The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners of the 2000s
The top 3 according to 115 votes from people: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon · Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri · Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides. (Updated Feb 24, 2024.)
The ten books awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from 2000 to 2009.
Top 10
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1
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon
2001. Two cousins create a comic-book hero in 1940s New York.
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2
Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri
2000. Debut stories about Indian and Indian-American lives.
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3
Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides
2003. An intersex narrator and three generations of a Greek-American family.
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4
Empire Falls — Richard Russo
2002. A diner manager in a declining Maine mill town.
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5
Gilead — Marilynne Robinson
2005. A dying Iowa pastor writes to his young son.
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6
The Known World — Edward P. Jones
2004. A Black slave owner in antebellum Virginia.
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7
March — Geraldine Brooks
2006. The absent father of Little Women during the Civil War.
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8
Olive Kitteridge — Elizabeth Strout
2009. Linked stories around a retired teacher in Maine.
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9
The Road — Cormac McCarthy
2007. A father and son cross a post-apocalyptic America.
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10
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz
2008. A Dominican-American nerd and a family curse.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (2)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy, devastating and perfect.
Oscar Wao is the most fun Pulitzer winner.