PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1981-2007)

Founded in 1980, this award is given to the author of the year's best work of American fiction, as judged by a panel of fellow fiction writers.

Click on the title to read a short summary of the book, and to place a hold.

The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Everyman by Philip Roth (2007)

The March by E. L. Doctorow (2006)

War Trash by Ha Jin (2005)

The Early Stories by John Updike (2004)

The Caprices by Sabina Murray (2003)

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2002)

The Human Stain by Philip Roth (2001)

Waiting by Ha Jin (2000)

The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999)

The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor (1998)

Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault (1997)

Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996)

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1995)

Operation Shylock by Philip Roth (1994)

Postcards by E. Annie Proulx (1993)

Mao II by Don DeLillo (1992)

Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman (1991)

Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow (1990)

Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter (1989)

World's End by T.C. Boyle (1988)

Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley (1987)

The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor (1986)

The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolfe (1985)

Sent For You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman (1984)

Seaview by Toby Olson (1983)

The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley (1982)

How German Is It? by Walter Abish (1981)