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Science Fiction

The Icerigger Trilogy ----------------------- Alan Dean Foster

The City And The Stars ---------------------- Arthur C Clarke

Alacrity Fitzhugh and Hobart Floyt Trilogy -- Brian Daley

Cemetery World ------------------------------ Clifford D Simak

Futures ImperfectUncharted Territory -------- Connie Willis

Hitchhiker's Guide Series ------------------- Douglas Adams

John Carter of Mars Series ------------------ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Dune Series --------------------------------- Frank Herbert

Heechee Series ------------------------------ Frederik Pohl

The Stainless Steel Rat Series -------------- Harry Harrison

Deathworld Series --------------------------- Harry Harrison

Foundation Series --------------------------- Isaac Asimov

Caves of Steel Trilogy ---------------------- Isaac Asimov

End of Eternity ----------------------------- Isaac Asimov

Cities In Flight ---------------------------- James Blish

The Forever Hero Trilogy -------------------- L E Modesitt

Ringworld Series ---------------------------- Larry Niven

Protector ----------------------------------- Larry Niven

Legacy Of Heorot -- Larry Niven - Jerry Pournelle- Steven Barnes

Heaven Series ------------------------------- Melissa Scott

Beggars and Choosers ------------------------ Nancy Kres

Ender's Game -------------------------------- Orson Scott Card

Riverworld ---------------------------------- Philip Jose Farmer

Dayworld Series ----------------------------- Philip Jose Farmer

Citizen Of The Galaxy ----------------------- Robert A Heinlein

Fantasy

Black Company Series ------------------------ Glen Cook

The Lord Of The Rings Series ---------------- JRR Tolkien

Discworld Series ---------------------------- Terry Pratchett

Other

White Fang ---------------------------------- Jack London

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Mystery

The Mysterious Affair at Styles ---------------- Agatha Christie

Nightmare In Manhattan ------------------------ Thomas Walsh

Bookman's Wake -------------------------------- John Dunning

The Red House Mystery -------------------------- A. A. Milne

Science Fiction

Intervention ---------------------------------- Julian May

Dune ------------------------------------------ Frank Herbert

The Reality Dysfunction (series) -------------- Peter F. Hamilton

Sentenced to Prism ---------------------------- Alan Dean Foster

Monument -------------------------------------- Lloyd Biggle Jr.

Bridge of Birds -------------------------------- Barry Hugart

Horror

Wither ----------------------------------------- J.G. Passarella

In the Dark ------------------------------------ Richard Laymon

Salem's Lot ------------------------------------ Steven King

The Keeper's Chronicles ------------------------ Tanya Huff

Literature

To Kill A Mockingbird -------------------------- Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men -------------------------------- John Steinbeck

Night Inspector -------------------------------- Frederick Busch

The Angel Max ---------------------------------- Peter Glassgold

Life of Pi ------------------------------------- Yann Martel

The Plauge ------------------------------------- Albert Camus

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The Saga of the Exiles ---- Julian May

The Many Coloured Land

The Golden Torc

The Non Born King

The Adversary

The Galactic Milieu Trilogy ---- Julian May

Jack The Bodiless

Diamond Mask

Magnificat

Dread Empire's Fall Trilogy ---- Walter Jon Williams

The Praxis

The Sundering

Conventions of War

The Commonwealth Saga ---- Peter F Hamilton

Pandora's Star

Judas Unchained

Nights Dawn Trilogy ---- Peter F Hamilton

The Reality Dysfunction

The Neutronium Alchemist

The Naked God

Greg Mandel Novels ---- Peter F Hamilton

Mindstar Rising

A Quantum Murder

The Nano Flower

The Gap Series ---- Stephen Donaldson

Conflict - The Real Story

Vision - Forbidden Knowledge

Power - A Dark And Hungry God Arises

Madness - Chaos and Order

Ruin - This Day All Gods Die

Shadowleague Series ---- Maggie Furey

The Heart Of Myrial

Spirit Of The Stone

Echo Of Eternity

Axis Trilogy ---- Sara Douglass

Battleaxe

Enchanter

Starman

Miles Vorksigan Series ----------------- Luis McMaster Bujold

Memory

Komarr

A Civil Campaign

Diplomatic Immunity

Individual Titles

Spin ---- Robert Charles Wilson

Old Man's War ---- John Scalzi

Fallen Dragon ---- Peter F Hamilton

Childhood's End ---- Arthur C Clarke

Stranger in a Strange Land ---- Robert A Heinlein

Magician ---- Raymond E Fiest

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Mysteries

Nero Wolfe (series) ------------------------------- Rex Stout

Benjamin January (series) ------------------------- Barbara Hambly

The Mysterious Affair at Styles ----------------- Agatha Christie

The Hound of the Baskervilles ------------------- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Toby Peters (series) ----------------------------- Stuart Kaminsky

Amos Walker (series) ----------------------------- Loren Estleman

The Historical Disaster (series) ----------------- Max Allan Collins

Horror

Salem's Lot ------------------------------------- Steven King

Dracula ----------------------------------------- Bram Stoker

It --------------------------------------------- Steven King

Frankenstein ----------------------------------- Mary Shelley

Thrillers

The Alienist ----------------------------------- Caleb Carr

Year Zero --------------------------------------- Jeff Long

Descent ----------------------------------------- Jeff Long

General Literature

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ----- Michael Chabon

The 2 Cities mysteries ------------------------- Ray Bradbury

Kids books

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents --- Terry Pratchett

Redwall ----------------------------------------- Brin Jacques

The Narnia (series) ------------------------------- C S Lewis

Summerland ------------------------------------- Michael Chabon

NonFiction

Driving Mr Albert ------------------------------- Michael Paterniti

Selling 'em by The Sack ------------------------- Davi Gerard Hogan

The Purple Gang --------------------------------- Paul R Kavieff

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Dark Tower Series ---- Stephen King

The Gunslinger

The Drawing of the Three

The Wastelands

Wizards and Glass

Wolves of the Calla

Song of Susannah

The Dark Tower

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The Stand ----------------------------------- Stephen King

The Talisman -------------------------------- Stephen King

Lincoln Rhyme Novels ---- Jeffery Deaver

The Bone Collector

The Coffin Dancer

The Empty Chair

Stone Monkey

The Vanished Man

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Centennial ---------------------------------- James Michener

Kay Scarpetta Novels ---- Patricia Cornwell

Postmortem

Body of Evidence

All That Remains

Cruel and Unusual

The Body Farm

From Potters Field

Cause of Death

Unnatural Exposure

Point of Origin

Black Notice

The Last Precinct

Blow Fly

Trace

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A Time To Kill ------------------------------ John Grisham

The Firm ------------------------------------ John Grisham

The Vampire Chronicals ---- Anne Rice

Interview with a Vampire

The Vampire Lestat

The Queen of the Damned

The Tale of the Body Thief

Memnoch the Devil

Pandora

The Vampire Armand

Vittorio, the Vampire

Merrick

Blood and Gold

Blackwood Farm

Blood Canticle

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Fantasy/Swords & Sorcerers

The Reluctant Swordsman (trilogy) ---------- Dave Duncan

Reluctant Swordsman (The Seventh Sword Book 1)

The Coming of Wisdom (The Seventh Sword Book 2)

The Destiny of the Sword (The Seventh Sword Book 3)

Deed of Paksennarion (trilogy) ---- Elizabeth Moon

Sheepfarmer's Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion Book 1)

Divided Allegiance (The Deed of Paksenarrion Book 2)

Oath of Gold (The Deed of Paksenarrion Book 3)

Vampire/Supernatual/Romance

Dark Series --------------------------------- Christine Feehan

Dark Hunter Series -------------------------- Sherrilyn Kenyon

All ---------------------------------------- Susan Krinard

All ----------------------------------------- Amand Aashley

Vampire/Supernatual/Romance/Comedy

Undead and Unemployed -------------------------- Mary Janice Davidson

Undead and Unwed ------------------------------- Mary Janice Davidson

Vampire/Supernatual/Horror/Erotic

Laurel K. Hamilton ---------------------------- Anita Blake Series

Laurel K. Hamilton ---------------------------- Meredith Gentry Series

Science Fiction/Character Based

Elizabeth Moon -------------------------------- Trading in Danger

Elizabeth Moon -------------------------------- Marque and Reprisal

Elizabeth Moon -------------------------------- Serrano Legacy series

Lois McMaster Bujold --------------------------- Miles Vorkosigan saga

David Weber ------------------------------------ Honor Harrington series

Sex with a story

Robin Schone ----------------------------------- The Lady's Tutor

Robin Schone ----------------------------------- Gabriel's Woman

Sex with a story/Science Fiction

Angela Knight ---------------------------------- Jane's Warlord

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Fantasy

Lord of the Rings (trilogy) ----------------- Tolkien

A Gathering of Heroes ----------------------- Paul Edwin Zimmer

The Reluctant Swordsman (trilogy) ---- Dave Duncan

Reluctant Swordsman (Book 1)

The Coming of Wisdom (Book 2)

The Destiny of the Sword (Book 3)

Deed of Paksennarion (trilogy) ---- Elizabeth Moon

Sheepfarmer's Daughter (Book 1)

Divided Allegiance (Book 2)

Oath of Gold (Book 3)

The Book of Words (trilogy) ---- J.V. Jones

The Baker's Boy (Book 1)

A Man Betrayed (Book 2)

Master and Fool (Book 3)

Wheel of Time (series) ---- Robert Jordan

The Eye of the World (Book 1)

The Great Hunt (Book 2)

The Dragon Reborn (Book 3)

Shadow Rising (Book 4)

The Fires of Heaven (Book 5)

Lord of Chaos (Book 6)

A Crown of Swords (Book 7)

Dark Elf (trilogy) ---- R.A. Salvatore

Homeland (Book 1)

Sojourn (Book 2)

Exile (Book 3)

Riftwar Saga (series) ---- Raymond E Feist

Magician:Apprentice (Book 1)

Magician:Master (Book 2)

Silverthorn (Book 3)

A Darkness at Sethanon (Book 4)

Sword of Truth (series) ---- Terry Goodkind

Wizard's First Rule (Book 1)

Stone of Tears (Book 2)

Blood of the Fold (Book 3)

Temple of the Winds (Book 4)

Darwath (trilogy) ---- Barbara Hambly

The Time of the Dark (Book 1)

The Walls of Air (Book 2)

The Armies of Daylight (Book 3)

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The Skylark Series ---- E. E. 'Doc' Smith

The Skylark of Space

Skylark Three

Skylark of valeron

Skylark DuQuesne

The Lensman series ---- E. E. 'Doc' Smith

Triplanetary

First Lensman

Galactic Patrol

Grey Lensman

Second stage Lensmen

Children of the Lens

The Family d'Alembert series ---- E. E. 'Doc' Smith

The Imperial Stars

Stranglers' Moon

The Clockwork Traitor

Getaway World

The Bloodstar Conspiracy

The Purity Plot

Planet of Treachery

Eclipsing Binaries

The Omicron Invasion

Revolt of the Galaxy

The Foundation Trilogy ---- Isaac Asimov

Foundation

Foundation and Empire

Second Foundation

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Childe Cycle (part of Dorsai trilogy) ------- Gordon R. Dickson

Dorsai! (aka The Genetic General)

Necromancer

Soldier, Ask Not

The Tactics of Mistake

The Spirit of Dorsai

Lost Dorsai

The Final Encyclopedia

The Chantry Guild

Young Bleys

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The Vorkosigan universe --------------------- Lois McMaster Bujold

Falling Free

Miles Vorkosigan

The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

The Borders of Infinity (short stories)

Brothers in Arms

Ethan of Athos

The Vor Game

Mirror Dance

Cetaganda

Memory

Komarr

A Civil Campaign

Diplomatic Immunity

Cordelia Naismith (Miles' mother)

Shards of Honor

Barrayar

Honor Harrington ---- David Weber

On Basilisk Station

The Honor of the Queen

The Short Victorious War

Field of Dishonor

Flag in Exile

Honor Among Enemies

In Enemy Hands

Echoes of Honor

Ashes of Victory

War of Honor

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Nebula Awards

1965

Novel: Dune by Frank Herbert

Novella: "The Saliva Tree" by Brian W. Aldiss

Novella: "He Who Shapes" by Roger Zelazny (tie)

Novelette: "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny

Short Story: "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, by Harlan Ellison

1966

Novel (tie):

Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

Babel-17, by Samuel R. Delany

Novella: "The Last Castle" by Jack Vance

Novelette: "Call Him Lord" by Gordon R. Dickson

Short Story: "The Secret Place" by Richard McKenna

1967

Novel: The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R. Delany

Novella: "Behold the Man" by Michael Moorcock

Novelette: "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber

Short Story: "Aye, and Gomorrah" by Samuel R. Delany

1968

Novel: Rite of Passage, by Alexei Panshin

Novella: "Dragonrider" by Anne McCaffrey

Novelette: "Mother to the World" by Richard Wilson

Short Story: "The Planners" by Kate Wilhelm

1969

Novel: The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Novella: "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison

Novelette: "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R. Delany

Short Story: "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg

1970

Novel: Ringworld, by Larry Niven

Novella: "Ill Met in Lankhmar" by Fritz Leiber

Novelette: "Slow Sculpture" by Theodore Sturgeon

Short Story: No Award

1971

Novel: A Time of Changes, by Robert Silverberg

Novella: "The Missing Man" by Katherine MacLean

Novelette: "The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson

Short Story: "Good News from the Vatican" by Robert Silverberg

1972

Novel: The Gods Themselves, by Isaac Asimov

Novella: "A Meeting with Medusa" by Arthur C. Clarke

Novelette: "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson

Short Story: "When it Changed" by Joanna Russ

1973

Novel: Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke

Novella: "The Death of Doctor Island" by Gene Wolfe

Novelette: "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N. McIntyre

Short Story: "Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death" by James Tiptree, Jr.

Dramatic Presentation: Soylent Green

Stanley R. Greenberg for Screenplay (based on the novel Make Room! Make Room!)

Harry Harrison for Make Room! Make Room!

1974

Novel: The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Novella: "Born with the Dead" by Robert Silverberg

Novelette: "If the Stars Are Gods" by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford

Short Story: "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Dramatic Presentation: Sleeper by Woody Allen

1975

Novel: THE FOREVER WAR, by Joe Haldeman

Novella: "Home Is the Hangman" by Roger Zelazny

Novelette: "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" by Tom Reamy

Short Story: "Catch that Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber

Dramatic Writing: Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder for Young Frankenstein

1976

Novel: Man Plus, by Frederik Pohl

Novella: "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree, Jr.

Novelette: "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov

Short Story: "A Crowd of Shadows" by Charles L. Grant

1977

Novel: Gateway, by Frederik Pohl

Novella: "Stardance" by Spider and Jeanne Robinson

Novelette: "The Screwfly Solution" by Raccoona Sheldon

Short Story: "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan Ellison

Special Award: Star Wars

1978

Novel: Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

Novella: "The Persistence of Vision" by John Varley

Novelette: "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" by Charles L. Grant

Short Story: "Stone" by Edward Bryant

1979

Novel: The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke

Novella: "Enemy Mine" by Barry Longyear

Novelette: "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin

Short Story: "giANTS" by Edward Bryant

1980

Novel: Timescape by Gregory Benford

Novella: "The Unicorn Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas

Novelette: "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop

Short Story: "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak

1981

Novel: The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

Novella: "The Saturn Game" by Poul Anderson

Novelette: "The Quickening" by Michael Bishop

Short Story: "The Bone Flute" by Lisa Tuttle (This Nebula Award was declined by the author.)

1982

Novel: No Enemy but Time, by Michael Bishop

Novella: "Another Orphan" by John Kessel

Novelette: "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis

Short Story: "A Letter from the Clearys" by Connie Willis

1983

Novel: Startide Rising, by David Brin

Novella: "Hardfought" by Greg Bear

Novelette: "Blood Music" by Greg Bear

Short Story: "The Peacemaker" by Gardner Dozois

1984

Novel: Neuromancer by William Gibson

Novella: "PRESS ENTER" by John Varley

Novelette: "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler

Short Story: "Morning Child" by Gardner Dozois

1985

Novel: Ender's Game , by Orson Scott Card

Novella: "Sailing to Byzantium" by Robert Silverberg

Novelette: "Portraits of His Children" by George R.R. Martin

Short Story: "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress

1986

Novel: Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card

Novella: "R & R" by Lucius Shepard

Novelette: "The Girl Who Fell into the Sky" by Kate Wilhelm

Short Story: "Tangents" by Greg Bear

1987

Novel: The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy

Novela: "The Blind Geometer" by Kim Stanley Robinson

Novelette: "Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy

Short Story: "Forever Yours, Anna" by Kate Wilhelm

1988

Novel: Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Novella: "The Last of the Winnebagos" by Connie Willis

Novelette: "Schrodinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger

Short Story: "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James Morrow

1989

Novel: The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Novella: "The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold

Novelette: "At the Rialto" by Connie Willis

Short Story: "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey A. Landis

1990

Novel: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Novella: "The Hemingway Hoax" by Joe Haldeman

Novelette: "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang

Short Story: "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson

1991

Novel: Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick

Novella: "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress

Novelette: "Guide Dog" by Mike Conner

Short Story: "Ma Qui" by Alan Brennert

1992

Novel: Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis

Novella: "City of Truth" by James Morrow

Novelette: "Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent

Short Story: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis

1993

Novel: Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Novella: "The Night We Buried Road Dog" by Jack Cady

Novelette: "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield

Short Story: "Graves" by Joe Haldeman

1994

Novel: Moving Mars, by Greg Bear

Novella: "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" by Mike Resnick

Novelette: "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold

Short Story: "A Defense of the Social Contracts" by Martha Soukup

1995

Novel: The Terminal Experiment, by Robert J. Sawyer

Novella: "Last Summer at Mars Hill" by Elizabeth Hand

Novelette: "Solitude" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Short Story: "Death and the Librarian" by Esther Friesner

1996

Novel: Slow River, by Nicola Griffith

Novella: "Da Vinci Rising" by Jack Dann

Novelette: "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" by Bruce Holland Rogers

Short Story: "A Birthday" by Esther M. Friesner

1997

Novel: The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre

Novella: "Abandon in Place" by Jerry Oltion

Novelette: "The Flowers of Aulit Prison" by Nancy Kress

Short Story: "Sister Emily's Lightship" by Jane Yolen

1998

Novel: Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman

Novella: "Reading the Bones" by Sheila Finch

Novelette: "Lost Girls" by Jane Yolen

Short Story: "Thirteen Ways to Water" by Bruce Holland Rogers

Other Awards & Honors:

Grand Master: Hal Clement (Harry Stubbs)

Bradbury Award: J. Michael Straczynski

Author Emeritus: William Tenn (Phil Klass)

1999

Novel: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Novella: "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang

Novelette: "Mars is No Place for Children" by Mary A. Turzillo

Short Story: "The Cost of Doing Business" by Leslie What

Script: The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan

Other Awards & Honors:

Grand Master: Brian W. Aldiss

Author Emeritus: Daniel Keyes

2000

Novel: Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

Novella: "Goddesses" by Linda Nagata

Novelette: "Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams

Short Story: "macs" by Terry Bisson

Script: Galaxy Quest by Robert Gordon and David Howard

Other Awards & Honors:

Grand Master: Philip José Farmer

Bradbury Award: Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison

Author Emeritus: Robert Sheckley

2001

Novel: The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro,

Novella: "The Ultimate Earth" by Jack Williamson

Novelette: "Louise's Ghost" by Kelly Link

Short Story: "The Cure for Everything" by Severna Park

Script: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai, and Hui-Ling Wang; from the book by Du Lu Wang

Other Awards & Honors:

President's Award: Betty Ballantine

2002

Novel: American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Novella: "Bronte's Egg" by Richard Chwedyk

Novelette: "Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang

Short Story: "Creature" by Carol Emshwiller

Script: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson; based on The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Other Awards & Honors:

Grand Master: Ursula K. Le Guin

Author Emeritus: Katherine MacLean

2003

Novel: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

Novella: "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

Novelette: "The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford

Short Story: "What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler

Script: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson; based on The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Other Awards & Honors:

Grand Master: Robert Silverberg

Author of Distinction: Charles Harness

Service to SFWA Award: Michael Capobianco & Ann Crispin

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(Random House)

100 Best Novels

1 ULYSSES by James Joyce

2 THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3 A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce

4 LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov

5 BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

6 THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

7 CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

8 DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler

9 SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence

10 THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

11 UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry

12 THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler

13 1984 by George Orwell

14 I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

15 TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf

16 AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser

17 THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers

18 SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

19 INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison

20 NATIVE SON by Richard Wright

21 HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow

22 APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara

23 U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos

24 WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson

25 A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster

26 THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James

27 THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James

28 TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald

29 THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell

30 THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford

31 ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

32 THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James

33 SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

34 A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh

35 AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

36 ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren

37 THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder

38 HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster

39 GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin

40 THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene

41 LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

42 DELIVERANCE by James Dickey

43 A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell

44 POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley

45 THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

46 THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad

47 NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad

48 THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence

49 WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence

50 TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

51 THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

52 PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth

53 PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov

54 LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner

55 ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac

56 THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett

57 PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford

58 THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton

59 ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm

60 THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy

61 DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather

62 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones

63 THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever

64 THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

65 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess

66 OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham

67 HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

68 MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis

69 THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton

70 THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell

71 A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes

72 A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul

73 THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West

74 A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

75 SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh

76 THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark

77 FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce

78 KIM by Rudyard Kipling

79 A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster

80 BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh

81 THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow

82 ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner

83 A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul

84 THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen

85 LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad

86 RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow

87 THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett

88 THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

89 LOVING by Henry Green

90 MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie

91 TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell

92 IRONWEED by William Kennedy

93 THE MAGUS by John Fowles

94 WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys

95 UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch

96 SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron

97 THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles

98 THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain

99 THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy

100 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington

Pulitzer Prize Literature

1918: Ernest Poole His Family

1919: Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons

1920: No award

1921: Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

1922: Booth Tarkington Alice Adams

1923: Willa Cather One of Ours

1924: Margaret Wilson The Able McLaughlins

1925: Edna Ferber So Big

1926: Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith

1927: Louis Bromfield Early Autumn

1928: Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1929: Julia Peterkin Scarlet Sister Mary

1930: Oliver La Farge Laughing Boy

1931: Margaret Ayer Barnes Years of Grace

1932: Pearl S. Buck The Good Earth

1933: T.S. Stribling The Store

1934: Caroline Miller Lamb in his Bosom

1935: Josephine Winslow Johnson Now in November

1936: Harold Davis Honey in the Horn

1937: Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind

1938: John Phillips Marquand The Late George Apley

1939: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling

1940: John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath

1941: No award

1942: Ellen Glasgow In this Our Life

1943: Upton Sinclair Dragon's Teeth

1944: Martin Flavin Journey in the Dark

1945: John Hersey A Bell for Adano

1946: No award

1947: Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men

1948: James A. Michener Tales of the South Pacific

1949: James Gould Cozzens Guard of Honor

1950: A.B. Guthrie The Way West

1951: Conrad Richter The Town

1952: Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny

1953: Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea

1954: No award

1955: William Faulkner A Fable

1956: Mackinlay Kantor Andersonville

1957: No award

1958: James Agee A Death in the Family

1959: Robert Lewis TaylorThe Travels of Jamie McPheeters

1960: Allen Drury Advise and Consent

1961: Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird

1962: Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness

1963: William Faulkner The Reivers

1964: No award

1965: Shirley Anne Grau The Keepers of the House

1966: Katherine Anne Porter Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

1967: Bernard Malamud The Fixer

1968: William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner

1969: N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn

1970: Jean Stafford Collected Stories

1971: No award

1972: Wallace Stegner The Angle of Repose

1973: Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter

1974: No award

1975: Michael Shaara The Killer Angels

1976: Saul Bellow Humboldt's Gift

1977: No award

1978: James Alan McPherson Elbow Room

1979: John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever

1980: Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song

1981: John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

1982: John Updike Rabbit is Rich

1983: Alice Walker The Color Purple

1984: William Kennedy Ironweed

1985: Alison Lurie Foreign Affairs

1986: Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

1987: Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis

1988: Toni Morrison Beloved

1989: Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons

1990: Oscar Hijuelos The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

1991: John Updike Rabbit at Rest

1992: Jane Smiley Thousand Acres

1993: Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

1994: E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News

1995: Carol Shields Stone Diaries

1996: Richard Ford Independence Day

1997: Steven Millhauser Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

1998: Philip Roth American Pastoral

1999: Michael Cunningham The Hours

2000: Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies

2001: Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2002: Richard Russo Empire Falls

2003: Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex

2004: Edward P. Jones The Known World

National Book Award Winners

1950

FICTION

The Man With The Golden Arm - Nelson Algren

NONFICTION

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph L. Rusk

POETRY

Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems - William Carlos Williams

1951

FICTION

The Collected Stories of William Faulkner - William Faulkner

NONFICTION

Herman Melville - Newton Arvin

POETRY

The Auroras of Autumn - Wallace Stevens

1952

FICTION

From Here to Eternity - James Jones

NONFICTION

The Sea Around Us - Rachel Carson

POETRY

Collected Poems - Marianne Moore

1953

FICTION

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

NONFICTION

The Course of Empire - Bernard A. De Voto

POETRY

Collected Poems, 1917-1952 - Archibald MacLeish

1954

FICTION

The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow

NONFICTION

A Stillness at Appomattox - Bruce Catton

POETRY

Collected Poems - Conrad Aiken

1955

FICTION

A Fable - William Faulkner

NONFICTION

The Measure of Man - Joseph Wood Krutch

POETRY

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens - Wallace Stevens

1956

FICTION

Ten North Frederick - John O'Hara

NONFICTION

An American in Italy - Herbert Kubly

POETRY

The Shield of Achilles - W.H. Auden

1957

FICTION

The Field of Vision - Wright Morris

NONFICTION

Russia Leaves the War - George F. Kennan

POETRY

Things of the World - Richard Wilbur

1958

FICTION

The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever

NONFICTION

The Lion and the Throne - Catherine Drinker Bowen

POETRY

Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 - Robert Penn Warren

1959

FICTION

The Magic Barrel - Bernard Malamud

NONFICTION

Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael - J. Christopher Herold

POETRY

Words for the Wind - Theodore Roethke

1960

FICTION

Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth

NONFICTION

James Joyce - Richard Ellmann

POETRY

Life Studies - Robert Lowell

1961

FICTION

The Waters of Kronos - Conrad Richter

NONFICTION

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer

POETRY

The Woman at the Washington Zoo - Randall Jarrell

1962

FICTION

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

NONFICTION

The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects - Lewis Mumford

POETRY

Poems - Alan Dugan

1963

FICTION

Morte D'Urban - J. F. Powers

NONFICTION

Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years - Leon Edel

POETRY

Traveling Through the Dark - William Stafford

1964

FICTION

The Centaur - John Updike

ARTS AND LETTERS (NONFICTION)

John Keats: The Making of a Poet - Aileen Ward

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY (NONFICTION)

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community - William H. McNeill

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION (NONFICTION)

Man-made America - Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev

POETRY

Selected Poems - John Crowe Ransom

1965

ARTS AND LETTERS

Oysters of Lockmariaquer - Eleanor Clark

FICTION

Herzog - Saul Bellow

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

The Life of Lenin - Louis Fischer

POETRY

The Far Field - Theodore Roethke

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion - Norbert Wiener

1966

ARTS AND LETTERS

Paris Journal, 1944-1965 - Janet Flanner

FICTION

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

A Thousand Days - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

POETRY

Buckdancer's Choice: Poems - James Dickey

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

No award given

1967

ARTS AND LETTERS

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography - Justin Kaplan

FICTION

The Fixer - Bernard Malamud

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism - Peter Gay

POETRY

Nights and Days - James Merrill

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

La Vida - Oscar Lewis

TRANSLATION

Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch Willard Trask -- Casanova's History of My Life - Gregory Rabassa

1968

ARTS AND LETTERS

Selected Essays - William Troy

FICTION

The Eighth Day - Thornton Wilder

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

Memoirs: 1925-1950 - George F. Kennan

POETRY

The Light Around the Body - Robert Bly

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Death at an Early Age - Jonathan Kozol

TRANSLATION

Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers - Howard & Edna Hong

1969

ARTS AND LETTERS

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History - Norman Mailer

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Journey from Peppermint Street - Meindert DeJong

FICTION

Steps - Jerzy Kosinski

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 - Winthrop D. Jordan

POETRY

His Toy, His Dream, His Rest - John Berryman

THE SCIENCES

Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima - Robert J. Lifton

TRANSLATION

Calvino's Cosmicomics - William Weaver

1970

ARTS AND LETTERS

An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir - Lillian Hellman

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw - Isaac Bashevis Singer

FICTION

Them - Joyce Carol Oates

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

Huey Long - T. Harry Williams

POETRY

The Complete Poems - Elizabeth Bishop

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence - Erik H. Erikson

TRANSLATION

Celine's Castle to Castle - Ralph Manheim

1971

ARTS AND LETTERS

Cocteau: A Biography - Francis Steegmuller

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian - Lloyd Alexander

FICTION

Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom - James MacGregor Burns

POETRY

To See, To Take - Mona Van Duyn

THE SCIENCES

Science in the British Colonies of America - Raymond Phineas Sterns

TRANSLATION

Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards - Frank Jones

Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of The Mountain - Edward G. Seidensticker

1972

ARTS AND LETTERS

The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven - Charles Rosen

BIOGRAPHY

Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers - Joseph P. Lash

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn - Donald Barthelme

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS

The Last Whole Earth Catalogue - Stewart Brand, ed

FICTION

The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor - Flannery O'Connor

HISTORY

Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and The Organized War to Victory - Allan Nevins

PHILSOPHY AND RELIGION

Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America - Martin E. Marty

POETRY

Selected Poems - Howard Moss

The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara - Frank O'Hara

THE SCIENCES

The Blue Whale - George L. Small

TRANSLATION

Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity - Austryn Wainhouse

1973

ARTS AND LETTERS

Diderot - Arthur M. Wilson

BIOGRAPHY

George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799 - James Thomas Flexner

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

CONTEMPORATY AFFAIRS

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam - Frances FitzGerald

FICTION

Chimera - John Barth

Augustus - John Williams

HISTORY

The Children of Pride Isaiah Trunk - Robert Manson Myers

Judenrat - Isaiah Trunk

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

A Religious History of the American People - S. E. Ahlstrom

POETRY

Collected Poems, 1951-1971 - A. R. Ammons

THE SCIENCES

The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations - George B. Schaller

TRANSLATION

The Aeneid of Virgil - Allen Mandelbaum

1974

ART AND LETTERS

Deeper into the Movies - Pauline Kael

BIOGRAPHY

Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (also won History award) - John Clive

Malcolm Lowry: A Biography - Douglas Day

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The Court of the Stone Children - Eleanor Cameron

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS

The Briar Patch - Murray Kempton

FICTION

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer

HISTORY

The Shaping of the Historian - John Clive

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks - Maurice Natanson

POETRY

The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 - Allen Ginsberg

Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 - Adrienne Rich

THE SCIENCES

Life: The Unfinished Experiment - S. E. Luria

TRANSLATION

The Confessions of Lady Nijo - Karen Brazell

Octavio Paz's Alternating Current - Helen R. Lane

Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste - Jackson Matthews

1975

ARTS AND LETTERS

Marcel Proust - Roger Shattuck

The Lives of a Cell: Notes on a Biology Watcher (also won The Sciences award) - Lewis Thomas

BIOGRAPHY

The Life of Emily Dickinson - Richard B. Sewall

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

M. C. Higgins the Great - Virginia Hamilton

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS

All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw - Theodore Rosengarten

FICTION

Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone

The Hair of Harold Roux - Thomas Williams

HISTORY

The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson - Bernard Bailyn

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Anarchy, State and Utopia - Robert Nozick

POETRY

Presentation Piece - Marilyn Hacker

THE SCIENCES

Interpretation of Schizophrenia - Silvano Arieti

The Life of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - Lewis Thomas

TRANSLATION

Miguel D. Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith - Anthony Kerrigan

1976

ARTS AND LETTERS

The Great War and Modern Memory - Paul Fussell

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Bert Breen's Barn - Walter D. Edmonds

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS

Passage to Ararat - Michael J. Arlen

FICTION

Jr - William Gaddis

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 - David Brion Davis

POETRY

Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery

1977

BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist - W. A. Swanberg

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

The Master Puppeteer - Katherine Paterson

CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales - Bruno Bettelheim

FICTION

The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner

HISTORY

World of Our Fathers - Irving Howe

POETRY

Collected Poems, 1930-1976 - Richard Eberhart

TRANSLATION

Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance - Li-Li Ch'en

1978

BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Samuel Johnson - W. Jackson Bate

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

The View From the Oak - Judith Kohl & Herbert Kohl

CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT

Winners & Losers - Gloria Emerson

FICTION

Blood Ties - Mary Lee Settle

HISTORY

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 - David McCullough

POETRY

The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov - Howard Nemerov

TRANSLATION

Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth - Howard Nemerov

1979

BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Robert Kennedy and His Times - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson

CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT

The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen

FICTION

Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien

HISTORY

Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 - Richard Beale Davis

POETRY

Mirabell: Book of Numbers - James Merrill

TRANSLATION

Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry - Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia

1980

AUTOBIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)

Lauren Bacall by Myself - Lauren Bacall

AUTOBIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)

And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 - Malcolm Cowley

BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris

BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius - A. Scott Berg

CHILDREN'S BOOKS (HARDCOVER)

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal - Joan W. Blos

CHILDREN'S BOOKS (PAPERBACK)

A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle

CURRENT INTEREST (HARDCOVER)

Julia Child and More Company - Julia Child

CURRENT INTEREST (PAPERBACK)

The Culture of Narcissism - Christopher Lasch

FICTION (HARDCOVER)

FICTION (PAPERBACK)

The World According to Garp - John Irving

FIRST NOVEL

Birdy - William Wharton

GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)

The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)

The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen

GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)

The Complete Directory - Elder Witt, ed.

GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)

The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present - Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)

The White House - Henry A. Kissinger

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman

MYSTERY (HARDCOVER)

The Green Ripper - John D. MacDonald

POETRY

Ashes - Philip Levine

RELIGION/INSPIRATION (HARDCOVER)

The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels

RELIGION/INSPIRATION (PAPERBACK)

A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanauken

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)

The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics - Gary Zukav

SCIENCE FICTION (HARDCOVER)

Jem - Frederik Pohl

SCIENCE FICTION (PAPERBACK)

The Book of the Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin, Jr.

TRANSLATION

Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor - William Arrowsmith

Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters - Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link

WESTERN

Bendigo Shafter - Louis L'Amour

1981

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)

Samuel Beckett - Deirdre Bair

CHILDREN'S BOOK, FICTION (HARDCOVER)

The Night Swimmers - Betsy Byars

CHILDREN'S BOOK, FICTION (PAPERBACK)

Ramona and Her Mother - Beverly Cleary

CHILDREN'S BOOK, NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)

Mali -- Oh, Boy! Babies - Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence

FICTION (HARDCOVER)

Plains Song - Wright Morris

FICTION (PAPERBACK)

The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever

FIRST NOVEL

Sister Wolf - Ann Arensberg

GENERAL FICTION (HARDCOVER)

China Men - Maxine Hong Kingston

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)

The Last Cowboy - Jane Kramer

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)

Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality - John Boswell

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)

Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery - Leon F. Litwak

POETRY

The Need to Hold Still - Lisel Mueller

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)

The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History - Stephen Jay Gould

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)

The Medusa and the Snail - Lewis Thomas

TRANSLATION

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert - Francis Steegmuller

Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold - John E. Woods

1982

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)

Mornings on Horseback - David McCullough

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)

Walter Lippmann and the American Century - Ronald Steel

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (HARDCOVER)

Westmark - Lloyd Alexander

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (PAPERBACK)

Words by Heart - Ouida Sebestyen

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NON-FICTION

A Penguin Year - Susan Bonners

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)

Outside Over There - Maurice Sendak

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)

Noah's Ark - Peter Spier

FICTION (HARDCOVER)

Rabbit is Rich - John Updike

FICTION (PAPERBACK)

So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell

FIRST NOVEL

Dale Loves Sophie to Death - Robb Forman Dew

GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)

The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)

Naming Names - Victor S. Navasky

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)

People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879 - Father Peter John Powell

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)

The Generation of 1914 - Robert Wohl

POETRY

Life Supports: New and Collected Poems - William Bronk

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)

Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind - Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)

Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists - Fred Alan Wolf

TRANSLATION

Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves - Robert Lyons Danly

The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry - Ian Hideo Levy

1983

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller - Judith Thurman

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)

Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time - James R. Mellow

CHILDREN'S FICTION (HARDCOVER)

Homesick: My Own Story - Jean Fritz

CHILDREN'S FICTION (PAPERBACK)

A Place Apart - Paula Fox

Marked by Fire - Joyce Carol Thomas

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NON-FICTION

Chimney Sweeps - James Cross Giblin

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)

Miss Rumphius - Barbara Cooney

Doctor De Soto - William Steig

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)

A House is a House for Me - Mary Ann Hoberman; Betty Fraser, ill

FICTION (HARDCOVER)

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

FICTION (PAPERBACK)

Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - Eudora Welty

FIRST NOVEL

The Women of Brewster Place - Gloria Naylor

GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)

China: Alive in the Bitter Sea - Fox Butterfield

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)

National Defense - James Fallows

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)

Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression - Alan Brinkley

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)

Utopian Thought in the Western World - Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel

ORIGINAL PAPERBACK

The Red Magician - Lisa Goldstein

POETRY

Selected Poems - Galway Kinnell

Country Music: Selected Early Poems - Charles Wright

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)

"Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein - Abraham Pais

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)

The Mathematical Experience - Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh

TRANSLATION

Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal - Richard Howard

1984

FICTION

Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories - Ellen Gilchrist

FIRST WORK OF FICTION

NONFICTION

Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 - Robert V. Remini

1985

FICTION

White Noise - Don DeLillo

FIRST WORK OF FICTION

Easy in the Islands - Bob Shacochis

NONFICTION

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families - J. Anthony Lukas

1986

FICTION

World's Fair - E. L. Doctorow

NONFICTION

Arctic Dreams - Barry Lopez

1987

FICTION

Paco's Story - Larry Heinemann

NONFICTION

The Making of the Atom Bomb - Richard Rhodes

1988

FICTION

NONFICTION

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam - Neil Sheehan

1989

FICTION

Spartina - John Casey

NONFICTION

From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas L. Friedman

1990

FICTION

Middle Passage - Charles Johnson

NONFICTION

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance - Ron Chernow

1991

FICTION

Mating - Norman Rush

NONFICTION

Freedom - Orlando Patterson

POETRY

What Work Is - Philip Levine

1992

FICTION

All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

NONFICTION

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story - Paul Monette

POETRY

New & Selected Poems - Mary Oliver

1993

FICTION

The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx

NONFICTION

United States: Essays 1952-1992 - Gore Vidal

POETRY

Garbage - A. R. Ammons

1994

FICTION

A Frolic of His Own - William Gaddis

NONFICTION

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter - Sherwin B. Nuland

POETRY

A Worshipful Company of Fletchers - James Tate

1995

FICTION

Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth

NONFICTION

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism - Tina Rosenberg

POETRY

Passing Through: The Later Poems - Stanley Kunitz

1996

FICTION

Ship Fever and Other Stories - Andrea Barrett

NONFICTION

An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us - James Carroll

POETRY

Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey - Hayden Carruth

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

Parrott In the Oven: MiVida - Victor Martinez

1997

FICTION

Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier

NONFICTION

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson - Joseph J. Ellis

POETRY

Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems - William Meredith

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

Dancing on the Edge - Han Nolan

1998

FICTION

Charming Billy - Alice McDermott

NONFICTION

Slaves in the Family - Edward Ball

POETRY

This Time: New and Selected Poems - Gerald Stern

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

Holes - Louis Sachar

1999

FICTION

Waiting - Ha Jin

NONFICTION

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II - John W. Dower

POETRY

Vice: New & Selected Poems - Ai

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town - Kimberly Willis Holt

2000

FICTION

In America - Susan Sontag

NONFICTION

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick

POETRY

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 - Lucille Clifton

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

Homeless Bird - Gloria Whelan

2001

FICTION

The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

NONFICTION

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression - Andrew Solomon

POETRY

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry - Alan Dugan

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

True Believer - Virginia Euwer Wolff

2002

FICTION

Three Junes - Julia Glass

NONFICTION

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert A. Caro

POETRY

In the Next Galaxy - Ruth Stone

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer

2003

FICTION

The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard

NONFICTION

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy - Carlos Eire

POETRY

The Singing - C.K. Williams

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

The Canning Season - Polly Horvath

2004

FICTION

The News from Paraguay - Lily Tuck

NONFICTION

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age - Kevin Boyle

POETRY

Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 - Jean Valentine

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

Godless - Pete Hautman