# The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners of the 2000s

The ten books awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from 2000 to 2009.

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- Feb 24, 2024 · bibliophile_nashville
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## Top 10

1. **The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon** (15 · ▲17 ▼2) — 2001. Two cousins create a comic-book hero in 1940s New York.
2. **Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri** (15 · ▲16 ▼1) — 2000. Debut stories about Indian and Indian-American lives.
3. **Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides** (12 · ▲14 ▼2) — 2003. An intersex narrator and three generations of a Greek-American family.
4. **Empire Falls — Richard Russo** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — 2002. A diner manager in a declining Maine mill town.
5. **Gilead — Marilynne Robinson** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — 2005. A dying Iowa pastor writes to his young son.
6. **The Known World — Edward P. Jones** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — 2004. A Black slave owner in antebellum Virginia.
7. **March — Geraldine Brooks** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — 2006. The absent father of Little Women during the Civil War.
8. **Olive Kitteridge — Elizabeth Strout** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — 2009. Linked stories around a retired teacher in Maine.
9. **The Road — Cormac McCarthy** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 2007. A father and son cross a post-apocalyptic America.
10. **The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — 2008. A Dominican-American nerd and a family curse.

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