Pulitzer

• (1918) His Family - Ernest Poole
• (1919) The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
• (1920) Não houve premiação
• (1921) The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
• (1922) Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
• (1923) One of Ours - Willa Cather
• (1924) The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson
• (1925) So Big - Edna Ferber
• (1926) Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
• (1927) Early Autumn - Louis Bromfield
• (1928) The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
• (1929) Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin
• (1930) Laughing Boy - Oliver La Farge
• (1931) Years of Grace - Margaret Ayer Barnes
• (1932) The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
• (1933) The Store - T. S. Stribling
• (1934) Lamb in His Bosom - Caroline Miller
• (1935) Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
• (1936) Honey in the Horn - Harold L. Davis
• (1937) Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
• (1938) The Late George Apley - John Phillips Marquand
• (1939) The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• (1940) The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• (1941) Não houve premiação
• (1942) In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow
• (1943) Dragon's Teeth - Upton Sinclair
• (1944) Journey in the Dark - Martin Flavin
• (1945) A Bell for Adano - John Hersey
• (1946) Não houve premiação
• (1947) All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
• (1948) Tales of the South Pacific - James A. 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) Não houve premiação
• (1955) A Fable - William Faulkner
• (1956) Andersonville - MacKinlay Kantor
• (1957) Não houve premiação
• (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) Não houve premiação
• (1965) The Keepers of the House - Shirley Ann Grau
• (1966) Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter - 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) Collected Stories of Jean Stafford - Jean Stafford
• (1971) Não houve premiação
• (1972) Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
• (1973) The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
• (1974) Não houve premiação
• (1975) The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
• (1976) Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
• (1977) Não houve premiação
• (1978) Elbow Room - James Alan McPherson
• (1979) The Stories of John Cheever - 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) Rabbit 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
• (2012) Não houve premiação
• (2013) The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
• (2014) The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
• (2015) All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
• (2016) The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
• (2017) The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
• (2018) Less - Andrew Sean Greer
• (2019) The Overstory - Richard Powers
• (2020) The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
• (2021) The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
• (2022) The Netanyahus - Joshua Cohen
• (2023) Trust - Hernan Diaz
• (2023) Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
• (2024) Night Watch - Jayne Anne Phillips

Note que em 2023, o prêmio foi compartilhado por duas obras.