Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded by Columbia University each spring since 1918. The awards are chosen by a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama. The awards for Letters include Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, History, and Fiction.
2019 – The Overstory by Richard Powers
2018 – Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2017 – The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2016 – The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2014 – The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2013- The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
2012 – No award given
2011 – A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2010 – Tinkers by Paul Harding
2009 – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2008 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007 – The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006 – March by Geraldine Brooks
2005 – Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004 – The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003 – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 – Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2001 – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2000 – Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
1999 – The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998 – American Pastoral by Philip Roth
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are awarded each fall by the National Book Foundation. Categories include Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People’s Literature, and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
2018 – The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
2017 – Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2016 – The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2015 – Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson
2014 – Redeployment by Phil Klay
2013 – The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
2012 – The Round House by Louise Erdrich
2011 – Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
2010 – Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
2009 – Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
2008 – Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
2007 – Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
2006 – The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2005 – Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2004 – The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
2003 – The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
2002 – Three Junes by Julia Glass
2001 – The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2000 – In America by Susan Sontag
1999 – Waiting by Ha Jin
1998 – Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Edgar Award
The Edgar Award, in honor of Edgar Allan Poe, is given by The Mystery Writers of America to the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction produced the previous year. The first Edgar was awarded in 1954.
2017 – Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
2016 – Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy
2015 – Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
2014 – Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
2013 – Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
2012 – Gone by Mo Hayder
2011 – The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
2010 – The Last Child by John Hart
2009 – Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
2008 – Down River by John Hart
2007 – The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
2006 – Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
2005 – California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
2004 – Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
2003 – Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
2002 – Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
2001 – The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
2000 – Bones by Jan Burke
1999 – Mr. White’s Confession by Robert Clark
1998 – Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is awarded by the current members of the World Science Fiction Convention. Though Hugos are given in dozens of categories, we present the winners in the Novel category.
2018 – The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
2017 – The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
2016 – The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
2015 – The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
2014 – Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
2013 – Redshirts by John Scalzi
2012 – Among Others by Jo Walton
2011 – Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
2010 (tie) – The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
2010 (tie) – The City and the City by China Miéville
2009 – The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2008 – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
2007 – Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
2006 – Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
2005 – Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2004 – Paladin of Souls by Louis McMaster Bujold
2003 – Hominids by Robert H. Sawyer
2002 – American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2001 – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
2000 – A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
1999 – To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
1998 – Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
Nebula Award
The Nebula Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in the following categories: Novella, Novellette, Short Story, Script, and Novel.
2019 – The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
2018 – The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
2017 – All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
2016 – Uprooted by Naomi Novik
2015 – Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
2014 – Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
2013 – 2312 by Kim Stanley-Robinson
2012 – Among Others by Jo Walton
2011 – Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
2010 – The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
2009 – Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
2008 – The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
2007 – Seeker by Jack McDevitt
2006 – Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
2005 – Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
2004 – The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
2003 – American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2002 – The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro
2001 – Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear
2000 – Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
1999 – Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
1998 – The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
Nonfiction
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction is awarded each spring by Columbia University, upon recommendation of the Pulitzer Board. Begun in 1962, the award has recognized, “a distinguished and appropriately documented book of nonfiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category.”
2019 – Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
2018 – Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.
2017 – Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
2016 – Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
2015 – The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
2014 – Tom’s River – A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
2013 – Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
2012 – The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
2011 – The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
2010 – The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Huffman
2009 – Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
2008 – The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer
2007 – The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2006 – Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
2005 – Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
2004 – Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
2003 – “A Problem from Hell”: American and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
2002 – Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
2001 – Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
2000 – Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
1999 – Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
1998 – Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
National Book Award for Nonfiction
The National Book Awards are awarded each fall by the National Book Foundation. Categories include Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People’s Literature, and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
2018 – The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey Stewart
2017 – The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
2016 – Stamped from the Beginning; the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
2015 – Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014 – Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
2013 – The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
2012 – Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
2011 – The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
2010 – Just Kids by Patti Smith
2009 – The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
2008 – The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reen
2007 – Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
2006 – The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
2005 – The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2004 – Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
2003 – Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire
2002 – Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
2001 – The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
2000 – In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
1999 – Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
1998 – Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
