PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction — Complete Winners List

11 years of winners · PEN/Faulkner Foundation · Since 1981 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	Small Rain	Garth Greenwell	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2024	What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez	Claire Jimenez	Grand Central Publishing
2023	The Book of Goose	Yiyun Li	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2022	The Wrong End of the Telescope	Rabih Alameddine	Grove Press
2021	The Secret Lives of Church Ladies	Deesha Philyaw	West Virginia University Press
2020	Sea Monsters	Chloe Aridjis	Catapult
2019	Call Me Zebra	Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi	Clarion Books
2018	Improvement	Joan Silber	Counterpoint
2017	Behold the Dreamers	Imbolo Mbue	Random House
2016	Delicious Foods	James Hannaham	Little, Brown
2015	Preparation for the Next Life	Atticus Lish	Tyrant Books