Las Positas College Library
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
National Book Award Finalists for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
2007
The Road. Cormac McCarthy. LPC PS3563.C337 R63 2006
2006
March. Geraldine Brooks. LPC PR9619.3.B7153 M37 2006
2005
Gilead. Marilynne Robinson. LPC PS3568.O3125 G55 2006
2004
The Known World. Edward P. Jones. LPC PS3506.O4813 K58 2003
2003
Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenides. LPC PS3555.U4 M53 2002
2002
Empire Falls. Richard Russo. LPC PS3568.U812.E4 2002
2001
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: A Novel. Michael Chabon. LPC PS3553.A82 2000
2000
Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri. LPC PS3562.A316.I58 1999
1999
The Hours. Michael Cunningham. LPC PS3553.U484.H68 2000
1998
American Pastoral. Philip Roth. LPC PS3568.O855.A77 1998
1997
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer. Stephen Millhauser. LPC PS3563.I422.M37 1997
1996
Independence Day. Richard Ford. LPC PS3556.O713.I53 1996
1995
The Stone Diaries. Carol Shields. LPC PR9199.3.S514 S76 1995
1994
The Shipping News. E. Annie Proulx. LPC PS3566.R697 S4 1993
1993
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. Robert Olen Butler. (on order)
1992
A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley. LPC PS3569.M39.T47 1996
1991
Rabbit at Rest. John Updike. LPC PS3571.P4.R23 1990
1990
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Oscar Hijuelos. LPC PS3558.I376.M36 1990
1989
Breathing Lessons. Anne Tyler. LPC PS3570.Y45.B74 1988
1988
Beloved. Toni Morrison. LPC PS3563.O8749.B4 1987
1987
A Summons to Memphis. Peter Taylor. LPC PS3539.A9633.S8 1986
1986
Lonesome Dove. Larry McMurtry. LPC PS3563.A319.L6 1985
1985
Foreign Affairs. Alison Lurie. LPC PS3562.U7.F6 1984
1984
Ironweed. William Kennedy. LPC PS3561.E428.I7 1983
1983
The Color Purple. Alice Walker. LPC PS3573.A425.C6 1982 & PS3573.A425.C6 1985
1982
Rabbit Is Rich. John Updike. LPC PS3571.P4.R25 1981
1981
A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy O’Toole. LPC PS3570.O54.C66 1995
1980
The Executioner’s Song. Norman Mailer. LPC PS3525.A4152.E89 1998
1979
The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever. LPC PS3505.H6428.A7
1978
Elbow Room. James Alan McPherson. LPC PS3563.A325.E4 1983
1977
No Award
1976
Humboldt’s Gift. Saul Bellow. LPC PS3503.E4488.H8
1975
The Killer Angels. Michael Shaara. LPC PS3569.H2.K44 1974
1974
No Award
1973
The Optimist’s Daughter. Eudora Welty. LPC PS3545.E6.O6 2002
1972
Angle of Repose. Wallace Stegner. LPC P3537.T316.A8
1971
No Award
1970
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford. Jean Stafford. LPC PS3569.T2.A6 1992
1969
House Made of Dawn. N. Scott Momaday. LPC PS3563.O47.H6 1977
1968
The Confessions of Nat Turner. William Styron. LPC PS3569.T9 C6 1967
1967
The Fixer. Bernard Malamud. LPC PS3563.A4.F4 1966
1966
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Katherine Anne Porter. LPC PS3531.O752.A6 1979
1965
The Keepers of the House. Shirley Ann Grau. LPC PZ4.G775KE
1964
No Award
1963
The Reivers. William Faulkner. LPC PS3511.A86.R38 1962a
1962
The Edge of Sadness. Edwin O’Connor. LPC Library Does Not Own
1961
To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee. LPC PZ3.L4778to
1960
Advise and Consent. Allen Drury. LPC PZ3.D794ad
1959
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. Robert Lewis Taylor. LPC Library Does Not Own
1958
A Death in the Family. James Agee. LPC PS3501.G35.D43 1998
1957
No Award
1956
Andersonville. MacKinlay Kantor. LPC PS3521.A47.A7 1955a
1955
A Fable. William Faulkner. LPC PS3511.A86 F2
1954
No Award
1953
The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway. LPC PS3515.E370 & PS3515.E37O.C.2
1952
The Caine Mutiny. Herman Wouk. LPC PZ3.W923ca 1973
1951
The Town. Conrad Richter. LPC PS3535.I429.T6
1950
The Way West. A. B. Guthrie, Jr. LPC PZ3.G95876WAY
1949
Guard of Honor. James Gould Cozzens. Chabot PS3505.O99 G9 & PS3505.O99 G9 c.2
1948
Tales of the South Pacific. James A. Michener. LPC PS3525.I19.T3 1984
1947
All the King’s Men. Robert Penn Warren. LPC PS3545.A748.A5
1946
No Award
1945
A Bell for Adano. John Hersey. LPC PS3515.E7715.B4
1944
Journey in the Dark. Martin Flavin. LPC Library Does Not Own
1943
Dragon’s Teeth. Upton Sinclair. LPC Library Does Not Own
1942
In This Our Life. Ellen Glasgow. LPC Library Does Not Own
1941
No Award
1940
The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck. LPC PS3537.T3234.G8 1986
1939
The Yearling. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. LPC PZ3.R259ye
1938
The Late George Apley. John Phillips Marquand. Chabot PS3525.A6695.L2
1937
Gone With the Wind. Margaret Mitchell . LPC PS3525.I972.G6 1975
1936
Honey in the Horn. Harold L. Davis. LPC Library Does Not Own
1935
Now in November. Josephine Winslow Johnson. Chabot PZ3 .J6334no
1934
Lamb in His Bosom. Caroline Miller. LPC Library Does Not Own
1933
The Store. T. S. Stribling. LPC Library Does Not Own
1932
The Good Earth. Pearl S. Buck LPC PS3503.U198 1939
1931
Years of Grace. Margaret Ayer Barnes. LPC Library Does Not Own
1930
Laughing Boy. Oliver La Farge. LPC PZ3.L129lau
1929
Scarlet Sister Mary. Julia Peterkin. LPC Library Does Not Own
1928
The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Thornton Wilder. LPC PS3545.I345.B7 2003
1927
Early Autumn. Louis Bromfield. LPC Library Does Not Own
1926
Arrowsmith. Sinclair Lewis. LPC PS3523.E94.A6 2002
1925
So Big. Edna Ferber. Chabot PS3511.E46 S46 1962
1924
The Able McLaughlins. Margaret Wilson. LPC Library Does Not Own
1923
One of Ours. Willa Cather. Chabot PS3505.A87 O5 1922
1922
Alice Adams. Booth Tarkington. LPC Library Does Not Own
1921
The Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton. LPC PS3545.H16.A6 1985
1920
No Award
1919
The Magnificent Ambersons. Booth Tarkington. LPC PS2972.M25 1998
1918
His Family. Ernest Poole. LPC Library Does Not Own
National Book Award Finalists for Fiction
2007
Tree of Smoke. Denis Johnson. (on order)
2006
The Echo Maker. Richard Powers. LPC PS3566.O92.E27 2006
2005
Europe Central. William T. Vollman. LPC PS3572.O395.E97 2005
2004
The News From Paraguay. Lily Tuck. LPC PS3570.U236.N49 2004
2003
The Great Fire. Shirley Hazzard. LPC PR9619.3.H369.G74 2003
2002
Three Junes. Julia Glass. LPC PS3607.L37.T48 2002
2001
The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen. LPC PS3556.R352.C67 2001
2000
In America. Susan Sontag. LPC PS3569.O6547.I5 2000
1999
Waiting. Ha Jin. LPC PS3560.I6.W34 1999
1998
Charming Billy. Alice McDermott. LPC PS3563.C355.C48 1999
1997
Cold Mountain. Charles Frazier. LPC PS3556.R3599.C6 1997
1996
Ship Fever and Other Stories. Andrea Barrett. LPC PS3552.A7327.S55 1996
1995
Sabbath's Theater. Philip Roth. LPC PS3568.O855.S23 1996
1994
A Frolic of His Own. William Gaddis. LPC PS3557.A28 F76 1994
1993
The Shipping News. E. Annie Proulx. LPC PS3566.R697.S4 1993
1992
All the Pretty Horses. Cormac McCarthy. LPC PS3563.C337.A44 1992
1991
Mating. Norman Rush. LPC PS3568.U727.M38 1992
1990
Middle Passage. Charles Johnson. Chabot PS3560.O3735 M5 1990
1989
Spartina. John Casey. LPC Library Does Not Own
1988
Paris Trout. Pete Dexter. Chabot PS3554.E95 P37 1989
1987
Paco's Story. Larry Heinemann. Chabot PZ3.H4673 PA
1986
World's Fair. E. L. Doctorow. LPC PS3554.O3.W6 1985
1985
Fiction: White Noise. Don DeLillo. LPC GV1015.4.W66.C75 2002
1985
First Work of Fiction: Easy in the Islands. Bob Shacochis. LPC Library Does Not Own
1984
Fiction: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories. Ellen Gilchrist. LPC PS3557.I34258.V5
1984
First Work of Fiction: Stones for Ibarra. Harriet Doerr. LPC PS3571.P4.R25 1981
1983
Fiction (Paperback): Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. Eudora Welty. LPC PS3545.E6.A15
1980
First Novel: The Women of Brewster Place. Gloria Naylor. Chabot PS3564.A895 W6
1983
Original Paperback: The Red Magician. Lisa Goldstein. LPC Library Does Not Own
1983
Fiction (Hardcover): Color Purple. Alice Walker. LPC PS3573.A425.C6 1982
1982
Fiction (Hardcover): Rabbit Is Rich. John Updike. LPC PS3571.P4.R25
1981
Fiction (Paperback): So Long, See You Tomorrow. William Maxwell. LPC PS3525.A9464.S6
1981
First Novel: Dale Loves Sophie to Death. Robb Forman Dew. LPC Library Does Not Own
1981
Fiction (Hardcover): Plains Song for Female Voices. Wright Morris. LPC PS3525.O7475.P5 2000
1981
Fiction (Paperback): The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever. LPC PS3505.H6428 A7 2000
1981
First Novel: Sister Wolf. Ann Arensberg. LPC Library Does Not Own
1980
Sophie's Choice. William Styron. LPC PS3569.T9.S67
1980
Fiction (Paperback): World According to Garp. John Irving. LPC PZ3.I714wo & PZ3.I714wo
1980
First Novel: Birdy. William Wharton. LPC PZ3.W5377bi 1978
1979
Going After Cacciato. Tim O'Brien. LPC PZ3.O1362go
1978
Blood Ties. Mary Lee Settle. LPC Library Does Not Own
1977
The Spectator Bird. Wallace Stegner. LPC PS3537.T316.S75
1976
Jr. William Gaddis. LPC Library Does Not Own
1975
Dog Soldiers. Robert Stone. LPC PZ3.S8789do
1975
The Hair of Harold Roux. Thomas Williams. LPC Library Does Not Own
1974
Gravity's Rainbow. Thomas Pynchon. LPC PS3566.Y55.G7
1974
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Chabot PJ5129.S515.C8
1973
Chimera. John Barth. LPC PZ3.B284ch
1973
Augustus. John Williams. LPC PS3545.I5286.A94 1995
1972
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor. Flannery O'Connor. LPC Library Does Not Own
1971
Mr. Sammler's Planet. Saul Bellow. LPC PZ3.B41937M
1970
Them. Joyce Carol Oates. LPC PS3565.A8.T48 2000
1969
Steps. Jerzy Konsinski. LPC Library Does Not Own
1968
The Eighth Day. Thornton Wilder. Chabot PS3545.I345.E2
1967
The Fixer. Bernard Malamud. LPC PS3563.A4.F4 1966
1966
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. Katherine Anne Porter. LPC PS3531.O752.A6 1979
1965
Herzog. Saul Bellow. LPC PZ3.B41937hh
1964
The Centaur. John Updike. LPC PZ3.U64ce
1963
Morte D'Urban. J. F. Powers. LPC Library Does Not Own
1962
The Moviegoer. Walker Percy. LPC PZ.P43115MO
1961
The Waters of Kronos. Conrad Richter. LPC Library Does Not Own
1960
Goodbye, Columbus. Philip Roth. LPC PS3568.O855.G6 1993
1959
The Magic Barrel. Bernard Malamud. LPC PZ3.M237mag
1958
The Wapshot Chronicle. John Cheever. LPC PZ3.C3983wap
1957
The Field of Vision. Wright Morris. LPC Library Does Not Own
1956
Ten North. Frederick John O'Hara. LPC Library Does Not Own
1955
A Fable. William Faulkner. LPC PS3511.A86.F2
1954
The Adventures of Augie March. Saul Bellow. LPC PZ3.B41937ad
1953
Invisible Man. Ralph Ellison. LPC PZ3.E47in
1952
From Here to Eternity. James Jones. LPC PS3560.O49.F6
1951
The Collected Stories of William Faulkner. William Faulkner. LPC PS3511.A86.C7 1977
1950
The Man With the Golden Arm. Nelson Algren. Chabot PS3501.L4625.M13