The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners of the 1990s
The top 3 according to 45 votes from people: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love — Oscar Hijuelos · Rabbit at Rest — John Updike · A Thousand Acres — Jane Smiley. (Updated Mar 22, 2023.)
The ten books awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction from 1990 to 1999.
Top 10
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1
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love — Oscar Hijuelos
1990. Two Cuban musician brothers in 1950s New York; the first Hispanic winner.
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2
Rabbit at Rest — John Updike
1991. The last Rabbit novel; Updike's second Pulitzer.
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3
A Thousand Acres — Jane Smiley
1992. King Lear on an Iowa farm.
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4
The Shipping News — Annie Proulx
1994. A widower starts again in Newfoundland.
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5
The Stone Diaries — Carol Shields
1995. The life of an ordinary woman across the 20th century.
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6
Martin Dressler — Steven Millhauser
1997. A dreamer builds ever grander hotels in old New York.
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7
Independence Day — Richard Ford
1996. Frank Bascombe over a Fourth of July weekend.
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8
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain — Robert Olen Butler
1993. Stories of Vietnamese immigrants in Louisiana.
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9
American Pastoral — Philip Roth
1998. Swede Levov and a bombing in the 1960s.
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10
The Hours — Michael Cunningham
1999. Three women and Mrs Dalloway.
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 (8)
Great decade for American fiction.
The Stone Diaries is so underrated.
American Pastoral, Roth at his peak.
Rabbit at Rest, finishing the Rabbit saga.
The Hours, beautiful homage to Mrs Dalloway.
The Shipping News, I can still feel the cold of Newfoundland.
Independence Day, Richard Ford's best.
A Thousand Acres, King Lear in Iowa.