Below are the official Pulitzer Schmulitzer! rankings updated as we move from worst to first.
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| 41 | 1963 | The Reivers | William Faulkner |
| 42 | 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner | William Styron |
| 43 | 1978 | Elbow Room | James Alan McPherson |
| 44 | 1958 | A Death in the Family | James Agee |
| 45 | 1976 | Humbolt’s Gift | Saul Bellow |
| 46 | 2018 | Less | Andrew Sean Greer |
| 47 | 1965 | The Keepers of the House | Shirley Ann Grau |
| 48 | 2011 | A Visit From the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan |
| 49 | Multiple | The Collections | Various |
| 50 | 1985 | Foreign Affairs | Alison Lurie |
| 51 | 2009 | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout |
| 52 | 1987 | A Summons to Memphis | Peter Taylor |
| 53 | 1988 | Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| 54 | 1996 | Independence Day | Richard Ford |
| 55 | 1992 | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley |
| 56 | 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Oscar Hijuelos |
| 57 | 1994 | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields |
| 58 | 2006 | March | Geraldine Brooks |
| 59 | 1969 | House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday |
| 60 | 1989 | Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler |
| 61 | 1973 | The Optimist’s Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| 62 | 2010 | The Tinkers | Paul Harding |
| 63 | 1997 | Martin Dressler: A Tale of an American Dreamer | Steven Milhauser |
| 64 | 1955 | Â Fable | William Faulkner |
| 65 | 1949 | Guard of Honor | James Cozzens |
| 66 | Multiple | No Award Given | The Pulitzer Board |
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