# The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners, 2010–2020

The novels awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction between 2010 and 2020 (no prize was given in 2012).

- 125 votes · 10 items
- Mar 20, 2025 · Ethan Walker
- https://even.best/en/l/714/the-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction-winners-2010-2020

## Top 10

1. **Tinkers — Paul Harding** (21 · ▲21 ▼0) — 2010. A dying clock repairer remembers his father; published by a tiny press.
2. **A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — 2011. Linked stories about the music industry, with a chapter in PowerPoint.
3. **The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen** (11 · ▲13 ▼2) — 2016. A communist double agent after the fall of Saigon.
4. **The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — 2014. A boy, a museum bombing and a stolen Dutch painting.
5. **The Orphan Master's Son — Adam Johnson** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — 2013. A man's life in North Korea.
6. **The Overstory — Richard Powers** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 2019. Nine people whose lives are bound up with trees.
7. **Less — Andrew Sean Greer** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — 2018. A failed novelist travels the world to avoid a wedding.
8. **The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead** (5 · ▲8 ▼3) — 2017. The escape network imagined as a real railway.
9. **All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr** (4 · ▲8 ▼4) — 2015. A blind French girl and a German boy in World War II.
10. **The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — 2020. A Florida reform school; Whitehead's second Pulitzer.

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