2022 – The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen
2021 – The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
2020 – The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
2019 – The Overstory, Richard Powers
2018 – Less, Andrew Sean Greer
2017 – The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
2016 – The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 – All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
2014 – The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
2013 – The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson
2012 -(No Award)
2011 – A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
2010 – Tinkers, Paul Harding
2009 – Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
2008 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
2007 – The Road, Cormac McCarthy
2006 – March, Geraldine Brooks
2005 – Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
2004 – The Known World, Edward P. Jones
2003 – Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
2002 – Empire Falls, Richard Russo
2001 – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
2000 – Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
1999 – The Hours, Michael Cunningham
1998 – American Pastoral, Philip Roth
1997 – Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Steven Millhauser
1996 – Independence Day, Richard Ford
1995 – The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
1994 – The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
1993 – A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler
1992 – A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
1991 – Rabbit At Rest, John Updike
1990 – The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos
1989 – Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
1988 – Beloved, Toni Morrison
1987 – A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor
1986 – Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
1985 – Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie
1984 – Ironweed, William Kennedy
1983 – The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1982 – Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
1981 – A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
1980 – The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer
1979 – The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
1978 – Elbow Room, James Alan McPherson
1977 – (No Award)
1976 – Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow
1975 – The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
1974 – (No Award)
1973 – The Optimist’s Daughter, Eudora Welty
1972 – Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
1971 – (No Award)
1970 – Collected Stories, Jean Stafford
1969 – House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
1968 – The Confessions of Nat Turner, William Styron
1967 – The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
1966 – Collected Stories, Katherine Anne Porter
1965 – The Keepers Of The House, Shirley Ann Grau
1964 – (No Award)
1963 – The Reivers, William Faulkner
1962 – The Edge of Sadness, Edwin O’Connor
1961 – To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
1960 – Advise and Consent, Allen Drury
1959 – The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Robert Lewis Taylor
1958 – A Death In The Family, James Agee
1957 – (No Award)
1956 – Andersonville, MacKinlay Kantor
1955 – A Fable, William Faulkner
1954 – (No Award)
1953 – The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
1952 – The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
1951 – The Town, Conrad Richter
1950 – The Way West, A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
1949 – Guard of Honor, James Gould Cozzens
1948 – Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener
1947 – All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
1946 – (No Award)
1945 – A Bell for Adano, John Hersey
1944 – Journey in the Dark, Martin Flavin
1943 – Dragon’s Teeth, Upton Sinclair
1942 – In This Our Life, Ellen Glasgow
1941 – (No Award)
1940 – The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
1939 – The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1938 – The Late George Apley, John Phillips Marquand
1937 – Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
1936 – Honey in the Horn, Harold L. Davis
1935 – Now in November, Josephine Winslow Johnson
1934 – Lamb in His Bosom, Caroline Miller
1933 – The Store, T. S. Stribling
1932 – The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
1931 – Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes
1930 – Laughing Boy, Oliver Lafarge
1929 – Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin
1928 – The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
1927 – Early Autumn, Louis Bromfield
1926 – Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis
1925 – So Big, Edna Ferber
1924 – The Able McLaughlins, Margaret Wilson
1923 – One of Ours, Willa Cather
1922 – Alice Adams, Booth Tarkington
1921 – The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
1920 – (No Award)
1919 – The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
1918 – His Family, Ernest Poole
1917 – (No Award)