Who will be the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction?

March 5, 2019

The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes will be announced on April 15th at 3:00 PM EST. The names of the finalists are not released ahead of time, and so the winner is a surprise every year. For eleven years we have been posting a prediction list prepared by a fellow Pulitzer collector and research scientist. The list is the product of a regression analysis that weighs a given book's performance in other book awards, as well as the author's past award and nomination history.

We will once again attempt to predict the winner for fiction. Our final list will be available early in April. Until then here is an update to our preliminary prediction list that uses the same regression analysis and model that predicted the winner in the The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner list. Please keep in mind that this is a prediction and in no way can we guarantee the prize outcome. But we can always count on insightful community discussions. The books that are surfaced, and the comments about them are always engaging and interesting.

Here is the latest 2019 PPrize Prediction List for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1.	The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
2.	There There by Tommy Orange
3.	The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
4.	The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
5.	An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
6.	The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
7.	Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin
8.	The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
9.	The Overstory by Richard Powers
10.	Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
11.	Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
12.	Waiting for Eden by Elliot Acketman
13.	Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
14.	Beautiful Days by Joyce Carol Oates
15.	Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates