Title	Author	Shortlisted
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	National Book Award for Fiction winner Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Life & Times of Michael K	J. M. Coetzee	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Fools of Fortune	William Trevor	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Foundation's Edge	Isaac Asimov	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty	Eudora Welty	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller	Judith Thurman	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea	Fox Butterfield	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression	Alan Brinkley	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Aquele Mundo de Vasabarros	José J. Veiga	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant	Anne Tyler	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Rates of Exchange	Malcolm Bradbury	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Flying to Nowhere	John Fuller	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Illusionist	Anita Mason	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Shame	Salman Rushdie	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Waterland	Graham Swift	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Pride of Chanur	C. J. Cherryh	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
2010: Odyssey Two	Arthur C. Clarke	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Friday	Robert A. Heinlein	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Courtship Rite	Donald Kingsbury	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Sword of the Lictor	Gene Wolfe	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
A Mother and Two Daughters	Gail Godwin	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Shiloh and Other Stories	Bobbie Ann Mason	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Mosquito Coast	Paul Theroux	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Chaneysville Incident	David Bradley	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Company of Women	Mary Gordon	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
A Flag for Sunrise	Robert Stone	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Growing Up	Russell Baker	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power	Robert A. Caro	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949–1953	Robert J. Donovan	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford: The Early Years	Lewis Mumford	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age	George F. Kennan	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street	David McClintock	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Fate of the Earth	Jonathan Schell	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?	Susan Sheehan	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Germans	Gordon A. Craig	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime	Robert Darnton	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England	John Putnam Demos	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000	William H. McNeill	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South	Bertram Wyatt-Brown	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Rabbis and Wives	Chaim Grade	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted