Prize-Winning Books Online

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PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS ONLINE

In this exhibit, you can read online the complete text of books that have won major literary prizes, like the Newbery Award, the Nobel Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. The books listed below are either out of copyright (at least in the US), or are online with the permission of the copyright holder.

Books listed without a link are not online at this time, but can go online if someone digitizes them. Please let us know of any free online copies of any of the unlinked books here. Please also inform us of any bad links.

Newbery Award

The Newbery award for outstanding children's books by Americans was established in 1922. Each year a medal is given to a book published the previous year. In most years, Honor Books are designated as well. More information, including information on recent winners, can be found at the official Newbery Medal Home Page.

1922
- Medalist: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Van Loon
- Honor book: Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Marshall
- Honor book: The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
- Honor book: The Great Quest by Charles Boardman Hawes
- Honor book: The Old Tobacco Shop by William Bowen
- Honor book: The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs
1923
- Medalist: The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
- (No record of honor books in 1923)
1924
- Medalist: The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
- (No record of honor books in 1924)

Due to copyright restrictions, we cannot yet be complete for subsequent years of the Newbery awards. The following later Newbery awardees are online, or appear to be eligible to go online in the US:

A 1925 Honor book: The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
A 1926 Honor book: The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum
A 1929 Honor book: Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney
A 1930 Honor book: Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
A 1931 Honor book: Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Danforth Hewes
A 1934 Honor book: Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
A 1934 Honor book: New Land by Sarah Schmidt
A 1935 Honor book: Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda von Stockum
A 1940 Honor book: Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Louise Robinson
A 1947 Honor book: The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
A 1948 Honor book: The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
A 1949 Honor book: My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
A 1950 Honor book: The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
A 1952 Honor book: The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
1964 Medalist: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville

Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to an author from any country who has produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency", was established in 1901. The prize is given to an author, and does not usually cite individual books. Online and other public-domain books by winning authors are listed below. For more information on the Nobel Prize, including information on recent winners, see the official Nobel Prize web site. (That site provided information on many of the titles listed below.)

1901: Sully Prudhomme (France, 1839-1907)
- Stances et Poèmes (1865-6)
- Corquis Italiens (1866-68)
- Les Solitudes (1869)
- Impressions de la Guerre (1870)
- Les Destins (1872)
- La Révolte des Fleurs (1872)
- La France (1874)
- Les Vaines Tendresses (1875)
- La Justice (1878)
- Le Bonheur (1888)
- La Vraie Religion Selon Pascal (1905)
- Les Epaves (1908)
1902: Chrisian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (Germany, 1817-1903) : English language books online
- Römische Geschichte (1854-1903)
  - Book 1: Bis zur Abschaffung des Roemischen Koenigtums (orig. 1854-5)
    - Translated by William P. Dickson as The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy
  - Book 2: Von der Abschaffung des roemischen Koenigtums bis zur Einigung Italiens (orig. 1854-5)
    - Translated by William P. Dickson as From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy
  - Book 3: Von der Einigung Italiens bis auf die Unterwerfung Karthagos und der Griechischen Staaten (orig. 1854-5)
    - Translated by William P. Dickson as From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States
  - Book 4: Die Revolution (orig. 1854-5)
    - Translated by William P. Dickson as The Revolution
  - Book 5: Die Begruendung der Militaermonarchie (orig. 1854-5)
    - Translated by William P. Dickson as The Establishment of the Military Monarchy
  - Books 6 and 7 were not completed in Mommsen's lifetime. Versions edited from his lecture notes were first published in German in 1989 and in English in 1996. We do not know of any free online editions of these books.
  - Book 8: Laender und Leute von Caesar bis Diocletian (1885)
    - Translated by William P. Dickson and separately published as The Provinces of the Roman Empire From Caesar to Diocletian (1909)
1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway, 1832-1910) : English language books online
- En Glad Gut (1860)
  - Translated as A Happy Boy
- De Nygifte (1865)
  - Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The Newly Married Couple in Three Comedies
- Digte og Sange (orig. 1870)
  - Translated by Arthur Hubbell Palmer as Poems and Songs
- En Fallit (1875)
  - Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The Bankrupt in Three Dramas
- Redaktøren (1875)
  - Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The Editor in Three Dramas
- Kongen (1877)
  - Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The King in Three Dramas
- Leonarda (1879)
  - Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp in Three Comedies
- En Haske (1883)
  - Translated by Osman Edwards as A Gauntlet in Three Comedies
- Det flager i byen og på havnen (1884)
- På Guds Veie (1889)
- Absalons Haar (1894)
  - Translated as Absalom's Hair
- Over Oevne, Annet Stykke (1895)
- Paul Lange og Tora Parsberg (1899)
- Nar den ny vin blomstrer (1909)
1904: Frédéric Mistral (France, 1830-1914)
- Miréio (1859)
- Calendau (1867)
- Lis Isclo d'Or (1876)
- Nerto (1884)
- La Rèino Jano (1890)
- Lou Pouémo dóu Rose (1897)
- Moun Espelido: Memori è Raconte (1906)
1904: José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spain, 1852-1916)
- La Esposa del Vengador (1874)
- En el Puño de la Espada (1875)
- En el Pilar y en la Cruz (1878)
- Conflicto entre dos Deberes (1882)
- O Locura ó Santidad (1877)
- El Gran Galeoto (1881)
1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland, 1846-1916) : English language books online
- Ogniem i Mieczem (1884)
- Potop (1886)
- Pan Wolodyjowski (1888)
- Bez Dogmatu (1891)
- Rodzina Polanieckich (1894)
- Quo Vadis (1895)
  - Translated by Jeremiah Curtin
- Krzyzacy (1900)
- Na Polu Chwaly (1906)
- Wiry (1910)
- W Pustyni i w Puszczy (1912)
1906: Giosuè Carducci (Italy, 1837-1907)
- Rime (1857)
- Levia Gravia (1868)
- Nuove Poesie (1873)
- Studi Letterati (1874)
- Bozetti Critici e Discorsi Letterari (1876)
- Giambi ed Epodi (1882)
1907: Rudyard Kipling (UK, 1865-1936) : English language books online
- Departmental Ditties and Other Verses (1886)
- Plain Tales From the Hills (originally 1888)
- The Story of the Gadsbys (originally 1888)
- Under the Deodars (originally 1888)
- American Notes (originally 1889)
- Indian Tales (originally 1890?)
- The Light That Failed (1890)
- The Man Who Would Be King (1890)
- A Pilgrim's Way (1890)
- Soldiers Three (first collected in this form 1890)
- Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People (originally 1891)
- Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
- The Jungle Book (1894)
- The Second Jungle Book (1895)
- The Seven Seas (1896)
- Verses, 1889-1896
- Captains Courageous (1897)
- The Day's Work (1898)
- The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney (1899)
- The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories (this edition c. 1899)
- Stalky and Co. (1899)
- Kim (1901)
- Just So Stories (1902)
  - See also another illustrated version of "How the Leopard Got His Spots" at sff.net
- Trafficks and Discoveries (1904)
- With the Night Mail (1905, published as book 1909)
- Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
- Actions and Reactions (1909)
- Rewards and Fairies (1910)
1908: Rudolf Christoph Eucken (Germany, 1846-1926)
- Die Lebensanschauungen der grosser Denker (1890)
- Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensinhalt (1896)
- Der Wahrheitsgehalt der Religion (1901)
- Grundlinien einer neuen Lebensanschauung (1907)
- Geistige Stromungen der Gegenwart (1908)
- Der Sinn und Wert des Lebens (1908)
- Present Day Ethics in Their Relation to the Spiritual Life (1913)
1909: Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (Sweden, 1858-1940) : English language books online
- Antikrists Mirakler (1897)
  - Trans. by Pauline Bancroft Flach as The Miracles of Antichrist (1899)
- Herr Arnes Penningar (1904)
  - Trans. by Arthur G. Chater as The Treasure (1925)
- Kristuslegender (1904)
  - Trans. by Velma Swanston Howard as Christ Legends (1908)
- Nils Holgerssons Underbara Resa (1906)
  - First part trans. by Velma Swanston Howard as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1907)
  - Second part trans. by Velma Swanston Howard as Further Adventures of Nils (1911)
- The Girl From the Marsh Croft (coll. 1910, translated by Velma Swanston Howard)
1910: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse (Germany, 1830-1914) : English language books online
- See this page at Projekt Gutenberg-DE for some of his works in German.
- Andrea Delfin
  - Trans. by Gunther Olesch
1911: Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium, 1862-1949) : English language books online
- Le Massacre des Innocents (1886)
  - Trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos as The Massacre of the Innocents (1916)
- La Sagesse et la Destinee (1898)
  - Trans. by Alfred Sutro as Wisdom and Destiny
- La Vie des Abeilles (1900)
  - Trans. by Alfred Sutro as The Life of the Bee (1901)
- Le Double Jardin (1903)
  - Trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos as The Double Garden (1903)
- The Measure of the Hours (coll. 1907, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos)
- L'Oiseau Bleu (1909)
  - Trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos as The Blue Bird (1909)
- La Mort (1912)
  - Trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos as Death (1912)
- L'Hote Inconnu
  - Trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos as The Unknown Guest (1914)
- Poems (coll. 1915, translated by Bernard Miall)
- The Wrack of the Storm (coll. 1916, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos)
- Mountain Paths (coll. 1919, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos)
1912: Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (Germany, 1862-1946)
- Die Weber (1892)
- Der Biberpelz (1893)
- Florian Geyer (1896)
- Fuhrmann Henschel (1898)
- Der Arme Heinrich (1902)
- Rose Bernd (1903)
- Greichischer Frühling (1908)
- Die Ratten (1911)
- Der Bogen des Odysseus (1914)
- Der Ketzer von Soana (1918)
1913: Rabindranath Tagore (India, 1861-1941) : English language books online
- Gitanjali (1912, 1913)
- The Crescent Moon: Child-Poems (1913)
- The Gardener (first English edition 1913, this edition 1915)
- Sadhana: The Realisation of Life (orig. 1913, this edition 1916)
- Chitra (1914)
- The Post Office (1914)
- The King of the Dark Chamber (1914)
- (trans.) Songs of Kabir (1915)
- The Home and the World (1915, 1919)
- Fruit-Gathering (1916)
- Stray Birds (1916)
- The Hungry Stones and Other Stories (1916)
- Glimpses of Bengal (1920)
- The Fugitive (1921)
- Thought Relics (1921)
- Broken Ties and Other Stories (1925: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
1914: No award
1915: Romain Rolland (France, 1866-1944) : English language books online
- Jean-Christophe (original 4-story series, 1905-1906)
  - Translated by Gilbert Cannan as Jean-Christophe: Dawn, Morning, Youth, Revolt (1910)
- Jean-Christophe à Paris (1908)
  - Translated by Gilbert Cannan as Jean-Christophe in Paris (1911)
- Jean-Christophe: La Fin du Voyage (1910-1912)
  - Translated by Gilbert Cannan as Jean-Christophe: Journey's End (1913)
1916: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden, 1859-1940)
- Vallfart och vandringsår (1888)
- Endymion (1889)
- Hans Alienus (1892)
- Dikter (1895)
- Karolinerna (1897-1898)
- Tankar ock Teckningar (1899)
- Heliga Birgittas Pilgrimsfärd (1901)
- Ett Folk (1902)
- Folkunga Trädet (1905, 1907)
- Svenskarna och Deras Hövdingar (1908-1910)
- Dagar och Händelser (1909)
- Nya Dikter (1915)
1917: Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark, 1857-1919)
1917: Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark, 1857-1943)
1918: No award
1919: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (Switzerland, 1845-1924)
- See this page at Projekt Gutenberg-DE for some of his works in German.
1920: Knut Pedersen Hamsun (Norway, 1859-1952) : English language books online
- Ny Jord (1893)
  - Translated by Carl Christian Hyllested as Shallow Soil (1914)
- Sult (1899)
  - Translated by George Egerton as Hunger (1920)
- Pan (1894)
  - Translated by W. J. Alexander Worster (1921)
- Den Siste Glaede (1912)
  - Translated by Paula Wiking as Look Back on Happiness (1940)
- Markens Gröde (1917)
  - Translated by W. J. Alexander Worster as The Growth of the Soil (1921)
- Wanderers (coll. 1922, translated by W. J. Alexander Worster)
1921: Anatole France (France, 1844-1924) : English language books online
- Crainquebille; Putois; Riquet; et Plusieurs Autres Recits Profitables
- Le Crime de Sylvester Bonnard
  - Translated as The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- L'Humaine Tragedie
  - Translated as The Human Tragedy
- Le Lys Rouge
  - Translated as The Red Lily
- La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque
  - Translated by Jos. A. V. Stritzko as The Queen Pedauque
- Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux
- L'Île des Pingouins
  - Translated by A. W. Evans as Penguin Island
- Monsieur Bergeret a Paris
- La Revolte des Anges
  - Translated by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson as The Revolt of the Angels
- Sur la Pierre Blanche
- Thais
  - Translated by Robert B. Douglas
1922: Jacinto Benavente (Spain, 1866-1954)
- La Gobernadora (1901)
- Rosas de Otoño (1905)
- Los Intereses Creados (1907)
- Señora Ama (1908)
- La Malquerida (1913)
1923: William Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865-1939) : English language books online
- The Countess Cathleen (orig. 1892, revised 1912)
- The Celtic Twilight (orig. 1893, revised 1902)
- The Land of Heart's Desire (1894, revised 1912)
- Rosa Alchemica (orig. 1896)
- The Secret Rose (orig. 1897)
- The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
- Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
- The King's Threshold (1904)
- Stories of Red Hanrahan (orig. 1904)
- Deirdre (1907)
- Responsibilities, and Other Poems (1916)
- The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
- Four Years (1921)
- Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
1924: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (Poland, 1867-1925)
- Komediantka (1896)
- Chlopi (1902-1909)
- Rok 1794 (1913-1918)
1925: George Bernard Shaw (UK, 1856-1950) : English language books online
- The Irrational Knot (orig. 1880)
- Cashel Byron's Profession (orig. 1886)
- An Unsocial Socialist (orig. 1887)
- (ed.) Fabian Essays in Socialism (1889)
- Candida (1898)
- The Man of Destiny (1898)
- The Philanderer (orig. 1898)
- You Never Can Tell (orig. 1898)
- The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (1898)
- Caesar and Cleopatra (orig. 1899)
- Captain Brassbound's Conversion (orig. ca. 1901)
- Mrs. Warren's Profession (orig. 1902)
- Man and Superman (orig. 1903)
- How He Lied to Her Husband (1905)
- Major Barbara, with an Essay as First Aid to Critics (orig. 1905)
- The Devil's Disciple (1906)
- John Bull's Other Island (1907)
- Getting Married (1908)
- The Doctor's Dilemma (orig. 1909)
- The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (orig. 1909)
- Fanny's First Play (orig. 1910)
- Misalliance (orig. 1910)
- Press Cuttings (orig. 1911)
- Androcles and the Lion (1912)
- Overruled (1912)
- Arms and the Man (1913)
- Great Catherine (1913)
- Pygmalion (1913)
- O'Flaherty V. C. (1915)
- Augustus Does His Bit (1917)
- Heartbreak House (1917)
- The Inca of Perusalem (1917)
- Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress (1918)
- Back to Methuselah (1921)
- Saint Joan (1924: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- The Apple Cart (1929: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Too True to be Good (1932: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- On the Rocks (1933: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- The Six of Calais (1934: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Village Wooing (1934: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- The Millionairess (1935: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (1935: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Geneva (1938: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- "In Good King Charles's Golden Days" (1939: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Buoyant Billions (1948: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
1926: Grazia Deledda (Italy, 1871-1936) : English language books online
- La Madre (1920)
  - Translated by Mary G. Steegman as The Mother (orig. 1922)
1927: Henri Bergson (France, 1859-1941) : English language books online
- Essai sur les Donnes Immédiates de la Conscience (1889)
  - Translated by F. L. Pogson as Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (1910)
- Matière et Mémoire (1896)
- Le Rire (1900)
  - Translated by Brereton and Rothwell as Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
- Introduction à la Meéaphysique (1903)
- L'Évolution Créatice (1907)
  - Translated by Arthur Mitchell as Creative Evolution (originally 1911)
- L'Energie Spirituelle (1919)
1928: Sigrid Undset (Norway, 1882-1949) : English language books online
- Jenny (1911)
  - Translated by William Emmé
1929: Thomas Mann (Germany, 1875-1955)
- While we know of no complete books by Mann online at present, one short story is available in English translation: "Loulou". The works below are also in the public domain in the US in their original German, and in some cases may also have public-domain English translations.
- Der Kleine Herr Friedemann (1898)
- Buddenbrooks (1901)
- Tristan (1903)
- Fiorenza (1906)
- Königliche Hoheit (1909)
- Tod in Venedig (1913)
1930: Sinclair Lewis (USA, 1885-1951) : English language books online
- Our Mr. Wrenn (1914)
- The Trail of the Hawk (1915)
- The Job (1917)
- The Innocents (1917)
- Free Air (1919)
- Main Street (1920)
- Babbitt (1922)
- Arrowsmith (1925: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Elmer Gantry (1927: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Dodsworth (1929: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Work of Art (1934: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- It Can't Happen Here (1935: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- The Prodigal Parents (1938: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Bethel Merriday (1940: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Gideon Planish (1943: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Cass Timberlane (1945: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Kingsblood Royal (1947: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- World So Wide (1951: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden, 1864-1931)
1932: John Galsworthy (UK, 1867-1933) : English language books online
- Villa Rubein, and Other Stories (originally 1900-1901; includes an early Forsyte story)
- The Silver Box (1906)
- The Man of Property (1906; start of the Forsyte Saga)
- The Country House (1907)
- The Island Pharisees (1908)
- Fraternity (1909)
- Strife (1909)
- Justice (1910)
- The Little Dream (1911)
- The Patrician (1911)
- The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays (compiled 1912)
- The Eldest Son (1912)
- The Pigeon (1912)
- The Dark Flower (1913)
- The Fugitive (1913)
- The Mob (1914)
- A Bit o' Love (1915)
- The Freelands (1915)
- The Little Man (1915?)
- Joy: A Play on the Letter "I" in Three Acts (1916)
- Beyond (1917)
- Five Tales (1918; includes a Forsyte story)
- The Burning Spear: Being the Experiences of Mr. John Lavender in Time of War (1919)
- Saint's Progress (1919)
- The Foundations (1920)
- In Chancery (1920; continuation of the Forsyte Saga)
- The Skin Game (1920)
- Awakening and To Let (1920 and 1921; continuations of the Forsyte Saga)
- The First and the Last (1922)
- A Family Man (1922)
- Loyalties (1922)
- Windows (1922)
- The White Monkey (1924: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- The Silver Spoon (1926: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Swan Song (1928: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- On Forsyte 'Change (1930: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Maid in Waiting (1931: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Flowering Wilderness (1932: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Over the River (1933: STILL COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
1933: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (France, 1870-1953) : English language books online
- The Gentleman From San Francisco (trans. 1918)
1934: Luigi Pirandello (Italy, 1867-1936) : English language books online
- At Eldritch Press, you can find most of the plays below, plus additional material.
- Il Fu Mattia Pascal (1904)
  - Translated by Arthur Livingston as The Late Mattia Pascal (1923)
- Lumie di Sicilia (1910)
  - Translated by Isaac Goldberg as Sicilian Limes (1921)
- Se Gira (1919)
  - Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff as Shoot! (1926)
- Così è (Se Vi Pare) (1917)
  - Translated by Arthur Livingson as Right You Are! (If You Think So) (1922)
- I Vecchi e i Giovani (1918)
  - Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff as The Old and the Young (1928; MAY STILL BE COPYRIGHTED IN THE US)
- Sei Personaggi in Cerca D'Autore (1921)
  - Translated by Edward Storer as Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922)
- Enrico Quarto (1922)
  - Translated by Edward Storer as Henry IV (1922)
1935: No award
1936: Eugene O'Neill (USA, 1888-1953) : English language books online
- A Wife for a Life (1913)
- The Web (1913)
- Thirst (1913)
- Recklessness (1913)
- Warnings (1913)
- Fog (1914)
- Bread and Butter (1914)
- Bound East for Cardiff (1914)
- Abortion (1914)
- The Movie Man (1914)
- Before Breakfast (1916)
- In the Zone (1917)
- The Moon of the Caribbees (1918)
- Beyond the Horizon (1918, 1920)
- The Emperor Jones (1920)
- Three Plays: The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The First Man (compiled 1922)
1937: Roger Martin Du Gard (France, 1881-1958)
- Jean Barois (1913)
- Le Testament du Père Leleu (1920)
1938: Pearl S. Buck (USA, 1892-1973) : English language books online
- All Men Are Brothers (translated by Buck in 1933)
1939: Frans Emil Sillanpää (Finland, 1888-1964) : English language books online
- Elämä ja Aurinko (1916)
- Ihmislapsia Elämän Saatossa (1917)
- Hurskas Kurjuus (1919)
- Rakas Isänmaani (1919)
- Ihmiset Suviyössä (1934)
  - Translated by Alan Blair as People in the Summer Night (1966)
1940: No award
1941: No award
1942: No award
1943: No award
1944: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Denmark, 1873-1950)
- Himmerlandshistorier (1898-1910)
1945: Gabriele Mistral (Chile, 1889-1957)
- Sonetos de la Muerte (1914)
- Desolación (1922)
1946: Hermann Hesse (Germany, 1877-1962) : English language books online
- Demian (1919)
- Siddhartha (1922)
  - Translated by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer, and Semyon Chaichenets (2001)
1947: André Gide (France, 1869-1951)
- Les Cahiers d'Andreé Walter (1891)
- Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897)
- Saul (1903)
- Prétextes (1903)
- Le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigue (1907)
- La Porte Étroite (1909)
- Nouveaux Prétextes (1911)
- Les Caves du Vatican (1914)
- La Symphonie Pastorale (1919)
1948: T. S. Eliot (UK, 1888-1965) : English language books online
- Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
- Poems (1920)
- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920)
- The Waste Land (1922)
1949: William Faulkner (USA, 1897-1962)
- Two early short stories are now in the public domain: "Landing in Luck" (1919), and "The Hill" (1922).
1950: Bertrand Russell (UK, 1872-1970) : English language books online
- A Free Man's Worship (originally 1903)
- Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead (1910-1913)
- The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
- Political Ideals (1917)
- Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism (1919)
- Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919)
- The Analysis of Mind (1921)
- Icarus: or, The Future of Science (1924)
1951: Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (Sweden, 1891-1974)
- Ordknost och Bildkonst (1913)
- Den Svåra Stunden (1918)
- Himlens Hemlighet (1919)
1952: François Mauriac (France, 1885-1970)
- Les Mainjointes (1909)
- Le Baiser aux Lepreux (1922)
1953: Winston Churchill (UK, 1874-1965) : English language books online
- The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898)
- The River War (orig. 1899)
- Savrola (1900)
- Lord Randolph Churchill (1906)

Later authors will be listed if any of their books become available online.

Pulitzer Prizes in Letters

Pulitzer Prizes for American biography, drama, fiction, history, and poetry were established in 1917 and 1918. For more information on the Pulitzer Prize, including information on recent winners, see the official Pulitzer Prize web site.

Biography

Except where noted, the subject of each biography is either the person mentioned in the title, or the author.

1917: Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott
1918: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce
1919: The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
1920: The Life of John Marshall by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
1921: The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok
1922: A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland (about the author and his family)
1923: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick

Drama

1918: Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams
1919: No award
1920: Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill
1921: Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
1922: Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill

Fiction

1918: His Family by Ernest Poole
1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1920: No award
1921: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1922: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1923: One of Ours by Willa Cather

History

1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days by J. J. Jusserand
1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes
1919: No award
1920: The War with Mexico by Justin Harvey Smith
1921: The Victory at Sea by William S. Sims
1922: The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
1923: The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren

Poetry

1918: Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
1919: The Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer
1919: Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg
1920: No award
1921: No award
1922: Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1923: Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay from 1922:
- The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
- A Few Figs from Thistles
- Eight sonnets in American Poetry 1922: A Miscellany

We have not yet determined whether any later Pulitzer Prize-winning books can go online.

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