2000   Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999   The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998   American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1997   Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1996   Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995   The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1994   The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1993   A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
1992   Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1991   Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1990   The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1989   Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1988   Beloved by Toni Morrison
1987   A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1986   Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1985   Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1984   Ironweed by William Kennedy
1983   The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1982   Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
1981   A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1980   The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1979   The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1978   Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1977   No award was given
1976   Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1975   The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1973   The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1972   The Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1971   No award was given
1970   Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
1969   House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1968   The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1967   The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1966   Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
1965   The Keepers of the House by Shirley Anne Grau
1964   No award was given
1963   The Reivers by William Faulkner
1962   The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1961   To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1960   Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
1959   The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1958   A Death in the Family by James Agee
1957   No award was given
1956   Andersonville by Mackinlay Kantor
1955   A Fable by William Faulkner
1954   No award was given
1953   The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1952   The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1951   The Town by Conrad Richter
1950   The Way West by A.B. Guthrie
1949   Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1948   Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1947   All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
1946   No award was given
1945   A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1944   Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1943   Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1942   In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1941   No award was given
1940   The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1939   The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938   The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
1937   Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1936   Honey in the Horn by Harold Davis
1935   Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934   Lamb in his Bosom by Caroline Miller
1933   The Store by T.S. Stribling
1932   The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1931   Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930   Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
1929   Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1928   The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1927   Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
1926   Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1925   So Big by Edna Ferber
1924   The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
1923   One of Ours by Willa Cather
1922   Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1921   The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1920   No award was given
1919   The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1918   His Family by Ernest Poole
 
 

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