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Inclusion Guides

2026

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2025

"James"
by Percival Everett

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2024

"Night Watch"
by Jayne Anne Phillips

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2023

"Demon Copperhead"
by Barbara Kingsolver

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2023

"Trust"
by Hernan Diaz

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2022

"The Netanyahus"
by Joshua Cohen

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2021

"The Night Watchman"
by Louise Erdrich

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2020

"The Nickel Boys"
by Coleson Whitehead

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2019

"The Overstory"
by Richard Powers

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2018

"Less"
by Andrew Sean Greer

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2017

"The Underground Railroad"
by Coleson Whitehead

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2016

"The Sympathizer"
by Thanh Nguyen

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2015

"All the Light We Cannot See"
by Anthony Doerr

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2014

"The Goldfinch"
by Donna Tartt

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2013

"The Orphan Master's Son"
by Adam Johnson

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2012

No Pulitzer Fiction Award 2012

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2011

"A Visit from the Goon Squad"
by Jennifer Egan

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2010

"Tinkers"
by Paul Harding

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2009

"Olive Kitteridge"
by Elizabeth Strout

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2008

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
by Junot Diaz

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2007

"The Road"
by Cormac McCarthy

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2006

"March"
by Geraldine Brooks

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2005

"Gilead"
by Marilynne Robinson

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2004

"The Known World"
by Edward P. Jones

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2003

"Middlesex"
by Jeffrey Eugenides

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2002

"Empire Falls"
by Richard Russo

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2001

"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"
by Michael Chabon

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2000

"Interpreter of Maladies"
by Jhumpa Lahiri

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1999

"The Hours"
by Michael Cunningham

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1998

"American Pastoral"
by Philip Roth

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1997

"Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer"
by Steven Millhauser

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1996

"Independence Day"
by Richard Ford

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1995

"The Stone Diaries"
by Carol Shields

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1994

"The Shipping News"
by E. Annie Proulx

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1993

"A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain"
by Robert Olen Butler

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1992

"A Thousand Acres"
by Jane Smiley

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1991

"Rabbit At Rest"
by John Updike

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1990

"The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love"
by Oscar Hijuelos

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1989

"Breathing Lessons"
by Anne Tyler

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1988

"Beloved"
by Toni Morrison

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1987

"A Summons to Memphis"
by Peter Taylor

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1986

"Lonesome Dove"
by Larry McMurtry

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1985

"Foreign Affairs"
by Alison Lurie

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1984

"Ironweed"
by William Kennedy

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1983

"The Color Purple"
by Alice Walker

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1982

"Rabbit Is Rich"
by John Updike

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1981

"A Confederacy of Dunces"
by John Kennedy Toole

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1980

"Executioner's Song"
by Norman Mailer

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1979

"The Stories of John Cheever"
by John Cheever

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1978

"Elbow Room"
by James Alan McPherson

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1977

No Pulitzer Fiction Award 1977

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1976

"Humboldt's Gift"
by Saul Bellow

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1975

"The Killer Angels"
by Michael Shaara

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1974

No Pulitzer Fiction Award 1974

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1973

"The Optimist's Daughter"
by Eudora Welty

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1972

"Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner

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1971

No Pulitzer Fiction Award 1971

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1970

"Collected Stories"
by Jean Stafford

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1969

"House Made of Dawn"
by N. Scott Momaday

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1968

"The Confessions of Nat Turner"
by William Styron

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1967

"The Fixer"
by Bernard Malamud

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1966

"The Collected Stories of Katherine Ann Porter"
by Katherine Anne Porter

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1965

“The Keepers of the House”
by Shirley Grau.

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1964

No Pulitzer Fiction Award 1964

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1963

"The Reivers"
by William Faulkner

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1962

"The Edge of Sadness"
by Edwin O'Connor

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1961

"To Kill A Mockingbird"
by Harper Lee

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1960

"Advise and Consent" by Allen Drury

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1959

"The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters"
by Robert Lewis Taylor

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1958

"A Death In The Family"
by James Agee

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1957

No Pulitzer Fiction Award 1957

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1956

"Andersonville"
by MacKinlay Kantor

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1955

"A Fable"
by William Faulkner

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1954

No Pulitzer Fiction Award 1954

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1953

"The Old Man and the Sea"
by Ernest Hemingway

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1952

"The Caine Mutiny"
by Herman Wouk

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1951

"The Town"
by Conrad Richter

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1950

"The Way West"
by A. B. Guthrie

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1949

"Guard of Honor"
by James Gould Cozzens

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1948

"Tales of the South Pacific"
by James A. Michener

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1947

"All the King's Men"
by Robert Penn Warren

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1946

No Pulitzer Novel Award 1946

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1945

"A Bell for Adano"
by John Hersey

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1944

"Journey in the Dark"
by Martin Flavin

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1943

"Dragon's Teeth"
by Upton Sinclair

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1942

"In This Our Life"
by Ellen Glasgow

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1941

No Pulitzer Novel Award 1940

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1940

"The Grapes of Wrath"
by John Steinbeck

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1939

"The Yearling"
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawling

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1938

"The Late George Apley"
by John Phillips Marquand

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1937

"Gone with the Wind"
by Margaret Mitchell

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1936

"Honey in the Horn"
by Harold L. Davis

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1935

"Now in November"
by Josephine Winslow Johnson

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1934

"Lamb in His Bosom"
by Caroline Miller

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1933

"The Store"
by T.S. Stribling

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1932

"The Good Earth"
by Pearl Buck

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1931

"Years of Grace"
by Margaret Barnes

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1930

"Laughing Boy"
by Oliver LaFarge

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1929

"Scarlet Sister Mary"
by Julia Peterkin

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1928

"The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
by Thorton Wilder

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1927

"Early Autumn"
by Louis Bromfield

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1926

"Arrowsmith"
by Sinclair Lewis

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1925

"So Big"
by Edna Farber

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1924

"The Able McLaughlins"
by Margaret Wilson

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1923

"One of Ours"
by Willa Cather

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1922

"Alice Adams"
by Booth Tarkington

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1921

"The Age of Innocence"
by Edith Wharton

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1920

No Pulitzer Novel Award 1920

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1919

"The Magnificent Ambersons"
by Booth Tarkington

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1918

"His Family"
by Ernst Poole

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