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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Statistics
General Stats
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This quiz has been taken 284 times
203 since last reset
- The average score is 21 of 94
Answer Stats
| Year | Author | Book | % Correct |
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| 1961 | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | 78%
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| 1988 | Toni Morrison | Beloved | 73%
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| 2007 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road | 66%
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| 1983 | Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 62%
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| 2014 | Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch | 59%
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| 1940 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | 54%
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| 1937 | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | 52%
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| 2003 | Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex | 52%
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| 1953 | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | 52%
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| 2017 | Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | 52%
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| 2015 | Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See | 47%
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| 2020 | Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys | 46%
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| 1932 | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth | 45%
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| 1998 | Philip Roth | American Pastoral | 42%
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| 2016 | Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Sympathizer | 42%
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| 2019 | Richard Powers | The Overstory | 41%
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| 1994 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | 40%
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| 1991 | John Updike | Rabbit at Rest | 39%
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| 1981 | John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces | 38%
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| 2011 | Jennifer Egan | A Visit from the Goon Squad | 36%
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| 1921 | Edith Wharton | The Age of Innocence | 35%
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| 2018 | Andrew Sean Greer | Less | 34%
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| 1986 | Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove | 34%
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| 2021 | Louise Erdrich | The Night Watchman | 34%
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| 1947 | Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men | 33%
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| 2000 | Jhumpa Lahiri | Interpreter of Maladies | 33%
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| 2005 | Marilynne Robinson | Gilead | 32%
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| 2002 | Richard Russo | Empire Falls | 31%
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| 2009 | Elizabeth Strout | Olive Kitteridge | 29%
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| 1999 | Michael Cunningham | The Hours | 29%
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| 2006 | Geraldine Brooks | March | 28%
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| 1982 | John Updike | Rabbit Is Rich | 28%
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| 2001 | Michael Chabon | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | 26%
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| 1992 | Jane Smiley | A Thousand Acres | 25%
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| 2008 | Junot Díaz | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | 25%
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| 1975 | Michael Shaara | The Killer Angels | 21%
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| 1919 | Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons | 21%
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| 2013 | Adam Johnson | The Orphan Master's Son | 21%
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| 2010 | Paul Harding | Tinkers | 21%
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| 1926 | Sinclair Lewis | Arrowsmith | 20%
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| 1928 | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | 20%
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| 1995 | Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries | 20%
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| 1980 | Norman Mailer | The Executioner's Song | 19%
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| 2004 | Edward P. Jones | The Known World | 19%
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| 1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable | 18%
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| 1943 | Upton Sinclair | Dragon's Teeth | 18%
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| 1952 | Herman Wouk | The Caine Mutiny | 18%
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| 1967 | Bernard Malamud | The Fixer | 18%
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| 1996 | Richard Ford | Independence Day | 16%
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| 1990 | Oscar Hijuelos | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | 16%
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| 1972 | Wallace Stegner | Angle of Repose | 14%
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| 1958 | James Agee | A Death in the Family | 13%
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| 1948 | James A. Michener | Tales of the South Pacific | 13%
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| 1968 | William Styron | The Confessions of Nat Turner | 13%
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| 1963 | William Faulkner | The Reivers | 13%
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| 1939 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling | 13%
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| 1922 | Booth Tarkington | Alice Adams | 12%
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| 1969 | N. Scott Momaday | House Made of Dawn | 12%
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| 1976 | Saul Bellow | Humboldt's Gift | 12%
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| 1925 | Edna Ferber | So Big | 12%
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| 1989 | Anne Tyler | Breathing Lessons | 11%
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| 1973 | Eudora Welty | The Optimist's Daughter | 11%
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| 1945 | John Hersey | A Bell for Adano | 9%
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| 1993 | Robert Olen Butler | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | 9%
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| 1918 | Ernest Poole | His Family | 9%
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| 1960 | Allen Drury | Advise and Consent | 8%
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| 1984 | William Kennedy | Ironweed | 8%
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| 1956 | MacKinlay Kantor | Andersonville | 7%
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| 1985 | Alison Lurie | Foreign Affairs | 7%
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| 1970 | Jean Stafford | The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford | 7%
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| 1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | 7%
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| 1979 | John Cheever | The Stories of John Cheever | 7%
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| 1987 | Peter Taylor | A Summons to Memphis | 6%
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| 1978 | James Alan McPherson | Elbow Room | 6%
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| 1949 | James Gould Cozzens | Guard of Honor | 6%
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| 1936 | Harold L. Davis | Honey in the Horn | 6%
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| 1951 | Conrad Richter | The Town | 6%
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| 1950 | A.B. Guthrie, Jr. | The Way West | 6%
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| 1934 | Caroline Miller | Lamb in His Bosom | 5%
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| 1930 | Oliver La Farge | Laughing Boy | 5%
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| 1923 | Willa Cather | One of Ours | 5%
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| 1929 | Julia Peterkin | Scarlet Sister Mary | 5%
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| 1924 | Margaret Wilson | The Able McLaughlins | 5%
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| 1962 | Edwin O'Connor | The Edge of Sadness | 5%
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| 1965 | Shirley Ann Grau | The Keepers of the House | 5%
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| 1933 | Thomas Sigismund Stribling | The Store | 5%
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| 1927 | Louis Bromfield | Early Autumn | 4%
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| 1942 | Ellen Glasgow | In This Our Life | 4%
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| 1944 | Martin Flavin | Journey in the Dark | 4%
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| 1997 | Steven Millhauser | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer | 4%
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| 1935 | Josephine Winslow Johnson | Now in November | 4%
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| 1938 | John Phillips Marquand | The Late George Apley | 4%
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| 1959 | Robert Lewis Taylor | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | 4%
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| 1931 | Margaret Ayer Barnes | Years of Grace | 4%
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