| 1998: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
Charming Billy |
by Alice McDermott |
| Nonfiction: |
Slaves in the Family |
by Edward Ball |
| Poetry: |
This Time |
by Gerald Stern |
| Young People's Literature: |
Holes |
by Louis Sachar |
| 1997: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
Cold Mountain |
by Charles Frazier |
| Nonfiction: |
American Sphinx |
by Joseph J. Ellis |
| Poetry: |
Effort at Speech |
by William Meredith |
| 1996: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
Ship Fever and Other
Stories |
by Andrea Barrett |
| Nonfiction: |
An American Requiem |
by James Carroll |
| Poetry: |
Scrambled Eggs &
Whiskey |
by Hayden Carruth |
| 1995: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
Sabbath's Theater |
by Philip Roth |
| Nonfiction: |
N/A |
|
| Poetry |
N/A |
|
| 1994: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
Frolic of His Own |
by William Gaddis |
| Nonfiction: |
N/A |
|
| Poetry: |
N/A |
|
| 1993: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
The
Shipping News |
by E. Annie Prouix |
| Nonfiction: |
United
States: Essays 1952-1992 |
by Gore Vidal |
| Poetry: |
Garbage |
by A. R. Ammons |
| 1992: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
All the
Pretty Horses |
by Cormac McCarthy |
| Nonfiction: |
Becoming
a Man |
by Paul Monette |
| Poetry: |
New
& Selected Poems |
by Mary Oliver |
| 1991: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
Mating |
by Norman Rush |
| Nonfiction: |
Freedom |
by Orlando Patterson |
| Poetry: |
What
Work Is |
by Philip Levine |
| 1990: |
|
|
| Nonfiction: |
The
House of Morgan |
by Ron Chernow |
| Fiction: |
Middle
Passage |
by Charles Johnson |
| 1989: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
Spartina |
by John Casey |
| Nonfiction: |
From
Beirut to Jerusalem |
by Thomas L. Friedman |
| 1988: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
Paris
Trout |
by Pete Dexter |
| Nonfiction: |
A Bright
Shining Lie |
by Neil Sheehan |
| 1987: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
Paco's
Story |
by Larry Heinemann |
| Nonfiction: |
The
Making of the Atomic Bomb |
by Richard Rhodes |
| 1986: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
World's
Fair |
by E. L. Doctorow |
| Nonfiction: |
Arctic
Dreams |
by Barry Lopez |
| 1985: |
|
|
| Fiction: |
White
Noise |
by Don Delillo |
| Nonfiction: |
Common
Ground |
by J. Anthony Lukas |
| 1984: |
|
|
| First Novel: |
The
Stones for Ibarra |
by Harriet Doerr |
| Fiction: |
Victory
Over Japan |
by Ellen Gilchrist |
| Nonfiction: |
Andrew
Jackson and the Course of American Democracy Vol. III |
by Robert V. Remini |
| 1983: |
|
|
| History: |
Voices
of Protest |
by Alan Brinkley |
|
China |
by Fox Butterfield |
|
Utopian
Thought in the Western World |
by Frank E. Manuel and
Frtizie P. Manuel |
| Children's Literature: |
Miss
Rumphius |
by Barbara Cooney |
|
A Place
Apart |
by Paula Fox |
|
Homesick |
by Jean Fritz |
|
A House
is a House for Me |
by Mary Ann Hoberman |
|
Doctor
De Soto |
by William Steig |
|
Marked
by Fire |
by Joyce Carol Thomas |
| Sciences: |
The
Mathematical Experience |
by Philipp P. Davis and
Reuben Hersh |
|
"Subtle
is the Lord": The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein |
by Abraham Pais |
| Nonfiction: |
National
Defense |
by James Fallows |
|
Chimney
Sweeps |
by James Cross Giblin |
| Original Paperback: |
The Red
Magician |
by Lisa Golstein |
| Translation: |
Baudelaire's
Les Fleurs du Mal |
by Richard Howard |
| Poetry: |
Selected
Poems |
by Galway Kinnell |
|
Country
Music |
by Charles Wright |
| Autobiography/Biography: |
Isaak
Dinesen |
by Judith Thurman |
| Biography: |
Nathaniel
Hawthorne in his Time |
by James Mellow |
| First Novel: |
The
Women of Brewster Place |
by Gloria Naylor |
| Fiction: |
The
Color Purple |
by Alice Walker |
|
The
Collected Stories |
by Eudora Welty |
| 1982: |
|
|
| Children's Literature: |
A
Penguin Year |
by Susan Bonners |
|
Words by
Heart |
by Ouida Sebestyen |
|
Outside
Over There |
by Maurice Sendak |
|
Noah's
Ark |
by Peter Spier |
| Poetry: |
Life
Supports |
by William Bronk |
| Translation: |
In the
Shade of Spring Leaves |
by Robert Lyons Danly |
|
Ten
Thousand Leaves |
by Ian Hideo Levy |
| First Novel: |
Dale
Loves Sophie to Death |
by Robb Forman Dew |
| Science: |
Lucy:
The Beginnings of Humankind |
by Donald C. Johanson and
A. Maitland Edey |
|
Taking
the Quantum Leap |
by Fred Alan Wolf |
| Fiction: |
So Long,
See You Tomorrow |
by William Maxwell |
|
Rabbit
is Rich |
by John Updike |
| History: |
People
of the Sacred Mountain |
by Father Peter John Powell |
|
The
Generation of 1914 |
by Robert Wohl |
| Autobiography/Biography: |
Mornings
on Horseback |
by David McCullough |
|
Walter
Lippmann and the American Century |
by Ronald Steel |
| General Nonfiction: |
Naming
Names |
by Victor Navasky |
| 1981: |
|
|
| Children's Literature: |
The
Night Swimmers |
by Betsy Byars |
|
Ramona
and her Mother |
by Beverly Cleary |
|
Oh, Boy!
Babies! |
by Alison Cragin Herzig and
Jane Lawrence Mali |
| Poetry: |
The Need
to Hold Still |
by Lisel Mueller |
| Translation: |
Evening
Edged in Gold |
by John E. Woods |
| First Novel: |
Sister
Wolf |
by Ann Arensberg |
| Science: |
The
Panda's Thumb |
by Stephen Jay Gould |
|
The
Medusa and the Snail |
by Lewis Thomas |
| Fiction: |
Plains
Song |
by Wright Morris |
| History: |
Christianity,
Social Tolerance and Homosexuality |
by John Boswell |
|
Been in
the Storm so Long |
by Leon F. Litwack |
| Autobiography/Biography: |
Samuel
Beckett |
by Diedre Bair |
| General Nonfiction: |
China
Men |
by Maxine Hong Kingston |
|
The Last
Cowboy |
by Jane Kramer |
| 1980: |
|
|
| Children's Literature: |
A
Gathering of Days |
by Joan W. Blos |
|
A
Swiftly Tilting Planet |
by Madeleine L'Engle |
| Poetry: |
Ashes |
by Philip Levine |
| Translation: |
Mandelstam's
The Complete Critical Prose and Letters |
by Jane Gary Harris and
Constance Link |
| First Novel: |
Birdy |
by William Wharton |
| Science: |
Godel,
Escher, Bach |
by Douglas Hofstadter |
|
The
Dancing Wu Li Masters |
by Gary Zukav |
| Fiction: |
The
World According to Garp |
by John Irving |
|
Sofphie's
Choice |
by William Styron |
| History: |
White
House Years |
by Henry A. Kissinger |
|
A
Distant Mirror |
by Barbara W. Tuchman |
| Autobiography/Biography: |
By
Myself |
by Lauren Bacall |
|
Max
Perkins |
by A. Scott Berg |
|
And I
Worked at the Writer's Trade |
by Malcolm Cowley |
|
The Rise
of Theodore Roosevelt |
by Edmund Morris |
| General Nonfiction: |
The
Complete Directory to Prime Network TV Shows |
by Tim Brooks and Earle
Marsh |
|
The
Right Stuff |
by Tom Wolfe |
| Mystery: |
Stained
Glass |
by William F. Buckley Jr. |
|
The
Green Ripper |
by John D. MacDonald |
| Current Interest: |
Julia
Child and More Company |
by Julia Child |
|
The
Culture of Narcissism |
by Christopher Lasch |
| Western: |
Bendigo
Shafter |
by Louis L'Amour |
| Science Fiction: |
Jem |
by Frederick Pohl |
|
The Book
of the Dun Cow |
by Walter Wangerin |
| Religion and Inspiration: |
The
Gnostic Gospels |
by Elaine Pagels |
|
A Severe
Mercy |
by Sheldon Vanauken |
