Year	Author	Title
2009	Elizabeth Strout	Olive Kitteridge
2008	Junot Diaz	Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, The
2007	Cormac McCarthy	Road, The
2006	Geraldine Brooks	March
2005	Marilynne Robinson	Gilead
2004	Edward P. Jones	Known World, The
2003	Jeffrey Eugenides	Middlesex
2002	Richard Russo	Empire Falls
2001	Michael Chabon	Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay, The
2000	Jhumpa Lahiri	Interpreter Of Maladies
1999	Michael Cunningham	Hours, The
1998	Philip Roth	American Pastoral
1997	Steven Millhauser	Martin Dressler
1996	Richard Ford	Independence Day
1995	Carol Shields	Stone Diaries, The
1994	E. Annie Proulx	Shipping News, The
1993	Robert Olen Butler	Good Scent From A Stange Mountain, A
1992	Jane Smiley	Thousand Acres, A
1991	John Updike	Rabbit At Rest
1990	Oscar Hijuelos	Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love, The
1989	Anne Tyler	Breathing Lessons
1988	Toni Morrison	Beloved
1987	Peter Taylor	Summons To Memphis, A
1986	Larry McMurtry	Lonesome Dove
1985	Alison Lurie	Foreign Affairs
1984	William Kennedy	Ironweed
1983	Alice Walker	Color Purple, The
1982	John Updike	Rabbit Is Rich
1981	John Kennedy Toole	Confederacy Of Dunces, A
1980	Norman Mailer	Executioner's Song, The
1979	John Cheever	Stories Of John Cheever, The
1978	James Alan McPherson	Elbow Room
1977		No Award
1976	Saul Bellow	Humboldt's Gift
1975	Michael Shaara	Killer Angels, The
1974		No Award
1973	Eudora Welty	Optimist's Daughter, The
1972	Wallace Stegner	Angle Of Repose
1971		No Award
1970	Jean Stafford	Collected Stories
1969	N. Scott Momaday	House Made Of Dawn
1968	William Styron	Confessions Of Nat Turner, The
1967	Bernard Malamud	Fixer, The
1966	Katharine Anne Porter	Collected Stories
1965	Shirley Anne Grau	Keepers Of The House, The
1964		No Award
1963	William Faulkner	Reivers, The
1962	Edwin O'Connor	Edge Of Sadness, The
1961	Harper Lee	To Kill A Mockingbird
1960	Allen Drury	Advise And Consent
1959	Robert Lewis Taylor	Travels Of Jamie McPheeters, The
1958	James Agee	Death In The Family, A
1957	Kenneth Roberts	(Honorary Award)
1956	MacKinlay Kantor	Andersonville
1955	William Faulkner	Fable, A
1954		No Award
1953	Ernest Hemingway	Old Man And The Sea, The
1952	Herman B. Wouk	Caine Mutiny, The
1951	Conrad Richter	Town, The
1950	A. B. Guthrie, Jr.	Way West, The
1949	James Gould Cozzens	Guard Of Honor
1948	James A. Michener	Tales Of The South Pacific
1947	Robert Penn Warren	All The King's Men
1946		No Award
1945	John Hersey	Bell For Adano, A
1944	Martin Flavin	Journey In The Dark
1943	Upton Sinclair	Dragon's Teeth
1942	Ellen Glasgow	In This Our Life
1941		No Award
1940	John Steinbeck	Grapes Of Wrath, The
1939	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	Yearling, The
1938	John P. Marquand	Late George Apley, The
1937	Margaret Mitchell	Gone With The Wind
1936	Harold L. Davis	Honey In The Horn
1935	Josephine W. Johnson	Now In November
1934	Caroline Miller	Lamb In His Bosom
1933	T. S. Stribling	Store, The
1932	Pearl S. Buck	Good Earth, The
1931	Margaret Ayer Barnes	Years Of Grace
1930	Oliver LaFarge	Laughing Boy
1929	Julia M. Peterkin	Scarlet Sister Mary
1928	Thornton Wilder	Bridge of San Luis Rey, The
1927	Louis Bromfield	Early Autumn
1926	Sinclair Lewis	Arrowsmith
1925	Edna Ferber	So Big
1924	Margaret Wilson	Able McLaughlins, The
1923	Willa Cather	One of Ours
1922	Booth Tarkington	Alice Adams
1921	Edith Wharton	Age of Innocence, The
1920		No Award
1919	Booth Tarkington	Magnificent Ambersons, The
1918	Ernest Poole	His Family