Novel
Finalists have been announced since 1980.
The Novel category was re-named Fiction in 1947.
Winners
1947 All the King's Men by
Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
1945 A Bell for Adano by
John Hersey (Knopf)
1944 Journey in the Dark by
Martin Flavin (Harper)
1943 Dragon's Teeth by
Upton Sinclair (Viking)
1942 In This Our Life by
Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by
John Steinbeck (Viking)
1939 The Yearling by
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1938 The Late George Apley by
John Phillips Marquand (Little)
1937 Gone With the Wind by
Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1936 Honey in the Horn by
Harold L. Davis (Harper)
1935 Now in November by
Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1934 Lamb in His Bosom by
Caroline Miller (Harper)
1933 The Store by
T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)
1932 The Good Earth by
Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1931 Years of Grace by
Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)
1930 Laughing Boy by
Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by
Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by
Thornton Wilder (Boni)
1927 Early Autumn by
Louis Bromfield (Stokes)
1926 Arrowsmith by
Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)
1925 So Big by
Edna Ferber (Doubleday)
1924 The Able McLaughlins by
Margaret Wilson (Harper)
1923 One of Ours by
Willa Cather (Knopf)
1922 Alice Adams by
Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1921 The Age of Innocence by
Edith Wharton (Appleton)
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by
Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1918 His Family by
Ernest Poole (Macmillan)