PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winners: Complete List by Year

46 winning results from 1981 to 2026, plus 185 recorded shortlist and finalist results. Explore the chronological list and follow the links to authors, available book guides and other winners from the same year.

Country: United States
Founded: 1981
Frequency: Annual
Prize: $15,000
Official website: Visit site

A peer-juried award for fiction in the United States.

Winners by year

Year	Book / recipient	Award	Result
2026	Small Scale Sinners Mahreen Sohail	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2025	Small Rain Garth Greenwell	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2024	What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez Claire Jiménez	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2023	The Book of Goose Yiyun Li	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2022	The Wrong End of the Telescope Rabih Alameddine	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2021	The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2020	Sea Monsters Chloe Aridjis	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2019	Call Me Zebra Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2018	Improvement Joan Silber	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2017	Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2016	Delicious Foods James Hannaham	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2015	Preparation for the Next Life Atticus Lish	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2014	We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2013	Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club Benjamin Alire Sáenz	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2012	The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2011	The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg Deborah Eisenberg	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2010	War Dances Sherman Alexie	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2009	Netherland Joseph O'Neill	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2008	The Great Man Kate Christensen	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2007	Everyman Philip Roth	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2006	The March E. L. Doctorow	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2005	War Trash Ha Jin	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2004	The Early Stories: 1953-1975 John Updike	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2003	The Caprices Sabina Murray	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2002	Bel Canto Ann Patchett	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2001	The Human Stain Philip Roth	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
2000	Waiting Ha Jin	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1999	The Hours Michael Cunningham	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1998	The Bear Comes Home Rafi Zabor	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1997	Women in Their Beds Gina Berriault	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1996	Independence Day Richard Ford	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1995	Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1994	Operation Shylock Philip Roth	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1993	Postcards E. Annie Proulx	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1992	Mao II Don DeLillo	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1991	Philadelphia Fire John Edgar Wideman	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1990	Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1989	Dusk and Other Stories James Salter	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1988	World's End T. C. Boyle	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1987	Soldiers in Hiding Richard Wiley	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1986	The Old Forest and Other Stories Peter Taylor	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1985	The Barracks Thief Tobias Wolff	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1984	Sent for You Yesterday John Edgar Wideman	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1983	Seaview Toby Olson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1982	The Chaneysville Incident David Bradley	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource
1981	How German Is It Walter Abish	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	winnerSource

Shortlists and finalists

These books reached a shortlist or final round. They are not counted as winners. Coverage depends on the published historical record.

Year	Book / recipient	Award	Result
2026	Dominion Addie E. Citchens	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2026	The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2026	Heart the Lover Lily King	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2026	The White Hot Quiara Alegría Hudes	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2025	Colored Television Danzy Senna	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2025	Ghostroots Pemi Aguda	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2025	James Percival Everett	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2025	Behind You Is the Sea Susan Muaddi Darraj	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2024	Absolution Alice McDermott	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2024	Users Colin Winnette	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2024	Open Throat Henry Hoke	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2024	Witness Jamel Brinkley	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2023	The Islands Dionne Irving	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2023	If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2023	Fruiting Bodies: Stories Kathryn Harlan	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2023	Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm Laura Warrell	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2022	The President and the Frog Carolina de Robertis	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2022	Dear Miss Metropolitan Carolyn Ferrell	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2022	How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2022	Radiant Fugitives Nawaaz Ahmed	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2021	Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear Matthew Salesses	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2021	Mother Daughter Widow Wife Robin Wasserman	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2021	The Knockout Queen Rufi Thorpe	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2021	Scattered Lights Steve Wiegenstein	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2020	We Cast a Shadow Maurice Carlos Ruffin	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2020	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2020	The Night Swimmers Peter Rock	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2020	Where Reasons End Yiyun Li	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2019	Tomb of the Unknown Racist Blanche McCrary Boyd	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2019	Love War Stories Ivelisse Rodriguez	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2019	The Overstory Richard Powers	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2019	Don't Skip Out on Me Willy Vlautin	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2018	The Tower of the Antilles Achy Obejas	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2018	In the Distance Hernán Diaz	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2018	Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2018	The Dark Dark Samantha Hunt	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2017	What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2017	LaRose Louise Erdrich	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2017	Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist Sunil Yapa	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2017	After Disasters Viet Dinh	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2016	Mendocino Fire: Stories Elizabeth Tallent	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2016	Mr. and Mrs. Doctor Julie Iromuanya	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2016	The Water Museum: Stories Luis Alberto Urrea	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2016	The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2015	Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2015	Song of the Shank Jeffrey Renard Allen	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2015	Prayers for the Stolen Jennifer Clement	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2015	Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2014	At Night We Walk in Circles Daniel Alarcón	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2014	Fools Joan Silber	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2014	Percival Everett by Virgil Russell Percival Everett	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2014	Search Party: Stories of Rescue Valerie Trueblood	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2013	THREATS Amelia Gray	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2013	Kind One Laird Hunt	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2013	Hold It 'Til It Hurts T. Geronimo Johnson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2013	Watergate Thomas Mallon	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2012	The Artist of Disappearance Anita Desai	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2012	The Angel Esmeralda Don DeLillo	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2012	Lost Memory of Skin Russell Banks	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2012	We Others: New and Selected Stories Steven Millhauser	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2011	Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Stories Brad Watson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2011	Model Home Eric Puchner	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2011	Lord of Misrule Jaimy Gordon	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2011	A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2010	The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2010	Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2010	Homicide Survivors Picnic Lorraine Lopéz	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2010	A Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2009	Lush Life Richard Price	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2009	Serena Ron Rash	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2009	Ms. Hempel Chronicles Sarah Shun-lien Bynum	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2009	A Person of Interest Susan Choi	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2008	The Maytrees Annie Dillard	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2008	The Indian Clerk David Leavitt	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2008	Chemistry and Other Stories Ron Rash	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2008	The Gateway T. M. McNally	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2007	The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2007	The Dead Fish Museum Charles D'Ambrosio	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2007	Twilight of the Superheroes Deborah Eisenberg	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2007	All Aunt Hagar's Children Edward P. Jones	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2006	The Chrysanthemum Palace Bruce Wagner	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2006	Last Night James Salter	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2006	A Sudden Country Karen Fisher	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2006	I Got Somebody in Staunton William Henry Lewis	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2005	The Dew Breaker Edwidge Danticat	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2005	The Green Lantern Jerome Charyn	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2005	Gilead Marilynne Robinson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2005	Prisoners of War Steve Yarbrough	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2004	A Distant Shore Caryl Phillips	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2004	Elroy Nights Frederick Barthelme	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2004	Old School Tobias Wolff	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2004	Drinking Coffee Elsewhere ZZ Packer	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2003	Little Casino Gilbert Sorrentino	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2003	The City of Your Final Destination Peter Cameron	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2003	The Ecstatic Victor LaValle	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2003	Roscoe William Kennedy	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2002	The Hunters Claire Messud	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2002	The Corrections Jonathan Franzen	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2002	Sister Noon Karen Joy Fowler	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2002	The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2001	The Name of the World Denis Johnson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2001	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2001	Harry Gold Millicent Dillon	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2001	Off Keck Road Mona Simpson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2000	Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2000	The Night Inspector Frederick Busch	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2000	Pu-239 And Other Russian Fantasies Ken Kalfus	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2000	Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man Lily Tuck	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1999	The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1999	Starting Out in the Evening Brian Morton	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1999	The Doctor Stories Richard Selzer	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1999	Cloudsplitter Russell Banks	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1998	The Hundred Brothers Donald Antrim	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1998	The Ordinary Seaman Francisco Goldman	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1998	Because They Wanted To Mary Gaitskill	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1998	The Mercy Seat Rilla Askew	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1997	St. Burl's Obituary Daniel Akst	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1997	The Autobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1997	The Book of Mercy Kathleen Cambor	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1997	Atticus Ron Hansen	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1996	The Good Negress A. J. Verdelle	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1996	When The World Was Steady Claire Messud	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1996	All Souls' Rising Madison Smartt Bell	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1996	The Tunnel William H. Gass	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1995	The Children in the Woods Frederick Busch	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1995	Various Antidotes Joanna Scott	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1995	What I Lived For Joyce Carol Oates	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1995	Stones from the River Ursula Hegi	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1994	The Magic of Blood Dagoberto Gilb	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1994	Bone Fae Myenne Ng	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1994	Not Where I Started From Kate Wheeler	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1994	Van Gogh's Room at Arles Stanley Elkin	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1993	The Long Night of White Chickens Francisco Goldman	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1993	Natural History Maureen Howard	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1993	A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1992	White People Allan Gurganus	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1992	Extraordinary People Paul Gervais	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1992	Frog Stephen Dixon	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1991	Arrogance Joanna Scott	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1991	A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier Joanne Meschery	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1991	The Music of Chance Paul Auster	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1991	The Barnum Museum Steven Millhauser	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1990	On the Island: New and Selected Stories Josephine Jacobsen	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1990	Leaving Brooklyn Lynne Sharon Schwartz	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1990	The Jump-Off Creek Molly Gloss	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1990	Affliction Russell Banks	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1989	The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1989	Vanished Mary McGarry Morris	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1989	The Corner of Rife and Pacific Thomas Savage	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1988	That Night Alice McDermott	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1988	The Messiah of Stockholm Cynthia Ozick	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1988	Imagining Argentina Lawrence Thornton	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1988	Spirits, And Other Stories Richard Bausch	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1987	The Sorcerer's Apprentice Charles R. Johnson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1987	Collaborators Janet Kauffman	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1987	Expensive Habits Maureen Howard	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1987	The Sportswriter Richard Ford	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1986	Later the Same Day Grace Paley	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1986	The Christmas Wife: Stories Helen Norris	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1986	The Tree of Life Hugh Nissenson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1986	Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1986	Carpenter's Gothic William Gaddis	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1985	Family Dancing David Leavitt	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1985	The Dixie Association Donald Hays	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1985	Stones for Ibarra Harriet Doerr	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1985	On Glory's Course James Purdy	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1984	The Stories Bernard Malamud	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1984	The Cannibal Galaxy Cynthia Ozick	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1984	At the Bottom of the River Jamaica Kincaid	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1984	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Ron Hansen	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1984	Ironweed William Kennedy	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1983	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1983	Shiloh and Other Stories Bobbie Ann Mason	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1983	The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. George Steiner	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1983	Grace Abounding Maureen Howard	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1983	Birthplace William S. Wilson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1982	Sixty Stories Donald Barthelme	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1982	Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1982	Ellis Island and Other Stories Mark Helprin	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1982	Take Me Back Richard Bausch	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1982	A Flag for Sunrise Robert Stone	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1981	Aberration of Starlight Gilbert Sorrentino	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1981	A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1981	The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1981	The Second Coming Walker Percy	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	shortlistedSource

Sources and coverage

Records retrieved 2026-09-18. Every winning year in the 1981–2026 coverage period is represented, allowing for the exceptions below. This completeness check covers years, not an independently verified count of every finalist. Each row links to its source.

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