Novel

The Novel category was re-named Fiction in 1947.

Year

Winners

Finalists

1947

1947

All the King's Men , by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

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1945

1945

A Bell for Adano , by John Hersey (Knopf)

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1944

1944

Journey in the Dark , by Martin Flavin (Harper)

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1943

1943

Dragon's Teeth , by Upton Sinclair (Viking)

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1942

1942

In This Our Life , by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)

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1940

1940

The Grapes of Wrath , by John Steinbeck (Viking)

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1939

1939

The Yearling , by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

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1938

1938

The Late George Apley , by John Phillips Marquand (Little)

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1937

1937

Gone With the Wind , by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

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1936

1936

Honey in the Horn , by Harold L. Davis (Harper)

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1935

1935

Now in November , by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

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1934

1934

Lamb in His Bosom , by Caroline Miller (Harper)

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1933

1933

The Store , by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)

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1932

1932

The Good Earth , by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

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1931

1931

Years of Grace , by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)

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1930

1930

Laughing Boy, by Oliver La Farge (Houghton)

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1929

1929

Scarlet Sister Mary , by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)

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1928

1928

The Bridge of San Luis Rey , by Thornton Wilder (Boni)

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1927

1927

Early Autumn , by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)

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1926

1926

Arrowsmith , by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)

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1925

1925

So Big , by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)

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1924

1924

The Able McLaughlins , by Margaret Wilson (Harper)

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1923

1923

One of Ours , by Willa Cather (Knopf)

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1922

1922

Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

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1921

1921

The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

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1919

1919

The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

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1918

1918

His Family, by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

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