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Best Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Report Abuse
Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. It won the Pulitzer in 2001.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Report Abuse
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MIddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Report Abuse
This book spans 80 years of a stained family history and won the Pulitzer in 2003.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Report Abuse
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy Report Abuse
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Empire Falls by Richard Russo Report Abuse
This book is a bestselling novel that explores the tragicomic realities of small-town life with poignancy and humor. It won the Pulitzer in 2002.
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Report Abuse
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American Pastoral by Philip Roth Report Abuse
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The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Report Abuse
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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Report Abuse
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Report Abuse
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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty Report Abuse
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The Known World by Edward P. Jones Report Abuse
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The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx Report Abuse
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A Death in the Family by James Agee Report Abuse
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Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Report Abuse
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The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Report Abuse
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham Report Abuse
This 1999 winner focuses on three interwoven novellas in varying degrees connected to Virginia Woolf.
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker Report Abuse
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Beloved by Toni Morrison Report Abuse
The 1988 winner is set in the troubled years following the Civil War, when the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave.
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