Count so far: 10 of 56

• 1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
• 1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
• 1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
• 1951 The Town by Conrad Richter
• 1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
• 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• 1954 no award given
• 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner
• 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
• 1957 no award given
• 1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee
• 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
• 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
• 1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
• 1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner
• 1964 no award given
• 1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau
• 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
• 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• 1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
• 1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
• 1971 no award given
• 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• 1973 The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty
• 1974 no award given
• 1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• 1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
• 1977 no award given
• 1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
• 1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• 1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
• 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole
• 1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
• 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy
• 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
• 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• 1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
• 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison
• 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
• 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
• 1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
• 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
• 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
• 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford
• 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
• 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• 2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks
• 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• 2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabth Strout
• 2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding
• 2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• 2012 no award given