# The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners of the 1990s

The ten books awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from 1990 to 1999.

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- Mar 22, 2023 · bibliophile_chicago
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## Top 10

1. **The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love — Oscar Hijuelos** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — 1990. Two Cuban musician brothers in 1950s New York; the first Hispanic winner.
2. **Rabbit at Rest — John Updike** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 1991. The last Rabbit novel; Updike's second Pulitzer.
3. **A Thousand Acres — Jane Smiley** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 1992. King Lear on an Iowa farm.
4. **The Shipping News — Annie Proulx** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 1994. A widower starts again in Newfoundland.
5. **The Stone Diaries — Carol Shields** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1995. The life of an ordinary woman across the 20th century.
6. **Martin Dressler — Steven Millhauser** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1997. A dreamer builds ever grander hotels in old New York.
7. **Independence Day — Richard Ford** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1996. Frank Bascombe over a Fourth of July weekend.
8. **A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain — Robert Olen Butler** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1993. Stories of Vietnamese immigrants in Louisiana.
9. **American Pastoral — Philip Roth** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1998. Swede Levov and a bombing in the 1960s.
10. **The Hours — Michael Cunningham** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1999. Three women and Mrs Dalloway.

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