PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners and finalists

Each year, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction honors the year's best published works of fiction by American citizens. The following list identifies winners in bold.

2010s

2014

Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (winner)

Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles (finalist)

Percival Everett, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell (finalist)

Joan Silber, Fools (finalist)

Valerie Trueblood, Search Party: Stories of Rescue (finalist)

2013

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club (winner)

Amelia Gray, Threats (finalist)

Laird Hunt, Kind One (finalist)

T. Geronimo Johnson, Hold It 'Til It Hurts (finalist)

Thomas Mallon, Watergate (finalist)

2012

Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (winner)

Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin (finalist)

Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmerelda: Nine Stories (finalist)

Anita Desai, The Artist of Disappearance (finalist)

Steven Millhauser, We Others: New and Selected Stories (finalist)

2011

Deborah Eisenberg, The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (winner)

Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Good Squad (finalist)

Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule (finalist)

Eric Puchner, Model Home (finalist)

Brad Watson, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (finalist)

2010

Sherman Alexie, War Dances (winner)

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (finalist)

Lorraine Lopéz, Homicide Survivors Picnic (finalist)

Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs (finalist)

Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor (finalist)

2000s

2009 Joseph O'Neill, Netherland (winner)

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Ms. Hempel Chronicles (finalist)

Susan Choi, A Person of Interest (finalist)

Richard Price, Lush Life (finalist)

Ron Rash, Serena (finalist)

2008

Kate Christensen, The Great Man (winner)

Annie Dillard, The Maytrees (finalist)

David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk (finalist)

T.M. McNally, The Gateway: Stories (finalist)

Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories (finalist)

2007

Philip Roth, Everyman (winner)

Charles D'Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum (finalist)

Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes (finalist)

Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (finalist)

Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar's Children (finalist)

2006

E.L. Doctorow, The March (winner)

Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country (finalist)

William Henry Lewis, I Got Somebody in Staunton (finalist)

James Salter, Last Night (finalist)

Bruce Wagner, The Chrysanthemum Place (finalist)

2005

Ha Jin, War Trash (winner)

Jerome Charyn, The Green Lantern (finalist)

Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (finalist)

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (finalist)

Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War (finalist)

2004

John Updike, The Early Stories 1953-1975 (winner)

Frederick Barthelme, Elroy Nights (finalist)

ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (finalist)

Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore (finalist)

Tobias Wolff, Old School (finalist)

2003

Sabina Murray, The Caprices (winner)

Peter Cameron, The City of Your Final Destination (finalist)

William Kennedy, Roscoe (finalist)

Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic (finalist)

Gilbert Sorrentino, Little Casino (finalist)

2002

Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (winner)

Karen Joy Fowler, Sister Noon (finalist)

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (finalist)

Claire Messud, The Hunters (finalist)

Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu (finalist)

2001

Philip Roth, The Human Stain (winner)

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (finalist)

Millicent Dillon, Harry Gold (finalist)

Denis Johnson, The Name of the World (finalist)

Mona Simpson, Off Keck Road (finalist)

2000

Ha Jin, Waiting (winner)

Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector (finalist)

Ken Kalfus, Pu-239 And Other Russian Fantasies (finalist)

Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle (finalist)

Lily Tuck, Siam, or the Woman or Shot a Man (finalist)

1990s

1999

Michael Cunningham, The Hours (winner)

Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter (finalist)

Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible (finalist)

Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening (finalist)

Richard Selzer, The Doctor Stories (finalist)

1998

Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home (winner)

Donald Antrim, The Hundred Brothers (finalist)

Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat' (finalist)

Mary Gaitskill, Because They Wanted To (finalist)

Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman (finalist)

1997

Gina Barriault, Women in Their Beds (winner)

Daniel Akst, St. Burl's Obiturary (finalist)

Kathleen Cambor, The Book of Mercy (finalist)

Ron Hansen, Atticus (finalist)

Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother (finalist)

1996

Richard Ford, Independence Day (winner)

Madison Smart Bell, All Souls' Rising (finalist)

William Gass, The Tunnel (finalist)

Claire Messud, When the World Was Steady (finalist)

A.J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (finalist)

1995

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars (winner)

Frederich Busch, The Children in the Woods (finalist)

Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River (finalist)

Joyce Carol Oates, What I Lived For (finalist)

Joanna Scott, Various Antidotes (finalist)

1994

• Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
  • Stanley Elkin, Van Gogh's Room at Arles
  • Dagoberto Gilb, The Magic of Blood
  • Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
  • Kate Wheeler, Not Where I Started From

1993

• E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
  • Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
  • Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens
  • Maureen Howard, Natural History
  • Sylvia Watanabe, Talking to the Dead

1992

• Don DeLillo, Mao II
  • Stephen Dixon, Frog
  • Paul Gervais, Extraordinary People
  • Allan Gurganus, White People
  • Bradford Morrow, The Almanac Branch

1991

• John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
  • Paul Auster, The Music of Chance
  • Joanne Meschery, A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier
  • Steven Millhauser, The Barnum Museum
  • Joanna Scott, Arrogance

1990

• E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
  • Russell Banks, Affliction
  • Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek
  • Josephine Jacobsen, On the Island
  • Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Leaving Brooklyn

1980s

1989

• James Salter, Dusk
  • Mary McGarry Morris, Vanished
  • Thomas Savage, The Corner of Rife and Pacific
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Death of Methuselah

1988

• T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
  • Richard Bausch, Spirits
  • Alice McDermott, That Night
  • Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm
  • Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina

1987

• Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
  • Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
  • Charles Johnson, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Janet Kauffman, Collaborators
  • Maureen Howard, Expensive Habits

1986

• Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories
  • William Gaddis, Carpenter's Gothic
  • Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
  • Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life
  • Helen Norris, The Christmas Wife
  • Grace Paley, Later the Same Day

1985

• Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
  • Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
  • Donald Hayes, The Dixie Association
  • David Leavitt, Family Dancing
  • James Purdy, On Glory's Courses

1984

• John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
  • Ron Hansen, The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • William Kennedy, Ironweed
  • Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River
  • Bernard Malamud, The Stories

1983

• Toby Olson, Seaview
  • Maureen Howard, Grace Abounding
  • Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
  • George Steiner, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
  • Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  • William S. Wilson, Birthplace

1982

• David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident
  • Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
  • Richard Bausch, Take Me Back
  • Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and Other Stories
  • Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
  • Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise

1981

• Walter Abish, How German Is It?
  • Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
  • Walker Percy, The Second Coming
  • Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of Starlight
  • John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces