann Martel, F MAR *ª
Amsterdam, Ian McEwan, F MCE 
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, F OND ª
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, F ROY *ª
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie, F RUS *ª
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders, F SAU *ª

---

Women’s Prize for Fiction Winners, a selection
The Power, Naomi Alderman, SF ALD *ª
The Idea of Perfection, Kate Grenville, F GRE
May We Be Forgiven, A. M. Homes, F HOM *
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, F JON *ª
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver, F KIN *
Property, Valerie Martin, F MAR *
The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht, F OBR *ª
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett, F PAT *ª
Home, Marilynne Robinson, F ROB GIL-2 *ª 
Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie, F SHA *
How to Be Both, Ali Smith, F SMI *
On Beauty, Zadie Smith, F SMI 
The Road Home, Rose Tremain, F TRE ª

---

Download this entire list. (PDF)
Download PDF of: Pulitzer • Nobel • National Book Award • Booker • Women's Prize