Pulitzer Prize for the Novel

No Prize was awarded in 1917. In 1948 the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel was replaced with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

• 1918 Ernest Poole - His Family
• 1919 Booth Tarkington - The Magnificent Ambersons
• 1920 no award given
• 1921 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
• 1922 Booth Tarkington - Alice Adams
• 1923 Willa Cather - One of Ours
• 1924 Margaret Wilson - The Able McLaughlins
• 1925 Edna Ferber - So Big
• 1926 Sinclair Lewis - Arrowsmith
• 1927 Louis Bromfield - Early Autumn
• 1928 Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• 1929 Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Mary
• 1930 Oliver Lafarge - Laughing Boy
• 1931 Margaret Ayer Barnes - Years of Grace
• 1932 Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth
• 1933 T. S. Stribling - The Store
• 1934 Caroline Miller - Lamb in His Bosom
• 1935 Josephine Winslow Johnson - Now in November
• 1936 Harold L. Davis - Honey in the Horn
• 1937 Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
• 1938 John Phillips Marquand - The Late George Apley
• 1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling
• 1940 John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
• 1941 no award given
• 1942 Ellen Glasgow - In This Our Life
• 1943 Upton Sinclair - Dragon's Teeth
• 1944 Martin Flavin - Journey in the Dark
• 1945 John Hersey - A Bell for Adano
• 1946 no award given
• 1947 Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men